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>> No. 3747 Anonymous
18th February 2016
Thursday 10:21 am
3747 Vitamins and nutrients
What do you lot use daily?
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>> No. 3748 Anonymous
18th February 2016
Thursday 10:30 am
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I have 4 pills a day but I'm not entirely sure how useful some of them are. When I stop taking them, I do feel worse and my face becomes a tiny bit more gaunt.

I take a general multivitamin, the generic one from Boots, I'm looking to switch this up to one that has a larger concentration of B vitamins. Does anyone know of any suitable replacements for when I run out? Ideally I'd want a good smattering of nutrients and vitamins but with a larger than normal amount of B vitamins. I take one 1500mg glucosamine supplement pill, that one is slightly weird because I can go off it and then not feel any difference in the short term but a few weeks later, I feel that my joints are a bit worse for wear and it goes away once I get back on it. I'd recommend it for anyone who has difficulties with their joints.

Someone gifted me a large amount of calcium and magnesium supplement but it was in the oxide form which isn't very bioavailable at all, I'd finish that off and start on the magnesium glycinate. Be careful with magnesium, some of the other forms such as citrate are notorious for giving you the shits. I also have a fish oil pill but clinical trials claim that I need to start taking 5 or 6 of them a day to feel a noticeable improvement and I'm just not bothered to take that many pills a day, ideally I'd want to keep it to four instead of gaining a separate B vitamin complex.

So anyone know of any general multivitamin that has a large amount of B vitamin, something like 600% of the RDV like the separate B complex pills have?

I don't want to take more than 4 pills a day.
>> No. 3749 Anonymous
18th February 2016
Thursday 10:47 am
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Given all the smug scientists say multivitamins are at best useless and at worst harmful, I just split my ~100% RDA pill in two and take one of the halves. That way I'm taking ~50% RDA, so a) I'm getting some of the good shit in me if I have a dietary deficiency; b) I'm avoiding massive overdose if I'm already getting a decent dietary amount; and c) my pills last twice as long.
>> No. 3750 Anonymous
18th February 2016
Thursday 6:39 pm
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I take a multi-vitamin + minerals tablet daily.
-I've been thinking of stopping this for the same general reasoning as >>3749, but I'd want to replace it with various individual supplements but I can't be arsed with the extra effort and cost. (Mainly B vitamins, iron, vitamin C are the main things I want that I get from the multi.)
Also, there is evidence that folic acid supplements are harmful, particularly in people with certain genes, as the body has a limited capacity to convert synthetic folic acid to a form which is useful to the body. (But unfortunately the better forms of folate supplement are bloody expensive).

My other main supplements I take daily are Magnesium citrate (about 100mg, I know I can tolerate a bigger dose but it's bloody expensive, so I've been thinking about buying a kilogram tub of food grade magnesium sulphate to use instead.)
And I take a tablet with 125ug and 100ug of vitamin K2. (Vitamin D is considered harmful by some experts when taken without K2. Rates of osteoporosis and arteriosclerosis increase in people who take vitamin D alone.)

Regarding Magnesium giving you the shits, vitamin D will tend to help cancel it out. In fact, I suffer with IBS, when I started taking a high dose of vitamin D, my frequent diarrhoea stopped practically overnight.

Other supplements I sometimes take but aren't that important to me are vitamin C, zinc, sometimes cod liver oil. I'm fairly sure I'm getting enough of these from food.

They're not strictly considered supplements, but I also take MSM daily (sulphur) unless I've ate a lot of onion that day. Sulphur is underrated as an essential mineral, because scientists have generally believed you get enough to live from amino acids which are essential in and of themselves. But some people are beginning to believe there are a lot of health benefits from getting a large amount of sulphur in other forms.) I also take L-arginine which is meant to be good for circulation, and L-carnitine because some people think it helps metabolise fat (it might make no difference but it's cheap enough that it doesn't hurt.)
>> No. 3751 Anonymous
18th February 2016
Thursday 6:49 pm
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I bought some quinoa lately after reading this;

https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-632.html

It's supposed to be nutritionally dense and contains all the amino acids you need to synthesise protein.

My partner has been taking Centrum because she's pregnant. She likes it because Centrum doesn't taste mank like every other vitamin pill. Centrum do pills for non-preggos too.
>> No. 3752 Anonymous
19th February 2016
Friday 2:13 am
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Why can't you hypercondriacs just eat properly and you wouldn't need these overpriced placebos? Getting 6 or 7 portions of fruit and veg in yer isn't that fucking hard ffs.
>> No. 3753 Anonymous
19th February 2016
Friday 4:36 pm
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>>3752

It's true for some things, but as for magnesium, intensive farming methods tend to mean it's hard to get from solid foods, drinking water can sometime give you enough magnesium, but most UK tap-water has too little.

And as for vitamin D, the combination of living in Britain and working in a windowless office makes supplements pretty important. Unless your diet includes liver and pate every single day.
>> No. 3754 Anonymous
19th February 2016
Friday 5:11 pm
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>>3751
Quinoa is really expensive though.

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