Posted on 07/28/2016 8:37:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Too bad it’s expensive and not practical to test for any deficiencies. I was not doing well and thought my autoimmune disease was out of remission. Turns out I was deficient in vitamin d. Getting levels up to normal has made a huge difference.
I’m giving my kids larger than normal doses (2000 mg/day) as I assume that if I’m deficient they are as well. However, I can’t afford to have all of them tested so it’s just a guessing game.
I’m one of the 75% and see no reason to stop taking the Centrum-type supplement I’ve been taking daily for forty years. The vitamin C is worthwhile in itself; the rest is insurance.
Ping for later
You are pissing your money away...
Eat more Bacon...
Big Pharma’s margins must be taking a hit - time to flood the Internet with anti-vitamin propaganda before too many people start getting healthy too cheaply. :)
Vitamin D works. Glucosamine chondroitin seems to work. L Carnitine, L Arginine, Ornithine, alpha lipoic acid all seeem to have affects. Melatonin works. Inositol works. DHEA helps.
So just what is the FDA complaining about? Maybe some people don’t need to follow their baloney?
bullshit. almost all americans test deficient in both magnesium and vitamin d.
also as people get older, they produce less stomach acid and less digestive enzymes, contributing to B-12 deficiency and general lack of nutrition respectively.
I can tell a big difference in how i feel when i take large doses of d, folic acid, a good B vit mix, vit c and a good mag supplement, as well as digestive enzymes.
Most people take them wrong. For instance, taking water and oil-soluable vitamins/supplements together harms absorption. Take B alone with water or juice, but D with fish oil, coconut oil, coQ10, etc. Taking B with oil-solubles will almost guarantee it is not absorbed. “Centrum” is essentially useless since all are mixed together.
Two supplements I know something about: Glucosamine and Chondroitin for one, Vitamin D3 for the other. I was on a cane and riding the electric carts at Walmart back in 2000. I tried G&C. I am 70 years old and walk 4 miles an hour. I have no pain in my joints. If I skip a couple days of G&C about a week later I start having trouble turning my head and making my knees work. That goes away a few days after if I haven’t missed any more doses. I have not had any cold or flu since I started the D3 in 2007. I do NOT get flu shots. Wife same since a year later. Everyone I know who takes either supp has the same experience.
His title states we are almost certainly wasting money buying vitamins.
Then he states: “There are some valuable vitamins and supplements that provide real health benefits.”
So, he really wants people to buy vitamins, just not as many?
He shouldn't have sensationalized the title as he did, then.
He made “click-bait.”
I work changing shifts and keep myself alert and asleep at appropriate times by taking B12 sublinguals about two hours after I get to work.
He's a writer, who works for a famous medical center. That's the extent of his medical, nutritional, and biological education.
Someone here counseled me to jack up my Vitamin D, years ago.
It made all the difference in the world.
And I cannot live without my Chromium Picolonate.
It’s the ‘antidote’ to blood sugar irregularities.
I ignore this crap.
I feel the difference if I slack off and I was the world’s biggest skeptic, once.
I say the point is to eat foods that contain the vitamins you need, rather than bottles and bottles of pills.
Vitamin D 5000 IU a day and Iron 27mg made the biggest difference in my health. No need to use the thyroid meds the other doctors had me on. The 6th doc I went to said you need Vitamin D and Iron. I started to take it and I had way more energy and stopped the thyroid meds.
Use Flaxseed Oil (size of Fish oil pill). It will clear up your skin. Biotin and Fish oil for thicker hair.
#6 is correct along with eat eggs, use butter and whole milk.
Nonsense.
I take magnesium. If I don't take it I get cramps in my hands and feet.
This is not all in my head, it is in my feet. :)
If for some reason I don't take my supplements I can count on pain.
This is not part of getting old as it started when I was pre-teen. For some reason I need more magnesium then average.
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