Maybe you need a therapist to get at the bottom of your obsession with vitamins and nutritional supplements?
I take lots of different vitamins and minerals, etc., but the four things I swear by are-
vitamin D, zinc, probiotics, and glucosamine.
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Go see your local auto specialist. Not only will you get free advice, but likely a discount on an oil change.......
I’m 87 and my health is excellent. I take 13 pills every morning, one of which is a prescription drug. the others are nutritional supplements, which my MD literally prescribes, making them deductible medical expenses. The one exception is a pill my friend’s naturopath recommends for blood pressure and it really works. I have blood pressure like a teenager. “Carditone,” available at Amazon. It’s made from some kind of flowers.
I’ve been taking this pile of pills every morning for 50 years, with a few additions since then.
Most MDs have no clue about supplements. Mine didn’t either, but I gave him a list of what I take and he looked them up online at WebMD.com. If that site said they were valuable, he prescribed them. I think he has his family on most of these supplements now.
A site worth looking at is. Dr, Axe. https://draxe.com/nutrition-category/supplements/
He gets his info on supplements from Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University where research on health, vitamins, etc continues. Linus Pauling, a chemist and researcher who won a Nobel Prize for, as I recall, biochemistry, is the reason I started taking supplements so long ago when I read his great book, How to Live Longer and Feel Better. His advice in that book cured my very weak little boy, and I’ve been taking supplements since then too, of course adding to the ones he discusses. He’s a huge Vitamin C proponent and I have been taking one gram of C daily most of my life. In the last 15 years, I had one cold that lasted five days, handled with over-the-counter meds f0r symptoms.
I get supplements at AMZ because they are, of course, cheaper than in the stores.
If you take calcium, don’t buy pills. “It’s like throwing at brick at a stone wall” some writer said. I get Bluebonnet liquid calcium/magnesium available at all the health stores here and at AMZ.
I’ve heard that a DO is a better choice than an MD for your doctor. They learn everything MDs do but in addition, study prevention. I met one here and he was delighted with all the stuff I take.
You can post your questions on at my website www.demified.com. I would be happy to help guide you.
Registered dietician
Doctors are nothing but salesmen for Big Pharma.
Osteopath is a no
Why do you need special help? Eat right take a supplement. Things will be fine
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I too like Dr. Eric Berg on YouTube
Dr Joel Wallach.The dosage on the base nutritional plans are on the packaging. Specific dosages for maladies are found in his book “Let’s Play Doctor.”
I don’t know much but do know it’s best to take D3 with K2, The K2 helps keep the calcium in your bones. D3 without K2 is how you lose the calcium.
I have an elderly friend who’s doctor was surprised to find out she stopped her precipitous bone loss by taking K2 even just 1-2 times/week while taking D3 daily.
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Go to your GP and ask them to run some blood tests to check for insufficiency in vitamins and minerals. They can then prescribe what you need and the doses you need.
I’m 81
I’m wise and offer wisdom and personal experience
Vitamins do actually work well in large doses. I’m D3 and B12 deficient absent what I now take. Minimum daily dosages are a farce and meaningless.
I advise large doses of D3 and C to alleviate and or eliminate colds and respiratory difficulties.
I fairly recently learned about B12. I started taking it and then increased the dosage. A problem with being old is lethargy, blahs, and tiredness. B12 ends those and life is more normal. I’m not 25 but maybe feel like I was 55 or at least 65.
I can not say enough about how the B12 has helped me shed the years.
Regarding dosage........ learn by experience. Go to Walmart and buy the bottle with the largest dosage. That is what is selling and what most are taking. Try for say 3 weeks or a month.
Once you gain some experience then you can do internet research and try to sort out the conflicting claims based on what you actually know.
I am not a pharmacist not Doctor and have never played one on TV
Truthfully, unless you have a diagnosed vitamin deficiency of some sort because of a medical condition, you are better off eating a healthy, balanced and varied diet, one rich in multi-colored fresh vegetables and fruits, healthy minimally processed whole grains and proteins including 1 to 2 servings per week of fish rich in omega oils.
At most you may benefit from a multi-vitamin and or D3 but anything more than that, in simple terms, you’re pi$$ing away both in terms of the supplement and pi$$ing away your money.
Your money would be better spent on a healthy diet.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/dont-waste-time-or-money-on-dietary-supplements
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/health/supplements-not-recommended-wellness/index.html
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When you get older - pains
You have to find out
About naproxen
It’s extra strength aleve
It’s been a miracle drug for me
It’s anti inflammatory
Then the pain goes away
I was getting it on prescription
I was totally shocked
When I found out
You can buy it over the counter
Also
I was surprised to find out
It isn’t aspirin