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What Vitamins and Supplement Does Everyone Take Each Day?
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I thought it would be interesting to see what people take each day, I take the following most days but I'm not exactly strict about remembering.
1) a MultiVitamin and Mineral Tablet
2) A Cod Liver Oil Capsule
3) A single Glusamin Tablet for helping to prevent Arthritis
4) A Garlic Tablet or the real thing!!
5) Zinc with Copper Tablets - Supposed to be good for skin
That's alot of things to take!! Real pain in the neck sometimes and as I said I'm not very strict on when or even if I take them. But I figure I'm better off taking them then not at all.
So what does everyone else take and how strict are yo to keeping to the same time each day?
1) a MultiVitamin and Mineral Tablet
2) A Cod Liver Oil Capsule
3) A single Glusamin Tablet for helping to prevent Arthritis
4) A Garlic Tablet or the real thing!!
5) Zinc with Copper Tablets - Supposed to be good for skin
That's alot of things to take!! Real pain in the neck sometimes and as I said I'm not very strict on when or even if I take them. But I figure I'm better off taking them then not at all.
So what does everyone else take and how strict are yo to keeping to the same time each day?
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-Glucosamine Sulphate (high strength) in the hope that it might help my arthritis (not sure it is helping though, but keeping taking it in desperation!)
-Cod Liver Oil (high strength), for the arthritis as well
-A combined Vitamin C and Iron vitamin, meant to be good for preventing colds and just general well being! (and I haven't had a cold in aaaages!)
I take them pretty regularly every morning, but sometimes if I'm away for just one or two nights I won't bother with them, cos they're quite bulky to carry around. I'm a bit sceptical about the good they're doing (apart from the Vit C), but if I didn't take them, I reckon I'd be thinking 'what if', so it's worth a try.
During winter when everyone around me has a cold, I start taking Echinacea to boost my immune system and try to prevent catching the cold, or to make it less severe when I inevitably get one! It also shortens a cold even if you only start taking it as soon as you catch one
Since i've had my op though i've become lazy and dont take them as regularly as i should... suppose that kills the point... hmm
i have IBS, and too much vitamin C aggravates my digestive system and, well, it ain't a pretty sight.
so i changed my diet around, eat proper food instead of junk, and am more healthy. plus i lost weight in the process, which probably isn't such a good thing for me, but hey.
That's always a tough question because you're taking vitamins and stuff like that to prevent a lot of things not just to improve certain things. So if they work then a lot of bad stuff that might have happened .. won't!!
I think I've noticed a difference after taking extra Zinc - it does seem to help to the skin to repair faster and with less scaring. For instance usually when I used to get a scab it was much darker then the rest of my skin and even after it healed there was a dark mark left - but I noticed after Zinc the color of the healing skin is much more similar to the normal skin tone.
Some interesting pics of a Zinc based product for really bad skin problems
http://www.skin-zinc.net/index.html
I used to work with a woman that moved house and she had some kind of problem - can't remember what - but she figured out the problem was that when she moved house she forgot to take her vitamins for about 2 or 3 weeks as her whole routine had changed - she started taking her vitamins again and everything went back to normal.
I think general multivitamins and mineral tablets are pretty cheap these days and you'd be pretty unlikely to overdose on them - so I think it's better to be safe then sorry.
I think the real debate is HOW to take them - everyone seems ot have a different idea of what is th most effective way .. generally I hear it's always best to take them roughly at the same time as a major meal and one person has told me it's best to taken them in the morning or afternoon with breakfast or lunch rather then late at night.
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/substances_view/0,1525,938,00.html
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/news/viewarticle/1,1513,1100,00.html
I notice the difference
I also take some vit c and a probiotic sometimes - esp if stressed, busy or travelling