Curious as to people eating #keto or #carnivore - thoughts on supplements? I’ve long had a vitamin D deficiency, and have needed to supplement for that, especially living in a cold weather climate. I also never ate as well as I have the past few years. I also quit all my asthma meds due to my improvement in diet, so who knows what those were doing to me. I was having some weird arrhythmia issues, but those are gone since cutting out magnesium supplements. I take C, D, and a multi everyday. Is any of this necessary? I’m appealing to folks that have been down the rabbit hole ahead of embarking myself. Any thoughts and materials are welcome.
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An answer to this might be better long form but multis are a scam. Tons of synthesized vitamins that are very different from the naturally occurring forms and potentially dangerous since many need to be converted to active form by the liver. Just start with looking at folate vs folic acid or heme vs non heme iron.
I’ve briefly looked at the folate thing, but sounds like a gotta go deeper.
Yeah it’s deep. Weston price basically discovered that vitamin K 1 (from plants) is much different than Vitamin K2 (which he called vitamin X) found in animal products and linked a lack of this vitamin to most dental issues.
Definitely have been down the Westin Price, Ancel Keys, big grain rabbit hole. We’ve also had so many of our nutrients ripped out of our soil, and I know it’s difficult to get everything we need naturally. I just haven’t explored what getting them non-naturally might look like, or if we should be doing it at all.
Cronometer is a decent app to show some micro nutrients though it most likely undercounts high quality meat and eggs. There is a good amount of vitamin E, Vitamin K2 not accounted for by this app. I’m not eating keto but subtract the carbs and micro nutrients are still similar. High nutrient density from meat eggs and raw milk. Vitamin D is difficult in northern hemisphere, lots of sun exposure and high cholesterol during the summer will build up stores but high quality supplement might be necessary. Vitamin C probably overblown but a piece of tropical fruit here and there is probably better than a rose hips extract tablet. 
Good to know. Think I’m going to cut it down to just D and C, and see how I feel after a couple weeks. Maybe cut out C from there. Supplementing with D when I started like 12 years ago really was a game changer.
No supplementation is necessary on the carnivore diet. Just salt your food regularly for taste. Scurvy won't develop because a) meat has vitamin C and b) there is no antagonistic competiton anymore between excess glucose and vit C for the same receptor, i.e., your physiological needs for vit C are much lower than the average person on a standard western diet.
Definitely using plenty of salt. Gonna toss out the multi and C and see how it goes.