What’s your take on Vitamin supplements? #asknostr
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I'm fructose intolorent so it works to some extent for me
Necessary in some cases, but, if you eat better food, it's nearly never needed.
Exactly
Take them if you want to.
Vitamin D3 seems pretty critical for people who code too much
Problem is that vitamin D suppletion seems uncorrelated with all-cause mortality, where as sun expose does increase longevity
I will say that - anecdotally - vitamin D suppletion does help with my general feeling of well being during the winter months, though
Vitamin D. Was diagnosed with extreme lack of 2 winters ago. Don't ever want to be in this state again.
Been there, brother 🫂 Fell down the vitamin D rabbit hole ever since.
I try to get as much vit D in the summer months as possible and keep track with an app - dminder.
Next step is a tan through swimming trunk
Gotta get outside on every sunny day you can, walking and D3
Vitamin D, C and Zink are good to complement a healthy diet, especially now when seasons change
Me too, and I also take rhodiola rosea...
I take a multivitamin and vitamin D3 as well as other supplements (calcium, magnesium, turmeric, ashwagandha,
etc.) I have found them to be helpful for me. Most people especially need vitamin D because it is a common deficiency.
Not a big fan of synthetic vitamins as the human body isn’t designed to ingest them that way. Rather, the body is trained to extract vitamins from food to the extent it needs them. For that reason I like what Heart & Soil does. Their product is dehydrated meat organs — which provide most of the vitamin array we need and still keeps it in food format understood by the body. My 2 sats ✌🏽
Intresting take. But there is no good proof, of what the body should not understand on a vitamin. In the end it is some kind of salt or molecul. Nothing more to understand about it.
There’s definitely work that shows synthetic vitamins aren’t understood by the body the same way as native vitamins in food. For example, synthetic vitamin A in the form of retinyl palmitate can be toxic in high doses as it builds up in the body versus Vitamin A in betcarotene which is much more easily absorbed by the body.
I don’t really trust them.
daily multivitamin & omega-3
for the past 25+yrs
Many people are deficient in magnesium, due to over exploitation of our soils. This also makes a lot of the meat we consume lower in magnesium (unless it's meat from regenerative ranching).
So it's something I recommend for those starting a low carb diet, and the formulations I recommend depend on a few factors but they're:
-Magnesium citrate
-Magnesium glycinate
-Ionic magnesium
Most people don't need supplements, especially if on a low carb diet for some time.
Don't need them. Sunlight and good food is all that you need.
Problem is good food. Modern food is not as nutritious as it once was. Soil quality not what it used to be.
I take vitD everyday Nov-March and C, for a few days after I've been around anyone who is sick. I think it helps. I made it almost 3 years without a cold or stomach bug.
Past that, though, the body only absorbs a fraction of what is in supplements compared to getting it from food. If the diet is lacking nutritious foods, it probably helps. With a good diet, it's probably pointless but not harmful. Like with the C, I think I'd be better off if I ate C rich foods for a stretch instead, but I'm not real fond of potatoes or oranges😅 that's my thoughts anyway.
something to point out is that even though there is a lot less vitamin C in beef (and probably many meats) the stuff is more bioavailable than it is in the fruits, roots, berries or pills
i also have found it helps a lot though... i just go for oranges and orange juice mostly when i feel a cold coming on and it goes away a lot faster
Very true. Beef is the bottom layer of my personal food pyramid.
You can do what serves you best. But meat is not to consider as a vitamin C source. With around 2mg per 100g it does not deliver any significant addition for vitamin C. But many fruits deliver high amounts of vitamin C.
well, you could dig deeper what carnivore and paleo people have found in their researches but it makes sense to me... complexed things do have a way of going in further, compared to more loosely assembled things like solutions... a lot of stuff goes on between the stomach and intestines while where the things are actually absorbed may be at various distances into the process and a lot of losses can occur in materials before they get to the organ that actually absorbs them (and the biggest and most important absorption organ is the large intestines, which is usually about 5-8 hours into digestion before food passes into the absorption stage for most nutrients
When I did a fast search on brave it would say, that the small intestine absorbs most nutrients and vitamins.
Omega-3 is the most legit, proven supplement. Not a vitamin though, but essential for your brain (esp DHA). Might be unnecessary if you’re eating a lot of seafood, since you’re in Japan.
I still supplement vitamin D3 (in the winter months for general wellbeing) and vitamin K2 (cause heart problems run in the family) just as an extra pre-caution
I do eat a lot of seafood 😅
That’s great for your health in general 🙂 I’ve been pumping up my numbers the last couple of months
Omega 3 means a double bond at the third carbon in the unsaturated fatty acid. It's a seed oil.
Vitamin C can be something good, when for winter and one eats not enough fruits. But otherwise, I do not see the point in using supplements, when everything is fine.
I take too many ‘higher supposed quality’ vitamins to name— and they could be a waste.
A lot of people lack Vitamin D, especially in Sun deprived seasons/months— for some people.
Consider Vitamin D at a minimum.
Good nutrition matters.
It is a gross wastage ..
it is like throwing money on a problem that is fixed only with dedication..
The question is not what we eat .. question is can we digest ?
eat fruit and veg
Most of them have bad excipients and can throw balance out of whack. They can be powerful tools though. Use pure ones, sparingly and knowing what you are doing. A random multivitamin is probably net negative. Quality food high in micros first (organ meats, oysters, etc)
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Supplement industry is a scam. It’s a modern fiat industry that has not passed the test of time.
Pill form “ vitamin “ is the not the same as the human body deriving vitamin via natural pathways.
On the other hand herbal supplements are Lindy.
Desiccated organs if any
*shrug* i don't take them daily. i eat healthy. however, if i feel a cold coming on, i will pop vitamin c, d, and zinc tablets for a couple days.
Whole foods supplements work for me, only when I don’t get enough of certain actual whole foods. Not necessarily against selective usage of high quality vitamins for some folks in some cases, I personally don’t feel I need them.
I am vegetarian so I am supplementing B12 and my values are perfect, so I can recommend this. 🧡
Eat better food. Vitamin D makes sense in the winter though.
Think its another big pharma scam. Just eat healthy and diverse foods. Get outside, make a walk daily. Sleep enough so you dont need to drink tons of coffee.
Many people are iron deficient even while eating iron rich food. Especially kids and women.
There’s a theory that iron deficiency during pregnancy is responsible for the increase in autism cases. I think … don’t quote me on that.