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Vitamins
pwillie
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What vitamins do you take?[:)]
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Buying vitamins is a great way to take money out of your pocket and place it into someone's else's pocket for dubious benefit.
D-2000 mg
C-500 mg
Fish oil
Garlic-1000 mg
The ones that come naturally in the good wholesome food I consume in a well balanced diet of fruits, veggies, grains and meats.
Buying vitamins is a great way to take money out of your pocket and place it into someone's else's pocket for dubious benefit.
Same thing I do, with the exception of taking fish oil, and a high dose of D3.
I take that because of being on Nexium which tends to cause a vitamin D deficiency.
I finally talked to the doctor about it and he did a test and found my vitamin D level was very, very low (17, with 32 to 100 being the normal range). Since then I've been taking 5500 IU a day which has brought my level up to 46.
I now feel like a new man. My joints don't ache. I have so much more energy than before. I even feel so much better mentally.
I also now give myself moderate sun exposure, where before I covered up for pretty much everything. I was a life guard and worked construction for five years when I was young, and came home red as a cooked lobster everyday. That has made me very leery of skin cancer, but I've had more than one doctor tell me that moderate sun exposure is not a huge risk and will provide lots of good vitamin D.
I do agree, though, that if a person eats a good balanced diet then they will get most of what they need from food. Just wasn't the case with me.
What vitamins do you take?[:)]
Sorry, this is way too intrusive![:o)]
Actually I take an old guys multi-vitamin and an omega3.
With the exception of some hams I got last fall the majority of the red meat I have eaten is venison I harvest myself. I buy free range dark meat chicken when it goes on sale and then can it. I use organic fruits and vegetables whenever it makes sense and home or locally grown produce whenever possible.
I use coconut oil and olive oil for cooking and am trying to locate a way to get raw milk.
I have started supplementing with D, garlic, and also some probiotics. I haven't been sick in 4 to 5 years. I don't remember exactly it is too long ago.
Tablets are more effective than gel caps for most vitamins.
Vitamin D is needed, fish oil (good brands) are also good. Most others, such as C are simply excreted. There is as much BS in the selling of vitamins as truth, probably more. Some, such as E are even contra-indicated in doses that can be purchased. Too much C can cause prostrate symptoms in some older men. If you have hyperprostatitis, stay off C. Thinks like Ginko, Saw Palmetto, Echenacia are simply a waste of money, as they do nothing.
Tablets are more effective than gel caps for most vitamins.
You sound like me.
I get plenty of C from fresh fruit and other sources.
Echinacea is a joke IMHO, although some swear by it,......personally I think it is a placebo effect.
I took the stuff for a spell to try and ward off sinus infections due to allergies. Great idea,......swallow some ground up weeds in a capsule![:D]
Magnesium
Potassium
The latter two because I have an irregular heartbeat (though three separate cardiologists, after EKGs, ultrasounds, and CATscans all say I'm fine), and those help to keep it beating normally, more or less.
Multivitamin
Magnesium
Potassium
The latter two because I have an irregular heartbeat (though three separate cardiologists, after EKGs, ultrasounds, and CATscans all say I'm fine), and those help to keep it beating normally, more or less.
You most likely are having PVC's.
Cardiologists don't look at them as serious unless they surpass a certain point.
Some people feel them more than others,.......EVERYBODY has them on occasion.
I get them myself from time to time, and I have found if I put a pinch of sea-salt in my mouth, and follow it down with a little water it seems to go away.
Anyway, if you are talking about that flip-flop feeling in your upper chest/neck area, it's a PVC most likely, and it won't kill you.
quote:Originally posted by jonk
Multivitamin
Magnesium
Potassium
The latter two because I have an irregular heartbeat (though three separate cardiologists, after EKGs, ultrasounds, and CATscans all say I'm fine), and those help to keep it beating normally, more or less.
You most likely are having PVC's.
Cardiologists don't look at them as serious unless they surpass a certain point.
Some people feel them more than others,.......EVERYBODY has them on occasion.
I get them myself from time to time, and I have found if I put a pinch of sea-salt in my mouth, and follow it down with a little water it seems to go away.
Anyway, if you are talking about that flip-flop feeling in your upper chest/neck area, it's a PVC most likely, and it won't kill you.
Those are indeed what I was diagnosed with.
At bedtime another Multivitamin and a assortment of others including C,D,E, fish oil, and many others to norish while sleeping.