Do you take vitamin and mineral supplements? If so, why?

[Chazmatazz269]

Are you getting all the essential nutrients you need from food alone? Or do you take supplements? Do you take them because it’s “healthy” or because a healthcare practitioner recommended it? Was any recommendation based on actual testing that showed deficiencies?

[TheRealPepperPotts]

I eat very healthy (look up Specific Carbohydrate Diet) and I take a vitamin supplement. The reason is that some vitamins in food are very sensitive to light and heat and are often lost during a cooking process and even begin to degrade shortly after harvest. I also have iron deficiency tendencies, and while I get a CBC to make sure it's deficient first, I can usually tell when I need it because I get more pale than normal (fair skin and freckles here) and abnormally fatigued. But I only take chelated iron supplements because anything else isn't effective and is physically painful.

The supplement I take religiously is a probiotic supplement with 100 Billion CFUs. Yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, etc are all great and are included in my diet, but for me, it isn't enough. I could talk all day about the importance of the microbiome for just about everything in the body, but that would get tiresome. As would a conversation about the food quality in the US, no doubt. But that's what I do and my reasons.

[Apple1996]

I'm suppose to be taking prentals but they make me crazy sick 😵‍💫 so I only take them if I feel like I can stomach them

[Chazmatazz269]

It’s always best to take vitamin supplements with food.

[Apple1996]

Yeah I've tried with food and at night but still doesn't help

[msc545]

The only thing I take is an iron supplement and a vitamin D supplement. I have a history of iron deficiency anemia which is primarily due to genetics and the iron supplement helps me to keep my hemoglobin levels normal.

I don't get a lot of sunlight unfortunately given the kind of work I do and I have a demonstrated vitamin D deficiency If I don't take vitamin D supplements. The effects of vitamin D deficiency are unknown to some extent but the consequences that are known are not good. I would like to avoid them and thus supplementation.

Given these things I don't simply take other vitamins to or minerals for no particular reason and waste my money that way.

[msc545]

Thanks for mho

[DJB72]

I take a magnesium supplement as it helps with restless leg syndrome and periodically I take vitamin C but living in the area I do and growing some fruit and vegetables myself I don't need much. I've yet to find a plant source for testosterone, which I could do with being a bit higher, but other than that my diet gives me what I need.

[Chazmatazz269]

Joe Rogan has had guests on talking about natural supplements that actually help to raise testosterone in men. One, for sure, is from Africa though. The one they strongly suggested has the most potential. I’m guessing it’s hard to come by. Ell oh ell!

[DJB72]

That'd be ginkgo biloboa. It's a root, I think. Expensive.

There's a few places to get it local to me, but there's a hitch in the pricing.

And yes, currently I'm in Africa. You can get the supplements to help your body make more, but it's not affordable for most on an African currency. I used Testofuel while I was in the UK from 2017-2020 and, among other things, my diabetic control improved, my recovery time after exercise and stamina drastically improved, and my wife and I finally had a son after trying for 15 years.

Unfortunately it's too pricey to keep taking now, but I'm considering getting a testosterone patch to boost my natural T levels.

[Chazmatazz269]

It’s not ginkgo biloba. I’ll have to look to see if i wrote it down somewhere. It’s not where i would have jotted it in my phone.

https://youtu.be/bJWmJo3w_0Y?si=4YkSBKAXnXsBYygQ

Found it on the toob!

[Astarlessnightsky]

Vitamin B12 from time to time. As vegetarian i take the supplements directly and not through the carcass of a dead animal.

[Chazmatazz269]

Do you research to learn if the supplements you take come from animals or if they’re synthetic?
Cuz the result is the same if you’re eating derived supplements. Ell oh ell!

[Astarlessnightsky]

They are vegan. The thing is most people don't know that the b12 in meat is also supplemented unless the animals are roaming free eating dirt. As B12 comes from microorganism.

[Chazmatazz269]

Wild animals do “eat dirt”. Well… in a manner of speaking. They lick rocks and eat plants, insects and other animals out of the ground without taking the same washing precautions we do. Some of them also transfer their necessary microbes via eating each other’s poop. That’s not a joke. Look it up! Ell oh ell!

[Astarlessnightsky]

And?

[Nirmroth]

I dont eat very healthy. Typical weight lifted diet which is chicken, rice and vegetables. I still try to mix it up but thats basically my main diet. I take some vitamin supplements every day to counterbalance that.

[Paris13]

Mom Started Me as a Small Child and I Never Deterred. I stay Pretty Healthy on Them. My Immune system is Great and I Rarely get Sick. I do Not always Eat Everything in Sight so this Helps Too. xxoo

[jennifer_bloom]

I take vitamin B1 multiple times a day. I used to 60 different herbs and products a day to stay alive but now that I'm healthier, I only take vitamin B1.

[Levin]

I've never had any deficiencies nor do I have any health problems. I'm largely plant based and any little niggles I get I can fix myself.

[bobby_bush_eater]

No I don't take any, I've heard mixed things whether they're a scam or not or that you only absorb a tiny % of the vitamins this way.

[ApplePie409]

When I remember to

[Chazmatazz269]

Gingko biloba! Ell oh ell!

[OfMiceandMen]

I don't get it from the food that I eat.