Do you take vitamin supplements?

[pokerfan]

I try to eat a balanced diet but I figure a daily multivitamin fills any deficiencies.

[NJmaverick]

1. Yes a multi vitamin

plus a few other speciality suppliments for various issues (mostly my bad knees).

[meegbear]

2. Why yes. Yes I do.

[Callalily]

3. Indeed I do. I think it's

a good idea to take a multi-vitamin, even if eating healthy. Just an added bonus!

[MissMillie]

4. Yes, I have to

I take a multi and I also take extra B and extra iron.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. yes. calcium. glucosamine/chondroitin, super B complex with C.

[ForrestGump]

6. No. Yes. Yes, No. Yes. No.

Never did before I got married and became a yanqui imperialist somewhere in my 20s. My wife was (still is) a big believer in vitamins, herbs, and complementary medicine. Since then, I've been on for long periods of time and off for as long. Right now I'm in a 'Yes' phase, taking a multivitamin and fish oils (Trader Joe's Omega 3). I figure it can't hurt and, really, should have been more diligent with at least the multivitamin during periods in the last four years in which I ate more poorly than usual.

I also recently went back to taking Vitamin C and garlic tablets and am temporarily doubling up on the C and multivitamin since trying to, and failing to, prevent myself catching the latest cold virus that was daily coughed into my face by the hygiene-challenged. I was mixing a greens powder with juice for much of the past year but I haven't had it since moving out of my place in May.

[bigwillq]

7. No

I used to take a Centrum everyday but not anymore...I just stopped taking them..no specific reason why.

[Red State Rebel]

8. Medically required to - 2 Centrums a Day plus Dry D and Calcium

I don't absorb everything I eat because of Duodenal Switch weight loss surgery so I have to take vitamins to make up for it. A small trade off for the 130 lbs. I lost!!

[auntAgonist]

14. hey Congratulations on the weight loss!

I too had the BPD/DS and lost 168lbs. You take only 2 centrum and D and calcium?


good health to you :toast:

aA
kesha

[Red State Rebel]

28. My labs are great - no problems with anything.

[auntAgonist]

9. YES. I have to . I take

about 60 pills a day divided into 4 doses. It's not as bad as it sounds. I have no problem swallowing 15 pills at once, they are very small.

I also get B12 shots and I'm starting Iron Infusions.

aA

[SoxFan]

10. A men's formula multivitamin

Plus potassium during the summer.

[mike_c]

11. I take vitamin D supplements and monitor with periodic blood tests....

A couple of years ago a blood test revealed EXTREMELY low vitamin D, so I supplement it and have it checked periodically.

[BuddhaGirl]

12. I take a women's multi, coQ10, a vision supplement

MSM, tumeric, fish oil, vit. D., and a variety of others from time to time. I like to try different supplements.

[Shell Beau]

13. I take prenatal vitamins now, but when I am not pregnant, I do take

multi-vitamins.

[Shakespeare]

15. OH yeah. I'm a supplement junkie.

Multi plus a ginormous handful of supplements. Go, me.

[Shine]

32. LOL! Same here.

:hi:

[Shakespeare]

35. I've gotten a tad fanatical about it.

But happily so! :hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. Yes. I take a multi, a calcium and a omega 3 .

:hi:

[Taverner]

17. I do

But I like glow in the dark pee

[Rambis]

18. Man vitamins

from Target- I checked the centrum bottle vs the man vitamin. Man had a bit more b12 so I got basically the same pill for half the price.

[Bryan]

19. Oh yeah, lots

Multivitamins, glucosamine for my joints, Omega-3 fish oil, B-12, milk thistle for my liver, it's a whole scene.

[NJmaverick]

20. When I was in my early 20s

I was having lunch with a bunch of pharmicists. They were talking about how food often wasn't as nutrional as it should be, because of the farming techniques. They talked about the need for suppliments. I started taking them after that. I know one thing that happened to me as a result, my hair started growing faster. I suddenly needed hair cuts 2 weeks quicker than before I started taking them.

[LeftyMom]

21. I have them, but I never remember.

A month's supply will last me over a year. Which is probably okay, since I eat pretty well and probably don't need anything anyhow.

[NJmaverick]

25. I use one of those weekly pill cases, like seniors use

for by suppliments, that way I don't forget.

[Guava Jelly]

22. Not often enough

Bad me.

[1gobluedem]

23. Stresstabs with iron

For people who burn the candle at both ends.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Yes, especially after I read a

Scientific American (or possibly Discover) article about treating depression with doses of minerals and B vitamins.

I notice the difference mostly when I DON'T take them.

Lately, I've added Vitamin D on the advice of my brother the doctor, who says that most people living in northern latitudes have subclinical deficiencies.

[Xipe Totec]

26. Me among them

My Dr has prescribed vitamin D supplements, precisely because of that; not enough sunshine, not enough vitamin D.

[BuddhaGirl]

29. yeah, vitamin D is not absorbed well in general

and given the fact that there's a lot of new research into the benefits of D (immune health, cancer prevention, etc.) I recently upped my dose to 4000IU per day.

[Brigid]

27. I do.

I use the One-A-Day women's formula. I take calcium too. :)

[kimmerspixelated]

30. Yes, indeedy. A whole food multi,magnesium,Omega 3, Homo-

cysteine formula(the B vits) and then later on in the day I will take Vit C or maybe a Wellness tablet.

I must add that unless you are taking a whole food supplement, you are not getting what you need. I suspect the One a day mainstream types are too synthesized to be effective.

[flvegan]

31. Vitamin? No.

I take other supplements though (gym rat stuff).

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[Darth_Kitten]

37. Did you take your vitamin with iron yet, Gravelbot?

:shrug:

[supernova]

34. Take a Costco version of Centrum

COQ10, thyroid support, and calcium,

[MJW]

36. yes

I take a hand full of supplements daily. Multi, D ,C, E with B 6,8 ,12 and folic acid ,Lutein, Biotin,, calcium. I eat a balanced diet and lots of fresh fruit and veggies but at (almost)68 I figure it cant hurt. I also take low dose aspirin