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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Daily multivitamin: yes or no?
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Minor Deity |
Yes. Kirkland’s Ancient Mariner or whatever they call it. Also D3 and B complex every two or three days.
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Beatification Candidate |
The research seems to be mixed at best, but I still take a handful every morning!
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Nope.
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Beatification Candidate |
That corroborates my experience. My orthopedic surgeon suggested taking a multivitamin. My PCP said I didn't need one. I do take specific vitamin and mineral supplements (vitamin B12, magnesium, iron) based on results of blood tests. Big Al
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
What to do? One of the first questions asked at the Shaw cancer clinic in Edwards is "Do you take vitamins?" If yes, they tell you to stop. I know nothing of the research. People I knew that were enthusiastic about the vitamins are dead from cancer as well as the pharmacist that was making them. The people I knew that were enthusiastic about vitamins and supplements are dead. I don't take much and only take those occasionally.
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
Nope. Can’t be bothered.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
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| Unrepentant Dork Gadfly  |
I take a multivitamin because magnesium helps me sleep and I usually have low iron so I figured that would do both at the same time. I still have low iron but iron supplements really bother my stomach.
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
I used to take a multi, can't remember why I stopped. I currently take a magnesium supplement twice a day, as per neurologist's recommendation... don't know if it's helping but the new migraine meds I'm on sure do!! 
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Al, You might be very interested to know that my sports medicine doc urged me to drink a cup of beef bone broth every night before and after knee replacement surgery. He says it really helps your bones heal well.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
I know I am low on B12 and have been supplementing that for years (it’s a consequence of being vegetarian, and I once had weird nerve symptoms because I wasn’t getting enough). Lately I learned my vitamin D is very low, so now I am taking D3 as well.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Nearly everyone I know has to supplement Vitamin D. I have to take it as well. I wonder why? Has the recommended level changed or is it something else?
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Like so many things, it’s complicated. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...ionsource/vitamin-d/ https://www.health.harvard.edu...-create-health-risks
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| Unrepentant Dork Gadfly |
My assumption on vitamin D is that we spend, in general, less time outside but also that we (as a society) don’t consume milk in the same quantities we used to. But that has just been my assumption.
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