Multivitamins

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1. I’ve always read that multi vitamins are overrated. I take vitamin D, especially now with Covid.

2. I use myvitamins alpha male and then an Omega 3,6,9 supplement on top.

   No idea if it’s working or not.

3. I take one to placate my wife…but I forget 80% of the time, which really lowers the cost.

4. There’s likely little point in taking multivitamins for the sake of taking them. That said, that doesn’t mean they’re snake oil. A small percentage of men have a degraded ability to absorb Potassium and Magnesium as they age. This can lead to heart problems of the more “painful and uncomfortable” sort than the “deadly and debilitating” sort, and can usually be managed by taking a supplement.

   Guess how I know this. 🙂

   If you don’t live in a sunny climate, and I don’t, you very possibly don’t get enough Vitamin D and Vitamin B absorption can do down with age.

   Check with your doctor. I take a Centrum for Men as well as an additional potassium and magnesium supplement every morning and throw a banana in my lunchtime smoothie. Keeps the ol’ ticker regular. Beats the hell out of heart surgery.

5. I just get mine from Aldi. 1000 IU vitamin D, no iron.

6. go to your doctor. get a comprehensive exam. doctor will tell you what vitamins/minerals deficiencies you have. adjust your diet and take supplements suggested by practitioner.

   my doctor said everything looked great for me, but my blood test revealed i had a bad vitamin d deficiency. actually prescribed a high dosage IU vitamin D pill for me.

   other than that, a well balanced diet is far superior over a multivitamin.

7. We like rainbow light ones. We order them online

8. Wod pack from nf sports when they ha E it in stock (have had supply issues for a while). Don’t have to think about what mix of oil, vitamins, supplements, etc to take… Just take the stuff in the pack and I’m done.

   Apparently it’s made from fruit/vegetable extract instead of chemicals so your body absorbs it better.

9. I eat 3 of the 600iu vitamin D pills a day. I’m primarily indoors for most of my day, so it can’t hurt. I”m probably deficient on other things, I should get a blood test to check.

10. Thanks

11. Shaklee men’s multi-vitamin, been excellent for me.

12. If you are healthy and eat a varied diet, you probably don’t need any supplements.

    Here, let a doctor tell you: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRtqWof9rSo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRtqWof9rSo)

    But to answer the question, my go-tos are apples, berries, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce and grapes.

13. They are more likely to give you cancer than save you from anything.

14. Flintstones chewables.

    JK – I get the store brand men’s multivitamin.

    Maybe they’re effective, maybe not. If they work, great. If they don’t work, I’ve wasted more money and effort on worse things.

15. I don’t get to have a balanced diet due to budget and time restriction. I mostly live on milk, oats, eggs, pulses, and rice and with occasional veggies. So, I take two pills multivitamin and two Omega 3 pills. Don’t know how effective it is but it gives me peace of mind. The reason I took two pills is some of the vitamins are 25% of the daily amount should be consumed

16. I strongly suggest vitamin B12 (better if taken with some folic acid too).

    There’s a lot of confusion surrounding these.
    1) *”Vitamin B12 is only for vegans/vegetarians. I eat meat!”*
    While this may have been true in the past, it’s no longer correct.
    Yes, animal flesh *usually* contains B12, but that was when animals grazed. They ingest small amounts of soil which contained the bacteria that produced B12, thereby passing it on to the meat eater. With industrial farming, animals never touch the ground, much less eat stuff that hasn’t been highly processed/handled/cleaned before reaching their mouths. So they’re injected with B12, which isn’t absorbed as well. So it’s better to just take it yourself and cut out the middleman. (I’d argue the same goes for the protein in meat, but that’s another issue.)

    2) *”I’m not a pregnant woman. I don’t need folic acid!”*
    Yes, pregnant women should taken folic acid to prevent neurological birth defects, but a lack of B12 combined with a lack of folic acid causes some serious neurological damage in adults as well. Much of which you cannot recover from. You are permanently changed. It can affect your mood and way of thinking permanently. B12 and folic acid kinda go hand in hand. They help each other out to keep your brain working.

    So yeah… Folic acid and B12. The rest can be easily obtained from food. (Folic acid can too, but to keep my brain safe…)

    Vitamin D too if you don’t see the sun much. I live in a sunny place and am often outdoors, so I don’t take it.

17. > 41 here active lifestyle, eat healthy as I can but still feel like I need a good multivitamin in my life.

    Why?

    > Currently taking a multivitamin called animal pack from gnc I don’t feel any different on it.

    So your body probably didn’t need a multivitamin.

    From what you describe, your current diet almost certainly gives you all the vitamins that your body needs.

    “Oh but what harm can it do?”

    Well taking too much of certain vitamins can be a problem, because they can build up in your body over time.

    However with most vitamins your body just excretes the excess away in your urine, so the “harm” is that you are literally pissing money away.

    To quote from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivitamin)

    > In healthy people, most scientific evidence indicates that multivitamin supplements do not prevent cancer, heart disease, or other ailments, and regular supplementation is not necessary.

    > However, specific groups of people may benefit from multivitamin supplements, for example, people with poor nutrition or those at high risk of macular degeneration.

    > For certain people, particularly the elderly, supplementing the diet with additional vitamins and minerals can have health impacts; however, the majority will not benefit

    I strongly suspect that you don’t need to take anything. You are not in a risk group and you have a healthy diet.

    > In 2015, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force analyzed studies that included data for about 450,000 people. The analysis found no clear evidence that multivitamins prevent cancer or heart disease, helped people live longer, or “made them healthier in any way.”

    Well then.

    As long as you eat a well-balanced diet with a good variety of fresh fruit and vegetables, you’re almost certainly getting everything that you need and so a multivitamin isn’t necessary.

    If you aren’t sure, get your doctor to do a blood test and then take whatever she/he specifically tells you that you need.

    (In my case I needed vitamin D because I’m in England and don’t get enough sunlight…)

18. I agree with getting some bloodwork done and seeing if you’re deficient anywhere. I was severely anemic for years and had no clue. I also had low Vit D even though I’m white and living in So Cal!

    I recommend Thorne as a brand. They have very high-quality supplements in general.

    Now I’m no expert but I took a nutrition 101 class a few years ago and the professor kept going on about how every senior should be on a calcium supplement because bone density goes down so much as you age and low calcium is why so many elderly folks are more likely to have bad breaks from not so bad falls. Now obviously you’re a long way away from being a senior but probably wouldn’t be bad to start adding some calcium into your supplement regime as an early preventive measure.

19. Everyone has an opinion but no one answered op’s question.
    I take Platinum Naturals Activ-X and highly recommend them

20. Eat healthy and you don’t need a multivitamin

21. I started taking the Nature Made multi + iron (I was low on iron with my last blood panel) when COVID hit the streets, along with an additional 2000 IU of D3 later in the day. I normally don’t take supplements but good D levels have been shown to improve ones fight against coronavirus and the multi is just to ensure any nutrients I miss are taken care of to increase my immune system “during these unprecedented times”. A lot of those “workout” daily vitamins like GNC seem to have like 4000% of daily recommended for certain things which seems a bit ridiculous to me. Nature Made keeps it around 50 – 100% for the most part.

22. I’m late to the game but as an older dog, my investment / return scenarios are a bit different (ie. I can feel the difference)

    1. Magnesium
    Ask any old guy that’s sleeping well and he’ll most likely tell you he’s taking magnesium (orally, oil, or other) and exercising.

    2. B12
    Liquid form. Almost as good as coffee. Longer lasting.

    3. CoQ10
    If I don’t take it for a week I get mild headaches. Longer, I get actual headaches. Longer than that, a migraine or two.

    I take two others that I have less direct evidence…
    4. Tumeric
    I think it helped with giving my long term daily energy. But it could be other things.

    5. Citrulline/Arginine
    Lowered my BP mildly, but could have been other things.

23. I take one from GNC, and it works just fine. No need to go super crazy.

24. I prefer a well balanced diet. Some have suggested blood tests to figure out if you are deficient in something – this actually helped me as I learned I had low potassium which may have been the cause of some strange heart rhythms I was experiencing. My cardiologist suggested avocados – best prescription ever.

25. I take a general multi vitamin gummy as well as Vitamin B Complex which really is effective in my overall energy. I’ve recently been taking 2TBSP of Sea Moss to go along with my post work out shake of protein. Finally I also take Creatine daily.

26. Multivitamins are a scam and there’s no evidence that they’re beneficial.

27. Now Adam or optimen

28. I’m a bit late to the party. Still, I can definitely recommend you the 2 Per Day Multivitamin/Multimineral by Life Extension. I live quite an active lifestyle. Studying a lot for university everyday, lifting heavy every other day as well as maintaining a social life at the same time. Since I started using this Multi I do feel a big difference. I feel less easily run down and burnt-out, more energetic and less easily stressed. I only take half of the recommended dose of 2 tablets per day since it is quite high-dosed. Additionally I supplement Omega 3s, Zinc Citrate as well as Magnesium Glycinate (my favorite, gives me a really good quality of sleep) and Vitamin D3. I feel great on this mix of supps. Before I used to take a dirt-cheap 10 dollar multi and didn’t feel anything whatsoever. The super cheap ones tend to use forms of vitamins and minerals that are not well absorbed by your body.

29. Im skeptical for most besides vitamin D because my diet is poor, i barely eat and when i do its junk. And im never in the sun. It’s been about 3 weeks and the only difference i feel is that my chronic hives have subsided dramatically. Vitamin is important for the immune system.