Vitamins or nutrients you've decided have been beneficial to you?

rbtvgo said:
A glass of Red wine, a walk. Light dinner and get to bed early. Avoid the chocolates ,avoid the chips. Problem with us older folks is that our taste buds are shot. Salt and sugar seems the be the only things that gets thru. Just my opinion.
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I thought it was my last concussion. My tastes have really changed in the last 18 months. I don’t like anything anymore.🤢🤢
 
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Everyday I eat five pieces of fresh fruit, there's vitamins C and K, various B vitamins, as well as potassium in every fresh apple.
There are at least three vegetables with our main meal. None of our regular diet is highly processed. I do take manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc, selenium and several B vitamins. That's is what is in the oats that make my breakfast bowl of porridge.
 
I take a bone supplement that includes calcium (hydroxyapatite), D3, and K2. Fish oil, magnesium citrate, and on and off a multivitamin if I feel poorly. I've been taking CoQ10 because DH bought it and never used.
I mix potassium chloride half and half with salt in my shaker.
I use a protein isolate in my breakfast shakes about once or twice a week.
 
I have added raw sunflower kernels and raw pumpkin seeds to my daily routine.

About a tablespoon or so of each. I also do black walnuts, English walnuts, and almonds in the same way.
 
Hoping this may be useful for some people.

In post 18 (page 1) I described overcoming anemia with polysaccharide iron plus vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements. My hemoglobin had been down to around 50% normal. It had come up greatly within a month, and came up into the healthy normal range within 21/2 months. I reached that point more than three yeas ago. I do still take supplemental iron, though not daily like I did for few couple months there. Now it's just every three or four days.

Also, I was taking the B12 and folic acid daily for a while. Having learned that B12 and folate are stored in the liver (unlike the majority of B vitamins), I dialed back on the folic acid, taking it maybe once a week now. And I now take B12 every three or four days don't worry if I've missed a planned dose.
 
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These supplements have had obvious benefits:
Potassium - stopped the cramping in my toes.
Biotin - marked and visible improvement in my nails. They used to split in layers, not at the tips. As long as I take biotin on a regular basis they stay strong and don't do that.

Possible benefits:
Lutein - I've been taking it for years and though I have a myriad of eye issues, my glaucoma specialist says there has been no further damage to the nerves in my eyes. That's good news since I'm diabetic. The blind spots in my eyes have even seemed to improve, though my visual field tests remain the same.
 
I've been taking women's 50+ multiple vitamins for years. It fills in what I don't get through my eating habits. I am always trying to eat more healthy but I'll always take those vitamins. I also take black cohosh at intervals for menopause symptoms. I have taken olive leaf extract for general immune health but sometimes it cramps my stomach. I take magnesium from time to time to help reduce leg cramps, which I don't have often. There's one that works better than the one that is usually found. It might be magnesium citrate. Anyway, I'm now taking a triple magnesium supplement, which includes all three. The multiple vitamins have magnesium. I make sure that with the additional that I take, it does not exceed the max daily allowance.
 
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I see many getting vitamin B 12 shots. I take a B complex a day taking 1/2 in morning and the other after lunch or dinner. I also frequently take half a multivitamin a day. Some say always having it in the system is as important as one mega dose once a day.
 
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