Do you take multivitamin tablets?

[Ciphon]

I have taken Multi vits and cod livers in the past... but maybe I'll start on straight Omega-3's... and maybe some Omega-6

I take vitamin B's sometimes when feeling tired / run down.

I also have some tablets that you drop into a glass of water, turns it into an orange drink, but has 1000mg of Vit C in it. I take those if I feel a cold coming on, and they are amazing.

 

[jrodga2k5]

One a day.

 

[Kreeeee]

Tell that to my siblings, all 5 of them, it really narks them no end!

Just like not every male sibling will suffer the same progress with male pattern baldness... your genetics aren't identical.

 

[oli collett]

Interesting thread.
I've taken high doses of all the vitamin and mineral groups and some herbs for over 25 years.
I've also read Patrick Holfords book some years ago.

I'm glad to hear you are in good health, but I'm somewhat skeptical that it is related to the vitamins/minerals/herbs. As for Holford:
http://holfordwatch.info/holfordisms/

So you are totaly ignoring any evidence you can simply google, that shows that vitamin tablets get vitamins into your body and that deficiency of any number of vitamins causes hundreds of different problems.

You really are being silly.
So you are saying people who are anaemic have no benefit from taking iron tablets. Despite all the research and papers on it.

The biggest cause for dry skin from vitamin deficiency is Vitamin A although there is 6 or so vitamins/minerals that play a roll. I'm sure as you are so clued up you can find some research papers.

Isn't the point though, that supplements should not be necessary with a decent diet unless you have a certain medical condition or something similar? There are numerous myths about vitamin supplements out there, for example taking vitamin c to prevent a cold which was one mentioned earlier in the thread. The point being, there are loads of people wasting their money on vitamin supplements which will offer them no benefit.

 

[~J~]

Mercury helps to reduce involuntary muscle spasms. Make of that as you will

I still don't get this, I've googled, I've asked office members younger than me, and they're all a blank.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

I take one Omega 3 capsule and a green tea capsule every day.

 

[krooton]

One a day jobby

 

[Jeffstar]

No i don't take them.

One quote worth remembering:

"Natural food-source vitamins are enzymatically alive. Man-made synthetic vitamins are dead chemicals"

That should be all you need to know.

 

[Glaucus]

Isn't the point though, that supplements should not be necessary with a decent diet unless you have a certain medical condition or something similar? There are numerous myths about vitamin supplements out there, for example taking vitamin c to prevent a cold which was one mentioned earlier in the thread. The point being, there are loads of people wasting their money on vitamin supplements which will offer them no benefit.

Yes there are loads of myths. But to say vitamin tablets do nothing is crazy. Yes a balanced diet should provide all you need, but it's not that simple.

 

[tom_e]

I still don't get this, I've googled, I've asked office members younger than me, and they're all a blank.

When you take pills you have a habit of chewing your own face off I imagine its to help that which in turn makes spoting the pill heads more difficult but oh so much more rewarding when I turf them out

 

[dowie]

But to say vitamin tablets do nothing is crazy. Yes a balanced diet should provide all you need, but it's not that simple.

It is that simple though, a balanced diet does provide you with everything you need. If your diet left you deficient in some way it wouldn't be balanced now would it.

Vitamin tablets don't do very much at all if anything - there is nothing crazy about that. What is crazy is making unsubstantiated claims about how multivitamins have 'cured' some condition while failing to realise why such a claim would be incredibly naive.

 

[Glaucus]

It is that simple though, a balanced diet does provide you with everything you need. If your diet left you deficient in some way it wouldn't be balanced now would it.

Vitamin tablets don't do very much at all if anything - there is nothing crazy about that. What is crazy is making unsubstantiated claims about how multivitamins have 'cured' some condition while failing to realise why such a claim would be incredibly naive.

it is hard to get a truly balanced diet.

If you are deficient, tablets certainly do, do something. it's not an unvalid claim. There's more than enough research on vitamin deficiency and what problems arise.