Poll: Multivitamin?

Do you take a multivitamin everyday?
Many experts think it’s unnecessary.

  • Yes
  • No

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Everyone needs one. SZ people eat like they’re in a food desert.

At least a crappy centrum or something, keep you alive maybe.

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I take an Aldi Multi vitamin because it’s cheap, and the pdoc told me to take it to help me

@naturallycured also suggested a vitamin B complex, so this arrives today and I will start it tomorrow.

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I’m pretty sure you’ll notice a mood improvement.

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I hope so because I have not been doing too well with mood for a while, and the treatment team have no time to solve everything at once, and treatment is painfully slow

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I take a Costco multivitamin made for people over 50 and I also take extra vitamin D everyday.

But many experts feel that taking supplements are usually not required.

So I’m confused.

But I think I’ll continue.

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Yeah fixing depression is pretty basic. Antidepressants are stupid for this, they only work like 25% of the time, and actually increase suicidal ideation sometimes.

It’s a vitamin deficiency!

If your brain doesn’t have the resources to convert amino acids to vital neurotransmitters how the hell are you supposed to feel happy?

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I currently don’t but it’s not a bad idea. I might pick some up.

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No, I don’t need expensive urine.

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I think the worst thing that can happen is your body dumps what it doesn’t need.

Not sure if it causes damage.

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AFAIK there are conflicting results on this.

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Sertraline did nothing to help me.

Usually I am anti-supplements, but right now I am willing to give them a shot at low levels to see what happens.

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Unfortunately I think the risk ratio for taking vitamins vs. a pharmaceutical product is a no-brainer at this time - for me anyways

I am going to try and experiment a bit, and see what happens.

To be fair, I smoke so many cigarettes each day, any harm from taking vitamins is probably not even a blip by comparison to my horrible death of lung cancer that’s probably to come.

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It depends on who you define as experts.

Fact 1: Doctors have less than 10 hours of education about nutrition in their 7 year education.

Fact 2: Doctors are afraid of recommending non-drug supplements because they might get sued if something goes wrong as it is not a substance in their realm of knowledge to perscribe. Keep in mind that most drugs carry a long list of possible side-effects. Even if you die from taking a drug, it is hard to sue the doctor or drug company if the side-effect is listed as a possible. Supplements carry no complete list of possible side-effects, so doctors are reluctant to recommend them if something goes wrong.

Experts on nutrition are not doctors, but people who work with nutrition, like nutrition advisors. People who work in healthshops will in most cases know a lot more about nutrition than doctors.

I personally have had a lot of health gain from supplementing, particulary when it comes to better cognition. But there is always the risk that you could be allergic to a supplement or that it affects you badly, so you have to be careful when trying something new, although in my experience most supplements are safe.

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Don’t get caught up in the orthomolecular pseudoscience stuff. Take multivitamins if your diet is very bad and talk to your doctor about any alternative use of vitamins. Vitamins are not harmless.

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I’ll ask my doctor if I should be taking a multivitamin everyday.
She’s a nutritional specialist.

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I take prescription Vitamin D 2000UI as my Dr prescribed it. He told me to take a multivitamin. I try to take it everyday but sometimes like this holidays I dont take it.

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I think that if I don’t take a multivitamin, I’ll have different vitamin deficiencies.

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It is useless unless you have deficiencies. I’m taking strong B vitamins because I have a severe deficiency.

From what I remember when I studied biology some vitamins are fat soluble and if you have too much of these they can cause problems because they can’t be expelled in the urine like the other vitamins.

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I thought that’s what happened with all of them…

The multi-vitamin I take currently doesn’t have loads of each thing. It has 60 different things at minimal daily intake percentages - so would that mean it’s purely a supplement, but not a replacement for a healthy diet?

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