Vitamins / Supplements

EastCreek · 10-26-2007, 07:31 AM

Could some of you share your experience with vitamins. What do you take? How often? Brand or place of purchase? most imprtantly...What difference can you physically notice? Thanks. EC

retiredgal · 10-26-2007, 07:44 AM

First qustion! Why do you ask? What are you trying to accomplish? Do you eat a healthy. balanced diet generally?

Vitamins and herbs are a complex subject, and human's typically can get all their nutrients from a good balanced low fat diet? Are you deficient? So many things to consider b/4 taking additives to your diet?

Seek medical evaluation and perhaps blood test?

fishinpox · 10-26-2007, 08:39 AM

Supplements, where to start. I have tried general multi-vitamins, creatine, protein, N02, NANOx9. All sorts of fun stuff out there to try. I purchase all of mine at GNC. They usually seem to have pretty good prices and what not.

Lou · 10-26-2007, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by retiredgal

First qustion! Why do you ask? What are you trying to accomplish? Do you eat a healthy. balanced diet generally?

Vitamins and herbs are a complex subject, and human's typically can get all their nutrients from a good balanced low fat diet? Are you deficient? So many things to consider b/4 taking additives to your diet?

Seek medical evaluation and perhaps blood test?

, you need to know. Costco is a good place to buy some.
The turn over is real fast, so they are fresh.
A medical evaluation is the first step- - -always.

EastCreek · 10-26-2007, 10:57 AM

Medical eval. is good advice. I will take that, and get it done. Actually, it has been on my agenda of things to do. I eat healthy in my opinion. Mainly,I am concerned sometimes about how tired I feel after eating. I just got thinking about the topic and about a radio commercial I had heard.

Sweet Melissa · 10-26-2007, 12:20 PM

Aside from the medical eval., I would also suggest going a couple weeks without refined sugar or flour in any form, along with drinking a lot of water. Eight "glasses" is quite a bit, but not as much as you might think when you realize that a "glass" is considered 8 oz, and most actual glasses are at least 12 oz.

I need to do this again, but it is really difficult because you feel like dog doodie for the first few days, which makes your body crave the sugar even more. I eat pretty healthy, too, except I am horribly addicted to those sweetened flavored creamers. I keep dismissing them as my one and only vice, but they are really bad for you, in so many ways.

If someone else wants to do the no sugar/refined flour thing, I will too. It's just hard to get thru those first few days.

retiredgal · 10-26-2007, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by EastCreek

Medical eval. is good advice. I will take that, and get it done. Actually, it has been on my agenda of things to do. I eat healthy in my opinion. Mainly,I am concerned sometimes about how tired I feel after eating. I just got thinking about the topic and about a radio commercial I had heard.

I sure am not a medical person by any means, but Lou and I have had more than our share of issues to learn from recently?

I read somewhere, that when you eat a large meal, the brain emits a hormone that makes you sleepy, IE: holiday dinners and everyone sluggish and napping here and there, especially as we age?

Also, I learned recently, that a person's Thyroid can get slower as they age and makes them feel sluggish, gain weight, maybe lose hair, etc?

Glad to hear you will seek medical advice on your concerns and symptoms.

I bleed fish · 10-26-2007, 03:08 PM

Yup, big meals or a higher proportion of carbs can make you sluggish. I've found that more frequent, smaller meals of lean protein and fruits and veggies keeps me ready to go most of the day. When I do eat a big plate of spaghetti or a half a loaf of french bread, I'm ready for a nap.
I think it has something to do with tryptophan for the turkey dinners, and the inculin response for the other stuff.
As far as supplements go, if you do want to take a multi-vitamin, unless your doctor wants you to take something higher, make sure that it has 100% of the daily value of the various vitamins. Most multi's will have thousands of percents, and that's not really a good thing, especially with the fat soluble vitamins.
Fish oil supplements sound like a good idea, especially with the way my season has gone.

Lou · 10-26-2007, 06:48 PM

EC you really need to talk to your Dr.
Nothing wrong, but your out of balance.
That's the place to start

FM2 · 10-26-2007, 08:46 PM

I drink lots of organic greet tea and take a multi vitamin, never felt better. Check out the health benefits and PM me and I can let you know more.

First Bite · 10-27-2007, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by EastCreek

Could some of you share your experience with vitamins. What do you take? How often? Brand or place of purchase? most imprtantly...What difference can you physically notice? Thanks. EC

Pioneer vitamins and supplements. These are some of the best vitmains I've ever taken. They can be purchsed online or at New Seasons stores. Huge difference in mental and physical well being. They also have a herbal product called Supertonic which is made with standardized herbs.

http://www.pioneernutritional.com/

Mark

Trick · 10-28-2007, 01:36 PM

I generally eat healthy, lift weights three times a week, take a multi-vitamin along with a vitamin C pill daily. Drink whey protein on the days I lift and feel pretty good as I stare down the barrel of the big 40.

My biggest vice is choclate and I'm a sucker for anything that has it (cake, choclate bars, donuts, etc...) Halloween is hell on me!

I never have smoked and drinking is limited to no more then a beer or two a week generally (sometimes I go for months without a barley pop). Drink at least 70-80 oz. of water a day.

The biggest thing I ever did that had the biggest single effect on how I felt was giving up pop. I used to suck down anywhere from 20-80 oz. or more a day. My back killed me all the time and I quit upon advice from a chiropractor. I thought my head was going to explode for a week or two then I felt better. My back pains went away and it started me down the path to better health.

We limit our bleached flour intake by eating whole grain breads, whole grain pasta and whole grain cereals. I love pasta and the whole grain stuff tastes really good.

We eat salmon/steelhead at least once or twice every week.

Anyways.....I take vitamins and I believe it helps. Mind over matter???

One last preach.....Give up the soda....you will notice almost immediate health benefits.

Cat n Tat's Dusky · 10-28-2007, 03:40 PM

Took some pictures of me and my neice and nephew on the boat, and upon developing them I noticed.....

DANG I'm fat.

230lbs. I stared at that pic and finally had enough. Joined Ballys, and swore to eat better. First think was soda. Now I have maybe one a week, and even that is too much. Water, sometimes with Crystal Lite mixed in, is my mainstay. Carbs are my weakness. I need to remove refined sugars and bread...all bread. Diet is HUGE if you want to lose weight.

2002 I fell off a two story house and broke my left leg in six places. Staying with family while I was laid up was a blessing. No soda, very little red meat, very few carbs. My diet was a lot of fish, chicken and vegetables, and excercise of some type every day. Before I left Conn. and moved back to Florida I was 187lbs.

Now I am down to 215 from 230. Will be hitting the gym in the morning.....

I take a multi vitamin and a fish oil supplement. When I am eating right, excercising,and taking my vitamins, I feel great!!!!!

CamoHunter · 10-29-2007, 10:50 AM

Trick,

Just interested... How does pop effect you back?
Is it the sugar?

Jennie@ifish · 10-30-2007, 06:22 AM

My son swore off pop and lost nearly 50 pounds in one summer.

Pop is bad stuff!

I take doublex and it really helps me as none of us eat a perfectly balanced diet, and I just feel that a good multi really helps me stay balanced.

I also take good acidophilus, cuz I have to take so many antibiotics.

I have to take iron every day, because I'm low on feratin stores. But, that's a doctor thing.

I would suggest (IMHO) go to the doc and get all checked up, but a good natural health doc is second to none.

Jen

fish-on-bend · 10-30-2007, 06:27 AM

Juice Plus is all I will say. My wife has been a distributor for 12 years, we have both taken it for 12 years. She used to be in the health food business, owned her own store for a while -and the product has over 13 years of long term studies proving its link to an improved immune system. Google the product and read about it. Essentially its fruits and veggies (that none of us eat enough of) dried to capsule form and done at room temp to avoid killing all the good stuff. Its true whole food nutrition, no supplements can replace whole food nutrition.

Jennie@ifish · 10-30-2007, 06:35 AM

Juiceplus is good stuff, like many others...

I can't take that, however, as it has too much Vitamin K in it for coumadin patients.

Just make certain that all of your health care providers know EVERYTHING that you take, as even "natural" supplements are technically medicine and can interact with a prescription that you are currently taking-- or alter tests that need to be performed!

Jen

CGRFish · 10-31-2007, 09:39 AM

I agree completely with using caution with vitamins / supplements - they are all foreign to your body, and you need to use caution with the impact on the body's chemistry. That said, I have a condition which the medical doctors say there is no treatment for, but my chiropractor / natural guy suggested supplements to ease the symptoms, and it works! He recommends buying from swanson vitamins ( www.swansonvitamins.com) on line, for a very high quality product at cheaper prices than your local health store. The prices are great, and the service even better.