Are vitamins / supplements any good?

Hi monkeys,

Looking to better understand the value / effectiveness of adding some vitamines to my daily routine.

Is there any research proving taking certain vitamins is helpful? What is it helpful for? Should I look at multivitamin products or are there more specific nuances I don't understand as of right now?

These are just some general questions, would appreciate any insights.

For context: AN1, inside all day, relatively balanced diet, not enough exercise

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Vitamin D is pretty important since u do not get as much sunlight as the average person. I would say a multi v is only needed if your diet is sub par, and not eating much whole foods. other things i personally take is ashwaganda (stress), fish oil (only when i do not eat fish, avocados, grass fed beef, or a grass fed butter). Calcium + D3 (I have been deficient in calcium basically my whole life). Magnesium Glycinate (studies show its good for you plus helps u sleep better)

 

Several great doctors on youtube. How do i know they are good? I follow their recommendations and if it works I keep watching them.

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Vitamin D is pretty important since u do not get as much sunlight as the average person. I would say a multi v is only needed if your diet is sub par, and not eating much whole foods. other things i personally take is ashwaganda (stress), fish oil (only when i do not eat fish, avocados, grass fed beef, or a grass fed butter). Calcium + D3 (I have been deficient in calcium basically my whole life). Magnesium Glycinate (studies show its good for you plus helps u sleep better)

Very true, I don't know of a single banker who isn't Vitamin D deficient (including me).  Also would take turmeric (inflammation is the enemy) and more off the beaten path, I'm also looking into Urolithin A

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230907/Study-unveils-a-potential-so…

 

I have heard studies saying turmeric is horrible for your testosterone, but I could be wrong. 

 

Vitamin D is pretty important since u do not get as much sunlight as the average person. I would say a multi v is only needed if your diet is sub par, and not eating much whole foods. other things i personally take is ashwaganda (stress), fish oil (only when i do not eat fish, avocados, grass fed beef, or a grass fed butter). Calcium + D3 (I have been deficient in calcium basically my whole life). Magnesium Glycinate (studies show its good for you plus helps u sleep better)

Everyone should take a multivitamin daily and 5,000 - 10,000 IUs of D3 per day.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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Vitamin D is pretty important since u do not get as much sunlight as the average person. I would say a multi v is only needed if your diet is sub par, and not eating much whole foods. other things i personally take is ashwaganda (stress), fish oil (only when i do not eat fish, avocados, grass fed beef, or a grass fed butter). Calcium + D3 (I have been deficient in calcium basically my whole life). Magnesium Glycinate (studies show its good for you plus helps u sleep better)

Everyone should take a multivitamin daily and 5,000 - 10,000 IUs of D3 per day.

Does Vitamin D have benefits if you are not deficient in it?

 

Red meat contains the vitamin as well. And i mean grass fed and grass finished beef. Any great reason why I shop at Whole Foods stores.

SafariJoe, wins again!
 

As an international student, I face challenge in my academic and social ability. I have to learn a different culture, language, and education system, while also dealing with stress and at times loneliness. I recently started taking lion's mane and some other nootropics to improve my cognitive performance and well being.
 

Lion's mane helps me to enhance my memory, learning, and mood. I also take oxiracetam to boost my focus and analytical thinking, aniracetam to calm my anxiety, and OmegaTAU to support my overall brain function. These nootropics made a positive difference in my life, and after a few months I feel more confident, motivated, and happy
 

 

I can't speak to Bacopa specifically but I have tried other nootropics (all legal) and experienced increases in memory, mood and concentration while on them. Sure, some of it may be the placebo effect, but I'll take what I can get... I'm sure individual results may vary so my advice is to seek the best sources (current nootropics reddit threads are best for this), gradually titrate up to find the minimum effective dose, and have some ibprofen and anti-emetic drugs on hand as you experiment since headache and nausea are the two most common side effects (I'd avoid tyeenol to prevent taxing your liver). 

nicole
 

Been taking Bacopa, Lion's Mane, Alpha GPC, L-Tyrosine, and Phenylethylamine daily for a few months now. Mainly for long-term brain health, so haven't focused too much on short-term effects. Still, I feel they're beneficial.

 

I started developing some serious muscle twitching all over my body, but most in the eye.

Thing persisted for months, and the hypochondriac in me was starting to fear the worst (ALS etc.)

Went to get my blood checked, and turns out I had a serious vitamin and mineral deficiencies. After taking supplements for some time, those thing disappeared. Same with a bunch of other (albeit less) annoying things. 

 

vitamins tend to be made syntethically in a laborotary, and that disrupts your hormones

if that doesn't convince you yet, there is a balance between nutrients and vitamins when you eat food, there is a ratio that keeps the gut bacteria balanced and makes one feel well. The issue with vitamins is that they to bend so far in some nutrients that a normal balance between different vitamins is lost and this disrupts your gut biodiversity.

if you're not convienced yet, multivitamins tend to be packed by vitamins that we already take enough from a normal diet, they fill those multivitamins with the most abundant vitamins because they're cheaper meanwhile the ones that people are craved out are quite low (company prioritizing profits at the expense of their clients well-being??? no way!) 

so just stick to a balanced diet, many people that are 80s-90s never touched supplements in their live, just eating a balanced diet and not overeating is the key to vitality, not pumping your body with syntethical products

incentives trumph ethics
 
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Drinking canned fresh milk helps supplement vitamins in addition to eating..

I’ve never seen canned milk, even at Whole Foods.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I'm all about that raw milk life, I got the connect at the farmers market.

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

Vitamin D for winter—end thread—the rest are only there to beef up revenue line items for Pharma companies; they're only ever needed in environments where financial poverty leads to reduced access to conventional food that's available in First World countries (& for people with specific health conditions (usually temporary))

 

Yeah bro I wouldn't be where I am today without my daily doses of vitamins Tren and HGH.  

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Bulletproof coffee has collagen in it.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Creatine is good for you. The primary benefit of creatine is an improvement in strength and power output during resistance exercise. Creatine is well-researched for this purpose, and its effects are quite notable for a supplement, both in the general population, and in older adults.

When used in conjunction with resistance exercise, creatine may modestly increase lean mass. In trained athletes, creatine has been reported to reduce body fat and improve some measures of anaerobic exercise performance, strength, and power output. Creatine has also been tested for effects on anaerobic running capacity in many studies, the results of which are rather mixed but generally suggest a small improvement in performance.

Although creatine has been researched far less for cognitive performance and mental health than for physical performance, it may have benefits in some contexts. Creatine appears to reduce mental fatigue in some scenarios, particularly highly stressful ones involving sleep deprivation or exercise to exhaustion.

Creatine may also improve some aspects of memory, particularly for people with below-average creatine levels, such as vegetarians and older adults. There is also some preliminary evidence to suggest that creatine may reduce symptoms of depression in individuals with major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder.

Source: examine

 

I take a multivitamin and biotin. I take the multivitamin in case I have any deficiencies.  I take biotin for hair maintenance.  I do not know if any of this stuff does anything for me.  

 

Here is the skinny on vitamin d, if you really want it to have a effect on your body then you have to take these together for maximum results: vitamin D, zinc and Magnesium Stearate. Why because the vitamin d, have to bod with the receptors in your gut, which happens with the zinc and ms.

If you suffer from low energy then you need to take vitamin k2, mk 7. This makes your mitochondria to produce more energy. The two along you should experience the changes with the hour of taking them and lasts most of the day.

SafariJoe, wins again!
 

I forgot to add, avoid the following foods:
All forms of bread, sodas all if them and anything with sucrose unless its in fruits which only eat the whole fruit, stay away from juice in a bottle, whole fruits contain enough fibre to reduce the sucrose rush.

SafariJoe, wins again!
 

Yep, as mentioned in another post - multi and biotin almost daily, I also throw in glucosamine and fish oil (was traveling for around two weeks no vitamins and noticed - or what seemed like what was happening hair getting slightly weaker and less energy, as for glusosamine and fish oil no idea.. hope for best lol)

also once in a while - Zinc, Magnesium, the B's (B6, B12 and B-complex), D, C, E (which biotin covers E) and a couple of others like a chewy red beet root blah blah

 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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