[LifeIsCruel]

I take many different vitamins (C, D-3, Fish Oil, Saw Palmetto, etc....) I know I could take a Multi-Vitamin and still get "some" of these essentials, but not all, and the milligrams would be lower?

Anyone think I am making the right choice? My MD is cool with it, but you folks are my family (since I have none) and I value your insights!

Thanks for reading my post.

[ChangingMyMind]

I don't know I take a multivitamin but I feel like it may be a waste of money. I just don't believe we need them but I take it per doctors orders.

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[buttrfli42481]

I am prescribed all of my vitamins. B-complex, D-3, E, Fish Oil, Folic Acid and a multi. My GP and Pdoc are on board with them all.

[H3rmit]

I think a multivitamin is often helpful. D3 is a necessity in my climate. Others are helpful at different times when I feel depleted, like this week I've been extremely stressed, so I take related vit. and mins. Taking everything all the time would be excessive for me. YMMV. I go by if I feel off, rundown, etc, having learned a little about what relates to issues I've had, eg frequent anemia.

[Perna]

I go with how I feel? I also think about how taking pills is a "new" concept in human living? Remember the cereal ads where one (Total?) claims you'd have to eat 27 bowls of the other to get the nutrition? But is it nutrition or just stuff they stick in there. Here we have people saying take handfuls of expensive pills -- it might be better to just eat the 27 bowls of cereal? I like to eat FOOD. The more natural the food, the greater the chances of getting what you need from it. Eating in a balanced and curious/creative variable way (getting a variety of different foods, for example, not just being a "meat and potatoes" sort of person). If you want Vitamin D, get in the habit of going outside instead of just sitting in the dark interior of your house messing with the computer and watching TV? Sunshine and going for a walk therein can help with depression too, you got a single vitamin that can do that?

My doctor has prescribed Vitamin D and told me once my B12 was low, etc. I can see taking specific vitamins if the doctor suggests I'm low from correct testing but when is the test taken, what is supposed to happen, etc. makes a big difference. What do you want to "correct" by taking more of a vitamin? It isn't going to cure depression or necessarily make you feel that much better/more energetic (Vitamin B complex), mostly it is just going to be lots of dollars to make your pee turn yellow? LOL After awhile I get to taking some of this and some of that and even get on a little schedule but nothing feels like it has changed in my body or sleep or whatever so I get to wondering why I bother? We have to eat but we don't have to eat vitamin pills and those B complex pills are so large and nasty smelling/tasting? Almost worse than cod liver oil

Start with eating well and work toward that habit and then see if you can identify other areas that this or that supplement might help and then do a scientific trial of it in your life to see if you like what it does, how much it costs (versus how much/little it does), etc. There are no magic pills! Yes, a multivitamin can be a bit helpful perhaps, I take a gummi one, LOL, treat it as my 2 pieces of "candy" at the end of the day.

[H3rmit]

>It isn't going to cure depression or necessarily make you feel that much better/more energetic (Vitamin B complex), mostly it is just going to be lots of dollars to make your pee turn yellow

I use nutritional yeast, an old hippie food source. Once I'm peeing it out, I know I have more than enough. Lately the stress has been extreme and despite taking it 2x a day, the colour change didn't happen for several days.

I find that supplements do help with low moods, though I agree with you that often foods are a better way to dose oneself - spinach and kale instead of folic acid, curry with turmeric and hot chilis instead of some capsicum+ thing that I presume exists.

[ChangingMyMind]

@h3rmit lol, too true! Vitamin B is an expensive way to make your pee yellow. Have you tired the sublingual variety? They're supposed to be absorbed by our body more, hence less bright yellow pee.

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[HolisticGal]

I would use a separate niacin for anxiety. The flushing kind of niacin helps for this but is not in multi-vitamins usually.

[vital]

Originally Posted by LifeIsCruel

I take many different vitamins (C, D-3, Fish Oil, Saw Palmetto, etc....) I know I could take a Multi-Vitamin and still get "some" of these essentials, but not all, and the milligrams would be lower?

Anyone think I am making the right choice? My MD is cool with it, but you folks are my family (since I have none) and I value your insights!

Thanks for reading my post.

Hi there! A multi-vitamin won't replace, for instance, the fish oil and those Omega 3s and they are supposed to be very important. I would suggest looking at books and/or web sites by Mark Hyman or Andrew Weil. They have tons of information about vitamins and food too.