VITAMINS
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What vitamins and minerals does /fit/ take on a daily basis?
I'll start:
>Omega 3
>Flax seed oil
>Probiotic
>Vitamin D
>Magnesium
>B Complex
>Appetite suppresant bc i'm cutting
Let's hear it fellas
>>36974913
Forgot Multivitamin......
>>36974913
what do you take as an appetite suppressant?
>muh ddurrr faggot vegans need supplements cause their diet is flawed
>>36974913
>Omega 3
>Flax seed oil
>Probiotic
not vitamins or minerals
>>36974980
I take these because I never get enough vegetables into my diet not because i'm vegan
>>36974913
>>Flax seed oil
Are you a man wanting to be a girl but don't have access to estrogen pills? I really hope you are.
>>36975009
that was my fucking point
people say vegans are retarded and eat unnaturally, while the vast majority of people in the west a deficient in something
and very, very few are vegans
But uhm, if you were vegan, you would gett all those without having to supplement
>omega3
>multivita
>D
>zinc
>magnesium
>test e
>tren a
>>36975017
I didn't realize that.
I started taking them because I can't handle the ADHD pills I used to have to take and flax seed oil really helped.
>>36975044
Helped how? I also have this made-up bullshit condition called "ADHD" according to my doc, and I just stopped taking my amphetamine pills without supplementing it with anything. Feel so much better and I manage school just fine, ADHD is just another word for being a sheltered lazy shit. Stop smoking weed if you're doing that shit too.
>>36974913
Started taking D3 and zinc recently. D3 because I got very little sun over the winter, and zinc because I bought into the testosterone raising meme. Should I be taking multivitamins? I don't believe in supplementing where there is no deficiency, and I eat a varied salad next to lots of whole foods every day.
>>36974913
I take fish oil and D3. Fish oil because it's GOAT, and vitamin D because I work overnight 5 days a week and rarely see the sun.
>>36974913
>Vitamin D
>poisoning your body with fat-soluble vitamins instead of going outside
Alright m8
>>36975080
I was "diagnosed" as a child and took the pills the gave me but I found they made me irritable. When I went to University I met some guys that supplemented it instead of Ritalin/Dexadrine. They basically told me it was oil for your brain, keeps things moving well. That estrogen count really has put me off of it though...
>>36975107
>every country has sunlight every single day all year around
You must be murican
>>36975107
I live in Northern Canada. I don't get as much sun as you southerners.
>>36974972
>amorphophallus konjac
Do any anons know how I can get more potassium through supplements?
I am trying damn hard to eat more veggies but I literally go through a bag of spinach in 3 days.
>>36975211
Anything good for anxiety?
>>36974913
Tap water & skoal
>>36975132
>>36975131
eat some stuff that's cholesterol heavy and jog in the sun for 30mins and you're good to go
I'm from Germany, summer vacation for students is fucking 6 weeks because that's all the sun we get here
you're just falling for the pilled jews
>>36975131
>mfw you say this
>mfw when its cloudy out
>mfw when theres no sun
>>36975269
>pilled jews
Must be very generous Jews then.
£10 for a years supply
>>36975257
What flavour?
Better be Straight or Mint
>>36975028
>vegans dont need to take any supplements
i want you to explain to the class why your answer is wrong
>>36975132
yeah and even when I'm outside only my face is exposed. Its recommended Canadians take 400mg of Vitamin D during the winter months then go off it for the summer, so basically 8-9 months on vitamin D and 3-4 months off.
>>36975278
just fucking enjoy your overdose
>>36975028
>if you were vegan, you would gett all those without having to supplement
Actually, he would just substitute these supps for another batch of pills. For example, I bet he has great blood iron.
>>36975285
its not though
B12??? Lol, thats bacteria, the fucking meat youre eating was supplemented B12, cause everything is so stale now days, B12 is gone
Vitamin D: Dont be a retard
You got anything else? Come on
>>36975301
50,000 IU is the limit for human consumption
Each pill has 5000 IU
>>36975017
It isn't known whether phytoestrogens actually have an estrogenic effect on the body.
Infact areas in Japan like Okinawa have men who do not experience age related decline in tesosterone and they think this is due to phytoestrogens in their diet helping their bodies to regulate their hormones.
>>36975344
See this is the problem with this shit.
There's so many opinions and so few facts.
>>36975344
>bro
If i miss a day of vitamins do i lose gains?
>>36975224
thanks anon! This will help when I ate no kale or spinach
>>36975309
Iron, faggot
Fish oil and BCAA
>vit A
>Fish Oil
>Magnesium
>Zinc
>vit D
Orange Triad, multivitamin with joint and immune system bits in it.
the SUPPLEMENTS im taking
5k D3
Hemp oil
Turmeric
Mct oil
>>36974913
2 multivitamins a day and a gel of fish oil
>>36975248
L-theanine
Didnt even know i had anxiety until i startes using it. I have gone years without friends and didnt even feel lonely but now when I take l-theanine i NEED to talk to people and its very effortless and enjoyable
The one i take has 200mg of l-theanine and some b vitamins
>>36975017
plus the conversion to usable omega 3s from plant sources (except hemp) is supposed to be really bad, get krill or hemp oil
Circumin
Vit-B complex
Vit D 5000IU
Cashews
Sunflower seeds
Flax seeds
Veggies
Is vitamin d necessary? I get a bit of sun at least every two days
>>36976838
I keep hearing people rave about l-theanine, saying it made their social anxiety dissapear, or that it helps them focus while studying. Guess I'll give it a try.
>Zinc
>Vitamin D
Several OTC's so I can go to bed without thinking of how depressing my life is and thinking about offing myself.
>>36974913
>what vital-minerals and minerals does fit take
Any good appetite suppressor recommendations?
How do I find d outowhich supplements I should be taking? Can I just order a blood test?
uhhhhhh none. lol. is this shit necessary?
i eat fruits and veggies and sardines and stuff
Multi, 2 vitamin D tabs (doc's orders, levels were OK but could be better), and fish oil.
Was taking b12 but blood tests showed i was unusually high so doc recommended i cut down, as i already get above and beyond ny DV from energy drinks. Kinda concerned tho cause you're not supposed to end up with high b12 levels unless your liver is fucked or something. But they didn't seem very concerned so idk.
Zinc, magnesium
I take a vit d pill sometimes
>>36977253
coffee, dark chocolate, coconut oil, stevia, caffine, higher fat during meals help carb appetite.
>>36976965
like??
Multi, D3, chromium gtf, magnesium, potassium, omega 3
LGD
MK677
Ostarine
GNC multi sports
Vit d 1333%
Vit a 500%
Zinc 50mg
2g omega 3 fish oil
>>36974913
>flax seed oil
Potent phytoestrogen. If anything, take more O3 or add in a DHA supp.
Totalhealth.previnex.com
Magnesium malate 1250mg
Zinc chelate (albion) 30mg
Glucosamine / Chondroitin 500/400mg (climber)
Vitamin B complex
Vitamin D 5000IU
Omega 3 fish oil 2000mg
>>36981059
Someone watches Leroy Colbert
>>36981101
I don't know who that is. Why?
>>36975211
>>36975224
>>36975921
FDA won't let products be supplemented more than 5% of your Potassium requirement.
Each of those pills only has 5% of your daily requirement.
You must get most of your Potassium from food.
>>36980592
>Potent phytoestrogen
That's an oxymoron. Phytoestrogens are very weak.
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/dietary-factors/phytochemicals/lignans
>Estrogens are signaling molecules (hormones) that exert their effects by binding to estrogen receptors within cells (Figure 3). The estrogen-receptor complex interacts with DNA to change the expression of estrogen-responsive genes. Estrogen receptors are present in numerous tissues other than those associated with reproduction, including bone, liver, heart, and brain (7). Although phytoestrogens can also bind to estrogen receptors, their estrogenic activity is much weaker than endogenous estrogens, and they may actually block or antagonize the effects of estrogen in some tissues (8). Scientists are interested in the tissue-selective activities of phytoestrogens because anti-estrogenic effects in reproductive tissue could help reduce the risk of hormone-associated cancers (breast, uterine, ovarian, and prostate), while estrogenic effects in bone could help maintain bone density. The enterolignans, enterodiol and enterolactone, are known to have weak estrogenic activity. At present, the extent to which enterolignans exert weak estrogenic and/or anti-estrogenic effects in humans is not well understood.
B Complex w/ Vitamin C
D3
Calcium, Magnesium, and Zinc (it's on one pill)
Iron once every two days (Upper limit on Iron is 40 mg a day. Daily requirement for men is only like 11 mg a day).
>>36974913
generic multivitamin
just started d3 with k2 and fish oil
5-htp, melatonin, and glucosamine after dinner
i used to take insane amounts of C and my recovery was a lot better
>>36975038
>>36974913
>>36975087
>>36976064
>>36976965
>>36977724
>>36979222
>>36981059
>>36981146
zinc and magnesium. in 100 words or less can someone tell me 1) the benefit of supplementing these and 2) why I should bother supplementing them if I take a multivitamin that gives me some or all of my daily amount
>>36981227
Zinc and magnesium are good for sleep, skin, helps with relaxing your muscles and test levels. Look it up.
Also multivitamins usually suck and have zinc/magnesium in oxide form which is as useful as eating sand. Always get chelated forms.
>>36981264
any negative interactions between other supplements or OTC stuff? what's a good starting dosage for both?
>>36981279
I'm not aware of any interactions except for vivid as fuck dreams.
One thing that sucks is that most magnesium forms (most common chelate is citrate) can give you the shits. That's why I ordered malate from Amazon and it doesn't do that to me. Absorption rate is different for different forms so get the dosage from the supplement box.
15mg is the recommended zinc dosage and it will have noticeable effects, but many take as much as 50mg (should be the safe limit).
>>36981298
cool,thanks anon. i take melatonin for sleep and 5-htp for mood (also used to take it to lucid dream). that's the main reason i asked. but my dreams aren't vivid the way they were when i first started taking the supps so zinc and magnesium should be all right.
>>36981298
Forgot to stress that never get minerals in oxide form. Always get an amino-acid chelate. However, since oxide is cheap most supplements have them so it can be difficult to find a one that's not a scam. Especially when it comes to magnesium and even then the most common chelate is citrate which can give you the shits. Try to find orotate or malate.
>>36981227
>>36981264
>>36981298
>magnesium supplements
Don't you guys eat whole grains?
>>36981313
Only oats, but I've supplemented magnesium for a long time even before getting fit because I get muscle cramps easily.
>all these people taking the vitamin D3 placebo
I dont get much sun either and take 2000iu per day for 30 days and still feel no difference.
The multivitamin companies are laughing all the way or the bank, and i say the same thing for fish oil too
>>36981264
You sound so gay. At least the flax seed guy had a legit reason >>36975017
>>36981337
Try living in northern europe with no sun in the winter. People get fucked in the head.
>>36981365
I assume you take d3 supps? Tell me the difference, maybe i don't even need them after all
>>36981313
if that's all i've gotta do to get the same benefits as the supplement i'm all for it. i've been craving banana, PB, and honey sandwiches
>>36981337
>>36981365
>>36981376
not taking sides. i just started trying out d3 and got k2 to go with it because i read that d3 isn't adequately absorbed without it. so, maybe try k2? idk
>>36981376
Better sleep, better skin, more energy. Hard to isolate the D3 effects tho because I take a stack of supps - >>36981059
one thing i see being overlooked in this thread is quality of the supplement. im sorry but you cant expect (in most cases) to buy a cheap supplement and think it will effect you. its basically known that all of the cheap stuff is synthetic derivates of actual vitamins that your body can't even properly recognize or use. a good example is b vitamins which everybody knows you piss them out and your piss turns neon green. this is because its literally passing through your body and doing nothing. if you take the actual absorbable b-vitamins this doesnt happen and you can actually feel the effects also. but these higher quality supplements generally will cost 2-3 times more than a generic one you would find at a pharmacy or something.
>>36981391
Whole grains and peanuts are good sources of magnesium. And they have other minerals too, so it's like killing 13 birds with one stone
>>36981111
mirin those quads brah
>>36981438
which brands consistently provide high quality supplements?
>>36981444
Nice trips brah
>>36981444
checked
>>36981438
>a good example is b vitamins which everybody knows you piss them out and your piss turns neon green. this is because its literally passing through your body and doing nothing
Well yeah, when the dose is 10,000% of the DRI and they're water-soluble, you're going to piss it out. If you absorbed it all, you'd probably die.
>>36981443
i needed to hear that. i'm all for eating my vitamins and minerals, and for eating more in general
>>36981445
you just have to know what to look for when you're buying them. research which ingredients are synthetic and the source/freshness of the ingredients. alot of fish oils go rancid from being left in sunlight and having clear bottles. most common synthetics are b12 and most of the forms of minerals like zinc/magnesium. i know most of them but its hard to list all of them here. just google synthetic vitamins minerals. this is a pervasive thing and most of the marketed vitamins are actually junk because they just make the cheapest possible product and highly market it
Test E
Tren E
Anadrol
Only vitamins I need
Vitamin tablets are grossly inefficient. Youd probably only absorb 20% of it, you get much much better absorption from real foods.
Tfw spending $100 a week on vitamins and mineral supps
Christ.... Sometimes i think i should i just spend it on whole foods
>>36981511
$100 a week is pittance senpai... Tbh
>>36974913
Multi
Zinc
Magnesium
Vit K
Vit D spray
Calcium and D3
Vitamin B12 spray
Omega 3,6,9
Acidophilus
Iron
I take all of those because ive got crohns and get all kinds of fucked up deficiency symptoms otherwise.
>>36981519
Not all of us earn above $1k a week
>>36981581
You dont need to earn $1k to be able to afford $100 a week of vitamin supps.
>>36974913
i eat food including fruits and vegetables and drink mineral water.
enjoy dr. schlomos pills you low iqs
>>36981591
>fruit
Enjoy your fructose, pleb. Look up the nutrtional value of fruits, its garbage.
>>36981600
>even though I don't know what I'm talking about, I feel compelled to post anyway
>>36981623
>even though I don't know what I'm talking about, I feel compelled to post anyway
>>36981638
glad you agree
>>36981642
Except i didint.
I take a fish oil supp with d3 added I take around 20 grams a day its completely reversed my faggot depression
>>36981600
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/fruits-nutrients-health
>>36974913
Im thinking of getting a vit E and D supp, pics my micros from food
never taken any vitamin pills before, although I do take a Pelargonium sidoides extract, since it seems to help me.
>>36981667
Try sunflower seeds for E
>>36981675
i already eat 8g of it a day, im slowly increasing it but starting to get tired of it.
Steroids > supplements
Stop handing over money to the corporate jew
>>36981701
No thanks, i have insecurities with my body but i sont have body dysmorphia. And besides, yhis whole lifting thing will become irrelevant for 99% of people here by the time theyre 40. Lifting is temporary. Repeat that to yourself.
>>36981713
If you're okay with withering away into a worthless bag of shit before you even hit middle age then I feel sorry for you
>>36981745
If you think physical attractiveness holds the same value as other qualities even at middle age, then i pity you; kek not really, one more ignoramus works to my advantage anyway.
>>36981227
unless you're taking an upwards of 500% (that's even low) of your "daily value" of a vitamin, your body likely isn't absorbing it all, or even enough to meet your needs. multivitamins rarely contain more than that, so...
>>36981760
dude, 100% of your life is not about attracting a mate.
lifting is only as temporary as you want it to be. doesn't lifting make you feel good? then keep motherfucking doing it!
>>36981773
>dude, 100% of your life is not about attracting a mate.
Correct
>lifting is only as temporary as you want it to be. doesn't lifting make you feel good? then keep motherfucking doing it!
Now you're changing your argument, the fact you cannot stay on track tells me you're mentally deficient in more ways than one. All that roid isnt doing you favours
>>36975309
Literally explained nothing, just hurled insults
Typical vegan
>>36982027
Whats there to explain, kid? You're on /fit/. If youre here for actual advice, i feel for you; not really, i don't. Stay here for a while and learn the ropes, and youll realise posting actual advice is actually even frowned upon, also beware of samefagging posters who self-trolls. 4chan isnt a site where you to go for information unless you see posters arguing with their e-ego on the line, THEN youll see actual information
If you supplement vitamin D you must supplement vitamin K also
>>36982059
why?
>>36981667
What program is that? Looks very useful
>>36981793
what are you even talking about?
>>36982062
It will clog your arteries
>>36982062
It's involved in the conversion i recall, it helps its uptake at the start, but also protects against overdose later.
Vit D overdose will cause calcification in your arteries so K is important.
>>36982076
hm, doctors didn't tell me that when they told me to supp extra vitamin D so
>>36982069
Nothing at all, I don't p know why you bother to reply 30 minutes later, might as well not even bother. Tbh i forgot what our convo was about and its not worth my effort to backtrack
Vitamin D3 5000iu
Magnesium Malate 450mg, It says I should take tablets at a time but that seems overkill
Pro-biotic
Generic multi, it's cheap as fuck so why not
Cod Liver oil tablet
Use to take Zinc but I ran out, maybe I am imagining it but I get Zinc doubled my load if you know what I mean
Honestly though finding an actual good vitamins that are cheap is incredibly hard, most are oxide coated and the rest are always expensive
>>36982098
i wasn't even conversing with you lol that was the first time you replied to me and the first time i posted here so
>>36974913
epa/dha
k2
d3
zinc
magnesium
at night
arginine pyroglutamate
lysine
>>36982079
Well if you are low on D and dont get enough sunlight then taking some wont do it, its only when you go well over. So K is important if you think you might be taking too much.
>>36982106
Literally every cheap multi is synthetic crap and a total waste.
Do you guys prefer softgels or tablets?
I prefer tablets.
D3
calcium
Zinc glucosamine
Lecithin
D3
Fish oil
Centrum
ZMA
I might get an appetite suppressant soon
Which one is decent that isn't an EC stack?
>>36974913
Vitamin D, B complex and magnesium.
Last time I went to see my mother I noticed she had bulk bought krill oil for some reason and thought about taking a bottle, but I'm not convinced krill oil/fish oil really do anything, I've heard conflicting accounts.
>>36975080
Speaking as someone who is married to someone who has ADHD (diagnosed properly as an adult, not as a child) and who only started functioning at the same level as other people when dex was prescribed, you really don't know what you're talking about. Like most people on /fit/, but I digress.
If you live in America, there's a solid chance you were simply misdiagnosed. Even if you don't it's the likely scenario.
>>36976943
If you're getting about 30min of sun a day you won't need it in supplement form. It's widely acknowledged that vitamin d from being outside is better/preferable to taking pills.
If you're black (or otherwise dark skinned) you need a lot more, though. Closer to an hour a day. Black people living far north with long winters and short days suffer huge vit d deficiencies and are way more prone to depression than white people.
So I've been taking fish oil for years now and recently found out that I'm actually allergic to it, what should I switch to?
>>36983435
What are you allergic to, exactly? I thought of krill oil, but then I wondered if you'd just be allergic to that too.
>>36983390
>Speaking as someone who is married to someone who has ADHD (diagnosed properly as an adult, not as a child)
I was also diagnosed as an adult.
>If you live in America
I live in Europe.
>you really don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah let's all trust the guy who married a dysfunctional female who's now on speed. He seems like a reasonable guy.
ADHD is bullshit, it doesn't exist. It's symptoms caused by shitty parenting and a society that pampers you instead of forcing you into responsibility and discipline. You do know that in Asia for example, ADHD isn't a thing. It doesn't exist. Is it because asians can't suffer from ADHD? No, it's because nobody can suffer from ADHD. There is no such thing, it's a bullshit scam disorder which is kept considered as something real so that pharmaceutical companies can sell all their flavours of amphetamine. And also because if you give someone who's lazy and behaves badly speed, they will behave better. It's a fantastically effective treatment for bad behavior, much to the joy of lazy parents, fed-up teachers, and the companies peddling the shit. A pill is so much easier than properly raising a kid.
But yeah enjoy your marrige i guess. My guess is it won't last and she has already cheated on you :^)
>>36983510
Guy who married a guy, actually, but otherwise.
> It's symptoms caused by shitty parenting and a society that pampers you instead of forcing you into responsibility and discipline.
I completely agree with the idea that add/adhd are too frequently colluded with bad parenting and shitty brat children and that stuffing children full of ritalin has been peddled as a solution. I don't think the entire notion of add/adhd is made up.
I mean, if you want to get technical, add/adhd actually fall on the far end of the autism spectrum, unless you also think autism isn't really a thing.
> asia
Difficult to talk about since mental illness/aberrations of any kind are swiftly swept under the rug and always labelled as symptoms of laziness and incontinence. Even things like depression can't be talked about in China/Japan (the only ones I can talk about) because it dishonors the family.
>>36983510
>>36983567
Right, and since you went the "I disagree with you so I'll imply you're a cuck" route, I'll spare you the trouble and call myself an aids-ridden faggot or whatever. Get back to talking about vitamins.
>>36983496
To be honest I don't know for sure yet, its a sort of thing where just smelling fish these days starts giving me reflux and if I eat it I get massive chest pain to the point I have to force myself to vomit, more than once if I didn't get it all the first time. It was sort of a long time coming since I'd had heartburn that would disappear for a while and coincidentally reappear around when I would feel like getting tuna back into my diet. I've told my doctor about it but haven't gotten tested yet.
>>36983733
but to add on to that fish oil had always given me a bit of reflux until I started taking the enteric coated stuff, but I'm realizing that doing that might just be masking the problem by pushing it into my intestines where I wont really feel it even if its causing inflammation or something.
nobody takes animal pak?
>fish oil
>D3
>Magnesium
>Potassium
>Adderall
Zinc Picolinate
Iron (kind of anemic and my heartrate is ridiculous in spite of lots of cardio)
Vitamin B12 (Same as above)
Vitamin C
Shitloads of sun for free Vitamin D
>multivit
>calcium
>vit d
>zinc
