Vitamins. What is everyone taking?
I was just at the chiropractor, and told her the goal of the rest of training was to not doing anything stupid and not get sick. For the not get sick part, she suggested I take, in addition to the multivitamin
1) 3000 mg vitamin C
2) Adreset (which has the funniest description on the bottle about stamina)
3) Cortico - B5/B6
What is everyone else taking these days?
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Hammer Premium Insurance Caps (fancy name for mulit), race caps supreme, omega 3 supp. I used to take a gizillion supplements....all from hammer. But that got a bit spendy, so have backed way way down....can't say I notice much of a difference. Oh and a vitamin C fizzy drink supplement...forgetting the name as I type this.
Nothing, it got too expensive and I didn't feel any different from a better diet and being in better shape. Sometimes I'll pop a Disney princess gummy when my girls have them, but that is just for the taste!
I take a multi without iron and fish oil.
2 monstrous sized Tums (tropical fruit flavor) for calcium---again because I don't drink milk
Quercetin---giving it a try for no real good reason except that Lance Armstrong takes it.
Tums- for Calcium on occasion
1000mg vitamin C
400iu vitamin E
1500mg glucosamine hydrochloride w/ 400iu vit D in it
Centrum silver (no iron). I got this bottle by accident last time at Costco, so I'm using them until they're gone.
I also drink a cup of Green tea each morning, 5 days a week at the office.
Since I've gone more paleo/primal with my nutrition, I'm looking to phase some of these out as well.
I'll probably add a quercetin (1000mg)/EGCG (30mg)mix that I've read about.
DITTO!!
2G fish oil (Nordic Naturals Ultimate Omega) - helps with lots of things including dry eye and joints
Cosamin DS
I'm pretty much doing the same a Kathy but adding 2000 mg of Vit. D and skipping the fizzy drink. I never really feel a difference if I miss but it doesn't hurt and it may be helpful in the long run.
I'm taking the GNC Sport Vitapack and GNC Omega 3's (2000mg daily)
Don't know if the vitamins help/hurt but I've felt pretty good taking them. The Omega 3's have greatly improved some joint pain I used to have in my fingers (too many years of playing the drums...)
I'd be curious as to why certain vitamins/supplements are being taken. Are you going to the doctor for blood tests to determine shortfalls? Do you slug nutrition into a food database to figure out what you're eating and compare it to national standards? Reading scientific papers that state "X" works for these conditions (and you have that condition?).
I guess I could tell if I wasn't getting enough vitamin C 'cause I'd get scurvy, but not sure about most things.
I also hear a lot of comments like "taking it for insurance, it can't hurt" that seem a little off-hand / unscientific to me.
I guess I'd buy into the whole deal if I knew for sure I needed something and some test would give me the evidence I need.
Thoughts?
tom
Ditto that
Two notes on vitamins (multi, adreset, extra B, lots of C) - I didn't get the post-Ironman cold/flu. And, this may have been taper, but I started taking vitamins and felt like I got my brain back. The haze of training that was making it difficult to construct compound sentences lifted.
Glucosamine + Chondroitin for arthritic toe (but I might phase this out as a recent study showed no benefit)
Mike
I just take a generic men's MVI from Wegman's and fish oil.
I have been taking multivitamin.
Paul, I take 2 of the GNC mega sport along with 2 GNC Triflex, one of each in AM and 1 in PM.