Vitamins. U take them?

“hahahah LH is watching too much Oprah!!

they did say to take...
400mg magnesium
600mg calcium 2x/day
800mg folate acid
400mg vitamin D

OH..AND 2 baby asprin per day.

you stay young forver that way...so they say ;)”

“I don't take none o' dat schit!!!

bananas, apples, oranges, spinach, broccoli, etc”

“hey marko...I didn't see a TR...about the ghost hunt... heeheeheee...

and ya have to start to take your vitamins!! Really! There isn't enough food for you to eat to get all your vitamins.

BTW: GNC has ultra mega minerals for $10. includes calcium, magnesium, folic acid, and that stuff. not a bad price either. [that's what I started taking...that and a gnc multi-vitamin without iron. I hated to take all those freakin' pills, so now I take a couple less]
last edited: 9/08/05 1:45:29 PM”

“I prefer the MarkO plan.....I could never remember to take the vitamin anyway even after I brought a bottle to work. Total cereal is my "supplement."”

“I'd like to find a decent multi-vitamin that doesn't upset my stomach. Sometimes I can sneak it past with food.”

“if I don't eat and take my multi...i puke.
the only multi vitamin that didnt' make me puke yet is the Andrew Lessman vitamins. Surprised me, but no puking.”

“I get a hand full to choke down from my wife. I tease her that one is the arsenic. She keeps up on the low down. Her sources are Andrew Weil, and The UC Berkely Wellness Letter”

“beer works for me”

“I eat a bowl of Total every morning.”

“Gemini, I think I saw that info on some show with that Dr. Andrew Weil. I think he's a doctor. He specializes in formulating the right foods and vitamins to take to live a healthy life. He's been around a long time and wrote many books.

I also looked found out the info from my doctor when I asked if it was "my time" to start taking calcium. Someone here actually said it's not something you wait to do at premenopause which I happen NOT to be in yet, but it's more age related, so I asked my doctor and she said 600 mg twice and day and taken once in the a.m. and once in the p.m. since it's too much for the body to actually absorb or use if taken all at once.

So ha!!!! I'm not always watching Ophra, lol:) Actually, I did see that show was going to be on and caught the ending of the night time reruns. I did want to see the whole show, because I like to watch informative things about your health. I know she was having that cute doctor on the show. I'm not sure if he's surgeon, but who cares, he's adorable.”

“I can't handle multi-vitamins w/o food either. I've never researched why that is, but if you feed me a multi-vitamin sans something to munch on...it ain't pretty.”

“still taking all your vitamins?
There coming out new wonder meds out every day.

Anyone heard of Oxygen Supplements? [Also called Vitamin O] What is that all about?

at this time I am just taking a multi Vitamin, extra calcium, oh and a sports supplments.”

“same as this?
http://www.contactplus.com/cellfood/ingredients.htm

how can they claim in includes all this if really it doesn't? [that was really a question] thanks BM, that DOES proof my point.”

“wow. Who was talking about snake oil the other day?”

“Never really took them. I heard all vitamins did was make you create expensive wizz.”

“I THINK...you got to have at least your daily multi vitamin. I gave my kids vitamins since they are old enough to chew.”

“red meat, greens, and a shot of 'snake oil' to warm the blood up......”

“Right now I am taking lysine, Vitamin C, calcium with vitamin D and Magnesium, flax oil, and glycosamine condroitin.

I get in my meats and veggies too... Will probably replace the flax oil with fish oil when they run out, but I don't like to taste the fishies later. ... and you do, but its hard to get the fishes in each week, you know?”

“i took flax for a while, and prolly should take it again, same for the glycosmaine, but I hate taking so many pills,so right now I don't.

my list of vitamins I SHOULD take[but don't]:
Vitamin C
*Calcium
L-Lysine
*L-Thyrosine [oops, I forgot about this one, I do take that one]
*GNC Multi V's for women
500 mcg Chromium Picolinate
Essential Greens [in case I don't get enough green stuff]
*Endurux Excel [sports supplement]
Glycosamine
Folic Acid

way too much to take, so I take the Multi V, the calcium, the L-Tyrosine, and the sports supplement. I'll prolly change my mind after a while and add the Lysine and the greens back to my list.
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“I suspect glucosamine/glycosamine, also.

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/qhcosteo.html

III. Conclusions

Based on FDA's consideration of the scientific evidence submitted with your petition and other pertinent scientific evidence, FDA concludes that there is no credible evidence to support qualified health claims for glucosamine or chondroitin sulfate and reduced risk of OA, JD or CD. Thus, FDA is denying your petition for qualified claims based on the following proposed health claims:

1. Glucosamine may reduce the risk of osteoarthritis.
2. Chondroitin sulfate may reduce the risk of osteoarthritis.
3. Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may reduce the risk of osteoarthritis.
4. Glucosamine may reduce the risk of joint degeneration.
5. Chondroitin sulfate may reduce the risk of joint degeneration.
6. Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may reduce the risk of joint degeneration.
7. Glucosamine may reduce the risk of cartilage deterioration.
8. Chondroitin sulfate may reduce the risk of cartilage deterioration.
9. Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may reduce the risk of cartilage deterioration.

Please note that scientific information is subject to change. FDA intends to evaluate new information that becomes available to determine whether it necessitates a change in this decision. For example, scientific evidence may become available that will support the use of a qualified health claim or that will support significant scientific agreement.”

“There's not alot of scientific evidence on alot of claims. I don't put too much stock, but I do think that Chitin and cow neck might be good for ya?

http://www.jointhealing.com/pages/productpages/glucosamine.html”

“ya, a multi every day”

“smokeygirl that site talks about fat soluable not being good for the body. I take about 35 vitamins a day and they are water soluable. also vitamin manufactures can put anything on the bottle they want. Like they can say it is natural by goverment standards the vitamin has to only have 20% ingredients to be called natural.”

“I take a multivitamin/mineral with a few herbals in it.
Black Cohash.
Glucosamine/Chondroitin/MSM

Sometimes I add these extras depending on whether I need them and if I have the money.

Ester C
Zinc
Ferrous Gluconate; I always start taking this before a backpack along with the Ester C because I am a smoker. Not much of a smoker, but a smoker none the less.

When I need to add extra weight before a trip, I drink 3 or 4 Ensure Plus a day in addition to three meals.”

“hey MarkO

How do you take that stuff? Do you have to swallow it whole (doesn't it make you puke) or do you take it rectal? Are they soluble in a glass of water? Sounds like you are drugging and experimenting with awefully dangerous stuff. Whats your drug dealer. Where you're getting them from? Are you sure it's legal to deal and consume bananaz, appels, oranges, spinach, broccoli, ect?!”

“Don't forget the carrots, euro hikey.

Gemini, do you eat food as well?”

“carrots?!?...carotts!! You're sick! For gods sake, why don't you take pills! Think of all the e.coli bacterias you may get from carrots, the pesticides, herbicides, heavy metalls, ect...
Remember - spinach killed many people last year!”

“......cause I eats me spinach!



Oh, blow me (down), Olive!!!”

“Popeye is the god of all Anabolicis. Look at him...!”

“He seems to enjoy a bit of Extra Virgin as well.

I do love to hear Popeye talk.”

“what you mean? I don't take but 2 different vitamins, and 2 supplements

I just started to take the L-Tyrosine because my thyroid is borderline and the doc won't update my levothroid meds [right now at 0.075mg]. Hoping it'll help to get me off that damn border line”

“Ha ha!!
That just looks like a long-ass list of stuff.”

“yeah, that's the stuff I SHOULD take, but I DON'T take :) the ones with the * are the ones I do take right now.

I should take some tylenol after still arguing with damn fedex and gateway.”

“i am not convinced the vitamin makes any difference. i am almost certain it's better to get nutrients from food and i eat a pretty well balanced diet. i know it's possible to overdose on things like iron (especially for men) so i don't do anything more than the daily multi and perhaps some vitamin c when i have a cold.”

“I never take vitamins.

Gemini, I didn't read the whole thing.”

“Vitamin E.”

“i knew a person that died from taking too much vitamin e. she was an old lady and read somewhere that it was good for your heart. so she started dosing up on the stuff. apparently you can OD on it and it ruined her liver.

not saying it's a bad thing, chili, just thought i would post about her.”

“yes, JS is right. you'll have to watch it. isn't it something about water soluble and fat soluble? I thought bearmagnet educated us about that once.”

“Interesting....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071002/sc_nm/longevity_sweets_dc

Taking suplements may not be doing you any good ;)”

“it's a liberal conspiracy”

“It's obviously Rove's fault.”

“crash - is everything a liberal thing to you?”

“in liberal amounts”

“i took a multivitamin for years. it was a waste of money. eat a balanced diet, practice moderation (in moderation), and exercise regularly.”

“but i'm not a worm”

“Just came back from my lunch time break. Took a stroll through the woods behind the building. There are plenty of mushrooms sprouting in the thickets now. I licked on a few. I feel fine now.
Forget V-pills. Take mushroooms!”

“I took multi-vitamins for years. However, my cardiologist recently instructed me to quit them!”