Do you take a daily multivamin?

[IronWing]

I take a store brand multi plus a C. I avoid the multi-mineral pills that have crap one doesn't need. I have yet to hear of a person suffering a selenium or chromium deficiency. It seems silly that we spend millions to clean up chromium contamination and then people pop chromium supplements.


Centrum
Iron
Phosphorus
Iodine
Magnesium
Zinc
Selenium
Copper
Manganese
Chromium
Molybdenum
Chloride
Potassium
Boron
Nickel
Silicon
Tin
Vanadium


EPA Priority Pollutant Metals
Antimony
Arsenic
Beryllium
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
Thallium
Zinc

 

[alangrift]

I was eating fast food all the time throughout my 20s and early 30s with no vitamins. In the last year+, my wife cooks full meals including leftovers for lunch. I hardly eat fast food anymore and also eat a daily Centrum. I didn't feel a damn difference and I sure didn't get sick any less. I feel exactly the same. I even forgot to take Centrum the last month or so and still I feel the same. I'm not saying I want to go back to fast food and would be justified, but this is my experience. I even dropped 6 lbs that I didn't want or need to drop eating "healthier". Someone tell me this is at least surely good for my lifespan.

Healthy eating is supposedly good. But I guess what your body can take varies from person to person.

 

[Zargon]

most days I take one multi(thats recommended is 2), and a 100mg fish oil capsule.

I have carnation instant breakfast which has a fair amount of Vit+Minerals in it on weekdays for breakfast

if I am going to be doing strenous labor, I take Glutamine

 

[QueBert]

confused at the people who don't need a multi because they "eat right" My Multi's have BCAA's which are great for you, To get the 5g that's in the pills I take you'd have to eat something like 11 pounds of steak. If my diet was spot on 100% perfect I still couldn't get everything I get from taking a few pills a day.

 

[Wyndru]

I've been taking them for years, but have also seen all of the studies recommending that they could be bad for you. I don't know what to think about that, because both sides go back and forth on the issue, but I'm trying to find a more balanced multi. I checked my optimen last night, and it has some seriously high %'s of some vitamins...

I'm thinking that taking 5000% of anything probably isn't too healthy for you...

My piss is a neon yellow too, so I'm sure that I am wasting some vitamins. I might just watch my diet more closely rather than randomly put things in my body.

I try to remember to take one every day. I figure if they prescribe prenatal vitamins to women when they are pregnant, a multi-vitamin can't be bad for you.

Women that are pregnant need the additional vitamins to help promote growth (and bone density) in their baby. They are also advised to eat additional calories each day, if you did that too, you would get fat.

 

[OutHouse]

no its a waste of money, I get all my vitamins and minerals that i need through food.

 

[Mixolydian]

I also use OptiMen. Havent had anyt problems with it.

 

[Vdubchaos]

No

 

[OutHouse]

confused at the people who don't need a multi because they "eat right" My Multi's have BCAA's which are great for you, To get the 5g that's in the pills I take you'd have to eat something like 11 pounds of steak. If my diet was spot on 100% perfect I still couldn't get everything I get from taking a few pills a day.

marketing is awesome. "here is a magic pill, take it because if you dont you will be unhealthy"


who says you need that? why dont you get a blood test done and find out exactly what your body needs.

 

[Mixolydian]

Do the people who say "Don't need it cause I eat right" adhere to the food pyramid every single day? I doubt it.

 

[QueBert]

marketing is awesome. "here is a magic pill, take it because if you dont you will be unhealthy"


who says you need that? why dont you get a blood test done and find out exactly what your body needs.

BCAA's & Creatine are the 2 most researched things supplement wise. I literally would have to eat about 50 plates of food a day to get 5 grams of both. There aren't pills that magically replace a poor diet. But with diet + pills I can do things that are impossible with diet alone. The recommended daily dosage of Creatine isn't possible with only food.

 

[Nintendesert]

Taking these stupid multivitamins is bad for you. There is mounting evidence that it causes a lot of problems with your heart and increases certain cancer risks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dont-take-your-vitamins.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Calcium supplements are especially bad. The above link was posted in the Health and Fitness subforum and there are a lot of other studies out there showing just how bad these multivitamins are.

There are very few if any Americans that are malnourished so there's really no benefit at all of taking a multivitamin only an increased risk. No thanks.

 

[Nintendesert]

BCAA's & Creatine are the 2 most researched things supplement wise. I literally would have to eat about 50 plates of food a day to get 5 grams of both. There aren't pills that magically replace a poor diet. But with diet + pills I can do things that are impossible with diet alone. The recommended daily dosage of Creatine isn't possible with only food.

Try eating a medium rare steak. And unless you're built like Arnold I don't see why you need 5 grams of creatine.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Does Irish Cream count?

 

[KeithTalent]

Yes, yes I do.

KT

 

[QueBert]

Try eating a medium rare steak. And unless you're built like Arnold I don't see why you need 5 grams of creatine.

Creatine's 100% safe and one of the most researched things you could put into your body. You don't *need* it, hence why it's called a "supplement" but it's great to take and has no side effects. I could get it from steak, but I'd have to eat over 2lbs of it, and that's every day. Instead I take 1 scoop of a supplement that costs about a dime a day to use. BCAA wise, I couldn't get 5g naturally if I ate non stop from the second I woke up until the second I went to sleep.

 

[Train]

I take a store brand multi plus a C. I avoid the multi-mineral pills that have crap one doesn't need. I have yet to hear of a person suffering a selenium or chromium deficiency. It seems silly that we spend millions to clean up chromium contamination and then people pop chromium supplements.


Centrum
Iron
Phosphorus
Iodine
Magnesium
Zinc
Selenium
Copper
Manganese
Chromium
Molybdenum
Chloride
Potassium
Boron
Nickel
Silicon
Tin
Vanadium


EPA Priority Pollutant Metals
Antimony
Arsenic
Beryllium
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
Thallium
Zinc

Zinc and Selenium are for sex drive. You don't need them, you WANT them. I LIKE having a healthy libido that can recharge quickly.

 

[Drako]

Nope, mainly because they have too much Vitamin A, Beta Carotene, and some useless minerals in them. I eat fairly healthy as well, so I don't need them.

 

[Soundmanred]

Try eating a medium rare steak. And unless you're built like Arnold I don't see why you need 5 grams of creatine.

Do you even lift?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Do you even lift?

Sure.

I also run, jump, eat, sleep, you name it! :sneaky:

 

[OutHouse]

Taking these stupid multivitamins is bad for you. There is mounting evidence that it causes a lot of problems with your heart and increases certain cancer risks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dont-take-your-vitamins.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Calcium supplements are especially bad. The above link was posted in the Health and Fitness subforum and there are a lot of other studies out there showing just how bad these multivitamins are.

There are very few if any Americans that are malnourished so there's really no benefit at all of taking a multivitamin only an increased risk. No thanks.

there is talk now of fish oil actually being bad for your heart.

 

[djnsmith7]

I just started taking them again a few months ago & I'm glad I did.

 

[lxskllr]

The body has evolved thousands of years to properly utilize nutrients found in a varied human diet. I'll take thousands of years of natural selection over 100 years of science.

 

[KeithTalent]

The body has evolved thousands of years to properly utilize nutrients found in a varied human diet. I'll take thousands of years of natural selection over 100 years of science.

And 50+ years of sedentary lifestyles and fast food have crushed the varied human diet to a pulp hence the need for a daily multi.

KT

 

[Drako]

Multivitamins of today are yesteryears tonics and elixers.

Suckers will be suckers. Dr. Oz can't be a paid shill, can he?