For me, they do seem to have an effect. I sleep better, my nails become strong and generally I feel more enegized. The latter is of course very subjective.
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If you're deficient and the form of the vitamin/mineral is something your body can absorb, supplements can be helpful. If you aren't deficient, some supplements have little effect (water soluble ones just get peed out, though can cause wear and tear on your kidneys and/or liver in the meantime), while others can cause overloads which can be as bad as or worse than deficiencies.
Personally, I try to meet my micronutritional needs with foods but I occasionally take supplements to "top up", either a multivitamin if there's no specific signs of deficiency, or specific supplements if there's signs I might be low in that one (each has a set of symptoms that are associated with deficiency).
Yeah I respect that and I’m not suggesting anyone to take supplement - it works for my lifestyle, but it might not work for others. For me it’s easier to take a pill than eat all the foods I should.
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It's easy to find out if you take blood tests. You shouldn't be taking vitamins just for fun.
I'm pretty sure multivitamins help me in one way - to help prevent me from catching colds and flus easily. I noticed this years ago when my kids were young. I would take one of the chewable kids vitamins daily through autumn and winter. Several winters I did not get sick. I've not done it since - every day, one kids vitamin. I switched to adult multis but I think they're an expensive overload and didn't seem to help. But chewable kids were too sugary for my teeth. Now they have the xylitol ones. I may try again this season.
They can help when your body is under stress,illness, dieting, moderate exercise. otherwise the don't do much.
Our Pharmacology prof at med school always told us, as long as you live in the western hemisphere and don’t just eat pizza you only produce expensive urine with those vitamins. Ymmv though
I take it when i have some symptoms of vitamin deficiency like if you're sitting in one place and get up and you feel some weird sensation in the legs or hands. Like hundreds of ants running inside the veins. Or when I forget to drink water and get dehydrated and the body loses vitamins. I usually don't take such meds.
Currently I’m in the process of figuring out if I actually need extra vitamins. I’m using a food tracking app that also includes vitamins and minerals, not just fats and carbs like most apps do. It’s a lot of work, but I’m not planning to do this forever.
So far, I’ve found out that vitamin A and D might come in handy, but everything else seems fine.
I made my own app, and tracked calories, carbs, fiber, and potassium. I used data from USDA. What I found was that it was almost impossible to get the recommended amount of potassium unless you ate nothing but green leafy vegetables, or massively over-eat.
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Depends on how significant the deficiency is. If it's pretty bad, you would probably be better off taking supplements of just that thing along with the daily multi. Or even changing your diet if it's really extreme or caused by how you eat (like a vitamin d deficiency from not eating greens, going outside or drinking milk).
My neurologist has me take L-methylfolate because of one of my meds. Besides that, all I take is fish oil and D3. Everything I've seen has said they're some of the only ones that actually do anything.
The water soluble ones like Vitamin C you just piss out. The fat soluble ones like A can build up and cause problems. NTM my grocery store generic oil and D together cost way less that the multivitamins.