DO you take non-prescribed VITAMINS?

[Crimson Dynamo]

We spend £670 million on them a year:shocked:


Do you take them based on marketing claims alone and if you do how do you judge if they are "working"?


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[Cal.]

We have loads in the medicine cabinet. I think the only person who actually takes them once a day is my mam.

[Niamh.]

I take berocca every so often

[caprimint]

No, my grandparents take like 3 every morning or something though.

[Benjamin]

I do not. I don't take anything,I don't even take paracetamol if I have a headache.

[smudgie]

Nope, although I should really get some vitD.
Take B12 as prescribed by doc...hoping to put off having yet another regular jab.
Hubby takes all sorts, has done for years, fit as a lop, swims 3 times a week and cycles a couple of times a week, average 60 miles or a little 30 mile jaunt.

[Smithy]

Just multivitamin gummies, bc i don't want to be an adult

[joeysteele]

I do not. I don't take anything,I don't even take paracetamol if I have a headache.

I have an aversion to pills/tablets/capsules, like you I even avoid taking pills for headaches preferring to lie down 'til it goes off when I get one.

No, I never take vitamin pills either.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Yes especialy now because i'm 20% dying

[Pete.]

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[Cherie]

I do not. I don't take anything,I don't even take paracetamol if I have a headache.

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[LaLaLand]

No. Never have. Never needed to.

My family always say if you were "healthy" you wouldn't need to take supplements, which I agree with. Maybe if somebody needs to rely on them then they should have a bit of a lifestyle change perhaps idk.

[Jessica.]

No

[Firewire]

No never have

[Marsh.]

As Sheldon Cooper says, the majority of them are just the ingredients for very expensive urine.

[hijaxers]

Yes i take vitamin D as i had such a bad deficiency i probably need to take them forever - they do work as i have blood tests and my levels stay good whilst i take it . I also take acidophilus which keeps your gut healthy - i have an ongoing problem for which i take prescription meds , i also take a course of milk thistle which comes from the silybum plant about twice a year , its the only natural plant on the planet that can help repair your liver - and it works !:

[_Tom_]

I have cod liver oil capsules which are good for joints etc and multi-vitamins but I never remember to take them :shrug:

[_Tom_]

Oh yeah and vitamin D tablets because I so pale and I hate the sun x

[caprimint]

Oh yeah and vitamin D tablets because I so pale and I hate the sun x
Yay I hate the sun and I'm pretty pale too :love:

[kirklancaster]

I take one aspirin, one multi vitamin with iron, one vitamin C, one garlic pearl and one Omega Fish oil capsule EVERY day.

My cholestrol level plummeted after just 2 months when I first started taking them, and the doctor agres that it is the supplements which I take which are responsible.

I have always eaten sensibly, and stopped 'abusing' my body when I passed 30 - at the same time as I removed the gold sleepers from my ears :laugh:- But I am 'knocking on' now, and I believe in my supplements, and attribute to them in part, the fact that I do not look my age, feel my age, or even 'think' my age.

If at certain times, my body does not require any of the extra vitamins and minerals I take, then there is no harm done, but they are there when it does, and the cost is minimal in comparison to the cost of an alcoholic drink or a line of Charlie, which some people partake of daily.

Each to his own, I suppose.

[Amy Jade]

I went through a phase last year of taking cod liver oil tablets because I heard they make your eyelashes grow but I forgot them after a few weeks and eventually threw em away

[Johnnyuk123]

I take whatever they hand me at the Asylum.:hee:

[Cherie]

I take whatever they hand me at the Asylum.:hee:

TiBB Towers ?

[Northern Monkey]

Yes.A multi vitamin.

[ebandit]

..........absolutely not

.........i mix up flavours of potato crisps to ensure i consume a wide range of vitamins

Mark L

[T*]

how do you find these threads are you searching for questions

[ebandit]

...we are all looking for answers..............

Mark L