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Old 11-11-2016, 09:13 AM #1
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Default DO you take non-prescribed VITAMINS?

We spend £670 million on them a year


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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We have loads in the medicine cabinet. I think the only person who actually takes them once a day is my mam.
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I take berocca every so often
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No, my grandparents take like 3 every morning or something though.
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I do not. I don't take anything,I don't even take paracetamol if I have a headache.
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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.
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Just multivitamin gummies, bc i don't want to be an adult
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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.
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Yes especialy now because i'm 20% dying
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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.

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As Sheldon Cooper says, the majority of them are just the ingredients for very expensive urine.
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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 !:
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I have cod liver oil capsules which are good for joints etc and multi-vitamins but I never remember to take them
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Oh yeah and vitamin D tablets because I so pale and I hate the sun x
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Yay I hate the sun and I'm pretty pale too
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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 - 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.

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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
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I take whatever they hand me at the Asylum.
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Yes.A multi vitamin.
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..........absolutely not

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

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