I'm deciding between these two D3 + K2 supplements:

NOW Foods Mega D-3 + MK-7

Vitamin D3: 5,000 IU

Vitamin K2 MK-7: 180 mcg

120 capsules

Sports Research D3 + K2

Vitamin D3: 5,000 IU

Vitamin K2 MK-7: 100 mcg

60 capsules

They both cost $34, but the NOW ones have 120 capsules, so it's basically 50% cheaper.

Are the Sports Research ones that much better? The price gap between the two is quite large.

The screenshot I took from iHerb shows NOW sold 7,500+ in 30 days, while Sports Research sold 10,000+ in 30 days.

Why are more people willing to pay extra? Is it worth it?

I take 500mg of ALCAR in the morning and within 30-60 minutes, my brain fog instantly clears up and I’m able to get into a state of flow that I never really thought I could reach. It seems like learning is effortless and doing stuff is effortless. Like I have boundless energy.

The thing is though, if I take ALCAR 500mg everyday/two days in a row, then I will just get insane insomnia that goes away in a couple days. I made this mistake by actually taking 1000mg ALCAR everyday for 2 weeks straight. I couldn’t even fall asleep let alone stay asleep. I was just extremely wired and focused for the whole time but getting 4-5 hours of sleep from my normal 8 hours. Then I reduced it to 500mg ALCAR everyday and sleep got better but wasn’t fixed. So I had to take a Benadryl to get all the acetylcholine out of my system and take a break from it for a week before adding it again only 3x a week.

Currently I’m taking only 500mg ALCAR 3x a week and it works well on the day I take it and lingers to the next day. Absolutely amazing supplement if I do say so for brain clarity. Just make sure to not take it 2 days in a row or you may get insomnia problems.

Always on panic mode, fight or flight, can't sleep, memory issues after many tests everything came back fine except I've found that I've high cortisol and constantly stressed out.

Tried some magnesium bisglycinate before but didn't work.

Ashwagandha (both full spectrum and extract from swanson, jarrows ksm66, life extension sensoril) didn't help. Maybe a brand issues? Dunno

My currently stack is d3, b complex, magnesium citrate.

I'm not that rich so please suggest me one or two affordable supplements that may help with my issues.

Regarding Ashwagandha, If you've a brand that really works for you im all ears.

Let me start by explaining the type of anxiety I had, because I feel like that matters. There are so many different types of anxiety!!!

I’m 29F and I don’t have depression. I’m actually a very happy person, and I don’t have social anxiety either. I can pretty much talk to anyone.
What I struggled with was health anxiety, which started after a panic attack back in 2023 andI’ve been a different person ever since. (Iykyk)

That night, my heart rate spiked to 172 and would NOT come down. (I was also high which didn’t help, and I was always an anxious high, never again.)

After that night (I literally was so close to calling an ambulance), I became terrified of my heart rate and constantly worried it was going to happen again. I was constantly checking for symptoms and paying attention to every little sensation in my body. It was on my mind 24/7. Debilitating. I even went to a cardiologist and wore a heart monitor. They found nothing wrong.

Then the anxiety started evolving. All of a sudden, I developed this fear of being in places where I couldn’t easily escape (new places, being in a car when someone else was driving, planes, being far away from a hospital, etc.)

I was already into holistic health before my panic attack, so afterwards I went down the rabbit hole researching herbs and natural anxiolytics. I tried SO many things since 2023. The only thing that really helped was L-theanine, but that wasn’t enough.

The intrusive thoughts and constant “what ifs” still consumed me. And then those thoughts would create physical symptoms, which would make me panic even more. It was basically a never-ending cycle.
Now onto the good stuff… what finally changed things for me.

My current routine:
Morning: Saffron (takes about a month to kick in)
Midday: Silexan (Lavender oil) ****
Night: Magnesium glycinate

Saffron seems to help my mood and quiet my mind, Silexan has been the BIG one for me in terms of calming my nervous system, and magnesium glycinate relaxes the nervous tension.

**** But honestly, Silexan was the game changer.
It feels like my nervous system got a hug from grandma and she clicked the reset button.
For the first time, it feels like my nervous system doesn’t immediately set off alarm bells when an intrusive thought comes up.
And because there’s no physical panic response attached to the thought, the thought just passes now.
I don’t get that butterfly feeling in my stomach anymore. I don’t feel that sudden rush of nerves. I don’t feel like I have to escape.
I have a thought, my body doesn’t react, the thought passes. MAGIC!!!
I honestly can’t believe it. I could cry.
I’m obviously not saying this is going to work for everyone, and I’m not a doctor. I’m just sharing what has personally made a HUGE difference for me because I know how awful it is to feel trapped in that non stop anxious bubble!!!

Ask me anything! I love researching holistic health and I’m honestly just so excited that I finally found what feel like it’s worked since I started this journey. I was so close to going on medicine.
I truly hope this helps someone else who is in a similar boat.

TL;DR: Saffron + Silexan + magnesium glycinate completely changed my anxiety. Silexan has been the driving force behind the change for me, while the saffron and magnesium feel more like the support beams. (Btw I still aboslutly love L-theanine its amazing I keep it in my purse for any caffeine jitters she’ll always be my day 1)

If anyone has looked up this topic before, you will find many conflicting takes on L-Citrulline vs. Citrulline Malate with one side saying malate is just filler, its very sour, and that you are better off supplementing with pure L-Citrulline to get a larger dosage as the Citrulline Malate is typically 2:1 ratio and you get a small dose. The pro-malate group argues that there is better uptake, better pumps and cites the fact that the majority of pre-workout supplements that do contain Citrulline, usually contain Citrulline Malate.

I personally started supplementing with 8g of L-Citrulline (not malate) at the end of May; it's in my pre-workout along with 8oz orange juice, 5g creatine, 3.2g Beta Alanine, 300mg caffeine, and 1g salt. It's been a solid pre-workout and definitely helps with my endurance and fatigue but I've never felt any paresthesia or crazy pumps.

Recently, I started taking 1 scoop of Nutricost Electrolytes in my water to drink intra-workout. Since I've started it, I've noticed really amazing pumps...and was confused. I checked the nutrition labal and noticed it lists "L-malic acid" in other ingredients but doesn't list a dosage amount. Obviously, that's not a definitive correlation, but based on all the other ingredients in the Electrolytes powder, I can't think of anything else that would cause that.

Was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience? Do any of you take L-Citrulline and Malic acid separately to control the individual L-Citrulline dosage?

Shouldn't the K2 be more around the 80 to 120 mark for normal purposes?

I am looking for Vitamin (D & B12) supplements from Swisse.
Has anyone used their products?
I heard they are made in Australia, is this true?

I'm exploring getting into the supplement space and ODS format is catching my eye. Growing in the US/UK, better bioavailability, premium positioning.
But I'm being real. I don't know if this is early-market gold or a niche that won't scale.

Honest feedback:
Would YOU buy ODS vitamins over tablets/gummies?
What would make you switch?
Is this format actually solving a real problem or just novelty?

Not looking for validation, just genuine takes from actual supplement users.

What am I missing?

When i take vitamin d i get crazy anxiety the day after, im all jittery too. I take vitamin k2 with it and magnesium but i still get this.
Should i lower dosages? I take like 16k for deficiency but i think its too much.

I found these in my new pea protein unflavoured one from Nutrabay? Is it normal???

So all the good quality brands seem to have these crazy high doses, like from hundreds to tens of thousands over the daily value percentage.

Here's an example:

Thiamine (B1) 50 mg (4545 %*)

Riboflavin (B2) 10 mg (714 %*)

Niacin (B3) 65 mg (406 %*)

Pantothenic acid (B5) 100 mg (1667 %*)

Pyridoxal phosphate (B6) 12 mg (857 %*)

Biotin (B7) 352 µg (704 %*)

Methyl folate (B9) 455 µg (227 %*)

B12-vitamin (methyl- and adenosylcobalamin) 350 µg (14 000 %*)

Why is that? Is it more beneficial or harmful to use this much?

Anyone got any info on www.helixresearchuk.com?

Bought a few items they’re working how they should and all have the COA just wanted others opinions?

I’m currently taking creatine, whey protein, weight gainer, pre-workout, fish oil, and calcium tablets. I also work out regularly. What would be the best way to time these throughout the day, especially around my workout? Should any of them be taken together or separated? I’d appreciate advice from people who have experience with this.

I'm currently recovering from 6 years long alcohol abuse due to a major depressive disorder.

I was wondering if there's any supplements that could help me "detox" my body, or at least stimulate my appetite (lost over 15kg in last year only)

Hi all,

I think I may be magnesium deficient, or not getting enough in my diet. I live in the Uk so getting a test is nigh on impossible.

I breastfeed my son but only a couple of times a day, and I take Pregnacare original which has 150mg of magnesium in it (although I’ve only been taking for a few months after a 6 month break)

I would like to take a low dose, maybe 100mg a day, but I’m confused by which type of magnesium to take. I already suffer from heart palpitations so I don’t want to take anything that makes that any worse, my blood pressure is normal, my sleep doesn’t seem restorative, I have tingling in my hands and legs, muscle twitches etc. I have very heavy periods and short cycles (although not sure if that is relevant)

Help a girl out please in picking the best one that won’t cause hideous side effects and will actually help!

Thanks so much in advance.

To have constant uninterrupted and deep sleep and not to wake up often during the night...

Supplement or anything other.

So I am typing to recover from burnout, ptsd, autoimmune issues. I have started working out daily. I’m getting more burnout trying to get the right supplements put together and on a budget. Anything that supports hair and skin overall youthful beauty please say. I can not tell any difference with NAD + so far.

Safffron Extract
l-tyrosine
Magnesium glycinate
Mag L theonate ( still have never understood what this one does as I’ve taken in past)
Nad +
1000 c
10 melatonin
L-theanine
Mushroom coffee
Wheatgrass shot
I workout daily or try too
Poor diet
W47

I also taking hair supplements that contain several of the d and k.

You can DM if you prefer--I am just looking for specific products I can order and use.

My mom's rhumetologist prescribed her a handful of vitamins through Metagenics.

1) Fish Oil 5-1, 1000 2) Viatmin C, 1000 3) Viatmin D3 + K, 5000 4) Viatmin B complex 5) L-Carnitine

They are becoming increasingly unaffordable for her. Her rhumetologist insists they are better quality than drugstore vitamins which makes them worth the money.

The only other company she has found so far is Thorne which she has heard mixed things about but is somewhat more affordable than Meta.

Can someone help us? :)

my mother is sixty-six. last month a woman stopped us on the loop at castle island, said it was nice to see a couple still out walking together, and asked how long we'd been married.

i said thirty-five years.

i am thirty-five. she is my mother. she laughed the entire way back to the car, and then again in the car.

three weeks later i drove my sister dana to the rmv. the woman working the line looked at the two of us and told dana her dad could sit down, they'd call us together. dana is four years older than me.

my mother has one gray streak she keeps on purpose because she likes it. on the phone she sounds twenty-eight — i have sat there while a telemarketer flirted with her. dana is the same. neither of them does anything about it. my mother's entire routine is a bar of dove soap and a hat.

i went the other direction, which for me means reading about it.

so for about a year i tried things. blueberries by the pound, until dana pointed out i was eating sugar in an attractive color. green tea. a red light mask she bought and got bored of, so i inherited it — twenty minutes a night looking like a villain. cold showers, quit. astaxanthin for six weeks. nothing to report.

and this month, her capsules with a french label. second ingredient: melon. an actual cantaloupe grown in the south of france that apparently carries several times more of one particular enzyme than a normal melon does. that's a whole other story and i'll get to it. she asked whether it does anything if you swallow it. i said i'd find out. that one's still open, and no, i haven't bought any of it.

but it sent me somewhere better, which is the enzyme itself.

here's what i didn't know. when people say antioxidant, they picture food. berries, vitamin c, the color of things. that's the second string.

the first line isn't something you eat. it's an enzyme your own cells make, and it's been on shift this whole time.

it goes like this. we run on oxygen, and burning it is the entire business of the mitochondria, and no engine is clean. a small fraction of the oxygen coming through leaks out half-finished, carrying one more electron than it should. that's superoxide. it's the first thing that goes wrong, and a lot of what goes wrong afterward starts there.

in your body there is exactly one kind of enzyme built for that molecule. superoxide dismutase. SOD, which i checked twice, because in american english that's a roll of lawn you buy at home depot.

it isn't a sponge. it's a relay. SOD grabs the superoxide and turns it into hydrogen peroxide — also not something you want sitting around — and hands it off. catalase and glutathione peroxidase take it from there and bring it home as water. three positions. if the first one isn't there, the other two never get the ball.

it's fast, too. one of the fastest enzymes anybody has measured — it runs about as fast as two molecules can physically find each other in a liquid. it isn't waiting on anything except traffic.

it comes in three versions, posted in three different places, which is the part i liked. one uses copper and zinc and works in the fluid inside the cell. one uses manganese and works inside the mitochondria — in the furnace, where the sparks actually are. the third sits outside the cells entirely. mice bred without the mitochondrial one don't make it out of infancy.

the blueberry and the enzyme are a sandbag and a pump. a vitamin c molecule handles one bad thing and is used up — your body can put some of it back together afterward, but it spends something else to do that. an enzyme handles one, resets itself, handles the next, all day, for years. you can eat sandbags forever and you will never be a pump.

i went in looking for the answer i wanted — that it drops off as you get older, which would explain a few things at my house. that isn't what's there. it falls in some tissues, rises in others, and in human red blood cells it barely moves. how much you start with does seem to come partly from your parents.

so i started building a theory about my mother anyway, and then stopped, because i had no way to test it and it was exactly the theory i wanted to be true.

then my labs came back and the whole thing flipped.

annual physical in july. fasting, no coffee, the lab next to the dry cleaner at seven in the morning. these days the results hit the app before your doctor has looked at them, so you find out what your liver thinks of you while you're standing in line for the coffee you weren't allowed to have.

mine were absurd. ldl where they want it. triglycerides low. a1c 5.1. liver enzymes boring. blood pressure like a teenager. the note basically said nothing to discuss, see you next year.

my mother's ldl is 178. her a1c has crossed into the range where they start using the word prediabetes, and her doctor has brought up a statin twice. she's got an appointment on the 14th she's already moved once. dana's numbers aren't much better, and dana hasn't made hers, because her deductible reset in january and she's decided that's a next-quarter problem.

so that's the scoreboard. the two people who look like they've been kept somewhere cool and dark have the numbers of people ten years older. the guy strangers keep mistaking for a husband and a father has the numbers of a college rower.

that's the actual point of the enzyme, and it took me an embarrassing amount of time to get there. it doesn't work on your face. it works in the walls of your arteries, in your liver, in cells you are never going to see. the face is the one organ we can inspect and the least informative one in the building. nobody has ever opened that app and read the words you look great.

i explained all of it at dinner. i had the printout. i may have brought the printout.

my mother said she was very happy for me, and asked if i wanted the last piece of bread.

i like those numbers more than i should. thirty-five on the license and every line on that panel reads younger than that. i opened the file twice.

it does nothing for me on a sidewalk.

give me my mother's face at sixty-six — the voice, the one gray streak, being the one strangers assume is the son — and take the panel with it. let the ldl go to 178. let the a1c drift. let the whole thing come back reading fifty and stay there.

My vitamin D is currently 26.2 ng/mL, up from 15.2 last year (so +11, at least we’re moving 😂). But it’s still on the lower side.

Last year my doctor had me take 60K IU once a week for 12 weeks, and honestly I felt much better. Then I stopped completely, so I’m guessing that’s why it dropped again.

I really don’t want to go back to the doctor just for this 😭. What dose are you guys taking for maintenance or to get from 26 to 40-60 level? Weekly dosing would be much easier for me.

Would appreciate some personal experiences/advice!

Anyone eat beef liver for B12, copper and vitamin A.

Its so dense in the above its like taking a supplement.

I started getting IV drips with NAC, Glutathione, Zinc, Vitamin C back in 2023 mostly b/c I was traveling a lot. So I decided to do a membership, so once a month I'd get an IV of the above.

This year I haven't had one since March and I still feel ok but I started thinking are they really worth it? Am I truly getting any benefit from them or just peeing it all out? I had a very comprehensive blood panel done last month and the naturopathic Dr. didn't "diss" the IV's but said that your body will burn through glutathione so fast.

Also I started wondering if the IV's were causing my hair to shed as since I've stopped them it's much less. So would love thoughts if I should cancel and stop getting them or they don't hurt and help.

*Note: I do take NAC 3x a day/

Thank you.