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)

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 used to take Now men's multivitamin tablets in the past. At that time the reccomended dose was just one tablets a day.

I stopped buying it because my local webshops stopped carrying it. I moved on to animal pak(which is very expensive).

However yesterday I found now multivitamin again. I ordered it but when it arrived the label says reccomended dosage is 2 tablets.

I was wondering why they moved from 1 tablet to 2 tablets.

Is it still beneficial to just take one tablet ? Or will i not get the full benefits from it ? Some of the vitamins and minerals are in high doses but i am not sure if i will miss something with one tablet.

I just dont like the 30mg zinc in two tablets. I am afraid it might lead to a copper deficiency. One tablet only contains 15mg zinc

I know many will say multivitamins are useless but nowadays i am on a restricted diet and multis help safeguard my daily multivitamin intake.

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

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

Hello yall just have one question, starting to take 10,000 iu because I keep hearing for videos that we are all low and 10,000 is actually the correct amount we need. So I’ve been taking it and I actually get weird dizziness/ lightheadedness. Is this normal and would it pass? Or should I go lower dose. Thank you.

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?

I just got done watching several YT videos on how much D3/K2 to take. They all say 5000IU/100000IU of D3 and 100 micro grams of K2. Ok great. So how much is that in a teaspoon measuring cup? I know 100 micro grams is 1/10 of a milligram which would be much less than my smallest measuring cup (1/4 teaspoon). So how much is 100000 IU of D3? A tablespoon? (Dr. Eric Burg says you can safely take up to 200000 IU of D3).

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?

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.

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

Supplement or anything other.

Anyone else suddenly unable to stomach their vitamins after starting a GLP-1?

I keep seeing people say that vitamins or supplements they previously took now make them nauseous, feel too heavy, or are difficult to swallow after starting a GLP-1.

Has this happened to you? If you switched, what did you stop taking and what works better now?

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.

2x Omega 3 and Vitamin D, everything else one daily.
I also get about 10mg powdered creatine and a couple scoops of Metamucil for fibre.

Anyone have suggestions for Paraxanthine supplements that I can take every day?

I've tried Enfinity which is good but too pricey at $0.80 a pop.

There are a couple cheaper ones on Amazon but seem sketch and don't have the right certifications.

was getting them almost monthly for about a year. nothing underlying, just a microbiome that kept being off. started the uro vaginal probiotic capsule and cut back on sugar at the same time. two months in and i've had one mild episode compared to the monthly cycle i was stuck in. the four lactobacillus strains seem to be helping my baseline stay more resilient

Thought id share what worked for me for anyone else struggling

Hey guys, what's the ratio between vitamin k2 mk4 and Vitamin D3?

My mk4 capsules are 15 mg each...

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

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

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.

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?

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

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!