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If you do supplement vitamin D, D3 is the preferable variety, and be sure to take Vitamin K with it — & be sure to get a K that contains both K1 & K2. K is need

If you do supplement vitamin D, D3 is the preferable variety, and be sure to take Vitamin K with it — & be sure to get a K that contains both K1 & K2. K is needed so that calcium does not get deposited willy-nilly through the body (think arteries). There's also evidence that appropriate magnesium levels are also needed for D to properly function.

starkd 5y ago
Oh, here we go with the add ons. This is what I hate about supplementation advice. You start with one, and 6 months later they tell you you've been doing it all wrong, and that without magnesium or some such thing it's essentially worthless. Before you know it, you've got a whole cabinet of pills. And they all run out at staggered times. Been through this before. it's why I swore off vitamin supplents before. But they draw you back in with promotions like this! I don't know what to do.
- mcguire 5y ago
  And then one day you look up and realize you are taking megadoses of B6 and have lost your sense of proprioception.
  - starkd 5y ago
    Hate it when that happens
- flenserboy 5y ago
  Yeah, it's obnoxious. The problem is that much of what gives the best results can't be had through diet anymore — for instance, seeing as soil used over and over again is rapidly becoming depleted of minerals, vegetables are left without the nutritional punch they used to pack. Supplementation isn't ideal, to be sure, but it can be done strategically. I've been using Cronometer (and I'm sure there are other great tools out there) to track not just macro- but micronutrients, and that's given me a good idea of what might be useful to add and what I don't need to. I put the note about D without K up simply as a PSA — there are some supplements that really shouldn't be taken alone, especially in large doses.
  - starkd 5y ago
    The only reason I started with vitamin D supplementation is because it stands to reaosn we are mostly deficient in it. I guess I'll start the K too, since they work together. I'm not dismissing the science, I just gotta draw the line somewhere.
- mixmastamyk 5y ago
  Adding to D3 to a multivitamin a few times a week is not that hard.
  - starkd 5y ago
    Yeah, each step is not that hard, I admit. There's ample evidence that vitamin K with it is needed. I just hate how it sucks you in and don't want to waste time popping more and more pills.
    - mixmastamyk 5y ago
      Yeah it could, but I found the above is a shortcut. The multi at Trader Joe’s has all these vitamins in M/F versions also.

starkd 5y ago

Oh, here we go with the add ons. This is what I hate about supplementation advice. You start with one, and 6 months later they tell you you've been doing it all wrong, and that without magnesium or some such thing it's essentially worthless. Before you know it, you've got a whole cabinet of pills. And they all run out at staggered times. Been through this before. it's why I swore off vitamin supplents before. But they draw you back in with promotions like this! I don't know what to do.

mcguire 5y ago
And then one day you look up and realize you are taking megadoses of B6 and have lost your sense of proprioception.
- starkd 5y ago
  Hate it when that happens
flenserboy 5y ago
Yeah, it's obnoxious. The problem is that much of what gives the best results can't be had through diet anymore — for instance, seeing as soil used over and over again is rapidly becoming depleted of minerals, vegetables are left without the nutritional punch they used to pack. Supplementation isn't ideal, to be sure, but it can be done strategically. I've been using Cronometer (and I'm sure there are other great tools out there) to track not just macro- but micronutrients, and that's given me a good idea of what might be useful to add and what I don't need to. I put the note about D without K up simply as a PSA — there are some supplements that really shouldn't be taken alone, especially in large doses.
- starkd 5y ago
  The only reason I started with vitamin D supplementation is because it stands to reaosn we are mostly deficient in it. I guess I'll start the K too, since they work together. I'm not dismissing the science, I just gotta draw the line somewhere.
mixmastamyk 5y ago
Adding to D3 to a multivitamin a few times a week is not that hard.
- starkd 5y ago
  Yeah, each step is not that hard, I admit. There's ample evidence that vitamin K with it is needed. I just hate how it sucks you in and don't want to waste time popping more and more pills.
  - mixmastamyk 5y ago
    Yeah it could, but I found the above is a shortcut. The multi at Trader Joe’s has all these vitamins in M/F versions also.