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The only vit that I know about that has studies showing supplements helps is D. Everything else falls under “eat a healthy balanced diet”. And supplementing do
by conception 3y ago
The only vit that I know about that has studies showing supplements helps is D.
Everything else falls under “eat a healthy balanced diet”. And supplementing doesn’t help.
Get your blood tested yearly at s physical to make sure nothing odd is going on and you’ll be doing about as good as you can.
- mgrandl 3y agoThis is super wrong and potentially harmful. If you are deficient in anything a supplement definitely can help. Iron is a good example. A big chunk of the female population is iron deficient. Supplementation is a perfectly valid way of combating this.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoAlso, if you're taking iron supplements and your levels are still too low, you might have an absorption issue—which either warrants getting the absorption issue checked out or starting direct iron infusion instead of iron supplements. But you gotta get your iron one way or another!
- conception 3y agoRight. Which is why I said to get your blood tested yearly?
- gumby 3y ago> The only vit that I know about that has studies showing supplements helps is D. Even that is not clear. We know that sick people often have lower D levels but we don’t know which way the causality runs. Or there could be no causality at all: low D levels could simply be correlated with a sedentary lifestyle which is the actual problem is some cases. Thus adjusting the level would be a waste of time.
- someNameIG 3y agoIf you're eating a plant based diet B12 supplements are required.