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A few years ago, I learned as much as I could about vitamins and how to buy them. Multivitamin pills are the worst bang for the buck. Amounts of actual vitamin

by narag 3y ago

A few years ago, I learned as much as I could about vitamins and how to buy them. Multivitamin pills are the worst bang for the buck. Amounts of actual vitamins are very small. It's better to buy mono-vitamin pills. Many of the vitamins have no strong evidence of usefulness. I keep buying Omega-3, D3+K2, Magnesium and B, specially B1 but there are good compounds. Magnesium is ridiculously difficult to source in good quantities, the labels are consistently misleading, bordering the scam. Happens with all, but Mg is the worst offender.

gruez 3y ago
>Magnesium is ridiculously difficult to source in good quantities, the labels are consistently misleading, bordering the scam. Happens with all, but Mg is the worst offender. Any recommendations for vendors/brands?
- narag 3y ago
  I live in Spain and bought everything through Amazon.es. I guess the products are also available in the rest of Europe. Most of the links give me 404 now. Still working: https://www.amazon.es/Omega-3-Aceite-Pescado-Salvaje-concentración/dp/B078Y9TRWV/ https://www.amazon.es/Omega-3-Aceite-Pescado-Salvaje-concent... https://www.amazon.es/Complejo-Vitamina-Cápsulas-Vitaminas-Metabolismo/dp/B07P5833LZ/ https://www.amazon.es/Complejo-Vitamina-Cápsulas-Vitaminas-M... I bought B1 much cheaper in powder, but no idea where... some site for bodybuilders's supplements. That Aavalabs complex is also good. Magnesium is from the same brand as Omega-3, Zenement. The D3+K2 is from GloryFeel.
grey8 3y ago
I also read into vitamins and minerals (while trying to ignore all the snake oil), and I agree with you! I tried a lot and the ones I keep buying are the same you do - Magnesium, Omega-3, D3+K2 and a B complex. These are not only the ones that most people are likely to be deficient in, these were also the ones that I subjectively felt had a positive effect on me, and either low or deficient levels were confirmed by blood tests. I feel a lot better, too! :) Regarding the magnesium: I did not know that. How do you make sure the brand and/or it's magnesium is of good quality? It's curious you say this, I wasn't totally sure, but I sometimes felt like there was a difference in quality, even between the same brand or product of the same form of Magnesium.
- narag 3y ago
  Regarding the magnesium: I did not know that. How do you make sure the brand and/or it's magnesium is of good quality? The ultimate quality is impossible for me to judge. I just believe them at face value. The problem is that there are different kind of Mg (citrate, carbonate, oxyde) and different ways to write the quantities in the label. It's been a long time since I read it. One common trick is saying that there is one gram per serving. But in the fine print they say that a serving is not one pill, but two pills. Or three or four. Another trick was playing with total vs. elemental Mg weight.
Marsymars 3y ago
As a mostly-vegetarian, I've settled on roughly the same, though I typically buy D3 without K2 and eat nattō a few times a week.

by narag 3y ago

gruez 3y ago

>Magnesium is ridiculously difficult to source in good quantities, the labels are consistently misleading, bordering the scam. Happens with all, but Mg is the worst offender. Any recommendations for vendors/brands?

narag 3y ago
I live in Spain and bought everything through Amazon.es. I guess the products are also available in the rest of Europe. Most of the links give me 404 now. Still working: https://www.amazon.es/Omega-3-Aceite-Pescado-Salvaje-concentración/dp/B078Y9TRWV/ https://www.amazon.es/Omega-3-Aceite-Pescado-Salvaje-concent... https://www.amazon.es/Complejo-Vitamina-Cápsulas-Vitaminas-Metabolismo/dp/B07P5833LZ/ https://www.amazon.es/Complejo-Vitamina-Cápsulas-Vitaminas-M... I bought B1 much cheaper in powder, but no idea where... some site for bodybuilders's supplements. That Aavalabs complex is also good. Magnesium is from the same brand as Omega-3, Zenement. The D3+K2 is from GloryFeel.

grey8 3y ago

I also read into vitamins and minerals (while trying to ignore all the snake oil), and I agree with you! I tried a lot and the ones I keep buying are the same you do - Magnesium, Omega-3, D3+K2 and a B complex. These are not only the ones that most people are likely to be deficient in, these were also the ones that I subjectively felt had a positive effect on me, and either low or deficient levels were confirmed by blood tests. I feel a lot better, too! :) Regarding the magnesium: I did not know that. How do you make sure the brand and/or it's magnesium is of good quality? It's curious you say this, I wasn't totally sure, but I sometimes felt like there was a difference in quality, even between the same brand or product of the same form of Magnesium.

narag 3y ago
Regarding the magnesium: I did not know that. How do you make sure the brand and/or it's magnesium is of good quality? The ultimate quality is impossible for me to judge. I just believe them at face value. The problem is that there are different kind of Mg (citrate, carbonate, oxyde) and different ways to write the quantities in the label. It's been a long time since I read it. One common trick is saying that there is one gram per serving. But in the fine print they say that a serving is not one pill, but two pills. Or three or four. Another trick was playing with total vs. elemental Mg weight.

Marsymars 3y ago

As a mostly-vegetarian, I've settled on roughly the same, though I typically buy D3 without K2 and eat nattō a few times a week.