Supplement overload?

That's not really a lot (if you ask me) - my list is longer than that...lol

I'm on VSL #3 so i think 500 billion per day. Good stuff I actually got the VSL #3 DS and only take half a day because its covered by insurance versus the other is out of pocket entirely.

Rikky,

To me that seems too much. I started out with a bunch of supplements too, but quickly learned how much it taxes the body to process supplements - especially vitamins.

In my case, I went through and figured out which vitamins were contained in large quantities in whole foods and I ate those foods, since the body assimilates the nutrients from food to an exponential degree - rather than from manufacturered supplements which often pass through and strain the kidneys while doing so.

Thankfully a google search makes the process of figuring out which nutrients come from which foods very easy! Good luck!

lymehater said...
is there a method to the madness, how do you know which pill to take when? like morning vs evening? Or do you take it all at once?

Supplements have dosing instructions printed on the bottle (as in, with/without food and sometimes time-of-day instructions).

When taking larger doses, I've found it beneficial to divide them at least into AM/PM doses.

And, stuff like calcium and magnesium need to be spaced from stuff like thyroid meds.

I actually have a bunch of stuff I take first thing in the morning on an empty stomach....then more stuff I take with breakfast. I have other stuff I take at 11AM (only to space it from my thyroid meds), more stuff with dinner and a few things with my thyroid meds at bedtime.

I use pillminders to keep things straight (and minimize the opening/closing of a large number of supplement bottles ;)

I am also wondering about my supplements. I take about 40 things (your list is tiny!!!). I don't want to take what I don't need. I went yesterday and got my blood drawn for a Spectracell micronutrient test. My doc said it looks inside the white blood cell, not just what is in the blood stream. My doc is concerned about my glutathione levels because of my MTHFR and pernicious anemia, so this test will see if I am depleted or not, plus whatever other levels - they measure all the vitamins and minerals.

She also said it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a "vitamin holiday" once a week to just let the liver catch up....