Anonymous wrote:Do you multiple supplement takers have any worries about lead or other heavy metals? Do you have completely trusted brands? I use Nordic Naturals for D and Omega, Whole Foods for Vit C (but I don't necessarily trust) and have no idea who to use for the other ones.

Good brands are Thorne and Pure Encapsulations. All vitamins are not created equal.

Do you multiple supplement takers have any worries about lead or other heavy metals? Do you have completely trusted brands? I use Nordic Naturals for D and Omega, Whole Foods for Vit C (but I don't necessarily trust) and have no idea who to use for the other ones.

Anonymous wrote:Mid 50s woman. All of them were recommended by my doctor:

B12 (I was deficient and continue to run low)
D (I was deficient and still am, despite supplements)
Iron (for RLS)
Creatine (doctor insisted I use this after starting a strength training program because I'm on a GLP1)

Would most of these show up in a normal blood panel or do you have to ask for specific ones? I did I think lipid and some other "comprehensive" blood test and they included A1C, and other items I didn't necessarily expect, but did not include Vit D, B12, for example.

Vit D3 - have consistently tested low
Omega - was told it might help with dry eyes
Vit C (buffered)- just because I feel I don't always get enough, and it doesn't seem to hurt
I think I'm supposed to add K when I take either D or Omega(?) so I might add that.

Dr. recommended Benefiber daily bc I have rabbit poops, but I haven't done that and have just been adding more fiber, like 100% buckwheat pancakes, chia, cooked cabbage, cooked muesli, pears. My family also has a history of lower bone density or bone density loss (we are all petite and low body weight), so maybe I should be taking calcium too?

I don't know... at what point do I just take a multivitamin instead of all the individual supplements and call it good?

B12- mainly a vegetarian, but not strict. Level still lowish, started recently.

D2/K3- bone strength

Magnesium- not daily, but probably a couple times week, for bones also

Multi
Extra low dose D for immunity
Psyllium husk for fiber and saiety
Lion's mane for peri brain fog

Anonymous wrote:CoQ10
D3+K2
Multivitamin
Magnesium
Iron
Saw palmetto and pumpkin seed oil (for hair)

Do you find this is working with hair and you are seeing results?

Mid 50s woman. All of them were recommended by my doctor:

B12 (I was deficient and continue to run low)
D (I was deficient and still am, despite supplements)
Iron (for RLS)
Creatine (doctor insisted I use this after starting a strength training program because I'm on a GLP1)

Nutrafol hoping for increasing hair thickness - been a month and have some new growth so will keep going
Psyllium husk (fiber)
Magnesium

I also take Zepbound

I just started taking Advanced Heliocare (a vitamin B derivative)- my dermatologist recommended to lower my risk of additional basal cell skin cancers

D-mannose
CoQ-10
multivitamin
eye vitamins
NAD+

Wide verity of raw nuts and seeds for trace minerals, cold cooked potatoes and cold cooked brown rice and oats for resistant starch, local organic small farm grass fed beef for protein and iron and as many fresh fruits and vegetables as I can stand for vitamins and fiber.

Vit D / K
Magnesium
Coffee, sativa, indica

Vital proteins collagen power (skin and hair)
Vitamin D (deficient)
Viviscal (hair thinning)
Turmeric curcumin (mood and joints)
Fish oil (just because I guess)

Creatine for perimenopause brain fog and muscle maintenance
Collagen peptides