Vitamin and mineral supplements

I have to take vitamin supplements as I do not eat meat and there is just no way that I can eat enough in a day to get everything I need from food to get all the minerals and nutrients I need. I can't afford to eat that healthy even if I really wanted to. I always took vitamins as a kid. I have always been borderline anemic and ai can always tell when my levels get lower then usual as I get so exhausted and my heart beats really hard and I get winded just walking a short distance thorough the house. The only time I did not get like this was during my pregnancies she I took prenatal vitamins. I'll realized recently that my multivitamins don't have iron in them so I bought iron pills to take along with my multivitamins.

I do when I remember them!

As one gets older there is less absorption and those supplements may not work after all. I do take some though.

I take no supplement, only natural vitamin through the food I eat. Multivitamins are useless and most of the over the counter vitamin do very little to help, but if we are convinced they help we can feel better.

No I don't take any supplements but try to get all my nutritional needs from food

I've been taking multi-vitamins for 1.5 years, since I've been diagnosed with leukopenia. I take it with my lunch every day.

If we have a nutritional and balanced diet, there is no need to take extra vitamins or supplements unless there is a genuine medical need. Like Sheldon of The Big Bang Theory said it's just a way of making 'really expensive urine'. I (should) take iron tablets because I have an iron deficiency. I had to take vitamin D for a while because of a deficiency in that (the doctor said that most people in the UK probably should take vitamin D as it's absorbed from the sun, which everyone knows doesn't live here!) Other than when I really need to, I take no medication or supplements. There are some nutrients which are harder to get than others, so it's a good idea to take them. Or if there are certain foods you can't or won't eat then you might need supplements to make up for the missing nutrients. Otherwise, we should be able to get all we need from our food.

I think some supplements you mentioned are good to take, others are probably unnecessary. I like taking COQ 10 personally. I think that is a good supplement.

I take cod liver oil, iron, Rhodolia and whey protein after a workout. Thinking of taking a vit D tablet as we hardly see the sun in the UK during winter.

You're body will just get rid of any unabsorbed supplements but if you are eating a well balanced diet then you normally don't need to take the supplements. Just take what you need that you are not getting from your diet.

I don't but mainly because I find it very difficult to swallow pills.

If there's a necessity to take those, it would be okay to replace the needed nutrients in your body, but if you're doing good, taking supplements isn't really necessary.

see boycott them as mucj as possible bcoz as u hav said u hav grown up and hav stopped playing nad workout say they might get stuck in your body in excess but if there is real need if u have deficiency but if u take supplements then plz again start workout too

With the quality of food available these days one does need additional supplements. Even if we opt for organic food, the quality is not always guaranteed. Of course the supplement could be made from them too, but still concentration of vitamins in 1 tab will be more compared to a bowl of food we intake.