Supplements

[Worrying Will]

What are people's thoughts on taking vitimen supplements such as zinc and vit c


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[Jack Hughes]

For healthy people, a waste of time

Possibly Vit C dosage might reduce the length of time you have cold symptoms.

[jonathon.e]

If your diet is lacking, then supplements have a place, a blood test, or for magnesium a hair sample can be tested. But if you are healthy, and your diet is good then money can be spent elsewhere.

I use colostrum powder, due to an immune problem, but I did go through a stage of trying supplements, but saw no improvement.

What supplements are you thinking of Will?

[IanM]

Most, but not all days I have one of these. I was also taking ZMA (http://www.bulkpowders.co.uk/zma-capsul ... ?dpc=ZPL10, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMA_(supplement)), but recently stopped mainly because I tidied the bag away somewhere and haven't yet found them. I also take SiS Rego after every session that's at least moderately hard.

It may well be a waste of time, but in the last 12 months I've had 2 minor & short lived colds, whereas normally I'd expect to have 3, 4 or 5 a year, lasting up to a fortnight each. That might be because I'm eating better, or taking more precautions to try and keep colds at bay (which is made difficult living in the same house as a teacher and a 2yo) and have nothing to do with the supplements, difficult to say. As I ramp up training through winter I might need to restart the ZMA if I find I'm struggling with recovery - it definitely felt like it was helping my sleep when I was taking them... although I had some very mad dreams with them too.

[Worrying Will]

Interesting. I was looking at zinc and magnissium. But just wondered peoples general opinion

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[Kevy427]

No supplements here. A healthy diet should provide all the nutrients you need other than vitamin D

Those of you who own little people are more exposed to the ravishes of attack from germ warfare as children are the aircraft carriers of the germ world


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[CCS]

Calcium to ward off osteoporosis and cod liver oil for the arthritic thumbs here... and Berocca because it cheers me up in the morning (but probably has no health benefit)


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[Bendy Ben]

Shift work
A below average diet and I take these, a berroca and a Benecol yoghurt drink daily

Do they work - no idea. I do feel better but likely to be a placebo.

The WAT - a medical biochemist and pharmacologist does however think there is some benefit too ( didn't really listen to why) so I carry on


Training ? Pah! Overrated

[Bendy Ben]

Training ? Pah! Overrated

[Big_Show]

I take a daily multivitamin - not convinced of the quality of the fruit & veg out here, plus the amount of time people spend avoiding the sunlight out here means that many people end up with a vitamin D deficiency in the summer.

Also take a fish oil supplement because I rarely eat fish.