Vitamin Supplements

[Digger.]

You're generally healthy with a reasonable diet. So they're not really necessary are they? I have started taking Glucosamine Sulphate (skin slightly spotty), Zinc (good for guys apparently), and a Vit C (getting colder).

Placebo, or worth taking?

[Digger.]

Just me then. Thought so .

[Sarkmeister]

Depends on the vitamin/mineral. If your diet is very restricted and you know for a fact you are missing certain vitamins, then it cant hurt to take a supplement.

[Paul Dishman]

Digger. said:

You're generally healthy with a reasonable diet. So they're not really necessary are they? I have started taking Glucosamine Sulphate (skin slightly spotty), Zinc (good for guys apparently), and a Vit C (getting colder).

Placebo, or worth taking?

As I'm at work, you can have my professional opinion
waste of money

[Vesuvius 996]

I used to take Multibionta and they gave me an irregular heartbeat.

[whitechief]

Berocca for the morning after a good piss up seems to help and turn your pee bright orange! I don't think they would be of any benefit daily as long as you eat well enough.

[LBird]

If you think your diet is lacking something, why not eat more of the foods that contain what ever it is you believe you're lacking? If you have a varied and healthy diet, any deficiencies are likely to be temporary anyway (unless of course there is an underlying condition then you'd [obviously] have consulted with your GP rather than self-"medicating" with supplements). Read this the other day - food for thought (pun intended)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7643533.stm

[Seight_Returns]

I tried taking Pharmaton (Multivitamins with Ginseng, claim to provide "relief from daily fatigue, tiredness, exhaustion through stress").

They had no noticeable effect except to make me feel very nauseous.