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Maybe it's better if we just try to eat pure, organic food as best as we can & stop spending so much on supplements that we don't know if they are working or not.

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I've seen reports about the soil depletion from heavy farming and I don't believe that good, healthy food actually contains the same level of nutrient it used to.

I don't hate you for posting that. I do think that, with nutrient depletion of our foods, at least a mutlivitamin/mineral supplement would be in order.

I didn't see you mention having taken any A, Bs, C or probiotics. If you're not taking probiotics, you wouldn't likely be absorbing the others (except maybe a sublingual B-12 which needs other Bs too). That would pretty much be flushing that money spent on supplements right down the toilet.

It's a known fact that the body needs higher intake of nutrients to fight infection, it has a lot of extra work to do & needs the raw materials.

It doesn't matter WHAT you are eating if you aren't absorbing the nutrients and if the food you consume doesn't actually contain the nutrients it should, you'd have to consume an awful lot more to maintain your health.

Many here, myself included have problems with their appetite due to Babesia, or difficulty eating certain foods due to gastrointestinal problems. This may not apply to you & you may be capable of consuming adequate quantities of food to maintain your nutrient levels.

If that's the case, you're certainly welcome to disregard it.

I do believe that I HAVE heard that it's good to take periodic breaks from supplements. I don't recall if it was 3 months on/ 1 month off or 3 weeks on/3 weeks off.???? It might be good to look up & I don't know if that would apply when fighting disease.

I'm not recommending that everyone run out & consume massive doses of supplements. I am pointing out that we may not be getting the nutrients we need from our regular diet. If you read through the links & see something that you can say "Hey that applies to me", then you will be better off for knowing it.

Many here are eating restricted diets, if they are not supplementing to compensate for any particular nutrients they may not be getting, they will suffer for it.

Some of the meds that we take actually deplete certain nutrients or inhibit their absorption and create deficiencies. If you are taking those meds & not supplementing adequately.....voila - deficiency.

Many of the symptoms caused by these deficiencies could actually be mistaken for Tick-borne disease symptoms or Herxheimer reactions, leading people to believe that their treatment is having effect or NOT having effect, when those symptoms may be totally unrelated and instead be due to a deficiency.

I do believe that many nutrients work better in combinations & when taken with food. Sometimes isolating one B vitamin & taking high doses of it can mask a deficiency of another one. That's why it's best to take Bs in complex.

This is just food for thought, do with it what you will.



edited to add: In my book "devil's advocate" is good when it comes to our health. These are valid questions you bring up & I'm sure someone else would have those very same questions.

I can't do it right now, but maybe we can look up the info on hypervitaminosis. We can start threads on those & I can link them up top too.

I do know that excessive amounts of oil-soluble vitamins can be dangerous because the body stores them, ie - Vitamin A, but not in Beta Carotene form, only the acetate. I also know that Vitamin E must be the natural form which tocopherol that is right now I don't recall.

With soluble Vitamins you can take & awful lot & just piddle away all the excess. That's wasted money there.

There is at least one B vitamin (maybe B3?) that I know can cause problems when too much is taken. I'm not positive which one.

I don't think it's good to take excessive doses of any specific nutrient, unless you know for a fact that you would be severely lacking. More isn't also better and most often moderation is key.

Dealing with diseases that deplete certain nutrients, diets that may be lacking, meds that may be creating deficiencies and possibly absorption problems makes this a very complicated issue for us & IMO, definitely not a "one-size fits all".

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Note: I'm NOT a medical professional. The information I share is from my own personal research and experience. Please do not construe anything I share as medical advice, which should only be obtained from a licensed medical practitioner.

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I guess I started to really think about this when I heard an interview with a doctor from the Linus Pauling Institute saying that megadoses of vitamins are not necessarily a good thing. There aren't alot of long term studies as to what large doses of vitamins can do to the body.

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Originally posted by Keebler:


How much a person weighs in not an indication of how well they are nourished. In fact, heavy persons may not be absorbing nutrients.

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