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Ask HN: Do you take food supplements?

#1
With all the controversy around regular food supplements usage, I was just wondering if any of you took food supplements to enhance or support your body, and if yes which ones and for what.

I personally take Magnesium on period of stress, as its level goes down during time of anxiety, leading according to studies to more anxiety from magnesium deprivation.

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#3
A varied diet provides sufficient quantities of everything needed. I wouldn't supplement without a doctor identifying an ailment or deficiency, and then I'd prefer a diet change or even a prescription to a supplement. There's too much research (see: SELECT trials) that supplements feed tumorogensis and cancer mortality, and that the supplements you buy may not actually be what you think you're buying (see: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements...).

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#5

A varied diet provides sufficient quantities of everything needed. I wouldn't supplement without a doctor identifying an ailment or deficiency, and then I'd prefer a diet change or even a prescription to a supplement. There's too much research (see: SELECT trials) that supplements feed tumorogensis and cancer mortality, and that the supplements you buy may not actually be what you think you're buying (see: http://www…

That's what I was referring as controversy. I would never take all around supplements as a normal diet should provide everything I need. However in the case of magnesium for example, it is proven that stress/anxiety deprives the body from it, and my GP already prescribed it to me in the past.

Regarding the fact that it might not be what's written on the box, I cannot agree more, you have to trust the shop on this one.

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#10
On stray occasions I take garlic, vitamin-c, fish oil. The garlic and vitamin-c when I feel like a cold is inbound. Seems to help, but it's an entirely unscientific guess, and I don't get sick very often.

Occasionally metamucil tablets, because I don't get enough fiber in my diet.

I typically consume one five hour energy per day. Whether it's the b12 or b6 overload that produces the focus effect, I like it (could care less about the caffeine, have considered switching to a tab or liquid b12 to see if that produces the same effect, but haven't experimented).

Noticed my vision weakening a bit at a distance (thanks no doubt to sitting in front of a monitor for two decades). 45mg lutein improved that by a non-trivial amount after several months.

Kre-Alkalyn when working out.

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