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Turning Things Around - Part 2 (Vitamins)
#22203399 - 09/07/15 05:46 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hello again
I am now looking at what vitamins I should start taking. My Diet hasn't improved that much since making my first Turning Things Around post, but I have made some small improvements. The biggest being I have now decided to give up eating lollies for good (I would eat them while playing computer games).
So I'm wondering what vitamins (in tablet form) and other supplements that you could suggest please.
But please keep in mind that my diet is still not great and the way I am going about this (the only way I know I can change) is that I just keep taking small steps until hopefully one day I'll have changed a lot.
Thank you 
Btw, for those that made post in my first TTA post thank you again. I'm still in the process of taking your advice (my depression slows down my ability to change) . The way I see it is that if I can start to get some much needed vitamins into me that it will help with making progress in other areas.
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Re: Turning Things Around - Part 2 (Vitamins) [Re: blessed]
#22205193 - 09/07/15 11:43 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Have you considered a blood test? They can tell you what you are deficient in.
If you take vitamins you are not deficient in you may end up wasting your money or even doing yourself harm.
Should be free under medicare.
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Re: Turning Things Around - Part 2 (Vitamins) [Re: blessed]
#22208146 - 09/08/15 04:20 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I saw your other thread but I'm mostly a lurker on here nowadays. However, seeing as you really want to better yourself I want to share with you what I know.
I've worked at a health food store and been into the supplement scene for years now. Here is what works in my experience.
Don't go buy any vitamins. They are mostly bullshit. Your body has a harder time using and assimilating nutrients that aren't from food.
There is also a difference in quality and bioavailability. In nature vitamins are paired with lots of different molecules. Co-factors, enzymes, minerals all affect how the vitamins can be used.
I know we can't always eat a perfect diet. This is why I recommend buying super foods and capsizing them yourself. I take barley grass powder and wheat grass powder mixed in capsule form. Alfalfa is also good to add. Another good combination is sprulina and chlorela. With the right blend, a teaspoon of super foods can provide as much nutrition as eating half a pound of vegetables.
Taking a few of these capsules with a meal gives you a well balanced source of nutrients that is easy to digest and won't cost you. I buy a pound of each ingredient mix them together and spend the day putting them in capsules. Two pounds of powder makes hundreds of pills. A pound of super foods usually run between ten to twenty dollars, a capsule machine is about thirty.
Let me know if you're interested and I can point you in the right direction. I have more to add but will have to later.
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Re: Turning Things Around - Part 2 (Vitamins) [Re: ChiefGreenLeaf]
#22233799 - 09/13/15 07:59 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Electric Toaster said: Have you considered a blood test? They can tell you what you are deficient in.
If you take vitamins you are not deficient in you may end up wasting your money or even doing yourself harm.
Should be free under medicare.
Hello Electric Toaster
That is a great idea. I have a doctor who has been trying to help me get better and he wants to do things like blood test and going to see specialist concerning the issues I have. I am holding back from going back to my doctor at the moment for a few reason. This may sound like I don't really want help and that there is no use in anyone offering help or advice. My doctor has said that procrastination is common with depression. So I do want to change, but their is a part that doesn't. I will eventually take that blood test, I'm just not ready yet.
Still thank you for you reply. 
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ChiefGreenLeaf said: I saw your other thread but I'm mostly a lurker on here nowadays. However, seeing as you really want to better yourself I want to share with you what I know.
I've worked at a health food store and been into the supplement scene for years now. Here is what works in my experience.
Don't go buy any vitamins. They are mostly bullshit. Your body has a harder time using and assimilating nutrients that aren't from food.
There is also a difference in quality and bioavailability. In nature vitamins are paired with lots of different molecules. Co-factors, enzymes, minerals all affect how the vitamins can be used.
I know we can't always eat a perfect diet. This is why I recommend buying super foods and capsizing them yourself. I take barley grass powder and wheat grass powder mixed in capsule form. Alfalfa is also good to add. Another good combination is sprulina and chlorela. With the right blend, a teaspoon of super foods can provide as much nutrition as eating half a pound of vegetables.
Taking a few of these capsules with a meal gives you a well balanced source of nutrients that is easy to digest and won't cost you. I buy a pound of each ingredient mix them together and spend the day putting them in capsules. Two pounds of powder makes hundreds of pills. A pound of super foods usually run between ten to twenty dollars, a capsule machine is about thirty.
Let me know if you're interested and I can point you in the right direction. I have more to add but will have to later.
Hello ChiefGreenLeaf
Thank you for your post.
I have noticed that after having my current vitamin tablets that when I next got to the toilet that the color of (number 1) changes a lot. So I guess that's the vitamins not being absorbed.
I hope I don't come across super lazy, which I am to a degree. But I don't have it within me to make major changes at the moment. for example I recently started taking vitamin d. The chemist said that the cheapest and still very effective way was to buy a liquid bottle with a dropper for application. I said I'll have the tablets thanks. Even though it cost more I just want to eat the capsule.
Like the last thread I made I will save this to my computer and as I change I will take the advice given.
I also realize that I won't make any more post in this part of this web site until I can put the advice given to me from you and others to good use.
I was just being honest about were im at, and that is a im a person who doesn't want to really be here (I would have no problem if today was my last day). But I'll keep going trying my best, even if my best is crap.
I don't know if I'll capsulizes the super foods you mentioned but I will look into the one you suggested. I recently brought those frozen vegetables bags that go into the microwave. And I will eat a bag or two every morning. And I also got a product called Metamucil. It's a fiber cleansing powder. So slowly getting there.
Thanks again for your advice ChiefGreenLeaf
And thank you to everyone else who did too. Thank you.
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Re: Turning Things Around - Part 2 (Vitamins) [Re: blessed]
#22233996 - 09/13/15 08:37 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Omega 3. Can't be stressed enough. It's the gold standard of mood supplements, been studied rigorously and comes out on top. Get a high quality bottle of capsules and aim for 1g EPA/DHA per day which would mean 2-3 caps a day with meals.Thing is you won't notice much until about 2 weeks to a month in but stick with!
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Re: Turning Things Around - Part 2 (Vitamins) [Re: olson]
#22242918 - 09/15/15 07:17 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hello olson
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll look for omega 3 very soon.
I'm at a point where I now need to put some more changes into place. The main problem before was I just didn't have the will power to successful change. i now 90% do 
I'm looking forward to what's to come. Thanks again 
btw, I once had a Amiga, awesome computer. Too bad it's no longer around
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