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Haphasto
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 Posted: 03/22/05 - 02:27 Post subject: Do vitamins actually work?
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I've been taking vitamins daily for about 8 months now, and am just curious if they are worth taking? I read somewhere you should take them if you dont get your recommended daily values of vitamins from other foods, which i'm not.
I was just was thinking about it, so I thought i'd ask. Not like they cost alot, so I guess it can't hurt. Just wondering if they are actually making me "semi healthy" I do exercise, but I don't eat well. I hate eatting well.
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Overon
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 02:30 Post subject:
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ive noticed they keep your skin a lot healthier ..
i sometimes get sores at the corners of my mouth or something if i dont take vitamins .. and my fingernails are better if i take vitamins too ..
im sure they keep your hair healthier too ..
i really should take them more often . . but i can never remember to
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Zab
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 02:44 Post subject:
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A good multi vitamin is usually all anybody needs. Recommend everybody take one. some changes you should see is your hair healthier and growing faster than usual. same with your nails. skin should be alot healther feeling and looking. just a few minor things that it helps that are noticable.
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atarom
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 03:33 Post subject:
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does it help at all with energy levels or feelings of despair?
(question 1 serious, question 2 not.)
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Mogling
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 03:56 Post subject:
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| atarom wrote: | does it help at all with energy levels or feelings of despair?
(question 1 serious, question 2 not.) |
Yes they help with premature ejaculation, but no they dont make your penis bigger.
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Galdaria
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 04:05 Post subject:
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http://www.realtime.net/anr/
All you need to know about vitamins/minerals. Also after TONS of research personally this is the place I get my vitamins from.
YOU NEED VITAMINS YES!!! Centrum and all those other s****y ones dont get fully absorbed into the blood stream and yes while they may contain the daily recommended dosage your s******g 80% of the vitamin out with your waste. ANR vitamins are water soluable and dissolve rapidly and have been proven to digest prior to elimination. =) I know this sounds gross but if your body isnt digesting the vitamin its worthless.
Well worth the investment imho. =)
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Fattguyy
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 04:21 Post subject:
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If it will help my hair I am so taking vitamins!
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Galdaria
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 04:24 Post subject:
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If you want healthy hair take vitamins...drink water...and take a biotin suppliment and perhaps even an evening primrose suppliment.
Biotin works wonders for the hair and nails. =) If your hair is dry and dying you arent drinking enuf water or getting enuf nutrients in your food. =/
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Fattguyy
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 04:27 Post subject:
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I drink a lot of water.
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Galdaria
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 04:30 Post subject:
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Biotin for the win. =P Youll really see a difference in about 2 weeks.
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Yellow Journalist
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Joined: 20 Oct 2002
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 06:39 Post subject:
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what brand of vitamins are we talking about? What is good?
Fred flintstone vitamins ?
Ive always been skeptical on taking pills and what not and their effect on your kidneys. Is my skepticism true of false or???????????
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Paco
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 08:33 Post subject:
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| Yellow Journalist wrote: | what brand of vitamins are we talking about? What is good?
Fred flintstone vitamins ? |
4tw
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Yellow Journalist
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 08:49 Post subject:
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4tw?
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Paco
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 09:34 Post subject:
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For the win!
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Cethan
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 10:03 Post subject:
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Mega Men's. The only GNC product that don't suck.
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Zab
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 10:15 Post subject:
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Gald, you are going to have these guys on more pills than they can handle. most people just want an easy to take one a day and they have been found sufficient to work for most peoples needs.
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Yellow Journalist
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 10:34 Post subject:
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yabba dabba doo!!!! =P
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Galdaria
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 10:44 Post subject:
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| Zab wrote: | | Gald, you are going to have these guys on more pills than they can handle. most people just want an easy to take one a day and they have been found sufficient to work for most peoples needs. |
ROFL I want them all p*****g florescent yellow!!!! wheee
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Brash
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 10:46 Post subject:
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i was getting tired at work all the time so i started taking the GNC mens vitamins and it has helped me keep my energy up so im not so sleepy all the time.
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Paco
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 11:28 Post subject:
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| Yellow Journalist wrote: |
yabba dabba doo!!!! =P |
that's what I use!
f**k those nasty horse pill sized vitamins that taste nasty and stay with you in burps all day...just f**k that shit
Fred's doin just fine for me, thanks!
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Maldek
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 11:39 Post subject:
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As a former Hulkamaniac this recalls me to the Hulkster's advice to always take your vitamins...
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Callaren
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Location: South Jersey
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 11:47 Post subject:
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| Overon wrote: | ive noticed they keep your skin a lot healthier ..
i sometimes get sores at the corners of my mouth or something if i dont take vitamins .. and my fingernails are better if i take vitamins too ..
im sure they keep your hair healthier too ..
i really should take them more often . . but i can never remember to |
You may have herpaghonnasyphilis.
Anyway, the doctors told my mom she had to take some vitamin because her body wasn't absorbing it well enough. They gave her one pill for better absorption and another, the vitamin, which had 16,667% of her recommended daily value.
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Tamrissa
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 12:01 Post subject:
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i take a one a day multi vitamin plus an iron pill (doctors orders) on top of that, im eniemic (sp?) though so thats why i need the extra iron, my body doesnt absorb it as its supposed to or some crap.
you nails are your biggest health tell tale sign.
when i developed wierd ridges in mine and they were brittle peeling i asked my doc wtf was up with it he took one look at them and ordered a blood work up. hi thyroid problem!
listen, if youre seriously concerned about your health and well being and about taking a daily vitamin ask you doc what he/she recommends and see if they want you to have a blood work up done to rule out any *problems* before hand or to see if you need something 'extra'.
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Yellow Journalist
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 12:09 Post subject:
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"blood work"
That sounds scary lol
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Nahualli
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 12:10 Post subject:
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Vitaballs are good. It's what I take 
-Nah-
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Tamrissa
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 12:15 Post subject:
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blood work up
they take a couple vials of blood and test you for your basics, plus any other weird things they might be suspicious about after conversing with you.
like my family has a history of thyroid and diabeties problems so when my nails were screwy and i told him about my energy (or lack there of) problems my weird hormonal problems (dont ask you really dont want to know) ect. he ordered a few screenings and they took three small tubes.
its no biggy just a poke in the arm bit of blood drawn then ya sit a min then go about your day.
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 03/22/05 - 12:58 Post subject:
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I spill blood too, just last week I murdered some bum for no good reason, he bled all over the street, I ran quick.
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