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Originally Posted by Shobha
Please share each of your experiences. Thanks.
Let me start with my own.
Ever since we started supplementing with Omega-3 (1100 mg EPA+DHA) and Vitamin D3 (2000 IU), we've hardly had any colds or flu. Mild colds, when they do strike, disappear in a day or so.
We've just started on a B-complex (high in b-12) but its just been a week, so no effect yet. My husband gets frequent mouth ulcers, so hoping that will help ...
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Hi Shobha,
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Practical benefits from supplements that you have experienced
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I hope that the following might give you something concrete.
When I started taking Vit D3, the depression which had been creeping up on me, disappeared and, after 3 days of 5K per day, I was euphoric!!! Just for a day, mind, and then it levelled out, but still. I am not normally a "depressive type" so the fact that I had been feeling like crying for no reason (used to just happen once a month) and reacted very sensitively to neighbour's well-meant comments was not typical for me.
Vit D3 definitely helps your mood. I have - so far - had no colds this winter, although I have had sinus problems once or twice.
My other all-time fave supplement is MAGNESIUM!!! You
gotta have it!!! Once I started to take a chelated form, after many years of taking cheap mag oxide, I really noticed a difference in my overall well-being. Arrhythmias stopped, cramps stopped, stiff neck went away and my mood improved. I felt calmer, less irritable and generally more balanced.
Now, I have to confess that at the same time as I was working to get my magnesium levels up, I also reduced my caffeine intake by a quarter, and I am sure this
also helped my mood, especially as coffee is a diuretic and makes you piddle out your magnesium supplies.
What I have recently noticed is that there is definitely a synergy between different minerals and vitamins. When I first started working on getting my magnesium levels restored, I was also taking a mag chloride supplement twice a day, which also contains 1,000mg of taurine, which is needed for optimal magnesium uptake, once in the morning before breakfast and once at night with 300mg of chelated magnesium. I was also paying attention to taking a B-stress-complex vitamin, again to optimise magnesium uptake. I sporadically remembered to take some probiotics, too, which are supposed to help the body absorb taurine and general improve your digestion.
Anyway, recently, I ran out of both the mag chloride with taurine and the B-vitamins and I began to notice that my magnesium deficiency symptoms were becoming more noticeable again, which I found funny as I was still taking 600mg of the chelated mag every evening. But, without the Bs and the mag chloride/taurine combo, it really did seem that I wasn't absorbing as much of the magnesium as I had been when I was taking the whole package as mentioned above.
Today, thank goodness, the mag chloride/taurine supps have arrived from the UK (they took longer to get to Germany than the ones I ordered from iherb.com in the USA - weird, huh?) and I have just popped one!!! And a probiotics tab. I am hoping that I will again see a difference soon.
I have also had good experiences lately with ashwagandha (I'm taking it for mild arthritis in a couple of fingers and for adrenal support) and digestive enzymes. These arrived from the US on Monday and I felt a lot more energetic after taking them, and I felt I slept more soundly.
I am also taking omega 3s, but only since a few weeks, and I can't say I've noticed anything significant which I could pin on the omegas. But they seem to be very important so I'm going to try them for a while longer.
Those were my two cents.
amanda