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[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

I recommend just eating your veggies

[-] billbasher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I eat as healthily as I can. It’s supposed to be the same in principle as a multivitamin though. It makes up for what you may have missed

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

It is not usually necessary, assuming good diet, unless you are doing ultramans and/or trying to get the last 5% of athletic performance.

I may be wrong though, just trying to defend regular food.

[-] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair warning I'm not a doctor nor a biologist so I can be entirely wrong.

I had a heart arrhythmia awhile back and read zinc and magnesium could help. Started supplementing, it didn't help the heart but I noticed it helped my recovery a lot. I stupidly just continued taking it.

Now we fast forward 3 years later I'm dealing with a very weird issue where my injuries are very slow to heal. I test my iron and zinc and I'm near anemic levels.

Immediately I took iron and copper for a month and I had zero problems moving forward. Essentially Iron Copper and Zinc all fight for absorption so if you supplement one when its unneeded the others will suffer. Its a very very tough balancing act.

[-] billbasher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing! It might be beneficial to supplement maybe once a week then so mostly everything comes from diet. Then anything that is low would be picked up by supplements and there would be little contention for absorption

[-] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yep that's what I do with iron since I have pretty low absorption naturally anyways.

Best of luck!

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