Supplements make you less healthy.

Use of multi-vitamins showed increased death by prostate cancer in men

Your body is a complex system. Everything is connected to everything else.

You may notice that if you put a gallon of drain cleaner down your drain, it will cause your drain to become unclogged. So if you put 100 gallons of drain cleaner down the drain every day, will it

A) cause your drain to never become clogged again?

B) double your drain's normal capacity?

C) eat through your pipes and contaminate your ground water if not your entire house?

You may notice that if you eat a good amount of vitamin A, that you retain the ability to see at night longer than your peers who don't. So, do you then megadose vitamin A?

No, because then you fuck with the clotting factor in your blood, IIRC.

I take a vitamin occasionally...maybe one or two a week. And I actually feel better than when I was taking them regularly.

L-Glutamine
lethicin
Ester-C
MegaMonster B! (all the B's you'll ever need!)
Folic Acid

I'm taking a doctor prescribed 'drug-vacation'---no Rx's, all vitamins (in prescribed amounts) and thirty min. daily exercise (fate worse than death). I'll let you know how it turns out.

Cinnamon keeps your blood sugar in check. Ginger is great for your digestion. Garlic is supposed to be good for your cholesterol levels, but I read about a recent study showing that this might not be the case, so who knows. Cayenne and Turmeric give me a buzz...woo hoo! Not sure what the others are used for.

Thanks Blue :D

The Oregano Oil and Caprylic Acid??

Both caprylic acid and oregano oil are said to be antibacterial. In my experience that holds true; the caprylic acid moreso than the oregano oil.

As is drain cleaner. But your body needs bacteria, it's part of the complex system.

Supplements make you less healthy.

I've been off all supplements for a few months now. I just don't want my liver working that hard. I started on them to see if they would improve my skin. They didn't.

What don't you like about your skin?

I was tempted to try to be funny and go racial on this but in the post Imus world, let's just stick to the issue which is eczema.

My son suffers from eczema, too. When it gets really bad (in the winter, usually) he puts Elidel on it which helps.

I'd forgotten that flax seed helps my skin a lot. I think I'll start eating it again...my skin's been kind of blah.

Sure, that might hold true if everything is working right. That is not always the case however.

But the twist is the prostate cancer case I posted above. There, multi-vitamins had no effect until there was something working wrong - a tumor - which the supplements made stronger and thus more deadly.

Sure, not all supplements are good and some can be harmful. That doesn't mean they should all be painted with the same brush nor should they be considered detrimental in every situation.