at the place where i weight train (Terry Bryan’s Training Center), the owner of the gym is telling me to take a long list of assorted vitamins. I just wonder…will it do anything for me? antioxidants vitamin E (for breast health) CoQ10 multivitamin a chromium picolinate supplement (Beverly International’s Lean Out) calcium 2 other “fat burning” supplements (Beverly International 7 Keto musclean, and GH Factor) B complex
it just seems like a lot, and i wonder if it even matters…or are they all going down the drain? (you know what I mean). I trust Terry a great deal (and train with him during the winter months), I’m just not sure about the vitamin philosophy though.
Yes this is too much and I am glad that you have questioned it. If you take the appropriate multi then it already has most of what you need in it. All of the others (extra E, B’s, “antioxidants” , C++) while important will either end up in the toilet or can even build to toxicity in your system. We can talk personally about more specifics, but do not waste your money on all of these pills…give it to me instead
I am a firm believer in the fact that most of your vitamin needs can be gotten by eating a varied and healthy diet. If this was not so, where did the need your body has for this substance come from. I don’t think the human body spontaenously created a need for these along with the industries profit margins. I do think that some people may benefit from some supplements. (iron for woman is an example) as some peoples personal diets lack certain foods due to availability, taste, culture,etc.
well, can you send a portal over to me? i still f’ up left and right…
and damn near got myself ran over at the bike races
hahahaha!!! “who’s that crazy ass lady in the hat walking in the middle of the course?!”…oh, it’s kittycat…too much
Pill forms of antioxidants (as compared to fruits and veggies) are of unproven benefit, and in some studies wer worse than placebo.
A little Vit E is probably E is probably OK, but larger amounts may not be. Eat a bunch of wheat germ instead.
I haven’t revisted this in years, but my recollection is that Chromium picolinate ain’t what it’s all cracked up to be.
The bradventures guys likes CoQ10, as well as a lot of other stuff. It’s doesn’t appear to be harmful , so a smaller dose is probably (?)Ok. Does it really help mitochondrial function???
Do get your calcium. I recommend you get it from multiple sources, not just milk.
I don’t know about those ‘fat burning’ things. Isn’t that why we train?
Chromium picconilate have long been thought of as ineffective, and I just read somewhere (cant remember the source) that extra CoQwas a waste as well. For certain the products which claim to be GH secretagogues are garbage as well.
at the place where i weight train (Terry Bryan’s Training Center), the owner of the gym is telling me to take a long list of assorted vitamins. I just wonder…will it do anything for me? antioxidants vitamin E (for breast health) CoQ10 multivitamin a chromium picolinate supplement (Beverly International’s Lean Out) calcium 2 other “fat burning” supplements (Beverly International 7 Keto musclean, and GH Factor) B complex
it just seems like a lot, and i wonder if it even matters…or are they all going down the drain? (you know what I mean). I trust Terry a great deal (and train with him during the winter months), I’m just not sure about the vitamin philosophy though.
thoughts?
kittycat
There would be some benefit if you have a deficiency in one or more of them. no deficiency, no benefit. fortunately for the vitamin makers there is no good way to know or test if you have a deficiency and there is little risk to taking them in moderation (other than to your wallet).
i eat all of things, with exception to the beans…haven’t had salmon in a little while either. maybe I’ll settle for a multi a few times a week and call it a day.
thanks everyone!
For what its worth I just saw on the national nightly news tonight that a new study, which they said was the largest of its kind, showed no correlation b/t breast health and vitamin E.
I go through phases of taking vitamins. At the moment I’m taking a multi-vitamin, topoping up with a Vit C and also some echinacea since it’s winter/flu season.
I haven’t got sick but I don’t seem to feel or perform any better, as far as I can tell.
Who knows if I would have got sick if I wasnt’ taking the vitamins. Can’t say one way or another. So I keep taking them just in case really.
*The bradventures guys likes CoQ10, as well as a lot of other stuff. It’s doesn’t appear to be harmful , so a smaller dose is probably (?)Ok. Does it really help mitochondrial function??? *
CoQ would improve mitochondrial efficiency if you would get it to them in an adequate dosage. Problem is only: CoQ can act as a pro- as well as anti-oxidant in the rest of your body. Not to speak off that it is not really too stable when taken orally. To sum it up: Pretty useless to supplement in the real world (unless you really go high to an extend that screws up your liver). But the liver can regenerate to some extend and used to handle much bigger “threads” during human evolution. I’d rather not test that out, though.
B.T.W.: Did anybody see the series “…in thirty days”? One episode was about a former collegiate swimmer who wanted to get into shape again in his mid thirties. He went to one of those Beverly Hills wellness Gurus for “help”. That guy gave him a regiment of about 30 supplement pills a day (plus the GSH, HGH and testo injections). Luckily they had the guy monitored by a general practitioner who checked up on the guys parameters. After a week or so on this regimen his liver values went through the roof. The kicker came when the guy consulted his personal trainer (the classic souped up bodybuilder on roids). When the couch potato showed the PT his stack of supplements, this guy said: “I know what’s wrong with your liver: Those pills-- even I only take 5 or six a day”.
