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by thorwasdfasdf 2212 days ago
And, try to get those things from foods. It can't be said enough: Fruits and Vegetables have extremely high densities of all your minerals and vitamins. I've calculated all their densities here based on USDA nutritional info: https://kale.world/c All the results are normalized to 200 calories for easy comparison.

When you get your vitamins/minerals from a pill, you run the risk of your body not absorbing it because that's not how our bodies adapted to absorb those things for millions of years.

If you're eating a healthy diet (90%+ plant based whole foods), you will get more than enough minerals/vitamins and amino acids.

Taking a few spoon fulls of hemp seeds is an excellent idea: it's super high in magnesium which is a mineral that most of us are greatly lacking. But, I would consider hemp seeds as just another food part of a plant based whole foods diet. personally, i add it to salads, smoothies, etc.

And you don't need Vitamin K supplements. Greens are extraordinarily high in Vitamin K. Even, just 20 calories of Spinach will provide over 400% of your daily Vitamin K intake!

People, be especially careful with supplements, they're very much unregulated and can put almost anything they want in those things.

Nature makes the best supplements: it's called food (plant based whole foods with a variety of grains and beans, lots of vegetables and fruits and some meat) and it has everything our body needs. Yes, for vitamin D, you'll need to go outside and get some exposure to the sun. Actually, doctor's tell us, Vitamin D isn't even a Vitamin, it's actually a hormone that your body makes all on it's own with enough exposure to sun. But, based on your skin pigmentation, you may need more or less exposure.

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>...And you don't need Vitamin K supplements. Greens are extraordinarily high in Vitamin K. Even, just 20 calories of Spinach will provide over 400% of your daily Vitamin K intake!

I agree with you that most people don't eat enough fruits and vegetables. Though if someone is worried about a particular nutrient, it isn't that simple. It doesn't matter how much Vitamin K is in spinach if you don't absorb it:

>...Circulating phylloquinone levels after spinach with and without butter were substantially lower (7.5- and 24.3-fold respectively) than those after taking the pharmaceutical concentrate. Moreover, the absorption of phylloquinone from the vegetables was 1.5 times slower than from Konakion.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8813897

I really dislike using calories when comparing veggies and fruits as it feels like the complete etogn format. Why not use grams?
You & I can proffer this advice until we are blue in the face, but what people want is one magic pill that solves all their problems. So that's what they will keep trying.
> Fruits and Vegetables have extremely high densities of all your minerals and vitamins.

I don't think they have B12, you need to get that from animal sources or a pill.

There are mushrooms which contain B12. Or you could go with soymilk, almond milk, etc. Those typically are fortified with B12.

People used to get B12 from the bacteria in the soil and the plants we eat. Not, anymore.

So, yes, you could eat some meat. B12 is present in very high concentrations in a lot of sea food.

Last I checked none of those things are fruits or vegetables. Suggesting they were enough to get all necessary vitamins and minerals was simply inaccurate and bad health advice.

When I Google "mushroom B12" it seems to suggest mushrooms have almost none.

People used to get B12 by eating meat (which I use generally to also include seafood).

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