[rramadass]

Important article which everybody should heed and act accordingly to make changes in lifestyle.

Due to various reasons (eg. age/bad diet/lack of exercise/etc.), i was suffering from brain fog, gut problems, low motivation/energy/fatigue, sleep problems etc. for the last couple of years. Finally, did some research, regularized my diet, disciplined my exercise and added the following supplements which solved all my problems.

  1) Methylcobalamin (Vitamin B12) sublingual tablet. Important for vegetarians. 
  2) Multivitamins and Multiminerals (with optional ginseng etc.)
  3) Omega 3, 6 and 9 (with optional gingko etc.)
  4) Vitamin B complex with Zinc
  5) Vitamin D with Calcium (500IU/500mg)
  6) Vitamin C chewable tablet

Take only 1 of the above per day so that you rotate every 7th day. Finally;

  7) Have a Pre and Probiotic capsule with lunch everyday to solve gut problems.

Note: If you are in India, you can get all of the above (and more) for low cost at any of the "Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janausadhi Kendra" shops in your neighbourhood - https://www.janaushadhi.gov.in/

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I think it’s dangerous to play around with this without blood tests. That said, I do use D3 and B12 supplements, since I always scored low when getting tested, and I do feel better now that I do.

Most effect on my health and diet has therapy. I do believe there is only so much you can do “by force” (willpower), and it’s much nicer to do it by tuning the underlying programming (eg. parts work/ifs and the like).

[rramadass]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479166

[rramadass]

Some Resources:

Dietary Supplements for Older Adults - https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/vitamins-and-supplements/diet...

Vitamins and Minerals for Older Adults - https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/vitamins-and-supplements/vita...

Vitamins and Minerals - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/

Essential Daily Supplements by Age Group: A Doctor's Guide for Indian Families - https://drnegi.com/blog/essential-daily-supplements-age-guid...

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Tangent to this topic, if you are deficient or sensitive to B vitamin supplementation, it may be worthwhile to get tested for MTHFR/COMT genetic variants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylenetetrahydrofolate_redu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechol-O-methyltransferase

If you've done 23andme, ancestryDNA, etc, you can likely just use your raw data to get this information.

[jasfi]

I've read that you should take K2 if you take D3. You might want to research that. Also 500 IU of D3 is really low.

[KetoManx64]

I think that's equal to about 5 minutes of sunlight exposure, so almost nothing

[rramadass]

Nope; see https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer/

[KetoManx64]

Don't trust the NIH with your health. They're the reason the mass majority of Americans are deficient in vitamin d, potassium, magnesium and a bunch of other vital vitamins/minerals, primarily due to faulty research done 50 years ago and never updated.

Humans spent thousands of years out in the sun on a daily basis growing crops and hunting. They never got a vitamin D overdose and were in fact much healthier than you and I.