Do you believe vitamins work

Thanks to this thread, I've realised that I'm most likely deficient in Vit B12.
I thought I had dementia!
I've been to the health food shop and if I don't feel any improvement after a couple of weeks, I shall visit my GP.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvmRI6K8TS8

Headline; Do vitamins really work. Potted version of reply [several pages later]..The Menai Straits are popular for sailing.....love it ....[it's a bit like that Two Ronnies Mastermind sketch]

The Menai Straits are popular for sailing. DS used to sail there when he was at Bangor uni.

JessM I just love Snowdonia.

Just possibly nellie. I am very excited cos we are going to be living about 5 minutes from the foot of the bridge soon! OH used to row for the Uni team and they never ventured west of the bridge - far too dangerous.
It's a beautiful bridge when you drive over it, but when you look up at it

JessM I expect Thomas Telford did a Moses and raised his rod to part the waters. Those rush tides have claimed a good few small boats etc over the years.

Oo you are a tease aka

Perhaps your immune system needs boosting Jess .. Have you tried echinacea

Oh yes I saw those last week! But I came home with a cold
The tidal current forcing itself through, under the Menai Bridge is something to behold as well. How on earth did they build that massive thing in those surging waters?

I know basalt pillow lavas are not vitamins but looking at such excellent examples in such a lovely setting make me feel better.

When at Newborough Warren do look at the lovely old pillow lavas at the western end of Newborough beach as you walk to Llanddwyn island. They are the the piled up greenish rounded rocks folded on top of each other. 600 million years old those were erupted under an ocean. Look out for them and admire!

www.kabrna.com/cpgs/anglesey/pillow_lava.htm

I am a one woman Geology is fun campaign.

I learnt the lesson the hard way when I first started snorkelling in Malaysia in 1997 - horribly burnt thighs and calves, which made it very hard to sit down. It hasn't happened since - I am now even wearing long socks with my trouser bottoms tucked into them. They help when walking on the little sharp pebbles at the edge of the sea, too. I look very bizarre, but as there is nobody but the man at the beach kiosk who brings me towels and drinks, it doesn't matter.
I really don't like deep tans, but I am well on the way to looking like somebody out of TOWIE in spite of my big sun hat, long sleeve blouse and trousers which I wear on my way to the restaurant.
I can't get a photo of myself as there is nobody on the beach but me, but I have put some of the hotel's own pictures on my FB page. I don't have an underwater camera, but the owner has taken some wonderful pictures of the reef and the fish - they are on the Swisscare Resort Hotel FB page.

yup, got it in one. Main carpark (very new and posh) full so we were kind of off-piste in the forests and marshes It is glorious and strong competition for the end of Gower.
greatnan my OH once got badly sunburned on his back while snorkelling in Australia with a t shirt on.

Jess hoping to boost my Vit D levels next week! ( Newborough by any chance?

I think we need a photo grin

Presumably you are snorkelling in your sunhat, Greatnan, to protect your head and neck?

Probably more than you think unless you're wearing a burka ?

Now I am disappointed, Galen - I thought you were getting into the diver/snorkelling world!
I don't know how much Vit D I am getting this week - I am keeping covered up even when I am snorkelling - long cotton trousers and a tee shirt over my swimming costume. The sun is unbelievably strong here in Egypt - even just walking the 100 yards from my room to the beach wearing a big sun hat has deepened my usual slight tan.

Silver travel adviser even

Hey! If I'm a resident doctor, why aren't I paid?
I'm also writing blogs for diver travel adviser (unpaid).
After their question time on here they asked me to do a short thing for them on solo travelling with a mobility scooter and they've published it.
They now want me to do one on my Iceland trip.

It's Iceland the country. Not the store!

Ok! There are conditions that give rise to vitamin deficiencies!
Example pernicious anaemia.
Such conditions do need supplements.
The majority of people in this country who do not cover up for cultural reasons should not need supplements. However there are a few who do not seem to get enough and need supplements.
Basically, unless there is a medically proven deficiency, you're wasting your money!

Can I now go on holiday?
Pretty please?
With marshmallows?

Galen's Gone to Iceland! Or will have very shortly.

Where did our resident doctor jeni go?