Do you believe vitamins work

it was the sudden change that caused the problem, durhamjen. Decades later i continue with b supplements as i never want to have that kind of pain and lack of mobility again.

I've been vegetarian for nearly forty years, amarmai, and have never needed to take vitamin B tablets.
I have blood tests quite often for other problems, and my vitamin readings have always been within the required levels.

Yep! I can see how that works.

You eat it, you put on weight and all the wrinkles of your bum derrière smooth out

You eat even more, put on even more weight and then the ones on your face smooth out too. Just like a balloon bring pumped up.

Simples

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Ariadne you r so correct re the importance of B vitamins for vegetarians. When i changed my diet to meatless i gradually lost mobility due to lack of vitB12. I also take B6, D, C+lycine, and calcium combined with magnesium.

Do you eat it or melt it and spread it on your face like a face mask?

[grn]?

Probably the cost will cause more wrinkles and self-perpetuating purchases [grn]

Where? Where's?

I saw that - but was too scared to google the price!

Somebody has brought out a chocolate which makes your skin look 10 years younger - what's not to like?

I believe there are certain nutrional supplements extras to be found in red wine and dark chocolate. I forget what they are but they taste good.

Bit D overdose is dangerous as is A

feetle some may not pass through you so an overdose could be as bad as a deficiency.

Of course vitamins 'work' - otherwise why would your body manufacture most of them? I think the question at the head of this venerable thread should have been 'do vitamin supplements work?'

The answer is probably 'yes - if you are deficient in them'. Otherwise they just pass through you, to create vitamin-enriched sewage.

Yes I take calcium as well along with the Vitamins. Both of these work.

Repeating things that have already been said happens on threads and in conversation. Sometimes things need to be said lots of times. Sometimes the same thing needs to be said but in a different way. Sometimes I forget what was said pages and pages ago.

Thanks Nonu.

Do not be embarrassed GORKI .

Gorki - there may be people who haven't read it yet and could gain some information from the previous posts. If people stop posting, the thread will drop off anyway.

This is rather a long thread .Perhaps it is time to end it.

Agreed. My sons take a vitamin C supplement because they work in offices and feel they must try to prevent themselves from getting and spreading colds but I don't think it really works. With air conditioning and close proximity to others, I don't think they stand a chance.

Absent - it has all been said but if people won't read the threads before they post we will keep going round in circles.

Of course vitamins work, i.e. are essential to human well-being, or deficiency diseases such as scurvy and beri-beri wouldn't exist. Vitamin supplements are mostly bought by the worried well, are usually easily and harmlessly excreted by the human body and support big pharma. Sometimes, supplements are necessary.

Btw I have forgotten who made the earlier post, but TB is on the increase in Britain.

Gorki - I think it is obvious that you need Vit. D supplements if you have a deficiency - but I don't see the point in taking anything that is not essential. You are just filling the coffers of the manufacturers.