What Vitamins & Supplements do you take and from where do you buy them?

Maybee70 - I buy Macushield Gold from Boots where it is 3 for the price of 2 so works out cheaper.

It's not impertinent annodomini - I thought about gloves but decided against it as they might take up the oil rather than the nails. I try not to overdo it and read a bit - sometimes the book gets the odd drip but not much. My forefingers suffer most and if you're clumsy like me you'll still have the odd accident but they seem to withstand them a bit better. Anything's worth a try and it's not expensive.

I take Calci-D (same as ADcal) as prescribed. I've been on it for at least ten years, and my nails have deteriorated mainly in the past few years, so I doubt if I'm short of VitD. I do wear rubber gloves if there's something that won't go in the dishwasher and, when I venture into the garden, wear gardening gloves. I might try the olive oil, love beige. Do you wear gloves in bed, if that's not an impertinent question? The strange thing is that a few of my nails are perfectly normal

I take vitamin D, and occasional bursts of vitamin C and zinc.

I've just remembered, annodomini that I paint olive oil on my nails each night (with a small child's paintbrush) and it seems to have an extreme moisturising effect which has helped my nails enormously. Perhaps it might help you too?
Plus the usual wearing of washing up and gardening gloves to protect them.

My Doctor told me to take the D3 , I said I would buy them , he was happy with that , I take no other tablets

I only take medication prescribed by my GP. This does include Adcal D3 - been on that for several years. Nothing extra. Vits etc. are from eating healthily.
I have not desire to increase the profits of those companies selling these, mainy, sugar pills!!

Vitamin D from the Chemist , my nails no longer break and split

annodomini

I'm trying Biotin to improve my nails which a vertically ridged, chipping and splitting. If anyone can advise me on what else I can do, please do!

My nails are exactly the same...??

Mancjules

I have taken vit D and Magnesium for years. I get them online from Natures Best as I find the price & quality good.

I take the same but buy from NU nutrition, I think they are quite expensive so might try natures best.Thank you..?

What a lot of us take vitamin D. I started taking it after my sister was advised to. My DH takes a multi vitamin specifically formulated for men. We buy both from Holland and Barrett.

BBbevan

1 multi vitamins. 1 tumeric for eyes and 1 iCap ( lutein + ) for eyes.
DH takes rose hip for arthritis. Get all from H&B except I Caps

I now buy Macu Save from Healthy Supplies. They contain the important ingredient which is me sozeathanthin but are £20 for 3 months supple. I’ve been taking Maccushield since they were recommended on trust me I’m a doctor but they’re very expensive. I know it used to be possible to get ICaps from the doctor on prescription but not sure if that’s possible now.

Having read the OP properly, I should add that the only one recommended to me was the acidophilus - I'd had one treatment for helicobacter pylori (more strong antibiotics in a week than I'd had in my life before), and when I started again with the same symptoms I wanted to avoid a repeat of that. A very good friend recommended the tablets, and they worked - the symptoms were gone within a couple of days. I'd been taking the Viviscal for around 6 months before I noticed any improvement.

I'm a bit of a sucker for supplements. I take Viviscal for my hair - my hairdresser is convinced it's made a big difference, so I'll keep on doing so. Cod liver oil capsules for my joints, acidophilus to ward off the heartburn I get occasionally, and, more recently, vitamin D as well. I buy the Viviscal when it's on offer, either from the company direct, Boots or Holland & Barrett. Everything else from H & B in their penny sales.

It was suggested when I was on chemo that Vit D would help with the treatment - tests showed I was a bit short. I also take liquid iron as I became anaemic during my younger years - I had to give up being a blood donor as they said I needed the blood more than they did. I still take both most days.

DH takes Vit D as suggested by his Oncologist. I take the vegan ones, made from shiitake mushrooms, as I have allergies.
Both from Holland and Barrett.

Well woman 70+ multivitamins and prebiotics both from Vitabiotics.

Calcium and vitamin D. Folic acid. I took magnesium for five years to help with sleep, which I think it did, but now think it may have been linked to the on and off nausea I’ve had for four years. I thought it was menopause, but done with that now. I do feel much better, except can feel a bit ‘ crampy ’ in my calves. Rather have that though.
All bought from Sainsbury’s.

I take probiotics for IBS, Vit D with magnesium and calcium, (strong family history of osteoporosis), and omega-3 capsules for joints. My supply comes from Amazon like everything else, but I do research to companies carefully before giving them my money!

On the advice of my GP I now take Vitamin D. I look for the Holland & Barrett, buy 1 get another for 1p deal.

My eye specialist told me the best supplement for my eyes is flax seed oil. I remember sometimes.

I take Vit D but not in the summer as I am out of doors a good deal. I have recently started having Kefir yoghurt on my breakfast cereal this is after hearing Michael Moseley's programme about fermented foods. I give my horse turmeric but don't take it myself but might change my mind on that.

I take turmeric twice a day, H & B version usually the one with black pepper. it has built up my immune system to no end, and improved my skin. My skin was very thin after loads of steroid treatments, I had to wear long sleeves, if my skin brushed against sharp wood of a nail head it would split quite dramatically, it go very embarrassing. My arm looks as though I'ver self harmed. November 2019 I was in hospital with Pneumonia for a week, my BIL died while I was in, a week after I got out, I was at his funeral in Surrey after travelling on the train and London underground. My sister told me I should take 3 - 6 months to recover!! I was fine. I put that to turmeric.

I have a squeezed out lemon in a glass of water every morning and a garlic pill (which I buy at the local pharmacy, don´t live in the UK). The thing about vitamins and supplements is that the effect comes only after a long time of regular use, unlike synthetic drugs, which kick in from the word go. I sometimes wish that I could compare two of my identical selves, one drinking the lemon concoction overy morning for years and one not. Would there be that much of a difference? I hope so.

I'm a sucker for vitamins and minerals. I take glucosomine and cod liver oil for joints, vitamin C and magnesium. I'm really scared of losing my eyesight so also take bilberry and Retinex. My eyes seem to be better than they were 10 years ago so they seem to work. At the first sign of a cold I take echinacea. I get them all from Healthspan.