So, last year I decided to start the year off right and take vitamins and supplements everyday. I went out and bought some good multi-vitamins, vitamin D and fish oil . I faithfully laid my daily douses out in one of those pill boxes marked for each day of the week. I even cut my multi-vitamins in half because I read once that it's too much for the body to absorb an entire tablet. It's best to divide it up. Maybe one in the morning and one at night. For a couple of months I took these daily. I was starting to actually feel better. Now that could be the placebo effect. But, then again what if it wasn't? Maybe taking these pills everyday was working. Then I read an article about vitamins. I think it was in Reader's Digest. The same magazine that years ago said vitamins were good and even provided a chart of which to take and in what doses. Anyway this article went on to say how we have all been duped and we shouldn't continue to take these vitamins. It's just overkill. Damn, so I thought if Reader's Digest thinks I shouldn't be taking these then I'll stop. And so I did. Right then and there. Flash forward to just a few weeks ago. Now another article about vitamins. It said go for it. The fear this article attempted to squelch is overdoing it. According to THIS writer no one has actually died from having too many vitamins.
Yesterday I dusted off my little pill divider box and carefully placed out my pills for each day of the week. I'm going to feel better (even if it's fake) and I'm not in any danger of dying from taking these little pills.
What is my take away lesson here? Do what you feel is best for you and don't listen to all the naysayers out there. Let's face it in the last few years there have been so many things that were once good that are now considered bad for you and vice versa. It will make you dizzy trying to keep up with it all.
originally posted on 01/02/11
originally posted on 01/02/11
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