If health is wealth, then here is how we are supplementing our income diet in the Martin household.
The daily doses:
Started taking this iron supplement when pregnant and anemic, worked so good that I was told to only take every other day.
Mini Fish Oil because those big ones are hard to swallow
Nutrafol for the year of Colleen's hair regrowth
Magnesium every night before bed - no more charlie horses in my legs and magnesium levels are so important for so many things (google it)
Probiotics for adults
Probiotics for kids
Vitamin D3 + K2 drops for everyone (you're probably deficient and this bottle contains 600 servings!)
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Under the weather helpers:
I prefer to drink an Emergen - C every day in the winter, made with hot water
Zicam (Phil swears by these when he feels something coming on)
Propolis Immune Support throat spray
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Gummy candies, I mean vitamins:
These are too fun to take, so I'm not sure how effective they are but I figure if we are trying to eat a balanced diet, then these will fill in the cracks of any deficiencies we may have.
Women's multi plus Collagen (I also put this collagen powder in my coffee each morning)
Cheers to a healthy and active 2025!
I have one child who has mistaken gummy vitamins for candy - I think I caught her before she ate more than 15. So I know that's below the lethal dose. She had absolutely no ill effects. I can't decide if supplements work or if they just create expensive pee. The only thing extra I buy is orange juice when my husband gets sick. It makes him feel better. ( placebo?) I can't always have it on hand as the kids drink it like water. I might look into the vitamin d and k2 drops. They might be useful right now. I
ReplyDeleteI feel that way about the gummies but I know the iron, magnesium, and vitamin d work because my levels are good. I'm sure the OJ helps him for reals, vitamin c and hydration! I laughed at expensive pee :)
DeleteI take Magnesium, fiber, a multi and prescription D (weekly mega dose, because I never have enough in my blood tests). I know fish oil is good for you, but it always gives me the fish oil burps, and I can't stand it.
ReplyDeleteWe have fiber gummies too - I forgot about them since I don't take them but some of my kids do. Funny about the fishy burps, they make gummy multi vitamins with omega 3s, maybe those would work for you?
DeleteI'm laughing at Mbmom's (I think that's her) expensive pee remark. So funny. I'm feeling like I'm raising a tribe of undernourished children. We do zero supplements. Well, that's not true. I take a handful of vitamins daily. B, folic acid, D, magnesium (I'm being lazy and not looking at which B and D I take). I just take the ones my doc suggested after my bloodwork. We have a ton of emerent-C packets for when someone starts to feel lousy.
ReplyDeleteYour seven feet tall athletically gifted and academically inclined children are definitely not undernourished!!
DeleteNutrafol has worked so well for me! I was having massive hair loss issues and now it seems to be under control. It's so expensive though!
ReplyDeleteYes you and Suz are the people that inspired me to try it!
DeleteOoh, you're doing better on the supplement front than me! I have fallen off the wagon a bit, but typically take a prenatal vitamin (even when not pregnant), magnesium, and 5000 IU of vitamin D. I've gone through phases of the kids taking multivitamins and should start that back up as well. I just bought that exact formulation of Emergen-C to stave off the various plagues that are going around school and daycare right now. I should probably add in a collagen powder. Do you find that that affects the taste of the coffee?
ReplyDeleteThere is a teeny tiny taste from the collagen but I only put cream in my coffee, and I really don't even taste it now I just remember when I first started I could tell very little of a difference. It makes me feel good to get 9 grams of protein in my body first thing :)
DeleteI have always wondered about the collagen in the coffee. It really doesn't affect the taste at all? After 4 kids in 5 years my nails are breaking like crazy.
ReplyDeleteI'm drinking it right now and don't taste it but I remember when I first started it changed the taste a little bit. My nails grow so fast, as does my hair but it's still thin.
DeleteThis was fun to read! And reminds me I need to get some Vitamin D supplements!
ReplyDeleteDon't we all!! :)
DeleteI swear by the magnesium! No more cramps in the middle of the night!!! Praise the Lord! Please let us know how the Nutrafol works. I've been contemplating it but I'm just not sure if it works of if I'm just being influenced by people getting a commission for talk about it.
ReplyDeleteSame!! I dragged my feet on it for so long but when I saw real people use it and say it worked (with no commission) I decided to try. I'm rationalizing the cost with the fact that I don't go to the hairdresser anymore (my sister cuts my hair) and I don't color it or anything, so the money is going to the vitamins instead.
DeleteThe Nutrafol really works!
ReplyDeleteMy MIL is 78 and healthy as a horse, she's on no meds and drinks an EmergenC each day and swears by it.