Not sure whether or not this diet is working! - Page 2

[mamafish9]

I think you're running low on nutrients, and until you address that, taking more food out isn't going to make a difference....

[crunchy_mommy]

I've been taking the supplements for 4 days now (double doses of some), is there something I can do to make my body absorb them faster/better? Or is there something else I can add in to my diet?

[mamafish9]

Originally Posted by crunchy_mommy

I've been taking the supplements for 4 days now (double doses of some), is there something I can do to make my body absorb them faster/better? Or is there something else I can add in to my diet?

What have you added? Can you list the ingredients/amounts in your B vite? And I'd add sublingual/liquid spray B12, corn or not, and see what happens.

[crunchy_mommy]

DS is sleeping on me so I can't go get the bottles...

Magnesium - 500mg/day -[ GF/SF, manuf. cornfirmed no corn-derived ingredients: - Magnesium Oxide, Cellulose Gel, Croscarmellose Sodium, Magnesium Stearate, Silicon Dioxide, Stearic Acid. ]

D3 - 800-1600IU/day (depends if I'm going to be out in the sun) - [ ingredients: Fractionated Coconut Oil]

Iron - 2x rec. intake (I think around 40mg/day) - [ingredients were rice-based]

B-Complex - [ingredients were rice-based] - I don't have all the numbers but it was in the thousands of each B component (i.e. 2000% DRI, and I'm taking it twice a day)... the B12 in that is cyanocobalamin - I can post the exact #'s when DS wakes up if it would be helpful...

Also eating brazil nuts (1-2 a day) for selenium, and nutritional yeast with B12

I'll go back to taking my methyl B12 (it's a lozenge, not liquid, does that matter?) despite the corn.

[crunchy_mommy]

Update:

Iron is 18mg (taking twice a day = 36mg) chelated iron (ferros bisglycinate). Other ingredients: rice powder, magnesium stearate, cellulose

B-complex - double the below because I'm taking 2x day -- ahh just realized there's probably corn in it -- tricky vitamins!! Anyway:
Vit C (ascorbic acid) = 150mg
Thiamin (mononitrate) = 30mg
Riboflavin = 20mg
Niacin (niacianamide) = 100mg
B6 (pyridoxine HCl) = 50mg
Folic acid = 150mcg
B12 (cyanocobalamin) = 25mcg
Bioitin = 50mcg
Pantothenic acid (d-calcium pantothenate) = 150mcg
Other ingredients: Rice powder, microcrystalline cellulose, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate, cellulose

[mamafish9]

I'd stop/cut back the iron (too much can fire up gut bacteria), and add in the sublingual B12 - lots of people can't absorb B12 in the gut, so what's in your B complex is likely fairly useless. If you tolerate corn derived, you might try a supp with mthf folate (vs. folic acid) - some people can't use folic acid.

For mag, mag oxide isn't well absorbed, so you could increase that or change kinds.

Lozenge will be fine for B12 if you tolerate the ingredients. How much B12 is in it?

And I'd still add in trace minerals (you have selenium covered, but no zinc, molybdenum, etc).

[crunchy_mommy]

Oh yes I just dug up a bottle of zinc too, that's got 50mg in it so I'm gonna take that... the B12 has 1000mcg. Yeah I have to figure out the trace minerals too (WF was seriously out of everything I wanted to get so I didn't end up getting some of the stuff I needed). Do epsom salt baths work well for magnesium? Oh and the iron I was only doing 2x a day for a few days & am planning to drop back down to 1x/day -- just wanted to boost it up a little.

[mamafish9]

You could do more than 1 of the B12 a day, particularly to get started. With 50mg of zinc, be sure to take it at the end of a meal when you've eaten plenty, or it will likely make you nauseous.

Epsom salts baths are great, but work on a better absorbed form of mag as well (I like glycinate best, citrate is fine too).

[crunchy_mommy]

OK within about 8 hours of taking the B12 & zinc yesterday I was already feeling better! Vitamins don't work THAT fast do they?! Feeling pretty good today too, we'll see how the next few days go!!

[mamafish9]

B12 can work in 30 minutes, especially sublingually - it's magic . Also suggests you're pretty deficient - you can take several a day, it will help you get back up to more normal levels faster (don't take too close to bed, might keep you awake)