there are 11 common mistakes that a lot of people make when they take supplements now the first thing I want to mention is that I hear this a lot we don't really need to take supplements because we can get all we need from our diet and it's almost impossible to get vitamin D from food so it's not actually very easy to get all of our nutrients even if we ate a really good diet not to mention certain foods that deplete us of nutrients especially if you're doing a lot of refined carbs okay number one let's
talk about timing okay during the day when should you take your supplements personally I like to take almost all of my supplements in the morning because I want all these co-actors to be available in the first part of the day when I need more energy in fact I switched my intermittent fasting pattern where I'm doing two meals one is breakfast and then a late lunch and then I don't have a dinner that seems to work and the reason I did that is because it gives me more energy during the day rather than doing fasting and
then eating late at night when I don't need the energy before I go to bed now as far as taking electrolytes right before bed I don't really recommend it because electrolytes can push fluid out of your body now as far as Vitamin D goes some people do better to take the vitamin D in the morning some people do better right before bed it tends to help them sleep better you can experiment with that the other thing I want to mention about the timing is that you don't want to take any calcium supplements right before you
eat because calcium neutralizes the stomach acid and it's going to inhibit your digestion the next mistake I want to talk about is taking too many supplements at one time and trying to swallow them I personally use myself as a human guinea pig for a long time I've tried pretty much every single nutrient vitamin cleanse Alternative Program you can imagine and um one time long ago I decided to do a gallbladder flush in this gallbladder flush you take beet root supplements and olive oil I took a hand of these beetroot supplements put them in my mouth
and washed them down with 12 ounces of oil big big mistake I should have used some water and I should have taken a little bit at a time because those beet supplements got stuck in my esophagus and it was like I started getting chest pain I thought I was going to die like a heart attack oh my gosh I'm going to die from taking supplements so I just kind of laid it a ball and just push through it and somehow I survived but I don't recommend that those it's very very scary some people do better
just taking their supplements with a meal it seems to go down easier next mistake is this if you're trying to solve a health problem whatever it is and you introduce a lot of different supplements at one time you're not going to know what worked so always introduce them one at a time especially if you're trying to solve some health problem the next mistake is thinking these vitamins are going to work if your diet sucks I have a personal example of this yes I was eating too many carbs at one time but I wasn't consuming enough
protein especially for breakfast and no matter how many vitamins I took I was still tired what I really needed was protein once I had protein I'm like oh my gosh everything works now but also if you're eating too many carbs and things like that you're going to get a lot of bloating and um I don't care how many vitamins you take for this or that this not going to create the effect next mistake is going for the cheapest vitamin possible especially these one aay if you read the label which I have right here I'm going
to show you the first ingredient calcium carbonate which is the type of calcium in cement so they're putting the cheapest vitamins you could possibly imagine mostly made from petroleum and chemicals a lot of the vitamin companies out there um are owned by either chemical companies big Pharma or some of the junk food brands what I'm observing is they're not going for Quality ingredients they get the cheapest possible especially when you get into antioxidants like beta carotene for example and you're taking it synthetically there's some side effects it shows that it increases your risk for cancer
of course they're not doing a comparison with that study and using antioxidants from actual food no it's the synthetic version it's probably not the best way to do it and the other thing you'll notice with the synthetics is the rdas are the same so applying 100% 100% 100% in nature you don't have that and of course you have fillers you have uh colorings and sometimes people think that there's no difference between vitamins the synthetics are the same as natural well I don't think so now there are a couple vitamins that I think are fine to
take synthetically one is niin and then the other one is benot toine but for some of the other vitamins I would try to go more natural or get the vitamin in the natural complex that nature has provided now let's talk about the mistake sometimes people make with supplements in drug interactions they're on a medication that's creating an effect okay and then they want to take a supplement that also creates the same effect doctors don't like that because then that might make the problem worse so if you're taking a medication for high blood pressure and then
you take a supplement to also help lower your high blood pressure and you end up with low blood pressure then that might be an issue so you need to check with your doctors so they can monitor that because I mean my thought is why not introduce something natural I'll give you an example let's say you're diabetic and you're taking metformin well berberine also creates an effect very similar to metformin why not work with the doctor to just take less of the metformin because that could have some side effects one thing I want to say about
antibiotics is that you should always take a probiotic when you're taking an antibiotic so you can can at least Salvage the good bacteria but here's the thing if you're on medication let's say for example for high blood pressure and you're taking magnesium and all of a sudden your blood pressure starts going too low is that really a bad thing why not just get with the doctor to take less of that medication because magnesium is such an important uh natural remedy for everything related to the heart one of the worst medications you can take for your
liver which is over the counter is Tylenol you might want to try milk thistle an herbal supplement that can actually minimize the damage of your liver from some of these other medications next mistake a lot of people make with supplements is that there's certain vitamin or mineral interactions that people need to know about for example if you're taking high doses of vitamin D3 without magnesium this could be a problem you need magnesium for vitamin D to do its job and without magnesium vitamin D can't work and also taking high levels of zinc over a long
period of time you can end up with a copper deficiency so just realize that a lot of times these minerals go in uh pairs like sodium and potassium if you're consuming a lot of salt without potassium that could be a problem this is why I don't recommend taking one mineral for a long period of time especially if you're doing high dosage I would rather you take the one mineral in a blend of other minerals or trace minerals just to make sure that you don't create enough problem all right next point I want to bring up
is taking advice from someone that gives you an opinion about vitamins that's not really based on a a good evaluation there's not enough time in school to really fully understand bi chemistry all you have time to do is memorize things like this kreb cycle pass the test and move on to the next subject so there's a big difference between learning understanding and memorizing they're not the same thing so you really want to get opinions from people people that have a lot of experience in the area of what you're trying to get an opinion on like
you wouldn't want to take marriage advice from someone that's never been married and one last point about this I think it's really important a lot of the institutions and journals do not like to publish anything positive on vitamin D now why would that be because it competes with the drug companies and vitamin D is very inexpensive because you can get it from the Sun all right next uh mistake I'm going to mention with supplements is not taking high enough doses there's two reasons why people take supplements one is to compensate from not having enough from
their diet the other reason is to create a therapeutic effect and there's a lot of other reasons why high doses of certain vitamins are good there's actually quite a few genetic weaknesses that make it more difficult to absorb um certain nutrients I recently had over 20 people get their DNA testing on vitamin D D and 100% of them had at least one genetic problem or weakness with either absorbing vitamin D or converting so the solution is just to take a little bit more another common vitamin that I think people are not taking enough of is
vitamin B1 I mean the rdas for vitamin B1 is ridiculous ridiculous it's not going to do anything like they're 100 years old and they're just based on what you would need to prevent a deficiency they're not based on correcting something or to create a therapeutic benefit the other thing is if your stomach is not acid enough it's too alkaline you're not going to be able to absorb the minerals you're not going to be able to break down B12 because you have to break down that Protein that's connected to it in which case you would need
to take you know Bane hydroc chloride to acidify the stomach so you can absorb some of these nutrients all right the next point I want to talk about is if you are a vegan right you're not getting animal sources so you really want to make sure you take additional nutrients on top of your diet because you're going to be deficient you would need to take B12 you need D3 omega-3 fatty acids if you don't want to get it from fish sources you can get it from algae iron zinc iodine and calcium now let's get to
the last one dosing and when I'm talking about dosing I'm talking about how many times a week do you need Vitamin D this is so so so important simply because vitamin D is the most important vitamin because of what happens when you're deficient the rdas that they originally came up with which is you know 600 IUS is sufficient but there's another system that a lot of people do not know about and this system is called the paracrine autocrine system so this system is mainly dependent on either the sun converting the cholesterol in your skin to
vitamin D or the vitamin D in your food or the vitamin D in your supplements and the halflife for that is like 24 hours So after 24 hours it's it's pretty much gone so if you're trying to support your immune system you need to be taking vitamin D every single day or getting Sun every single day or it's very likely you're going to be deficient the amount that I would recommend as a maintenance would be no less than 10,000 I use that's not unreasonable it might sound like a lot it's not but the dangers of
having a vitamin D deficiency are much much greater than having any excess and since we're ending off on this vitamin D topic if you have not seen this interview with Professor Hollis who is the Pioneer in vitamin D research you have to check it out we go into this topic a lot more in depth and I put that video up right here check it out
