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Vitamins and supplements are part of what happens when doctors don’t listen.

Was getting up 10 times a night. Life was a living hell. Doctors were useless.

So I tried a recommended one. (Aloe Vera pills)

I sleep through the night now.

Now I also have had bad experiences. Elderberry was not fun.

Without getting into the specifics of weather particular substances have any meaningful effect vs placebo, part of the issue was that there’s no guarantee that there is even the thing on the label inside the pills or that their formulated in a way that actually makes them available to the body. For instance this study in magnesium supplementation shows a 20-90% absorption based on brand.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/#!po=0....

Yea, lots of different kinds of magnesium and brands are very annoying.

Stuff is amazing dramatically reduced headaches and muscle aches. Magnesium citrate.

I generally stick to the most expensive ones.

Other variations have not helped, I felt weird on them.

Problem is the same (though to a much lessor degree) for prescriptions.

Plaqunial name brand is drastically more impactful then it’s genetics. So much so, that I have to cut dosage 1/2 to 1/4.

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