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Vitamins and supplements stay losing. What a racket.

I'm a long time Vegan, few month back I started tacking a multi-vitamin for no special reason.. I do blood tests from time to time and everything looks fine.. No deficiencies. Still, I notices I was getting less tired in specific situations.. I'm not sure what exact ingredient had this effect but hopefully the multi-vitamin is not causing any damage so I keep taking them.

Vegetarian here who recently started taking multi vitamins + extra vitamin d + k2 (after being diagnosed with a severe vitamin d deficiency). I also get less tired since and even more so my sleep has improved drastically within about 2 months. I fall asleep _so_ much faster. Usually 10 minutes now instead of an hour and I also sleep through most nights instead of waking up 6 or 7 times for no reason for the past 10 years. I haven't changed other variables (I think) but so far I am happy with the results. Also purely anecdotal.

Using Cronometer to track daily (micro)nutrition is what convinced me to take a daily multivitamin.

It takes quite a varied, deliberate diet to fill up all the nutritional progress bars. I don't do it every day and some days I can't even do it with what's left in my fridge. Some days I feel like filling up on only three things.

I figure a multivitamin can fill in some holes.

Probably B12? Has an energizing effect, and is often a megadose in multivitamins.

Vitamins and minerals have cured my hopeless eczema. No doctor could do that for nearly a decade

would you mind sharing what you took. I've been suffering from eczema for nearly a year I believe. I've been taking some vit. D and Cod liver oil, some zinc (only some months).

I had previously tried taking the individual supplements you describe. It didn't work. My miracle cure came from standard Sainsbury's A-Z Vitamins and Minerals. One tablet a day. It's also crazy cheap. 100% cured. Mind you my condition was such that I'd seriously contemplated amputating limbs. If it works for you, you should start seeing clear results in 30 days. If it improves, keep taking until healed. In my case, my eczema is completely in remission. 3 days without my pill and an army of bubbles will start forming under my skin (and trying to burst through)

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/multi-vitamins/s...

> have cured my hopeless eczema

I’m glad you found something that worked. But you’re describing, by definition, a vitamin deficiency. (That can cause dermatitis.)

What deficiencies can cause eczema?

Pretty sure mine is a side effect of my allergies but interested in covering my bases.

> What deficiencies can cause eczema?

Dermatitis/eczema (the terms are used frustratingly interchangeably) describes a set of symptoms. It covers poison ivy rashes (contact) to cradle cap (biotin deficiency). Atopic dermatitis [1], is not tied to any nutrition deficit. (My sister had atopic dermatitis growing up.)

So if you displayed dermatitis symptoms and found vitamins cured it, it may have been non-atopic. Your method worked. But it hasn't been shown to help someone with the atopic kind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atopic_dermatitis

I had a very serious case of atopic eczema wrongly attributed to an allergy to metals. Doctors had tried everything. I had resorted to wearing medical cotton gloves, and a thick perma layer of cortisone cream (nicely colored red by it mixing with my open flesh). Over the counter all-in-one vitamins & minerals have cured me. I am not lying! I now think that the root cause of my condition was my immune system. The allergy was probably just a consequence

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