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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.

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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.

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