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Is there an easier alternative to swallowing a lot of vitamins and pills?
Category: Health > Fitness and Nutrition Asked by: haydenrivers-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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04 Jul 2005 08:52 PDT
Expires: 03 Aug 2005 08:52 PDT Question ID: 539818 |
Is there an easier way to take a lot of pills? I take about 20-22 pills daily. All of these are high dose natural supplements for vitamins, fish oil capsules, immune system, lowering cholesterol, eye-health, fiber, etc. None of them are prescribed medicines. While I can swallow pills, and have for years taken 1-2 pills a day for vitamins or allergies, 20-22 pills is something else entirely and I find that I hate, hate, hate it. Is there another way to take pills? I would like to think that I could somehow crush them easily or put them in a blender with my morning protein shake. But is this even possible? My products are already chosen for their quality, so liquid vitamin alternatives are not exactly what I'm looking for. |
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Re: Is there an easier alternative to swallowing a lot of vitamins and pills?
From: poet-ga on 04 Jul 2005 09:04 PDT |
Yes, a much easier and more enjoyable way. Eat a sensible diet and drop the faddy nonsense. |
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Re: Is there an easier alternative to swallowing a lot of vitamins and pills?
From: nelson-ga on 04 Jul 2005 12:12 PDT |
GNC carries many chewables. |
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Re: Is there an easier alternative to swallowing a lot of vitamins and pills?
From: myoarin-ga on 04 Jul 2005 14:06 PDT |
I agree with Poet-ga, but you probably won't - maybe shouldn't - follow such straightforward advice without talking to a doctor who is strong on nutrition - and not on pills. Since you have not mentioned that you have any apparent maladies or diagnosed problems (underlined by the fact that none of the pills are prescribed), reading that you are taking all those pills, one has to wonder why you think that you need them. If you have been doing this for years, I expect that you are going to need highly qualified advice to convince you. Maybe you do need some of them, but then only if they are recommended by an MD after having given you a thorough check up. Certainly fiber, protein and vitamin supplements are unnecessary for a person eating properly. Excess vitamins and minerals that the body cannot use get flushed out. Cholesterol is a big scare word. Lowering it can help persons with high blood preasure, but there are others with much above average levels of cholesterol that have no problems (like my wife's aunt, who died at 90 from unrelated causes). Unprescribed pills to combat dormant or non-evident allergies ...? I wonder if they are effective if one really has an allergy. But you have not ask for this type of advice, at least not directly, although I hope that you will consider it. Of course, this is no professional or medical advice, as you can read in the disclaimer below. And this is only a well-meant, free comment, not an "answer" to your question. Myoarin |
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Re: Is there an easier alternative to swallowing a lot of vitamins and pills?
From: politicalguru-ga on 05 Jul 2005 00:39 PDT |
Myoarin, It is worse than that, because excess in some vitamins/pills (even if their are off-the-counter) could lead to health problems, for example vitamin A. |
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Re: Is there an easier alternative to swallowing a lot of vitamins and pills?
From: haydenrivers-ga on 05 Jul 2005 03:27 PDT |
Sigh. I do not overdose on pills. I take my health pretty seriously and if that's too 'hardcore' for you, then I'm sorry. Please stop posting telling me that I am part of a fad, or that I should 'just eat sensibly' or that extra vitamins are just going to get flushed out. I have no doubt that some of what I take it going to get flushed out and unused, but along with my diet, and the exercise that I do, it makes me feel better. A lot better. If it costs me more money, well it's my money. Not yours. |
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