Daily Vitamins

Question: DAily vitamins? I am a healthy 19 year old woman. last time i was at my doctor's she told me that if i wanted to have children in the future, that i should start taking a woman's daily vitamin (not prentatl ones, just normal women's vitamins). What affect would me tkaing or not taking vitiamins now have on any children i might have in the distant future? i don't understand why i would have to take them now.

Answer: I gonna disagree with the other posters. Unless you are considering conceiving now, there is absolutely no evidence that a multivitamin will improve your health or the health of a future child. In fact, people were having perfectly healthy children for centuries without any supplements at all. There is some evidence to suggest the folate supplementation may reduce the risk of birth defects in pregnant (and perhaps conceiving) women. Even in this case the effects are fairly small. There is no harm to taking a standard multivitamin. (The whole stress formula, men's and women's vitamin, etc. is largely bogus.) If you eat a well balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables, and only modest amounts of highly processed foods you should be just fine without supplements. For full disclosure sake, I do take a multivitamin daily, a generic version of Centrum.

Question: Daily vitamins??? If I'm exercising and maintaining a healthy diet should I still take a daily vitamin? Any suggestions on what kind?

Answer: Absolutely! Even if you are on a strictly organic diet a good multi vitamin can be very helpful. Shaklee makes great vitamins and has been around for 50 years. Their vitamins have high bioavailabilty, and are not synthetic. Most store-bought vitamins are synthetic and your body does not utilize them well if at all. www.shaklee.com Good luck! Oh. and don't forget your Omega 3 Fatty Acids!

Question: What kind of daily vitamins should i take? I am looking for daily vitamins to take, just for a boost. I am not overweight, or super skinny, just your average young woman with a healthy diet and moderate exercise. Please help with some suggestions or a list of suggestions. Thanks!

Answer: I would say just an everyday multivitamin should be fine. You might want to look into taking an iron supplement just because of blood loss during periods. And, maybe calcium (like those chocolate things they always have commercials for)

Question: What can you tell me about taking daily vitamins? I'm a twenty year old female. I feel young still and like I should be taking the flintstone vitamins still. What should I be taking as a daily vitamin?

Answer: Try womens "one a day" vitamins.

Question: Is it okay to take hydroxycut with celexa and daily vitamins? I take celexa daily for depression and I am also anemic so I take daily vitamins to keep my iorn up. I want to start taking hydroxycut but im not sure if its safe to mix the 3. Anyone ever taken these together?

Answer: Things like hydroxycut (especially if it still has ephedra or ma huong in it) would not be a good mix with anti-depressants. See this video http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7243601/18882920

Question: what is the daily value percentage of vitamins? i have a biology project, and i have to collect 5 food labels and i have to write down the percentage of daily vitamins in each product, but on the labels it doesnt say anything about the what percentage of vitamins you should get daily!!! help!

Answer: The nutrition label says how many milligrams of whatever vitamin is in it and the percentage next to it is how much percentage of your daily value it is. If it's recommended that you have 100mg of vitamin X and your food had 10mg of vitamin X, then it will say 10%.

Question: Does it make a difference if you take prenatal vitamins or daily vitamins? My sister is 4 months pregnant, and she just told me she stopped taking prenatal vitamins and switched to daily vitamins because it makes her stomach hurt. Is that smart or should she switch back to her prenatal vitamin?

Answer: She should ask her doctor for an alternative prenatal vitamin. They changed the vit. A in all prenatal vitamins because of some birth defect. That is really the primary concern. Some regular vitamin brands have switched to that other kind of vit. A as well, so she should compare them at the store. Otherwise, unless she has anemia, it's just fine. The reason why they have so much folic acid in prenatals now is because there are so many overweight women. If your sister is normal weight, the 400 micrograms should be just fine.

Question: What are good daily vitamins to take? I am a seventeen year old girl and am a dancer and play basketball so i am pretty active and just wanted to know some good daily vitamins to take to stay as healthy as i can be.

Answer: By eating healthy, you should not have to worry about taking vitamins. BUT, taking them helps your body to get them and any of them it doesn't need will just be peed or pooped out. I take: Multivitamin B-Complex Vitamin C Calcium with D Bone Health Women's specialized vitamin (get at GNC) I also add wheat germ and whey protein to my meals as well. I have anemia, so I take extra iron as well, but iron tablets from the doctor make me constipated and nauseous so I take a children's flinstone vitamin and eat lots of spinach and green veggies.

Question: Which vitamins to take daily for energy? I'm seventeen and I seem to allllways be low on energy, whether I sleep a lot/a little or if I'm being active or not even if I'm eating healthy, I'm alwwwwwwwwways tired. My parents are overly foreign so they don't believe in takingme to the doctor's for such things and I know there are daily vitamins but I don't know which ones I should be taking that I can buy at my local drug store?

Answer: vitamin b-12 will help with your energy but you may be anemia you need to go to the doctor and have you blood checked

Question: why are vitamins so high in daily percent values? taking my daily vitamins today, I checked the nutritional facts to see how many the serving size suggests. then I find out that one of my b12 vitamins is 16,337% of your daily value. so I got curious and read other labels, and some said 9,333% of your daily value, or 6,442% of your daily value. is that healthy? should I start buying less strong pills?

Answer: Most vitamins are water soluble. That means that what your body doesn't need right now, you dump out in your pee (that's why your pee is so bright yellow and smells funny after you take a vit B complex - that's the extra vitamin). The other thing is that just because you put that much in your mouth in the form of a pill doesn't mean that you body is able to break it all down into a form that it could use. Even if you did need it all, your body would still excrete part of it in your poo. A lot of docs say that if you eat right, especially your fruits and veggies, then you don't really even need vitamins.

Question: Do you know any kind of daily vitamins a 12 yr old will take? Hey, Do you know a daily vitamins for a 12 yr old, I prefer if they were chewable, and if you do know Please tell me. The kind of Vitamin I need is: - burns fast and Boost the Metabolism Kind of like a Acai Burn . Is there any ??

Answer: This is a good chewable brand My kids take them and hated all of the other vitamins I gave them but they love these gummy vitamins.. They think they are just regular plain old Gummy Bears.. lol http://www.imedmart.com/Rainbow-Light/Gummy-Omegalicious/Sour-Raspberry-30-pckts.html

Question: Is it ok to take Daily Vitamins with Amoxicillin Antibiotic? I heard two different sides of the story, one is that antibiotics make it to where you don't get the same amount of vitamins so it is good to take daily vitamins with them and others say daily vitamins make antibiotics ineffective.

Answer: It is true that it's fine to take vitamins along with amoxicillin. There is no interaction between the two, and it is fine to take them together. I did want to clarify what Karen said about spacing out drugs that interact with one another. In general, that is BAD advice. The only time you can do that is if the interaction is related to how the drugs are absorbed (for example, ciprofloxacin's absorption can be affected by milk products, so you would not want to take it at the same time as milk). However, if the interaction is related to how the drugs interact in the body, and the drugs are both in the body at the same time, you are doing nothing to prevent this problem. For example, the antibiotic Biaxin can cause increased problems with the blood thinner warfarin and, since both drugs remain in the system for several hours, spacing out the administration by 3-4 hours will do nothing to resolve the problem. Karen, I don't mean to come down too hard on you, but your giving medical advice with the source being that your dad is a doctor lends a little bit of weight to it that could lead people to do things that could be dangerous. Please do not give any sort of authoritative advice without having the proper training yourself.

Question: Why is it important to have your vitamins daily? Why is it important to have your vitamins daily?

Answer: its not, unless you eat a very poor diet, then you should make sure that you take the vitamins your Body does not get out of your diet. however there is never a need to take water soluble vitamins, which are Vitamins A, B6 and B12. these are already produced, so if taken they will just make you pee. hope that answered your question.

Question: Why do we require little vitamins daily? Your body makes NAD+ and FAD from two B vitamins, niacin and riboflavin. You need only tiny amounts of these vitamins. The recommended dietary allowance for niacin is 20 mg daily and for riboflavin, 1.7mg. These amoundts are thousands of times less than the amount of glucose your body needs each day to fuel its energy needs. How many NAD+ and FAD molecules are needed for the breakdown of each glucose molecule? Why do you think you daily requirement for these substances is so small?

Answer: you need 10 NAD+'s and 2 FAD's per glucose molecule. The reason there are trace amounts of these vitamins is because respiration is facilitated by reusable enzymes, of which the vitamins themselves supplement, not primarily control. hope that helps :)

Question: Is it alright to take your daily vitamins with Lexapro 10mg tablets each day? My doctor started me on Lexapro 10mg tablets a day and I'm just wondering if it's okay to take my daily vitamins with the Lexapro.

Answer: If you take regular multivitamins or multivitamins with iron, ginkgo or ginseng it's fine. There are no reported interactions. You should avoid valerian, St John's wort, SAMe, kava kava, and gotu kola (may increase central nervous system depression).

Question: What are good daily vitamins to boost metabolism? I am 22 and seem to get sick allot. What are some good vitamins to take?

Answer: Take a multivitamin and Vitamin C for immune system...Take Vitamin B-Complex for a metabolism boost....