Posted by Loops on September 7, 2007, at 8:16:41
In reply to Re: intolerance to supplements, posted by Optimist on August 29, 2007, at 16:17:32
me too!
I sometimes get out of balance when I follow recommendations for certain conditions - like recently megadosing B3 for anxiety - only to find I feel worse after a week or so.
Most supplements seem to be better taken in small quantities, apart from magnesium balanced with calcium for me. I even managed to get calcium deficient following advice to do magnesium without calcium for a long time. Once calcium was added back in I was fine again.
I recently realized I was not taking in any copper to balance some zinc I had been taking with B vitamins and then felt better balancing these two. Also a leg injury I have had for a whole year is suddenly clearing up. I googled copper and it turns out you need this stuff for connective tissue health. Doh. And why had I been ignoring it? Because everybody on the web says for anxiety and mental disorders you should take zinc, vit C, b vits etc. All the great orthomolecular people seem to say this.
But also then I found that ithyroid.com site and it all made sense - taking B vits without copper can lead to copper depletion and hyperthyroid (maybe worse anxiety?) for some people.
And for me, all those years of taking vitamins and not enough magnesium led to trouble. It turns out a lot of the stuff I was taking can be magnesium antagonists (like high doses of B vits). My eczema finally cleared up with magnesium.
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