@washti
Multivitamins cause people to vomit for different reasons, but it has nothing to do with the number of vitamins/minerals.
Taking one specific thing is often a problem in and of itself because of the balance needed with nutrients. Even if you’re deficient in magnesium, taking just magnesium can cause other problems and still fail to address your deficiency.
The best advice of course, is to thoroughly research everything you take daily and pay close attention to how your body reacts to it and keep your ear to the ground for new research. This holds true for prescription medications too.
This is generally my way of doing things. I agree wholeheartedly with this approach.
Particularly because I find that a lot of health professionals don’t keep up to date.
Your research and my research on calcium conflict though. I’ve read that most women in the USA probably get far below what they actually need for calcium - one of the reasons osteoporosis is such a problem for elderly women in this country. I’ve also read, and had a few medical opinions from professionals, that it’s quite difficult to get too much calcium to where it would be damaging to you - possible, obviously, and particularly if your taking multiple supplements which all include calcium, but not easy to do aside from that. Calcium also has a major role in the body to include brain function, muscle function, and so forth. If at some point I have the time for it, and I remember, I’ll dig up some of the studies I read about how the RDA for calcium is potentially far below what women should be getting, and how most women in the USA appear to not even get enough to meet the RDA. (At least, at the time of this study they didn’t)
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One of the issues that’s seldom considered is the quality of the food we eat here in the USA. It’s pretty pitsy.
Fruit is artificially ripened when sold in the supermarket, so it often has way less of the vitamins/nutrients you think you’re getting. The amino acid balance found in meat is affected by the way the cattle is fed. There’s just a lot of ways that corners are cut when it comes to the quality of what we’re eating in this country. So in theory, although you can look up some good stats for what should be in the strawberries you’re eating - you’re probably not actually getting that value unless you grew them yourself in fertile souls in the summertime.
Other issues with nutrients are just things that people don’t know about. About two or three days after you open a carton of juice, many of the vitamins have already broken down - apparently. It’s the same thing with nutrients in dog food - it’s affected by shelf life and exposure to heat and air and such.
It’s not quite as easy to get all of the nutrients you regularly need as people think - in the USA, at least. On paper, it looks like it should be easier than it is. That may be one of the reasons our country is so dependent on pharmaceuticals and why we have so many health problems....who knows.
There’s also a lot of water contamination from things like pharmaceutical medications and what not.
In any case, there’s a big difference when comparing nutritional strategies in the USA to those in countries like Norway.
Personally, I think that occasionally taking multi-vitamins here is a good strategy. While medical professionals may get up-in-arms about it due to the potential of there being contaminates, and articles may write click bait about them being “useless” - there is a mountain of evidence contradicting that. That opinion, really, is just medical hype that’s pushed out to “stop stupid people from hurting themselves”. It’s the same sort of philosophy harped on by medical professionals to discourage people from researching their own symptoms. The logic is - some people are stupid. Some people could get hurt. Therefore, make it illegal not to wear your seatbelt, because we have to lower our standards and expectations to suit the lowest common denominator.
I think that people should be proactive about their health. A well-educated, well-read person who is knowledgable about health is a real asset to their body - much moreso than 15 minutes of a doctor’s time twice a year.
