Supplements

it's a different type of iodine and the daily value is low but its better than nothing.
if you want you could get an omega 3 supplement instead but make sure its high quality take with or after a meal.

why dont you get a good multivitamin for way less than 70$?

he could but multivitamins are pretty crap. they use the lowest quality forms of most the ingredients and you trade off what vitamins you want based on how you take it.

Any suggestions? They don't seem to provide enough of the ones i want and Ive heard that many of them interact with each other so why would you take them all at once?

It's *all* synthetic crap. Literally just there to make you think you're buying higher quality stuff.

multivitaminguide.org/best-multivitamin.html#comparison-table

Go mad. Try to find a non-vegan one and get one with iron and zinc.

People say that your body can only absorb so many vitamins at once, and that some compete for absorption at the same sites. Is this a myth?

Yeah at large amounts it's true. Zinc competes with copper, calcium competes with other minerals. Anti-nutrients exist as well, no matter how much some fags want to ignore it.

That's why you should probably take it in the morning the second you get up, maybe with some fatty food if it hurts your stomach. If you ate your micronutrients this wouldn't be an issue since you have different meals and everything is actually bioavailable. You also run into issues with supplements like using beta-carotene for "vitamin A" when it's not used by our body at all.

However, unless you're some vegan eating 2kg of anti-nutrients daily I wouldn't worry about it. As long as you're not doing OMAD you can get the rest of the gaps with real food. Buying $140 of supplements and timing them at strategic parts of your day is just elite autism to avoid eating some fish and liver every now and again.

I would do multivitamin, fish oil and maybe vitamin D at most. Maybe even do none at all. Worrying about absorption when you rely on synthetic supplements doesn't make much sense.

There's no magic pill and you can see this in raw vegans getting malnourished despite taking all sorts of hip supplements.

I've spent hundreds of dollars on supplements over the years. Don't bother. Just get all your nutrition needs from food, not pills. Supplements are extracted and altered nutrients that are hardly absorbed or utilized by the body.

I've seen great results with b12 vitamin d and iron supplements in my blood work so why wouldnt the others work too? Im sure they're not as effective as eating them in food but im autistic enough to strategically consume them throughout the day so ill do that thanks

Best gains i ever achieved was fresh caught fish for breakfast along side eggs and hashbrowns, followed by a bowl of mini wheats. Then snack. Lunch would be the 90 second uncle ben rice times 2 Jasmine style plus 3 raw eggs popped on top with black pepper. Dinner varied with mostly carb loads of italian dishes. The only supplement a weekend warrior should take is pre-workout the rest is all fluff

It will work for your blood tests but food products are obviously the ideal. Supplements wouldn't be too bad if the sources came from what actually has those vitamins, like fish oil coming from fish (though it's vague on what type of fish.) However, this isn't required because they're not regulated like that. This is why a "vegan" collagen supplement can exist even though collagen only comes from animals.

Over the long term I just don't think they work as well because the long term raw, strict vegans I see just do not look healthy despite them getting blood work and taking all the supplements possible. Seriously, they have dollar shave club tier vitamin mailing lists that's how ingrained the supplement industry is on them.

Overall since you're going to eat normally I think you'll be slightly below average to fine with your diet + supplement. Don't listen to the internet chemists that have 12 page long stacks. They're just tossing money away.

You want to be peak condition you gotta eat. No other way around it. Except do get creatine, that actually works.

and I just say this because I bought a shitload of supplements before and now I don't even use any other than creatine. I took Zinc, fish oil (good one too), multivitamin, maca powder, caffeine, theanine, k2, and creatine. Only ones that I noticed were theanine (it's basically a weak, weak nootropic) and creatine. Theanine was so subtle it could have been placebo too.

I appreciate the advice but I'm not gonna fix my diet so the supplements are better than nothing i suppose.