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Vitamin Regimen - PMR

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gilman
gilman

I know that calcium supplements are essential, especially during treatment with Prednisone.  

I am am curious what other supplements people are taking and whether or not you believe they have helped.

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  • Anhaga
    Anhaga gilman

    Posted

    Whatever you are taking, make sure you also get Vitamin K2.  This is the vitamin (unlike Vitamin K1 which we know and love for its blood-clotting services) which guides calcium into the bones where it belongs.  Without Vitamin K2 your Vitamin D3 won't necessarily take calcium into the bones but may deposit on blood vessel walls or into organs where it doesn't belong.  We also need magnesium and a handful of other minerals like boron, zinc, etc, much of which we can get from a good balanced diet.  Some of the RDI's may be out of date and suggest too low a dosage of certain things.  We probably all need more Vitamin C and B complex and Vitamin A (as retinol) for example.  But, again, much is available through our food.  Vitamin K2 probably isn't in the average diet in sufficient quantities so almost always will require a supplement.
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga

      Posted

      I've added fermented vegetables, (think sauerkraut, kimchi, and their relatives) as well as kefir to my regular diet.  Yoghurt of course.
    • ptolemy
      ptolemy Anhaga

      Posted

      Your good gut microbes love things like sauerkraut. 
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga ptolemy

      Posted

      I read somewhere that if all the human dna were to vanish from our body we would still look just the same, so full of bacterial dna we are!
    • ptolemy
      ptolemy Anhaga

      Posted

      Also the fruit fly shares sixty per cent of our DNA. 
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga ptolemy

      Posted

      And an embryonic starfish looks like an embryonic human!
    • faye______00403
      faye______00403 ptolemy

      Posted

      My gut can have all of it.....I couldn't eat that stuff .....

      and kimchi.......rotten cabbage?  I don't think so.

    • Anhaga
      Anhaga faye______00403

      Posted

      I was introduced to kimchi by having it in a grilled cheese sandwich.  Whole wheat bread, cheddar cheese (not plastic slices) and a little kimchi instead of tomato or bacon.  Really nice!
    • EileenH
      EileenH faye______00403

      Posted

      Kimchi isn't half as bad as anyone envisages - I ate it in S Korea and we had friends in Germany who used to make it. They were US-bred and born but their adopted children were Korean - they learnt to make Korea food so the children retained knowledge of their heritage. 

      Not really much different from beer - it stinks when it is being made - and dill pickles are made in a similar way.

    • faye______00403
      faye______00403 EileenH

      Posted

      I had several members of my family stationed in Japan and Korea

      and their take on Kimchi wasn't  that it's not "half bad",

      They thought it was horrible....but I'm sure I eat something that

      most others wouldn't like....that's what makes us all unique....

       

    • Anhaga
      Anhaga faye______00403

      Posted

      Apparently one of the healthiest foods in Japan, a fermented soy product called natto, is practically inedible to most people outside a certain area of Japan.  (Natto is what they make the Vitamin K2 supplements from that I'm so fond of telling people they should be taking.)  I found kimchi tasted fine, but it's very hot and spicy and that's what took some getting used to. We westerners are more used to our fermented foods tasting somewhat sour (think yoghurt, sauerkraut).
    • ptolemy
      ptolemy Anhaga

      Posted

      The Swedes have fermented herring that they bury in tins for a year or so. I think the tins blow up every so often. There is also the fruit durian which smells so awful you are not allowed to eat it in the street in Malaysia. I think it is banned on planes too. 
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga ptolemy

      Posted

      I'd heard about durian, but never had the displeasure of meeting one.  Nor have I had the displeasure of sampling rotten fish.  What humans will eat is quite astounding.  I mean, whoever thought that devouring a lobster would be a good idea?  Who was the first person to discover the delights of stinky cheese?  Or the cooked corpses of animals.  lol
    • ptolemy
      ptolemy Anhaga

      Posted

      What about magic mushrooms and the world's most expensive coffee that is eaten by civets first and costs around three thousand dollars a kilo?
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga ptolemy

      Posted

      I'm not even going to try to top the civet coffee, although a quick question to Google did reveal a few other delicacies that are, to my mind anyway, beyond the pale.
    • faye______00403
      faye______00403 ptolemy

      Posted

      Some of this stuff just shows you how gullible we are.

      However some of it comes from areas where they don't

      waste anything....everything is considered edible.

    • Silver49
      Silver49 ptolemy

      Posted

      Knowing how much I loved my coffee, prior to PMR. my family bought me the civet coffee as part of my Christmas present and yes, I did drink it but no one else would. I enjoyed it. I now only drink decaf and I am trying to find ones which are a reasonable substitute.
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga Silver49

      Posted

      My two sons have bought a coffee roaster and are now roasting their own coffee!  I have to say, having been treated to a cup or two, that it's the best coffee I've ever tasted. ☕
    • Silver49
      Silver49 Anhaga

      Posted

      That sounds good. One of the shops in my nearest city roasts their own beans and the smell in the shop is enticing but I've had to give it up. 
    • EileenH
      EileenH Silver49

      Posted

      Was pretty enticing in the student residence above it too - especially at breakfast time wink
    • Silver49
      Silver49 EileenH

      Posted

      I guess you mean Dundee. Perth has a shop in George Street and it's now a city but I can see why you thought Dundee as Perth has only recently become a city again.
    • ptolemy
      ptolemy Anhaga

      Posted

      As a child my father had to roast the coffee beans by turning them over the roaster by hand. They say necessity is the mother of invention, he learnt about motors and built one, so he could get it done automatically! 
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