Yes, there is a lot of crap to sort out regarding vitamins. Particularly when talking about the kind of vitamins commonly found in supermarkets or Wal Mart type stores. Those are mostly shit, and some could be doing you more harm than good.marurun wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 12:34 pm I keep thinking vitamins might be a way to go and then I keep googling up studies that repeatedly and reliably show that taking vitamins has absolutely no positive effect except when you have a distinct deficit. Especially multivitamins may actually have detrimental effects. But man it’s a booming industry and they do a good job selling us on those phantom health benefits. Oof. So since I’ve seen the studies, why do I continue to occasionally buy them to give them a chance?
I do drink a lot of diet soda, approximately one a day. And my wife has finally got me into flavored carbonated water. It helps break up the monotony of drinking fluids at work.
But everyone can benefit from supplements, and here's why. It's no secret that a lot of the food available to us today is processed, or ultra processed, and is stripped of many nutrients. Even if you eat the best quality food you can, natural and organic, it would still be really hard (near impossible) to eat the quantity and diversity of foods to match the level you can get with (quality) supplements. However good you might be eating, there are always some nutrients that your body could benefit from having more of. What kind and how much will be different for everyone. And yeah, you gotta figure out which or your just guessing. The daily multi vitamin is like throwing a bunch of shit at the wall to see what sticks. But even a multi vitamin (let's assume perfect quality) lacks many nutrients that your body needs.
I don't want to sound like a vitamin snob, but I take a lot of high quality supplements sold through a health care professional. The type and quantity of supplements I take are determined by tests. Of course, they can be expensive, so sometimes I substitute this or that with something cheaper (supposed less quality). But with some knowledge, I feel like you could back seat doctor and add/subtract supplements depending on how you feel. To a degree, at least.
Often "zero sugar" means that there's something in it worse than sugar so I tend to stay away from those things. Granted, I know there are alternative sweeteners that are supposedly not bad for you, but I'm much too lazy to research products on an individual basis. But I don't drink Red Bull purely because I'm an energy drink addict. I really do like the way it tastes.REPO Man wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 1:15 pm Also, @Ziggy, I may have mentioned this but Reign has zero sugar and only ten calories, which may help cutting down on sugar since Red Bull has sugar in it. I don't know how much caffeine Red Bull has, but Reign has 300mg (with 400mg being the maximum amount of caffeine daily).
HOLY SHIT, 300mg of caffeine? The 8.4oz Red Bull has like 80mg, which is equivalent to a cup of coffee. That would be like having nearly 4 Red Bulls. No, thanks!
