Wellness

[bargainsgirl]

Heard on news last night that studies have shown that taking a multiple vitamin MAY slow down dementia...pretty general I suppose...who knows.

Tumeric is supposed to help with aches ( my son swears by it)  but I read if you have had a hormone induced condition (breast cancer for instance) you should be cautious.  But then I read many more articles that said it is GOOD for possibly staving off cancers in some people.  Who to believe??

[SilleeMee]

The NIH reported on the effects of multivit last year in June.

"Daily multivitamin may enhance memory in older adults"

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/daily-multivitamin-may-enhance-memory-older-adu...

[SilleeMee]

Turmeric has long been used as an anti-cancer supp for years. Not news.

[ALRATIBA]

None for me .... I'm a bit of a fanatic about a balanced diet.  

My aunt had a terrible experience with "do it yourself supplements."  She ended up in the hospital.   

My doc doesn't recommend them unless there's a deficiency.  

[bargainsgirl]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

Turmeric has long been used as an anti-cancer supp for years. Not news.

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Thank you.  I have read more in support of turmeric and curcumin being more of an anti-cancer supplement.  I just bought of bottle of 60 so I will give it a try.

[Shelbelle]

Unless docs are trained in traditional med and homeopathic med they often know very little about supplements, my own doc included. You must learn to be your own advocate and do your own research to decide if any supp are right for you. My DH and I take many of them. 

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I've temporarily ceased taking all of my supplements, just in case I can get a surgery date sooner than later.  Once that's all over with, I'll resume everything. I take quite a few. In the meantime, I'm still taking my daily bites of cold fermented sauerkraut as my probiotic.

[wagirl]

I am taking the usual things like fish oil, coq10,  vit d,-- but am tired of the rest of the stuff I have. Just not sure it's doing me any good. But how would I know, really. I go to a pharmamist who specializes in high cholesterol among other conditions. I see him for my high cholesterol that I control with repatha, which is a bi monthly injection. I see him in Feb and will ask what he thinks of my supplements. 

[ellaphant]

Key word MAY. No medical data that any supplement is beneficial. My doc says

they are unnecessary.

[granddi]

On average, U.S. medical schools offer only 19.6 hours of nutrition education across four years of medical school, according to a 2010 report in Academic Medicine. In a 2016 study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University examined data from 25 family medicine, internal medicine and OB-GYN medical residency programs throughout Ohio: What they found is that these programs averaged 2.8 hours of instruction on obesity, nutrition and physical activity counseling, and only 42 percent of them taught the residents techniques for how to perform health behavior counseling.

Given this, it's not exactly shocking that many doctors would receive a failing grade on nutritional know-how. A 2016 study in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Healthassessed the basic nutritional knowledge of fourth-year medical/osteopathic school graduates entering a pediatric residency program and found that on average, the incoming interns answered only 52 percent of the 18 questions correctly.