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I never get colds either though, and very seldom flus (despite having three school-age children) and I've never taken any sort of vitamin supplement.
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Yes, I am med student, which is why I'm somewhat skeptical of the megadoses. No money in prescribing vitamins.
![]() Truthfully though, I believe that some sort of supplementation during stressful time periods can be beneficial, the body's needs are clearly different, but during good health, I tend to back away that the megadoses are useful. Whether the body can somehow adapt and handle higher levels - I don't know the answer to that. It's sort of ironic that this thread came up today since I have an exam tomorrow that focuses on the kidneys. Let me tell you, that they are the most complex organs I've encountered and just a general pain in the ass to learn. |
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In a world where only 0.4 % of the water is drinkable those are great news
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I always thought the water thing was BS. First of all, we are all unique individuals with unique needs and it simply isn't true that we all have the same minimum threshold. That in itself is just completely counterintuitive.
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I'm eating my daily apple as I'm reading this thread.
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I'm smoking an asbestos cigarette, while injecting myself with crack.
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I am waiting around for a banned substance to arrive while ingesting caffeine and nicotine at an alarming rate.
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But there are so many things that affect health from environment to food to genes, and so many things that work for different people but not others. I know a woman in her 60s who has never taken a vitamin in her life and never gets sick. But I can see that she's not healthy, she's grossly overweight, and I personally think either she has amazing genes, or she's a disaster waiting to happen, that when she gets sick it could be really bad. But who knows. ![]() |
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Honestly the healthiest I've ever been is when I got my body fat down to 19-20, worked out for an hour or two 7 days a week, including cycling 100 miles per week and doing a LOT of resistance training. I ate well then, but didn't bother with supplements or vitamins or flushing myself with water or flushing out toxins or anything of the sort. Still had my delicious aspartame-laced diet drinks on a daily basis, my cholesterol levels were on par with vegetarians (I do eat fish probably 3-4 days a week, though).
So I think different things work for different people. I haven't been sick once this year and that's with my roommate having bronchitis and going home at Easter with my Dad infecting everyone with strep throat. |
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The healthiest I've been was when I was only drinking 20 beers a week.
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Must say though, I feel much better since I switched to more expensive beers. I generally find that with the cheaper, more proletarian type of beer, I don't get the health benefits.
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I don't drink beer, it takes way too long to get drunk that way.
Plus my stomach is little. I never understood where men can store all that liquid! |
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TBH, I'm pretty bored of beer at this point. Trying to switch to red wine, though seemingly, contrary to popular opinion, red wine is also quite fattening.
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