These Mistakes Are Super Unhealthy!

Don’t make these 11 common mistakes with your supplements! Find out how to maximize your results from supplements by using them correctly.

There are 11 common mistakes that a lot of people make when they take supplements. Now, the first thing I want to mention is that I hear this a lot. We don’t really need to take supplements because we can get all we need from our diet. And it’s almost impossible to get vitamin D from food. So, it’s not actually very easy to get all of our nutrients even if we ate a really good diet.

Not to mention certain foods that deplete us of nutrients, especially if you’re doing a lot of refined carbs. Okay, number one, let’s talk about timing. Okay, during the day. When should you take your supplements? Personally, I like to take almost all of my supplements in the morning because I want all these co-actors to be available in the first part of the day when I need more energy.

In fact, I switched my intermittent fasting pattern where I’m doing two meals. One is breakfast and then a late lunch and then I don’t have a dinner. That seems to work. And the reason I did that is because it gives me more energy during the day rather than doing fasting. and then eating late at night when I don’t need the energy before I go to bed.

Now, as far as taking electrolytes right before bed, I don’t really recommend it because electrolytes can push fluid out of your body. Now, as far as vitamin D goes, some people do better to take the vitamin D in the morning. Some people do better right before bed. It tends to help them sleep better. You can experiment with that.

The other thing I want to mention about the timing is that you don’t want to take any calcium supplements right before you eat because calcium neutralizes the stomach acid and it’s going to inhibit your digestion. The next mistake I want to talk about is taking too many supplements at one time and trying to swallow them. I personally use myself as a human guinea pig for a long time. I’ve tried pretty much every single nutrient vitamin cleanse alternative program you can imagine. And um one time long ago I decided to do a gallbladder flush.

In this gallbladder flush, you take beetroot supplements and olive oil. I took a hand of these beetroot supplements, put them in my mouth and wash them down with 12 ounces of oil. Big big mistake. I should have used some water and I should have taken a little bit at a time because those beet supplements got stuck in my esophagus. And it was like I started getting chest pain.

I thought I was going to die like a heart attack. Oh my gosh, I’m going to die from taking supplements. So, I just kind of laid in a bowl and just pushed through it and somehow I survived. But I don’t recommend that. Those are very, very scary.

Some people do better just taking their supplements with a meal. it seems to go down easier. Next mistake is this. If you’re trying to solve a health problem, whatever it is, and you introduce a lot of different supplements at one time, you’re not going to know what worked. So, always introduce them one at a time, especially if you’re trying to solve some health problem.

The next mistake is thinking these vitamins are going to work if your diet sucks. I have a personal example of this. Yes, I was eating too many carbs at one time, but I wasn’t consuming enough protein, especially for breakfast. And no matter how many vitamins I took, I was still tired. What I really needed was protein.

Once I had protein, I’m like, “Oh my gosh, everything works now. ” But also, if you’re eating too many carbs and things like that, you’re going to get a lot of bloating and um I don’t care how many vitamins you take for this or that, it’s not going to create the effect. Next mistake is going for the cheapest vitamin possible. Especially these one a days. If you read the label, which I have right here, I’m going to show you the first ingredient, calcium carbonate, which is the type of calcium and cement.

So, they’re putting the cheapest vitamins you could possibly imagine, mostly made from petroleum and chemicals. A lot of the vitamin companies out there um are owned by either chemical companies, big pharma, or some of the junk food brands. What I’m observing is they’re not going for quality ingredients. They get the cheapest possible, especially when you get into antioxidants like beta carotene, for example, and you’re taking it synthetically. There’s some side effects.

It shows that increases your risk for cancer. Of course, they’re not doing a comparison with that study on using antioxidants from actual food. No, it’s the synthetic version. It’s probably not the best way to do it. And the other thing you’ll notice with the synthetics is the RDAs are the same supplying 100% one 100% 100% in nature.

You don’t have that. And of course, you have fillers, you have uh colorings. And sometimes people think that there’s no difference between vitamins. The synthetics are the same as natural. Well, I don’t think so.

Now there are a couple vitamins that I think are fine to take synthetically. One is niacin and then the other one is benotamine but for some of the other vitamins I would try to go more natural or get the vitamins in the natural complex that nature has provided. Now let’s talk about the mistake sometimes people make with supplements and drug interactions. They’re on a medication that’s creating an effect. Okay?

and then they want to take a supplement that also creates the same effect. Doctors don’t like that because then that might make the problem worse. So if you’re taking a medication for high blood pressure and then you take a supplement to also help lower your high blood pressure and you end up with low blood pressure, then that might be an issue. So you need to check with your doctor so they can monitor that because I mean my thought is why not introduce something natural? I’ll give you an example.

Let’s say you’re diabetic and you’re taking metformin. Well, bourberine also creates an effect very similar to metformin. Why not work with the doctor to just take less of the metformin because that could have some side effects. One thing I want to say about antibiotics is that you should always take a probiotic when you’re taking an antibiotic so you can at least salvage the good bacteria. But here’s the thing.

If you’re on medication, let’s say for example for high blood pressure and you’re taking magnesium and all of a sudden your blood pressure starts going too low, is that really a bad thing? Why not just get with the doctor to take less of that medication? Because magnesium is such an important uh natural remedy for everything related to the heart. One of the worst medications you can take for your liver, which is over-the-counter, is Tylenol. you might want to try milk thistle, an herbal supplement that can actually minimize the damage of your liver from some of these other medications.

Next mistake a lot of people make with supplements is that there’s certain vitamin or mineral interactions that people need to know about. For example, if you’re taking high doses of vitamin D3 without magnesium, this could be a problem. You need magnesium for vitamin D to do its job. And without magnesium, vitamin D can’t work. And also taking high levels of zinc over a long period of time, you can end up with a copper deficiency.

So just realize that a lot of times these minerals go in uh pairs like sodium and potassium. If you’re consuming a lot of salt without potassium, that could be a problem. This is why I don’t recommend taking one mineral for a long period of time, especially if you’re doing high dosage. I would rather you take the one mineral in a blend of other minerals or trace minerals just to make sure that you don’t create another problem. All right, next point I want to bring up is taking advice from someone that gives you an opinion about vitamins that’s not really based on a a good eva