Anyone else here take periodic breaks from taking numerous supplements? (To cleanse internally)

[triron]

What is your experience?

[abqtommy]

1. I don't miss taking my supplements for any reason. If I weren't interested in having optimum

health I wouldn't take them in the first place.

[triron]

2. Exactly. But my Chinese acupuncturist doesn't believe in taking them.

[Warpy]

3. Absent specific health problems like malabsorption

no one in the US eating a reasonable number of different foods needs them. All the supplements to is give you expensive urine.

You should feel absolutely nothing.

[murielm99]

4. It is good to see you posting here again, Warpy.

[Warpy]

7. Thanks

but I'm sure all the woo evangelists will refer to my former absence as the good old days.

[Warpy]

9. Not as many as you think

and taking supplements in the absence of known deficiencies doesn't do any good, and might do harm.

I take D3 because I'm lactose intolerant and don't get it in dairy. Ditto calcium, and I didn't take them until I got tested. People who can tolerate dairy (and like it) are probably getting adequate amounts of both and for them, supplements are counterproductive.

[triron]

5. This is a dogma pushed by the medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry.

I have studied way to much on research done to buy into it.
For example how do you get DHEA from food? It is a critically important hormone for aging humans.
How about CoQ10? Fish oil, vitamin D3 etc.? The RDAs put out by the medical establishment often fall short
of optimal for many if not most people.

[Warpy]

6. Oh, dear, a dog(ma) whistle.

Some people read peer reviewed articles. Some people prefer bullshit from corporations that want to sell stuff.

As you were.