Can a multivitamin be used as a daily iron supplement?

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david45 wrote:

Not kidding wrote:

Finally, there is that famous question again

Is there any other health problems that could be causing my problems besides low ferritin levels?

Lack of effort. If you want to run faster then you have to run faster.

david45 wrote:

Not kidding wrote:

Finally, there is that famous question again

Is there any other health problems that could be causing my problems besides low ferritin levels?

Maybe your talent levels are low. Maybe your pasta levels are low. Or, maybe you have bad genes.

david45 wrote:

I never said I want to run fast. I just said I want to break 5 in the mile.

Is this your main focus with running? If so, then you can do some mile-specific training to try and achieve your goal. You will need to establish a baseline for this training, which is why I strongly encourage you to go run an all-out mile within the next week (try to take splits at each lap). Do not get discouraged with whatever this mile time is; it's just a starting point that will help determine your next several months of training and workouts.

david45 wrote:

I never said I want to run fast. I just said I want to break 5 in the mile.

Careful, there's another thread going on about how someone like you could potentially die trying something like that.

exactly right wrote:

david45 wrote:

I want to break 5 in the mile, not run in the Olympics

Whether your assertion that "people who never exercised before...close the gap in just a couple of weeks of training" is true does not depend on your personal goals. Your claim is either true or untrue on its own.

No it actually does depend on how "outrageous" that goal is. A freshman in my team is about to break 10 in the 3200 and we don't have middle school xc in our area, we only have relaxed track. Just because there's people like david45 who are on this side of the extreme, you guys can't go to the other extreme because talent does play a huge role.

128k wrote:

exactly right wrote:

Whether your assertion that "people who never exercised before...close the gap in just a couple of weeks of training" is true does not depend on your personal goals. Your claim is either true or untrue on its own.

No it actually does depend on how "outrageous" that goal is. A freshman in my team is about to break 10 in the 3200 and we don't have middle school xc in our area, we only have relaxed track. Just because there's people like david45 who are on this side of the extreme, you guys can't go to the other extreme because talent does play a huge role.

That is true, yet everyone wants to blame the lack of hard work for why I am so bad.

david45 wrote:

128k wrote:

No it actually does depend on how "outrageous" that goal is. A freshman in my team is about to break 10 in the 3200 and we don't have middle school xc in our area, we only have relaxed track. Just because there's people like david45 who are on this side of the extreme, you guys can't go to the other extreme because talent does play a huge role.

That is true, yet everyone wants to blame the lack of hard work for why I am so bad.

Yes

Don't use it everyday.

Username_____ wrote:

david45 wrote:

I never said I want to run fast. I just said I want to break 5 in the mile.

Is this your main focus with running? If so, then you can do some mile-specific training to try and achieve your goal. You will need to establish a baseline for this training, which is why I strongly encourage you to go run an all-out mile within the next week (try to take splits at each lap). Do not get discouraged with whatever this mile time is; it's just a starting point that will help determine your next several months of training and workouts.

Here is his training thread.

Runs in his backyard with an applewatch so very accurat and a 8:05 on the mile

But there is hope for you yet David45

Read this

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2006/09/wejo-speaks-why-i-sucked-in-college/

Not kidding wrote:

david45 wrote:

That is true, yet everyone wants to blame the lack of hard work for why I am so bad.

Yes

Yes, you can use a multivitamin as a daily iron supplement.

Not kidding wrote:

Username_____ wrote:

Is this your main focus with running? If so, then you can do some mile-specific training to try and achieve your goal. You will need to establish a baseline for this training, which is why I strongly encourage you to go run an all-out mile within the next week (try to take splits at each lap). Do not get discouraged with whatever this mile time is; it's just a starting point that will help determine your next several months of training and workouts.

Here is his training thread.

Runs in his backyard with an applewatch so very accurat and a 8:05 on the mile

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10008572

Thanks for sharing this. It looks like that thread is from over a month ago, so I would still like to see what david45's current fitness is. david45 if you are reading this, then please run an all-out mile on a track within the next week and post your time (preferably with splits for each lap).

single ingredient vitamins, like vitamin D for example, are way more likely to actually contain what they purport to contain than do multi-vitamins.

Username_____ wrote:

Not kidding wrote:

Here is his training thread.

Runs in his backyard with an applewatch so very accurat and a 8:05 on the mile

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10008572

Thanks for sharing this. It looks like that thread is from over a month ago, so I would still like to see what david45's current fitness is. david45 if you are reading this, then please run an all-out mile on a track within the next week and post your time (preferably with splits for each lap).

It's from 4 months ago, but David45 gets injured all the time when running more than 20 miles per week. He like to break 6 minutes on the mile, so 5:59 is his goal, not 5 as he mentioned.

No. Most other vitamins in the multi (esp. calcium) cancel out the iron. The iron should be separately and with something with vitamin C.

The short answer is no. Now to give reasoning behind the answer, depending on your deficiency you might need a bigger dose of iron than what's offered in the multivitamin pills. Secondly, there are a lot of substances, as I've seen somebody else mention on here, that cancel out the iron effect, so you end up with your body not even noticing you took iron. I'm a vegetarian, so I know myself how important it is to balance everything that you can't get from other sources. I eat a lot of beans and dried nuts, cereals, etc, so I don't have an iron deficiency, but I've struggled with zinc for a while. I've discovered a shop that has zinc supplements as well as B-12 (which every vegan should take) in the form of drops, and that's been amazing for me as I can't swallow pills for some reason. I can also recommend the shop to you for the supplements that you need https://shopwellabs.com

firstly, you should check up it and the take iron like supplement

Nature Made Iron 65 mg have a slight taste. Literally just the one pill (well, I actually took one at night too since I just got that day) and ifelt good again! Like night and day! Haven't had any issues since, which has been about 2 months. If you're having a bad fatigue problem, I'd suggest going to the doc, but you might as well try this out in the mean time while waiting for your appointment.