I have the tendency to get sick several times a year, especially during the winter, and this seriously curtails some of my training. I hear that, along with all the other stuff, taking a multivitamin or supplement or something can really help prevent this. Any experience? What do you use? Recommend?
Thanks
take basic multi, with VC VE pill, and calcium pill
I take a Walmart brand multivitamin and Calcium Citrate...
if you can, give brand names, where to buy (especially online) etc.
Also, any studies or reports regarding this stuff?
I get sick all the friggin time, and I really need to change something up
New chapter's the brand. Good stuff!
go to walgreens, get a Centrum high performance multi, than get a pill combining 500mg VC and 400IU VE, get a quality brand, than get 1000mg of calcium, again a quality brand. IT'S AS EASY AS THAT!!!!!!!!! don't complicate things if you still need advice after this go suck on your mammas titties cause you will never have what it takes to be a top runner
i use centum performance, find that its holds up fine
Can someone explain the justifications behind the C/E and calcium supplements?
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You need "justifications" to take vitamins?
Calcium builds bones and is critical to properly functioning muscles. It is one of several minerals whose deficiency can lead to muscle cramps
Vitamin E plays a role in immune function and helps ward off free radicals in the body
Vitamin C is also an antioxidant and is critical to the body's production of collagen
I don't have anything to back up the extra VE and Calcium supplements but I would imagine it's on the same lines as why you need extra Vitamin C.
Most of the multi-vitamin supplements only include 60mg of vitamin C, which is 100% recommended daily value (according to the FDA). What most people don't realize is that the recommended daily value is the MINIUMUM amount of vitamin C you need each day to prevent scurvy. Unfortunately most people don't even get the 60mg per day and are living in a state of sub-clinical scurvy. Most experts agree that an average person should be getting 500 - 3,000mg per day to optimize the use of C.
In my own personal case, I take one multi-vitamin a day and at least one 1,000mg vitamin C supplement a day. I haven't been sick since I started this over a year ago. Before that, I would be sick on average about 5 time per year.