Vitamins and minerals

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I'm 42 and after having a few blood tests, my gp recommended going on supplements but she didnt say which ones.

I am at the bottom end of acceptable for iron, at the beginning of the menopause, feeling tired with the winter blues. I also take omeprazole for mild gastritis and citalopram from the docs.

I went to Holland and barrett and she said I need iron, vit k and a for the menopause and vit d and c for the winter but nothing is available for all that in one tablet and I'd have to have multiple tablets costing a fortune.

Anybody any advice please? What do you take?

I like spa tone iron sachets. I take first thing on empty stomach.

If you can try an independent health store, they’ll often have a lot more variety than H&B, they’ll also offer advice a lot more specific based from what your DR has said too. Some vitamins are potent in natural powders that you can add in smoothies, it doesn’t always have to be capsule.

Look at expanding your diet so you’re getting more in via foods too.

I take vitamin c, vit d, magnesium, zinc, vit b complex and iron. It is expensive taking them individually I can’t tolerate them as a multi vitamin. Vitamins C and D take all year, they’re much needed just as much in summer. I take nature’s aid vitamin c 1000mg and solgar vitamin d3 4000. I get these off amazon but do purchase from local store too.

From experience I wouldn’t waste money on some of the cheaper options, they’re simply not effective and the ones in supermarkets are garbage.