If you're mid 40s, what vitamins and supplements do you take?

[NorthernGirlie]

My socials are full of people listing what they're planning for their "New Year, New Me"

Almost all of them say take my vitamins and supplements daily. I don't take any and feel like I'm definitely an anomaly.

I need to be the doctor about menopause and feel generally shitty and achey - what do you all take and why please?

I take the Vitabiotics Wellwoman Max - i have a subscription so it comes every month and that makes me take it. I'm also on HRT which has helped with the night sweats and rage.

High potency Vitamin B Complex
Vitamin D 4,000 with Vitamin K
Biotin - recently added due to nails ripping most days
Kids chewable multivitamins
Chewable Vitamin C
Iron spray
Vitamin B12 spray

Collagen, chewable
Glucosamine, 500 in morning and a 1000 in evening.
(I cannot take hrt unfortunately).

Once the biotin is finished I will be taking folate instead. I was so weak and in so much pain last year that I could barely get up the stairs without help and was staggering about. I'm slowly regaining my strength.

Vitamin D, a decent multivitamin and collagen, which I may stop bothering with as seeing no improvement at all in hair/skin/joints and it's blooming expensive!

Well woman multi vitamin, Vitamin D & B+.

I don’t take them every day, more like when I remember which is about 3x a week.

I'm 50 but have been taking most of these since my mid-40s: menopace, high strength vitamin c, high strength vitamin d, Omega 3 and evening primrose oil.

Oh and magnesium glycinate at bedtime for sleep

So many people on creatin which I’d never actually heard of before this thread!

Is anyone on HRT and Blood Pressure meds?

Thanks for asking this OP. I'm 43 and been wondering if I should be taking anything. Sadly my DM no longer here to ask or she'd have been advising me whether I asked or not so I'm reading all the replies and taking them on board.

I would really try & get most of your vitamins and minerals for food, obviously it’s not always possible. I take a pro & pre biotic.

*Turmeric & black pepper - has really helped my aching joints.
*Folic acid - not ttc, was prescribed by the GP ages ago and I've just kept it up
*Udo's choice ultimate oil blend for omegas 3, 6 & 9 - only started this last week
*Magnesium glycinate 3 in 1 - to help me sleep, not sure if it works and will stop and assess for a couple of weeks when the bottle runs out.
*HRT
*Homemade kombucha

I was also taking Perfectil, my hair has been thinning for years. But I stopped a few months ago, too soon yet to see if it makes any difference. When I started on it I really did think it was helping, but I made a few other dietary changes at the same time and it could've been those.

I should be taking vit d and c in the winter, but I tend to forget as I share those with other family members so they sit elsewhere in the house.

Food is no longer of the same quality due to over grazing and mass agricultural production since the war. Even cattle are suffering from selenium deficiency which they didn't used to do and our soil is being depleted at an alarming rate of many minerals. Add in the stress factor of modern day living which helps to use your body's stores quickly it now makes more sense to supplement rather than rely solely on diet.

@OttersAreMySpiritAnimal - *Turmeric & black pepper - has really helped my aching joints.
Can you link to what you are taking please? I'm still struggling with mine.

Creatine - said to help some people with anxiety, I don't weight train
Magnesium - to sleep
Fish oil
Vitamin B complex
Ginkgo for memory
Vitamin D
Zinc
5HTP sometimes, if feeling depressed
HRT

I've taken all those for a while - ones I've tried and didn't do much for me are lions mane, ashwagandha, theanine, taurine, St John's Wort. And probably a load more that I've forgotten.

I was taking Well Woman multivitamins but I still managed to have very low ferritin and B12 levels, so now I take high dose iron tablets, b12 sublingual tablets, vitamin D in the winter and magnesium at night.

I sometimes have collagen but mostly after a workout for a protein boost rather than daily.