General advice please

[feathermucker]

After some advice and experiences please.

I am in the process of looking at my diet etc, but just wondered what vitamins anyone may have found helpful? Also, any lifestyle changes with regards to diet or anything that's helped really?

Anyone?

I’ve found minerals more helpful than vitamins. Magnesium, potassium, sodium, etc. Loads of water and gentle walking, and sleep, which can be disrupted by the menopause.

Hey there!
If you are looking for some good information on diet I can recommend a few things on youtube.
Zoe Harcombe on how nutrition guidlines are written and can be interpreted

She has a really good video on fibre and veganism too. Geogie Ede for how nutrition effects mental health, and women in particular.

Once you start learning about nutrition it can be an eye opener. But luckily the take home message is pretty simple; eat real food!
Having said that I do hedge my bets with a combined multi vit and mineral, I cna recommned Cela by Burgerstein.

Agree with the previous poster.

The vitamin and mineral industry is one massive big con.
99% of people in the UK do not needed any, other than Vit D, unless they are on restrictive diets for medical issues.

The amount of vitamins we need daily is minute and most of these are in our diets already. Any excess is excreted. Too much of ones that can't be excreted can harm the liver.

Eat a good diet, with masses of different fruit and veg, full fat dairy, a variety of beans/ pulses, oily fish, nuts and varied grains ( brown rice, quinoa, bulger wheat, buckwheat etc)

Minerals like magnesium are in a lot of foods which you are possibly eating already.https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-foods-high-in-magnesium

Sorry for the soap-box tone but too many people are made to believe they need to buy boxes of supplements when they don't.
They just need to eat real food.