Perimenopause and vitamin/supplements help please

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Hello,
Where do you go to get reliable useful info on vitamins, minerals, supplements and their uses? I just cannot find anything useful- it's either commercial or extreme.

Thank you

I have taken menopace for years. Always thought it can’t do any harm even if it isn’t that useful.

However I forgot to take them on holiday last year and I def felt low and moody, despite being in a beautiful place on hols.

I prefer to take single supplements rather than one fits all. So I take vitamin B complex for energy, a good quality omega 3 for achy/stiff joints, and D3 with K2 for bone strength. I also take magnesium glycinate for sleep.
Careful where you get your info, most people are trying to sell you something

I take Menopace, A.Vogel Sage tabs and magnesium B6 tabs. I stopped taking them for a couple of months and definitely saw a drop in my mood, went back on them and all good …..today 😀

Love to know too. If you still reading this, what brand,make you take for omega 3, D3 with K2? Can I buy them from Boots, H & B or in supermarkets?
Thanks.

Please get vitamin b6, pyridoxine, it's an absolute game changer. I laughed when the gp prescribed it, couldn't be without it now.

Nutravita.
The D3 &K2 has an orange/yellow label.
The omega 3 is 2000mg fish oil, with a white and blue label.
I buy direct,online.

Unless your diet is limited, you don't need vitamins other than Vit D over the winter months.

A healthy diet will give you all the vitamins you need. We only need tiny amounts and they are all in food- get enough fruit, veg, wholegrains, dairy, nuts, seeds, oily fish 3 x a week, and you won't need to take 'tablets'.

There's more and more evidence that the commercial forms of vitamins are not the same as when they occur naturally in food.

Not necessarily true - there are many other reasons why people would be deficient. Taking supplements is fine as for most of them, the body will excrete what it doesn't need. Eg b6 will come out in urine

I take tesco menopause supplements which are the supermarket version of menopace. I have no idea what it is in them but when I stop taking them I feel different, low mood/ anxiety.

In my 40’s I started having achy/creaky joints so I took cod liver oil, as that’s what I thought you did. It never completely got rid of the problem. Then I saw a nutritionist suggest a good quality omega 3 on TikTok and it made such a difference.

What kind of things are you thinking of that results in a deficiency?

If you're thinking of using vitamins it's worth reading this extract from two doctors.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12134229/Supplements-NO-health-benefits-simply-money-making-scheme-scientist-claims.html

Sorry it's the Mail (!) which I hate but there are Youtube videos of the same conversation with these drs .

'They're all made in massive factories in China and you have no control [over] what it is – and 99 per cent of them have been shown not to work at all.
'So we're total mugs paying all that money for supplements when we should be spending it on real food.' He said the only supplement with any benefit is B12 for vegans who are not eating as many iron-rich foods as they should.

TV doctor Chris van Tulleken, 44, added: 'The last time I looked at the big meta-analysis, my reading of it was that there is no supplement or extract of any food that brings any health benefit in a healthy person with the possible exception of vitamin D, or B12 in a vegan.'