Just curious what particular vitamins everyone likes? In particular, if anyone has experienced this, what particular brand of vitamins have you consumed and noticed a change as far as energy level, recovery, or anything else?
Kelley,
Honestly, I take an array of supps and usually TwinLab multi-vites but no multivite spurs my energy. The only supps that are feelable are creatine and Tribex 500, for different reasons, of course. I feel strong during sprints with a dose of l-carnitine, ribose and creatine. But multis? Maybe I’m unique but they don’t energize me.
I particularly use Vitamin Shoppe brand since I work there and it’s relatively cheap. I have heard that Twin Labs makes a great deal of VS products and we just slap our labels on them but who knows. However, I never really noticed any spike in energy - even when using the coveted sublingual liquid B12. I do notice that taking in C and E along with some Bioflavonoid Complex before and/or after a workout has helped me some with recovery. So even though I don’t notice much with other vitamins I still continue to take them anyway as I believe they just help with certain things that you just can’t “feel”. Hope this helps =)
Beverly’s Super Pak and Super Nutrition’s Opti Pak
The best vitamins on the market by far are make from whole animal or food products. I take Standard Process’s Catalyn multivitamin and I notice the difference it makes everyday, especially when nutritionally run down. The Beverly Multi-Pack is a quality vitamin, as well as Schif’s vitamin pack. Catalyn is simple to take and is hands down the most affordable and nutritionally sound vitamin I have ever found, and I spent a while to find the best vitamin I could.
Flintstones
Hi Kelly,
Good thread. I have some crazy autoimmune conditions that vits have helped me with. With respect to energy levels, the B-complex are very noticeable for me. Anyhoo, here’s my vits/mineral schedule:
• 1g of Evening Primrose Oil (I count EFAs as a sort of “vitamin”) - It’s really helped my skin and allergies
• cycle 50mg of time-released zinc (immune enhancing/T-enhancing)
• Jamieson brand “Super Vita-Vim” - high potency multi-vitamin. As expected, makes your piss look like Chernobyl Water, but makes me feel Great!
All in all, I like to keep my overall supplement regimen, simple…and economical!
peace
Well, I know awhile back people here pissed on Centrum. But you know what? Everytime I take those big multivitamin tablets once per day, I have no problems on the stool. Also when I take high doses Ester-C, my bruises heal quicker, in about a day. Before C, those six or seven purple-brown marks I would get in my legs after deadlifting would stick around for two weeks. A doctor told me it was because I was Vitamin C deficient.
Out of curiosity, why would one want their piss to look like Chernobyl water? Doesn’t that mean you are paying extra for a nice looking wiz?
I have tried the Catalyn Multi’s before, without noticing a huge difference in how I feel…I don’t doubt that they are great, but the low amounts of just about everything in it worry me a bit. I am not big on the super-duper 10,000% of every vitamin and mineral known to man brands, but these Catalyn just seem too low on anything to be helpful…not only that, but I would need to take around 12 a day, which is somewhat of a pain.
I take GNC Mega Men. Anyone else use this?
Hey MK,
Yeah yeah yeah…I know that B-complex metabolites and their excess, are what’s making the glow in the dark piss. It’s totally harmless, the vitamins are dirt cheap…and the point I was trying to make is that I feel better when taking them! So that’s why someone might not mind that their piss looks like “Chernobyl Water.”
peace
GNC Megaman as well.
A good strong B and an ACE Zinc & Echinacea liquid formulation, great for immune response (It works unlike those other echinacea products. Its from Tallebudgera Herbals, sold in most Coles supermarkets). <For minerals; Iron and calcium. Glucosamine works when the going gets too tough for the tendons & ligaments.>
Rainbow Light Complete Nutritional System. Great multi with high amounts of the right vit’s (for instance 1600 mg of C per serving) whereas with most multi’s you get a paltry 200 or 300 mg’s. They’re whole food vitamin, nothing synthetic used at all.