Oh, another question I had was this: Since I work so hard and need so many calories, will I need more vitamins than the average person? Like, will my vitamins get used up faster than most people?
[quote]SargeMaximus wrote:
Oh, another question I had was this: Since I work so hard and need so many calories, will I need more vitamins than the average person? Like, will my vitamins get used up faster than most people?[/quote]
Vitamins are not used up by work. But a deficiency might become more obvious under stress. I don’t take a multi-vitamin.
I eat enough meat so I don’t worry about B vitamins.
Egg yolks, liver and fish make up for a lot of fat soluble vitamins and minerals. Liver also gets you enough copper which is sometimes deficient.
I take: Iodine, zinc, magnesium, vitamin C (4 grams) D (4000 IU). Plus superfood freeze dried extracts and greens and some berries and mushrooms (chromium, Bs).
I also find that I NEED to add some salt to food now to keep my electrolytes up, or I eat some pickled veggies. When I cut sugar, and Ibuprofen, my blood pressure dropped from 140/95 to 115/75 and I don’t have to manage salt at all.
Fat makes the protein move through your digestive tract slower, and move across into the blood slower, so if you eat 60 grams of protein with fat, it might give you 15 grams worth an hour for 4 hours. If you take 60 grams without much fat, it all rushes in fast and your body will tend to get rid of the excess. Plus protein without fat can spike insulin similarly to carbs, just not as much.
Interesting you say that vitamin deficiency would be more obvious under stress. The other day at work, we were under a bit of a time-crunch and I felt REALLY weak. Like I was going to throw up or faint, and like I needed to eat something. I managed to calm down and it went away so I wonder, could that be what it was? It was definitely stress-related, as I felt fine the whole day afterwards.
What would the vitamin be do you think? Are there any ways to know?
[quote]SargeMaximus wrote:
Interesting you say that vitamin deficiency would be more obvious under stress. The other day at work, we were under a bit of a time-crunch and I felt REALLY weak. Like I was going to throw up or faint, and like I needed to eat something. I managed to calm down and it went away so I wonder, could that be what it was? It was definitely stress-related, as I felt fine the whole day afterwards.
What would the vitamin be do you think? Are there any ways to know?[/quote]
Not really, I could only guess. What are you taking for C, and D? Generally what I mean is that chronic stress will tend to make a vitamin deficiency show up. Not necessarily an isolated high stress moment.
Well I’m not taking anything aside from what’s in my diet. Should I be “taking” something special? I’ve heard Orange juice is no good because of the acid. As for vitamin D, I work outside, so I get tanned, is that good enough?
[quote]SargeMaximus wrote:
Well I’m not taking anything aside from what’s in my diet. Should I be “taking” something special? I’ve heard Orange juice is no good because of the acid. As for vitamin D, I work outside, so I get tanned, is that good enough?[/quote]
For D that’s fine. I would take at least a gram of vitamin C each day though. Typically I take 2-4. I don’t take multivitamins. But I will take zinc and magnesium a couple times a week, and iodine once a week in liquid form.
[quote]mertdawg wrote:
[quote]SargeMaximus wrote:
Well I’m not taking anything aside from what’s in my diet. Should I be “taking” something special? I’ve heard Orange juice is no good because of the acid. As for vitamin D, I work outside, so I get tanned, is that good enough?[/quote]
For D that’s fine. I would take at least a gram of vitamin C each day though. Typically I take 2-4. I don’t take multivitamins. But I will take zinc and magnesium a couple times a week, and iodine once a week in liquid form. [/quote]
I’d like to take all of those then. Any good sources?
By the way, I’ve been buying sardines instead of salmon but they cost way too much. How about canned salmon? Will the can still “infect” the meat? If it will, then what else could I have for my omega 3’s? The salmon I used to get often goes bad before I can eat it.
4 Flameout fish oil a day gives you right in the middle of the optimal zone of Omega 3s and in the best ratio. Its close to $30 a bottle, but that is 22 days worth, so its a little over a dollar a day. It also has impurities removed (ie mercury) so basically its the best of the fish. I don’t take it if I eat fish that day.
Thanks!
If I still eat 6 eggs a day, can I take less?
EDIT: As in, can I take maybe 2 capsules instead of 4?
[quote]SargeMaximus wrote:
Thanks!
If I still eat 6 eggs a day, can I take less?[/quote]
Yea. I double checked on Eggs and they have more like .15 grams, so you are getting 1 gram from eggs. 2 or 3 a day would be perfect.
I would say, eat salmon or sardines (7-8 oz) twice a week. Take cod liver oil (4 teaspoons) once a week, and take 3 flamout 4 times a week. That would make a 30 dollar bottle last 2 months.
[quote]mertdawg wrote:
[quote]SargeMaximus wrote:
Thanks!
If I still eat 6 eggs a day, can I take less?[/quote]
Yea. I double checked on Eggs and they have more like .15 grams, so you are getting 1 gram from eggs. 2 or 3 a day would be perfect.
I would say, eat salmon or sardines (7-8 oz) twice a week. Take cod liver oil (4 teaspoons) once a week, and take 3 flamout 4 times a week. That would make a 30 dollar bottle last 2 months.
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Ah ok. Thanks for the info, your like an encyclopedia of dieting goodness. lol.
first look its seems very healthy menu
then again there are some things that in this combination gives your body
quantities of materials, that might be overdose to your body.
mertdawg GOT his WORDS RIGHT
for example your body can have/digest X omega 3 per day
but you eat 4-5 things that gives it XXXX omega 3, your body wont benefit from those foods
just gonna ends up making adverse effects down the road.
no one is the same, what good for me, not good for my wife, or for you
specialist can break it down for you, and check whats the correct amounts for your body
mertdawg got his words right
still i think more important is to understand this-
each body got a certain quantities of foods and values it can accommodate and digest
meaning → whats good for me, not good for my wife or for you
so you can follow regular recommendation sayin “its good to have X cal, and Y omega 3…” etc.
but know that guidelines sitting on a very very general range, and not really sums up with many people
you should check your body reactions, sleeping hours, body/ regular activity hours
if you want to know exactly what you body need, check with specialist, nutritionist.