A San Diego reader weighs in about multivitamins vs. whole foods
Margaret K. from San Diego wrote me this after my blog series on multivitamins:
Here is my experience with vitamins. I bet I have spent thousands of dollars on vitamins and vitamin programs over the last 30 years. If I had it to do again-I would not spend one dime on them.
they are just a stab in the dark. I never really knew what I needed but would hear about a vitamin that seemed like it would help me so I would buy it. I never really felt any different and had no idea how to measure whether it was doing me any good. I, too, feel that you can throw off the balance of your own natural balance.
I have been fully into GSG program now for a year after spending 30 years trying on my own. I have energy, had my hearing loss restored, incontinence gone, and so many other miracles. Multivitamins? NO WAY-I have everything I need to continue getting better!
Margaret
Any suggestions for iron deficiency? Just found out from my doctor that I’m anemic. I hate to go on the typical iron supplements if there’s something my body can absorb better. I drink a smoothie daily and I’m working on the 12 step program. I want to get healthy the right way.
Tamera
How about letting me know about the benefits for perio-menopausal women? I am currently taking a Phytoestrogen tablet from GNC that helps me with those Hot Flashes and night sweats.
I gave them up as well. For one thing, I realized I was using them as an excuse not to eat well. But they are a very flimsy insurance policy. Now that I’m off them and it’s completely up to me to get all the nutrients I need, I am eating a much wider variety of vegetables than I ever would have tried before. I see the produce section very differently these days. The most amazing, deep vibrant green caught my eye the other day, and it was collard greens. Where before I would have said ‘Yuck!’ now I see such plants as pure liquid gold, and I was actually bummed that I already had more greens in my cart than I could use in a week, and they would have to wait til next time. Never, while I was taking vitamins, did my nails get stronger, my hair color return to a more vibrant red, my brown spots go away, and the pounds drop off like they have since ‘going green’. If this is a state of vitamin deficiency from not taking a multi, bring it on!! Another thing all these greens will do for you is change your tastes. Whereas in the beginning, when I felt like I’d sipped enough meals and wanted to ‘sink my teeth into something and CHEW’ it would be a steak or burger. Now it’s brown rice with some mushrooms and onions – a feast! Vitamins never did that for me.
Robyn,
I just had to write and put in my two cents about multi vitamins. About four years ago I had to go and put minutes on my cell phone. You ask what does this have to do with multi vitamins? Well I am getting there. Anyways as I was putting minutes on my phone this guy came in because he dropped his phone in a porta-potty and needed a new one as he wasn’t going in to get his old one!!!!. Again, I am getting to the point!!! After he left the store I asked the clerk about his phone dropping in the porta-potty and she said that is the number one thing found in them!!!!! I asked her what the second thing was and she said VITAMINS!!!!!!! Unreal huh, those little buggers just don’t digest in the body so they come on through just how they went in. Sorry if this was disgusting, but after reading the previous blog about vitamins I just had to write!!!! And no, I do not take any vitamins either!!!!! My body has never assimilated them. Thanks for the green smoothies, my body is addicted to them!!!!
I have just started your 12 step program! The salad dressings are yummy! However, I watched your DVD clip on step 3 and you suggested Himalyan salt and mentioned it was available on your website. I could not find it on your website. Do you have the details on what brand so I can look for it online? Or will you be offering it through your website?
Annie, see “Salt” under “Robyn Recommends” for the link to the only place I recommend you buy it (good certification).
Robyn, I have a vitamin D deficiency, winter time is very hard for me to get my sunshine to replenish it, what green smoothie ingredients would you recommend? Thanks!
Susan, Vita D is hard to get from food–you’re going to have to supplement.
Question for Margaret K from San Diego.
Which kind of hearing loss you have and how long?
Thanks