FIt Bit Plus Supplements?

[brandiegilbert]

Exercise, proper sleep, and proper eating is important, but also is proper vitamins and supplements.. Just wondering what individuals are using to ensure you are getting your propoer vitamins and boosting your metabolism. As a health and wellness professional, I can also help you with your goals if you are interested.

[Dominique]

OK, your profile photo (*) points to the site of the It works! company, which would make you a "wrapreneur". The company and their products have been discussed in this thread.

(*) photo promptly removed, but still available here:

[tealily · Accepted solution]

** Also in the health/medical industry (but not 'wellness' - sorry)

Just wanted to pipe in and say that I take some supplements - and they work for me - but I can also say that I know exactly what they do for me on a cellular physiological level, have regular blood tests done (hospital clearance stuff. PS my iron count ROCKS for a female and I dig it), and tend to run most of what I take past a pharmacy friend or two anyway. Anything more, as my dear nutrition teacher used to say, may just be "very expensive wee" 😄

I've also got a few friends that are staunchy anti-supplements, citing that a proper balanced diet SHOULD cover all the vitamins and minerals you need barring things like folate (which to my understanding is difficult to accumulate normally in high enough levels to prevent things like spina bifida http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folic_acid). And I do have to agree with them that eating 'close to the source' tends to be awesome for so many nutritional and financial reasons it's not funny (NB I still take my vit D and magnesium supplements anyway).

Not going to comment on the wraps until someone points me towards some peer-reviewed journal articles which demonstrate clear physiological causality between wrap usage and weight loss ❤️

[brandiegilbert]

Yes, I am a supplement user. I never said that the wraps cause weight loss 😉 No matter how much you work out, you can not minimize stretch marks. My friend is a bodybuilder and the wrap is what she used to save herself $7000 on a tummy tuck to help with her stretch marks but that is beside the point. I was discussing supplements:) And Dominque
I deleted the picture with my website because I wasn't trying to market individuals to the site, originally I had uploaded the picture as my profile pic but thought second about it when you mentioned my page, because I didn't want individuals to think I was trying to "market them to my products" but hey thanks for uploading the pic again 😉 Now individuals will see my website.

Anyway, tealily

I agree with you that no matter what you do you do need some type of nutritional support. No matter what you eat you are not always getting the required nutrition your body needs. Especially some of the processed foods that are purchased in grocery stores. As well you do not know what is added to them as far as steriods and pesticides. Not everyone pays attention to their nutritional needs or what they are putting into their body. This is why vitamins and supplements are out there. As well even those who are healthy, fitness finatics usually take some type of nutritional supplement, such as shakes, metabolism boosters, energy boost, etc. It is just important to know what you are putting into  your body and whether or not it is healthy/safe.

I just saw an article yesterday about a popular children's vitamin that has aspertame, sorbitol and other harmful ingredients which individuals thought was "safe" however it is not...

https://www.fhfn.org/popular-childrens-vitamins-linked-to-cancer/

[tealily]

Ah - just want to clarify that in no way am I saying that EVERYONE needs supplements. To be super clear, at this stage my personal stance is that supplements are a choice, and that it is absolutely possible to get everything you need from a healthy balanced diet. I happen to take supplements and am cool with that, but I don't believe everyone has to.

Super-processed foods and take away do not equal a healthy balanced diet 🙂 (I agree with you here, but feel the need to point out that just because a lot of people have shoddy diets and therefore 'need' to take supplements, the other 'lot' of people who have good diets don't need to).

I'm not going to enter a massive nutrients debate right now, but I would really like to just leave you with a few ideas that I feel are critical to really understanding human physiology:

1) Correlation does not equal causality

2) "Linked" does not equal causality

3) Minimum required dosage, healthy dosage and toxic dosage are three very different terms. Let's take the humble foxglove plant, for example - aka digitalis. Digoxin, derrived from digitalis, is a cardiac medicine that can save lives. But too much can kill you. BOOM! It's about dosage, baby. This is why science is important - you need to know not just what you're putting IN your body, but how much is safe for YOU. This usually involves several years of learning anatomy, physiology, nutrition and pharmacology at university - which is why most people just ask their doctor/nutritionist/dietician 😄

4) Speaking of science - we all have to admit there's a lot of woo-woo on the internet, so it's a good idea to make sure anything you're willing to believe is backed up by science. Look for citations (gentle aside - couldn't help but notice the website you listed didn't have any).

5) Just because something is published doesn't mean it's reputable - even academics screw up methodologies and statistics (which is why we peer review so we can point out each other's mistakes, haha :D)