These Mistakes Are Super Unhealthy!

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about some of the common mistakes people make with supplements.

1. People often wonder what time of the day they should take their supplements. Taking your supplements in the morning can give you the energy you need for the day. Avoid taking electrolytes before bed and calcium supplements before eating. Some people benefit from vitamin D supplements in the morning, while some benefit from taking them before bed.

2. Avoid swallowing too many supplements at once!

3. Introduce supplements one at a time to learn what works and doesn’t for your particular health problem.

4. Supplements won’t work if you have a poor diet. Make sure to get enough protein and limit your carbs.

5. Cheap vitamins contain cheap ingredients. Many cheap supplements and daily vitamins contain calcium carbonate, the type of calcium found in cement. They also contain fillers and dyes! Synthetic vitamins, except niacin and benfotiamine, often have side effects and should be avoided.

6. Avoid taking supplements and drugs together at the same time for the same problem.

7. Certain vitamins work synergistically with others, so you have to take those particular supplements together. For example, if you’re taking high doses of vitamin D, you must also take adequate magnesium. Similarly, high doses of zinc over time can cause a copper deficiency.

8. Don’t take advice about supplements from people who don’t know the data.

9. Many people don’t take a high enough dosage of their supplements to see results. You often need to take more than the RDA to produce a therapeutic effect.

10. If you’re a vegan, you must take supplements to prevent deficiencies. Vitamin B12, vitamin D3, omega-3s, iron, zinc, iodine, and calcium are all vital for your health.

11. Use the correct dosage of your supplement to see results. Your paracrine/autocrine system needs about 10,000 IU of vitamin D daily!

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0:00.0	There are 11 common mistakes that a lot of people make when they take supplements.
0:05.2	Now the first thing I want to mention is that I hear this a lot.
0:08.4	We don't really need to take supplements because we can get all we need from our diet.
0:14.0	And it's almost impossible to get Vitamin D from food.
0:17.0	So it's not actually very easy to get all of our nutrients,
0:21.0	even if we ate a really good diet, not to mention certain foods that
0:24.6	depleteous of nutrients, especially if you're doing a lot of refined carbs.
0:28.4	Okay, number one, let's talk about timing, okay, during the day.
0:31.7	When should you take your supplements? Personally I like to take almost all
0:36.4	of my supplements in the morning because I want all these co factors to be available in the first part of the day when
0:40.9	I need more energy. In fact, I switch my interminute fasting pattern where I'm doing two meals. One is breakfast and then a late lunch and then I don't have a dinner. That seems to work and the reason I did that is because it gives me more energy
0:55.0	during the day rather than doing fasting and then eating late at night when I
0:59.4	don't need the energy before I go to bed. Now as far as taking electrolytes right before bed, I don't really
1:05.9	recommend it because electrolytes can push fluid out of your body. Now as far as Vitamin D goes, some people do better to take the vitamin D in the morning. Some people do better right before bed. It tends to help them sleep better. You can experiment with that. The other thing I want to mention about the timing is that you don't want to take any calcium supplements right before you eat because calcium neutralizes the stomach acid and it's going to inhibit your digestion.
1:34.8	And if you're taking a fat-syable vitamin like vitamin C or the B vitamins,
1:38.7	you can take them anytime.
1:40.3	The next mistake I want to talk about is taking too many supplements at one time and trying to swallow them
1:45.8	I personally use myself as a human guinea pig for a long time. I've tried pretty much every single nutrient
1:51.9	Vitamin Cleanse alternative program you can imagine.
1:55.9	And one time, long ago, I decided to do a gallbladder flush.
2:02.2	In this gallbladder flush. In this gallbladder flush you take beet root supplements and
2:06.7	olive oil. I took a hand of these beetroot supplements, put it in my mouth and
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