Introduction:
hello, maybe some of you remember me from my last vitamin related post. i have not taken more than a few vitamin supplements in the past 9 months. when i got a blood test about 7 months ago the doctor said that my levels were fine. B12 was a bit above the range. ever since then i pretty much just assumed that i was one of the people who could get all of the nutrients i need from food and fortified foods. i'm pretty sure that i feel a lot better now than i did back when i was getting the blood test.
every single day (unless i'm feeling too lazy to cook) i consume oats, fortified soy milk, blueberries, hemp seeds, ground chia seeds, seasoning (chinese 5 spice, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, black pepper), buckwheat, red kidney beans, black beans, lentils, tomato sauce, peanuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, olives, jalapeno peppers, chili peppers, mushrooms, fortified nutritional yeast.
sometimes ground flax seeds.
i know my fruit game is weak. i used to have apples and bananas in my oatmeal but then winter came around, so you know. also i've experimented quite a bit and the best frozen fruits to thaw and eat seem to be blueberries. the other frozen fruit are often not properly ripe and they have a weird smell from being frozen, so if i'm not blending it (and i don't blend stuff) it's not often a pleasant experience.
Topic:
after a quick google search i read that vitamin d2 is the same as vitamin d3 except that d2 doesn't last as long inside of the body.
so if i'm getting d2 from fortified foods, do i really need to take a supplement? honestly, i think there is a real possibility that i'm not getting enough of it. if i had to choose between increasing the amount of soy milk i drink and taking a d3 supplement, i would prefer the d3 supplement. a vegan friendly source, of course.
any advice?
hello, maybe some of you remember me from my last vitamin related post. i have not taken more than a few vitamin supplements in the past 9 months. when i got a blood test about 7 months ago the doctor said that my levels were fine. B12 was a bit above the range. ever since then i pretty much just assumed that i was one of the people who could get all of the nutrients i need from food and fortified foods. i'm pretty sure that i feel a lot better now than i did back when i was getting the blood test.
every single day (unless i'm feeling too lazy to cook) i consume oats, fortified soy milk, blueberries, hemp seeds, ground chia seeds, seasoning (chinese 5 spice, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, black pepper), buckwheat, red kidney beans, black beans, lentils, tomato sauce, peanuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, olives, jalapeno peppers, chili peppers, mushrooms, fortified nutritional yeast.
sometimes ground flax seeds.
i know my fruit game is weak. i used to have apples and bananas in my oatmeal but then winter came around, so you know. also i've experimented quite a bit and the best frozen fruits to thaw and eat seem to be blueberries. the other frozen fruit are often not properly ripe and they have a weird smell from being frozen, so if i'm not blending it (and i don't blend stuff) it's not often a pleasant experience.
Topic:
after a quick google search i read that vitamin d2 is the same as vitamin d3 except that d2 doesn't last as long inside of the body.
so if i'm getting d2 from fortified foods, do i really need to take a supplement? honestly, i think there is a real possibility that i'm not getting enough of it. if i had to choose between increasing the amount of soy milk i drink and taking a d3 supplement, i would prefer the d3 supplement. a vegan friendly source, of course.
any advice?