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The sun is rising over the high Sierra on this Christmas morning, the coffee is hot, and seven-year-old Frederick missed the memo that children get up at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning. Good for us!
Merry Christmas to you. I hope you are having a great holiday season. Holidays are wonderful and they are hard too. This is a good time of year to get some extra rest, remember your supplement regimen if you have one, and try to eat half the sugar as most of the Western world.
I say all of this because sales of the Rebuild book are actually up in the last week. I have to say “I get it” and it makes me sad. But the new year always holds promise, especially 2010. Tomorrow morning when everyone is buying stuff, go to a health food store and get a liquid multi. I recommend the one by Vital Earth. If you are not taking Omega 3s and B vitamins, get those too.
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Hi, I was wondering if you could tell me your advice about prenatal vitamins? I take New Chapter prenatal vitamins and they are made from whole foods, do you still think liquid is best? Does Vital Earth make a prenatal liquid or do you just take a regular liquid multi while you’re pregnant or breastfeeding? Also, my prenatal already has the B vitamins in it, do you suggest taking additional? Thank you so much for your time and efforts with this blog, it is so generous of you. I can’t believe how helpful it’s been and I’ve only been reading for a couple months! Thanks again, Rachel
Rachel,
Congratulations on your pregnancy!
I haven’t actually seen research that examines the absorption rates of whole foods supplements, but I expect they perform well. We latched on to the liquid primarily because we could tell a big difference in energy when we added them, though we had not been taking a whole food multi. Liquid is absorbed very well, lozenges and coenzyme forms typically are as well. Vital Earth doesn’t have a prenatal so I would recommend you keep taking what you’re taking. FYI, I did take Vital Earth in my pregnancy but was also taking a B complex supplement, so I certainly got enough of the Bs.
Should you take a B complex? The conservative answer is to get your plasma homocysteine measured by your doctor (basic blood test) and, if it’s elevated, supplement until it’s lowered. If you don’t have a history of taking high doses of B vitamins, taking a supplement at reasonable levels in your pregnancy and postpartum is not going to hurt and may help (though how much help depends on if you really need the extra). Some women take B vitamins (B6 if memory serves) for PMS symptoms and, as a result, take them for years at fairly high levels. There have been problems in some of these cases and so if that’s been your history, I wouldn’t take more at this point.
If you’re on my email list I’m going to offer a supplement co-op in the next week or two and it will include a B complex, fish oil, and magnesium.
Best of luck to you!
Amanda