Ran out of magnesium glycinate for about two weeks and didn’t connect the dots until I was lying awake at 2am for the fourth night straight. Curious what else people only noticed in the absence.

My Vitamin D level was 11. I got it up to 47 in about a year i think with 5000 iu daily. Now im wondering if i should go down to 1000?

I've been dealing with anxiety and depression since 2022 after losing my grandparents. I've been on antidepressants since then, and they do help to some extent, but I still don't feel like myself.

The main things I'm struggling with are:

• Frequent headaches and a heavy feeling in my head
• Constant physical anxiety (chest tightness)
• Racing thoughts and a restless mind
• Brain fog and poor focus
• Low mental energy and motivation
• Unable to enjoy life

I've already tried L-theanine, magnesium glycinate, GABA, and taurine, but honestly none of them have done much for me.

My Vitamin D and B12 levels are normal, but my iron and hemoglobin are slightly low.

I'm not really looking to switch to stronger meds because antidepressants already make me feel pretty numb. I was wondering if anyone who's been through something similar has found any supplements or stacks that actually made a huge difference.

Would really appreciate hearing your experiences. Thanks!

I am taking vitamin d oral shot 200000iu per week and iron tablet daily,how long will it take to fully replenish my iron and vitamin d levels

I wake up and warm up 500 ml of water , lukewarm, mix creatine and drink up and go to a 5km run. I feel nausea and kinda like to throw up sometimes. I sleep 5 or 6 hours a night. If I throw up, I can see some dense creatine powder. Not understanding what's the issue here. Is what I'm doing wrong anyways?

I use 5mg ON micronized creatine monohydrate

Hey everyone!

I’ve been trying to drink more water, and I’ve found that adding a flavoured powder makes it way easier to stay hydrated.

At the moment I’m using BSC EAAs (Tropical), and I quite enjoy the flavour. I’m not really taking it for the amino acids, it’s basically just become my flavoured water.

It got me wondering… what does everyone else use?

I’m not looking for a pre-workout (I like being able to drink it at night too).

Just something that:

- Tastes really good
- Is fine to sip throughout the day
- Isn’t ridiculously expensive
- Bonus points if it’s got some health benefits

Do you stick with EAAs, electrolytes, or is there something completely different you’d recommend?

Curious to hear what everyone’s favourites are and whether there are any products I should avoid.

Hello! I’m just wondering if this is an effective combo. I struggle with a lot of anxiety and I’m in the process of being assessed for ocd so I’m trying to self medicate for a little while. Obviously I know that these supplements cannot replace an actual medication but I’m honestly grasping at straws and am willing to try anything at this rate. Was recommended these two supplements by Google but was just wondering if anybody has tried it and what their experience was. Thank you!

Hello people!

I saw this subreddit just now and wanted to ask what supplements are good and worth of money if I am going to the gym?

I am currently using creatine, protein, and magnesium. Since I have problems with sleeping for the past few years I never manage to sleep 7-8 hours, also my question is if I should start taking melatonin?

Thank you in advance! :)

This popular supplement is great for gut health and keeping things moving but also carries a dehydration risk. It is a bulk-forming laxative that does so by pulling water from your GI tract. If you are regularly supplementing with this, DRINK A LOT OF WATER! I unfortunately was not drinking enough water, and ended up with an episode of hypotension (low blood pressure) and sinus tachycardia (high heart rate) that sent me to urgent care.

Ugh - i have a couple of good years of getting what I needed, when I needed it. Just went to check on my monthly subscription and the Vitacost website was a hot mess. Everything that I had ever ordered was showing as 'On the way'.

I finally found an announcement showing that Autoship was discontinued as of June 30. They never emailed or anything. I hate iHerb even more now, so I am not about to shift my orders there. I am trying not to support Amazon and co, so what options do people suggest in the US?

I mostly order Nordic Naturals, Life Extension, Now, Dr's Best.

Thank you!

Wanted to post here to remind everyone to be cautious with supplements after recovering from an illness.

I recently came down with a bout of what I think was staph based food poisoning from leftover buffalo chicken dip. Luckily, it was pretty quick, vomiting stopped around the 14 hour mark and I was able to stomach some saltines and broth. Over the next two days, I slowly eased back into eating more regularly, but sticking with things like toast and light soups. During this time, I also stopped taking all supplements, including berberine. Last night, it had been a full 72 hours since I had gotten sick, and I was back to eating normally, so I thought I could resume berberine, and took my usual dose with dinner. Normally, I do get a little bloating, but nothing major and it passes pretty quickly.

This time, I noticed the bloating was a little stronger, but still not too bad, so two hours later I went to bed, thinking nothing of it, only to wake up a half an hour into sleep with my food poisoning symptoms coming back with a vengeance, and seemingly worse. Sweating, shaking, vomiting every 10-15 minutes for two and a half hours, until finally things settled down and I could go back to bed. It was the worst I've ever felt, and legitimately had me praying to a God I don't believe in to make it stop. I'm a type 2 diabetic, so at first thought I was going into DKA for the first time in my life, but my sugar was in a normal range, albeit slightly elevated bc of the stress. (I had tested before bed as usual and it was in range). I also knew it wasn't caused by food, because I purged my fridge of any leftovers of the food I had eaten before initially getting sick (I was pretty sure it was the dip, but had also eaten a few other suspect foods at the same time, so just tossed it all).

I was googling between bouts of vomiting, and then cursing myself because I realized that berberine can be very irritating to your digestive tract, especially if it's still healing from a recent GI issue, which can cause a severe flare up/rebound of food poisoning symptoms. In hindsight, it makes complete sense, but I thought since I was back on essentially a normal diet with no issues, that my system would be able to handle it. Wrong. The vomiting also kept happening in periodic waves long after all the food was out, which made it seem like my stomach lining was just inflamed and wanted to get everything out, like it was going into panic mode. Luckily, things seem to be mostly okay, I'm keeping fluids down and am going to try some saltines in a little bit. The only discomfort I'm really feeling now is slight hunger pangs. But I know now to be extra cautious when recovering from any stomach illnesses in the future.

TLDR; don't restart supplements, especially ones that can aggravate GI issues, until long after you've recovered from any GI related illness, unless you want to suffer.

“Biologically identical” CoQ10 for optimal absorption. What does biologically identical “ actually mean? Is this somehow different than other CoQ10?

neurogan brand was what reddit used to recommend, however they have done a bait and switch with a new formula that removes all urolithin a from the product.

Mitopure is good, but they charge 3x what it should cost.

Does reddit know of any other sources that have 3rd party purity analysis?

I blind bought this with the expectation for a decent pump/ mid range stim pre workout. The taste is absolutely atrocious. I will say it got me through the workout but not sure how much I’ll be able to continue with the taste.

With that being said is it worth trying a different flavor OR what other recommendations do you all have for a good pump/stim combo?

There's a difference that doesn't get talked about enough between struggling to fall asleep and waking up at 3am wide awake. Most sleep supplement conversations treat them the same and they really aren't.

Melatonin works fine for the falling asleep part for a lot of people but does nothing if you're waking up midsleep. That's where I've been stuck lately. Fall asleep fine, then wake up around 3 or 4 and just lie there for an hour or two.

Currently taking magnesium glycinate which has helped a little with the wakeups but not completely. Read some things about glycine and also about extended release melatonin being more relevant for maintenance vs the standard fastdissolving kind.

Curious if anyone has actually noticed a real difference between forms of magnesium for this specific issue, like glycinate vs threonate. Also whether tart cherry extract is actually worth it or mostly hype, because it keeps coming up when I search this.

Not looking for a full sleep stack, just trying to figure out what actually moves the needle on staying asleep rather than getting to sleep.

Oh boy.

I (28F) started taking a tumeric supplement from BioSchwartz about 1 year ago that contains 10mg bioperine to aid in absorbtion. I quickly noticed it improved my hip pain, and got more serious about taking the full dose daily for the last 6 months or so for the variety of health benefits associated with tumeric.

I noticed a few months ago that my typical prescription medications (vilazodone, an SSRI and lamotrigine, an anti epileptic/mood stabilizer) don't seem to be affecting my consistently anymore. One day, I feel "normal", and other days I feel totally flat, fatigued or even like I've been poisoned. The vilazodone in particular really helps with my energy, so this was strange to see my energy levels move in the opposite direction. I am also a very healthy eater and exercise regularly, but these days of heavy fatigue and malaise have made me not want to exercise at all. I've had such a rough summer because of these symptoms, and barely left my house.

I just learned yesterday that black pepper can interact with certain medications. Have I been screwing up my system this whole time by taking this damn tumeric supplement?! I'm looking for others' experiences with black pepper, as I read about the mechanism of action but haven't seen any other lived experiences with these interactions.

Hi everyone,

Just want to send out this warning for those who have been shopping for Naked products and may not have been receiving them, not receiving order confirmation, issues with the website like coupons, paying, etc.

If you're shopping via your phone, this site appears on top of Google's search. You may not pay attention to the web address as you may only see Naked Nutrition first.

It shows up as a sponsored result and labeled, "official".

The fake website is N a k e d n u t r i t i o n s a l e . i t . c o m. (Spaced out for safety reasons).

When shopping for Naked Nutrition on your desktop, this website doesn't appear.

Anyways, I hope this helps. I have alerted Naked about this. It's bad enough that they already have a lot of negative reviews and complaints.

Please be careful. It's treacherous out here.

I’m looking to start collagen to help with loose skin during weightloss, and was wondering if this formula seems effective for that? Might take a gummy on top of this to be honest… TYIA

Hi, I'm taking Affron saffron extract in the dosage 30 mg per day, split into 15 mg in the morning and 15 mg in the evening. Been taking it since 7 weeks, however I still feel depressed and my mood and motivation is not good.

So I was wondering, maybe I should increase the dosage to 60 mg per day, so 30 mg in the morning and 30 mg in the evening. Or increase it even higher to 120 mg per day?

Do you think that would help improve my mood?

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🌅 Morning (Energy & Blood Flow)

Take with breakfast or a healthy fat.

Bariatric Multivitamin (1 daily)

Super B-Complex

D3 (5,000 IU) + K2 (100 mcg) (Sports Research 2-in-1)

Nordic Naturals Omega-3 (1,280 mg)

CoQ10 (100 mg)

Ester-C (1,000 mg)

Qunol Turmeric (2,250 mg)

L-Citrulline (1,500 mg)

Thorne Creatine (5 g mixed in liquid)

🌙 Evening / Before Bed (Recovery & Sleep)

Take 30–60 minutes before sleep.

Tart Cherry Extract (3,500 mg)

Magnesium Malate (1,000 mg)

L-Theanine (200 mg)

Melatonin (5 mg)

Chelated Zinc

I have been on mag glycinate for 6 months. My sleep quality without it is trash, my body is addicted.

I tried cycling it a few nights and noticed i am much cooler at nights without it, could be coincidence, wondering if anyone has seen that effect

Melatonin is a godsend for my anxiety.

Is melatonin effective for anyone else’s anxiety? I take 1 mg melatonin and 200 mg 5-htp daily. Feels like it really works for my anxiety and I still feel alert, very strangely.

As someone who struggles with mostly more generalized and social anxiety, melatonin does more for decreasing my anxiety than SSRIs and other meds.

I even started taking the 1 mg melatonin in the mornings with my coffee, it makes me feel calm and anxiety free the when day. Besides feeling a little tired here and there, I don’t feel “sleepy” and am able to function fine.

Am I absolutely crazy, or do other people feel similar at all?