If a supplement says to take 2 pills

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Yep this fat balding guy from kentucky knows the truth about nutrition. Just because you know something doesn't mean you follow it. I do sometimes.

I've always kind of known this but not until it was driven into my head by someone I thought was a quack at one time.

Did you know that when a vitamin or mineral supplement says to take 2 capsules for example.

That means 2 for every 100 pounds of bodyweight. You need 1 for every 50 pounds of bodyweight after that. If your taking it for a condition or a certain purpose you need to double that.

So if you weigh 200 pounds and your taking a joint supplement and it says to take 2. You have to take 8 if you really want to see any benefits. You can if you take just 2 but it will take alot longer to notice any effects.

You're seeing the number 8 and thinking. That's too much, I'm not taking 8, thats an overdose.

Oh please. There never has and never will be anyone to overdose on any vitamin or mineral supplement, joint health product, etc.

Think of it this way. If I was to give you a powder joint supplement and tell you to take 1/4 of a scoop you would probaly say thats not enough.

Well if you were to take apart 8 capsules and put it in a scoop, it wouldn't even be 1/4 of a scoop.

Get the issue of number out of your head.

Quit feeling guilty for taking an extra vitamin or whatever. You would be surprised of how many people are scared to take an extra capsule or caplet.

It's just crazy to think something bad might happen if you take an extra capsule.

Don't believe everything your doctors tell you. They(most) (almost all) aren't taught about nutrition or supplements.

They do work if you do it right.


ps: Think of it this way. You're taking a mineral for a certain purpose. You have to take it for days and sometimes weeks. Let's say your taking glucosamine for your joints. Think of your joint as being a large glass. You take the supplement and as the days and weeks go by the glass gets filled up with glucosamine. You start seeing results when the glass overflows, aka fills up and pours over the glass. It's like when it overflows, thats when it gets in your blood stream or goes to the areas that need repaired. Some people it works quicker and some it takes time.

I know I didn't say that as good as i could have, but it's simply the truth. I'm not a writer or public speaker but I do tell the truth and I tell it like it is.

Now lets get to healing and getting better and enjoying life.
 
You can find the common dose by doing a search. Some pills don't have much in them so you would take more.

But many people get woried about dosage levels.

They have vitamin D at 400 IU per pill. Some people need about 10 or fifteen of those a day.
If the bottle has 100 pills you could take the whole bottle(not every day though).

I have 50,000 IU capsules that I take once a week.

So you have to find the correct dose first.

Creatine, many take a bunch to load up then taper off. You could buy it in pills at a gram each, maybe take 20 of them a day for a week or so.
 
It's also true that the thousands of "supplements" being peddled to the masses these days are completely unregulated and lots of them are pitched by modern day snake oil "salespersons".

My opinion: proceed with extreme caution...
 
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