George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/01/20258. Given what we know, why is this over-supply legal, and what do supplement companies intend to do about it? In the meantime, check the label and reduce or eliminate your dose accordingly. 2544518
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...skywriter.bluePage by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social1. Please read this thread. It could make a difference to your health. Before I went away, I had a strange, persistent tingling in the soles of my feet. When I looked it up, there were some benign exp... 1020333
xeno @xenopoesis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I decided to try to obtain a day's protein from nutritional yeast. I had such a massive dose of various B vitamins that I tingled all over and my skin came out in red blotches everywhere. 010
Shannon Ray @shannonwrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Viridian make this one that’s just B12, but even then, I’ve reduced to taking it just once a month because my last blood test showed very high B12 (but also very low D that has caused me a lot of problems!) viridian-nutrition.com/products/org...viridian-nutrition.comOrganic B12Vitamin B12 is an essential nutrient, water-soluble vitamin which has been proven to help reduce tiredness and fatigue and contributes to normal function of the immune system. Essential nutrients cann... 000
Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Thanks for this. Have a blood test for B12 deficiency booked at my surgery as meds I’m on for diabetes can cause it & was feeling tired. If it turns out I have a deficiency I will be very choosy about the supplement I take. I don’t take any other supplements except vitamin D during winter months. 143
iniseoghain.bsky.social @iniseoghain.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Thanks for highlighting George. I am obsessive about only buying multi vitamins that have exactly 💯% of recognised maximum daily dose. 1190
Paul Haynes @paul-haynes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I'm a vegetarian in my 70s, I don't eat eggs or drink milk (I do eat cheese and butter). I had a very severe dizzy spell - diagnosed as B12 deficiency and now have to have regular B12 injections. B12 deficiency over-65 is very serious & there is no B12 non-animal suppliment that is proven to work. 130
Artless Dodger @thegreatduggo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Supplements are barely regulated. You've only got their word for what they even claim to put in them. 190
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Very helpful. I have just looked and 2 of our supplements contain B6 but they don't express the dose, so I will have to dig deeper. 090
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The second column of page 884 makes for interesting/horrifying reading pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16195040/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govContamination of dietary supplements and positive drug tests in sport - PubMedThe use of dietary supplements is widespread in sport and most athletes competing at the highest level of competition use some form of dietary supplementation. Many of these supplements confer no perf... 2364
yankeewitch.bsky.social @yankeewitch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Supplement companies bought an earlier Congress and thus stymied FDA attempts to regulate them for safety and efficacy at the same level as actual drugs. And yet many have drug like effects and side effects. journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/what...journalofethics.ama-assn.orgWhat Should Dietary Supplement Oversight Look Like in the US?Statutory limitations prevent the FDA from effectively regulating dietary supplements and have generated numerous calls for reform. 293
