Vitamin supplement advice?

[Williamsmum]

These are my test results- seems I could do with vit D, folate and iron supplements?

Any advice and suggested supplements please?

Thank you!

[rouser]

Related to your need of iron, ferritin and folate increases I absolutely love the inexpensive formula by Garden of Life made up from fruits and veggies with lots of healthy additions to build up the above areas. It's called Vitamin Code and supplies 22 mg of iron taken once a day, one capsule. I've shared before, but my ferritin level moved from the 20's to the 80's in 3 months (however I have hemochromatosis which would cause me to add more quickly).

[Williamsmum]

Thank you Rouser, I will look at that!

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Vitamin D is too low. Aiming to improve to at least 80nmol and around 100nmol may be better .

Vitamin D mouth spray by Better You is good as avoids poor gut function.

Suggest you supplement 1000iu for 2-3 months and retest. It's trial and error what dose each person needs.

Once you Improve level, very likely you will need on going maintenance dose to keep it there. Retesting twice yearly via vitamindtest.org.uk

Also read up on importance of magnesium and vitamin K2 Mk7 supplements when taking vitamin D

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Do NOT supplement any vitamin K if you take any blood thinning medication

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Folate is low. You might benefit from supplementing a daily vitamin B complex, one with folate in not folic acid

B vitamins best taken in the morning after breakfast

If you are taking vitamin B complex, or any supplements containing biotin, remember to stop these 3-5 days before any blood tests, as biotin can falsely affect test results

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Ferritin is low. Eating liver or liver pate once a week, or other iron rich foods should help improve

Only add one supplement at a time and wait at least ten days to assess reaction.

You could perhaps do with small dose increase in Levothyroxine. Especially once vitamins improve

[Williamsmum in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you for taking the time to look through my results SlowDragon.

I am in the process of looking at my supplements as I already take a truefood multivitamin and algae omega 3 with vit D.

Do you know why B12 levels might be good whilst folate and iron are lower in range? I work hard with my diet so I am a bit confused.

The general advice for folate seems to be to take b12 with it - and the % of RDA are much higher for B12 than folate but I don’t need more b12 by the look of it??

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Williamsmum]

Did you ever get high antibodies test results?

Do you know if you have Hashimoto's

If you ever had high antibodies then cause is Hashimoto's

Reason it's important is that iodine (in most multivitamins) is NOT recommended for anyone with Hashimoto's

drknews.com/iodine-and-hash...

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So you might want to stop multivitamins. Generally cheap ingredients and only for the worried well, not anyone with actual deficiency

Generally on here we recommend just supplementing what you need separately

vitamin D

Magnesium

Vitamin K2 Mk7

Good quality daily vitamin B complex

Ferritin. Never supplement iron unless you have had full iron panel showing low levels. We can have low ferritin but high iron

Just eating iron rich foods, alongside vitamin C (eg orange juice) should help improve ferritin

Vitamins are often low when hypothyroid as gut function is affected and low stomach acid is very common

It's not what we eat, but how much we can absorb

Low stomach acid can be common an issue

thyroidpharmacist.com/artic...

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Gluten intolerance is extremely common with Hashimoto's too

[Williamsmum in reply to SlowDragon]

Thanks SlowDragon. I don’t have Hashimotos to my knowledge- you can see the test results in my screen shot - both tests are v low, about 10. I have had my antibodies tested several times, including when I first started on thyroid tablets and they are always extremely low or zero.