Willie Wonka approach to vitamins

[helvella]

I keep imagining a little machine in the corner of a kitchen.

It has lots of varied hoppers and in each one there are small beads. Each bead contains a particular substance (vitamin K2, magnesium, vitamin D3) in an appropriately small dosage. Possibly some are solid, others are gels, or whatever makes sense.

You select (and quite obviously this could, and probably should, be automated) the ones you want to take and the machine counts out the appropriate number of beads. You take.

You can get fairly precise doses of everything, combined or separate, and staged through the day. Adjustments can be made depending on all sorts of things like what you have consumed today and yesterday, how you feel, blood tests.

You need to go back several times a day to optimise when you take them in relation to time of day, food, each other, medicines, etc.? Your mobile phone reminding you as needed.

One machine could dispense for any number of people.

(I thought Willie Wonka illustrated this in a suitably fanciful way.)

[JGBH]

It would (could) be helpful! 😆

[shaws Administrator]

I tried to 'like' your post but as soon as I put cursor on it changed to unlike?? Is willie wonka in action

[humanbean in reply to shaws]

Every time people "Like" a post the option changes to "Unlike". All that is happening is that having liked the post you can then change your mind and "unlike" it if you want to.

[Baobabs]

Just love it! A great take on the lighter side of life. Supplement popping has to beat ironing for being the most mundane, irksome occupation. Necessary BUT evil!

[BB001]

Great idea, I would make a refinement so that the beads were timed release where appropriate with the result that you only visited once a day (week?) and were free to get on with your life instead of clock watching until the time of the next bead

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to BB001]

Not at all sure time release is feasible over a week!

[Baobabs in reply to helvella]

Time release over a lifetime? Now that would be magic!

[BB001 in reply to Baobabs]

It exists! It's called a working thyroid.

[Baobabs in reply to BB001]

Something many of us could only dream of!

[nightingale-56]

You would make a fortune with thyroid patients alone, if you created one of these helvella . What a brilliant idea!

[Hidden in reply to nightingale-56]

You could make it into a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle.That would test our blood pressure!

Love it too !

[Lalatoot]

As long as they are made by Willie Wonka. Would hate to find you had changed producer to Bertie Bott (as in Harry Potter) and we were getting snot flavoured vitamins. That would be the Teva of vitamins!

[Baobabs in reply to Lalatoot]

Love it!

[LivingWithHT]

If vitamins and supplements looked and tasted that good and were sugar free and that easy to take...it would be heaven 😍