Supplements

[Grandma Mary]

Quality Supplements can be a part of recovery, providing they are gluten free. Any reccomendations on brands and which ones to order? 

[trents]

Costco's Nature Made line is an excellent choice. Many or most of their products are gluten free and will clearly state so on the bottle.

[Grandma Mary]

Thanks!

[Wheatwacked]

Some of the B vitamins, B3 Niacin, B6 Pyridoxine, and Folic Acid (B9) and vitamin E have upper limits on supplements but no upper limit to food sourced.

Synthetic A, E and Folic Acid have been linked to stomach, prostate and lung cancer in some intervention trials.

"While their benefits are generally unclear, beta-carotene supplements do seem to have serious risks. People who smoke or who have been exposed to asbestos should not use beta-carotene supplements. Even low doses have been linked with an increased risk of cancer, heart disease, and death in these two groups of people." What are the risks of taking beta-carotene?

Otherwise, as long as you stay below the RDA Safe Upper Limits (excepting vitamin D and C, their limits are in my opinion just way too low) more is better.

[Scott Adams]

If you look at the cost per tablet, and you need to include iron (I can't), Geritol is an excellent choice.

[Wheatwacked]

[Posterboy]

5 hours ago, Grandma Mary said:

Quality Supplements can be a part of recovery, providing they are gluten free. Any reccomendations on brands and which ones to order? 

Grandma Mary,

They have all given you some good advice.

Nature Made Vitamins are 3rd party tested for  purity and potency but I find the form matter more than the brand, per se assuming they are Certified gluten-free of course.......

I wrote a blog post about how to supplement and why you would want to if your a Celiac or NCGS patient.

Maybe it will help you to read it.

A regimen that seems to help for many is a B-Complex, Vitamin D, Magnesium Citrate and/or Glycinate and Benfotiamine ( a fat soluble form of B-1 found in most diabetic sections).

The Benfotiamine form has a much higher absorption rate  than the form found in most B-Complex's etc......and why taking it (Vitamin B1) as a fat soluble form can be beneficial, especially with a Magnesium Citrate.

For best effect take these with meals or 2x a day (with meals) if 3x a day is not convenient.  Usually at the 2nd or 3rd month horizon people begin to feel if not a little better.......often much  or alot better due to the Benfotiamine and Magnesium!

Celiac's often have  many Vitamin deficiencies without Overt (Obvious) symptom's of their deficiency at the time of their diagnosis.

The Mayo Clinic did a a study about this at the time.....a few years ago now.

Here is the link to the article if you want to read it for yourself.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31248695/

And sadly it doesn't often improve even after many years.....

So I am definitely in the supplement camp!  They have definitely helped me.

Here is the research about it.

Entitled  "Evidence of poor vitamin status in Celiac aka Coelic patients on a gluten-free diet for 10 years"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12144584/

This research was 20+ years ago to this year.......and still it is often hard to believe that supplementation can be helpful to Celiac's.

I am glad to hear you are looking into supplementing for your health!

This won't help all of your deficiencies since you might have 20+ deficiencies in total.....but you will be halfway there at least!

I hope this is helpful but it is not medical advice.

Posterboy,