{"id":12361,"date":"2020-02-11T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2020-02-12T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:49:18","slug":"daily_1858_-_pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/daily_1858_-_pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1858 – pills"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI finish every dinner with three pills.<\/p>\n

Pill one is glucosamine. Many years ago I had trouble with my knees and my hips. They hurt a bit and “clicked”. My biochemist parents suggested glucosamine. Apparently vegetarians may need glucosamine supplements. It made an immediate difference. Whenever I take a break – travelling, running out of pills – it takes about a week before I miss it.<\/p>\n

Pill two is omega-3. I’ve been taking these for years as well. For every supplement I read about there are studies with conclusions in both directions. Omega-3 is one of the few where the benefits seem clear, especially (again) for vegetarians.<\/p>\n

Pill three is a multivitamin for vegans. This is a very recent addition.<\/p>\n

I eat a varied diet, not vegan, not even 100% vegetarian since I eat some occasional fish, so I’ve lived in the belief that I get all I need from just eating food. I even had my B12 and iron levels checked as recently as November, on a hunch, and according to the doctor all was good.<\/p>\n

Recently I got cracks in the corners of my mouth that just wouldn’t heal. Weeks of treatment with balms and creams made no difference. I did some research and guessed that maybe I have a vitamin B deficiency after all. The pharmacy had no products with vitamin B only; this “for vegans” thing was the closest I found.<\/p>\n

Literally after a week the cracks stopped bothering me, and another week later they are effectively gone.<\/p>\n

It bothers me that the doctor said that all is good when all is apparently not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finish every dinner with three pills. Pill one is glucosamine. Many years ago I had trouble with my knees and my hips. They hurt a bit and “clicked”. My biochemist parents suggested glucosamine. Apparently vegetarians may need glucosamine supplements. It made an immediate difference. Whenever I take a break – travelling, running out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}