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Dr. Oz
YOU: Staying Young
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YOU: Staying Young
YOU: Staying Young
by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and
Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
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Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements
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Vitamins and supplements can be beneficial to your health, but the number of choices available today can be overwhelming. Use the guide below to see the optimum daily dosage of many vitamins, minerals and supplements.

VITAMINS OPTIMUM
A More than 2,500 IU is too much (unless you have an eye condition called wet macular degeneration).
B Get at least the daily value (DV) of all the Bs plus a little more than daily value of these Bs:
B1 (thiamin) 25 mg.
B2 (riboflavin) 25 mg.
B3 (niacin) At least 30 mg, and you can take lots more after speaking with your doctor if you have elevated lousy cholesterol or trigylcerides.
B5 (pantothenic acid) 300 mg.
B6 (pyridoxine) 4 mg.
B9 (folic acid or folate) 400 mcg.
B12 (cyanocobalamin) 800 mcg.
Biotin 300 mcg.
C 800 mg or 50 mg twice a day if you're taking a statin drug.
D 800 IU if under age sixty; 1,000 if sixty or over.
E 400 IU in the form of mixed tocopherols. Reduce to 100 IU from supplements if you're taking a statin drug.
K You should get enough in normal diet.

MINERALS Get a daily value of all the usual suspects in your multivitamin plus these in higher quantity.
Calcium This comes from many sources, so total all of them up and get at least 1,600 total mg for women, 1,200 mg for men.
Magnesium 400 mg.
Selenium 200 mcg.
Zinc 15 mg.
Potassium 4 servings of fruit, plus a normal diet should do it.

 
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