Vegetarian Runners - Any tips?

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Sep 2017
4:13pm, 19 Sep 2017
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BexleyKev
Vegan Worcester Sauce ( Biona ) at Holland and Barrett ( buy one free mix and match )
Sep 2017
7:23pm, 25 Sep 2017
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Jenelopy
Do you vegan/veggie runners regularly have you iron and/or B12 levels checked?

I never do, figuring that if I have symptoms that would be the time to go to the doctors and get things checked. But then sometimes I wonder if feeling tired is due to not getting enough sleep or a deficiency.
Sep 2017
5:38am, 26 Sep 2017
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Little Miss Happy
Despite being on a daily supplement by iron levels are often low Jenelopy - I only get symptomatic when they are really quite below the norm. I have pernicious anaemia so have B12 injections every six weeks as I can't absorb it through the gut.
Sep 2017
5:39am, 26 Sep 2017
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Little Miss Happy
My, my iron levels (fingers too fast for brain at this time of the morning:-)
Sep 2017
8:48am, 26 Sep 2017
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HappyG(rrr)
I was astonished at the difference in dose I was given my doc when my iron was "officially" low vs. in an off the shelf supplement. 300mg (Ferrous Gluconate - maybe that's not all iron?) x 3 per day vs a daily B12 plus iron - 14mg!

Anyone know what's "correct"? :-) G
Sep 2017
9:21am, 26 Sep 2017
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becca7
The totals differ for men and women, of course, but the RDA for women would be about the level of that daily one. The tablets would have been higher dosage to restore iron levels and cure the deficiency.
Sep 2017
10:23am, 26 Sep 2017
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Little Miss Happy
Higher mileage runners will need a bit more than the average person too.
Jan 2018
9:04pm, 11 Jan 2018
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smallclanger
About the strengths of iron. Though your ferrous gluconatd are 300mg there is something like 65mg elemental iron bit even so it is massively more than the tiny amount in what you can buy in a off the shelf prep. You can buy ferrous gluconate I believe..I used to buy my ferrous fumarate when I was on those..but you have to go to the pharmacy. They may well be cheaper than a prescription. I’m a pharmacy tech who has her eye on our prescribing budget so felt that as I was iron deficient cos of my diet then it was only reasonable that I buy my iron and not waste GP time and resources.

Don’t forget too that you should avoid taking your iron with a cup of tea as the tea restricts the absorption of iron.
Iron juice is best.
Jan 2018
10:08pm, 11 Jan 2018
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Garfield
Interesting...and I'm interested in this, having stopped eating meat back in December. I've taken a B complex tablet for years - usually either B50 or B100....referring to mg or mcg of each, depending on which ones were involved.

My mom was a health food nut when I was a child, so have been fed vitamins for years and found they've helped over the years. I also worked in a health food shop for several years and read up tons on vitamins and herbs during that time. In those days I was eating very little meat, but more fish, cheese and chicken. Quite a bit of cheese...to the extent that I'd have to stop eating cheese a month before going to my doc for my annual checkup or he'd tell me my cholesterol was high due to cheese being my favourite food!

Another thing I've read is that taking zinc and iron inhibit the absorption of each other, so shouldn't be taken together.
Jan 2018
8:47am, 12 Jan 2018
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HappyG(rrr)
I find vitamins and mineral supplements so confusing. If there is a multi vitamin with everything in it, why would you need to take others too? I know folk who take 10 or 15 different pills once or twice a day. I would have no idea what that was all for!

I've got a cold and I was told Vit C + Zinc can help to avoid colds. But I'm veggie now (18 months) and I'm told my iron intake is prob insufficient with 50+ miles per week running. But Iron + Zinc a no go? The iron supplement I was taking was Iron + B something (B12?, B2?) Then I tried to do a daily multi vitamin but maybe I'm actually inhibiting uptake of something else by doing that?! So confusing! :-) G

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