Daily Supplements

If you're thinking about going vegan, one of the things you should consider is the use of supplements to ensure that you are meeting your daily nutrition requirements.  Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn recommends the use of the following:

• A daily multivitamin
• 1,000 mcg of vitamin B12 daily
• 1,000 mg of calcium daily for those over 50 and 1,200 mg for those over 60
• 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily for those over 50
• 1 tablespoon of flaxseed meal daily to supply Omega-3 fatty acids

You can mix the flaxseed meal in with one of your meals if you like.  I add it to my Oatmeal Quick Meal.

Personally, I take 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily.  There has been a lot of interesting information about vitamin D that has come out over the last few years and anyone interested in learning more would be hard pressed to find more information than is contained on the Gibson Research Corporation's site.  Steve Gibson makes available his audio podcast detailing his painstaking research into vitamin D as well as links to many clinical trials and studies.  You can find this all here:

GRC Vitamin D Research