I went to chemist couple of weeks / maybe 10 days ago to inquire about good quality B1 and B3 vitamins. I usually buy those from the internet. I wanted to talk to someone who knows about them a bit. I was lucky that the owner chemist was there that day. He insisted all vitamins, regardless, best quality and most expensive have a lot of fillers and not good! I was surprised he had some popular brands on display. But he was not selling me any.
He said keep away unless you are proven to be deficient. He told me to the usual; eat well -organic , plenty sunshine and swim, sea water is great for releasing toxins and getting minerals through skin etc..
He also suggested to drink mineral water twice a day. I started to do this. Not sure whether it's a placebo, but I've been feeling a bit better past 3 days. It didn't happen suddenly but a gradual feeling of having more energy. However I started to compare mineral water brands contents from various areas, the one I was drinking had a very high sodium. This might be a problem in future. I would prefer one with high calcium content because I don't eat dairy. It would be good to supplement calcium in my case.
I've read so many articles about mineral water, most athletes use it to replace minerals as they sweat too much during exercise and they use many different brands with different ratios of mineral content. They don't stick with the same brand from the same area.
Though I don't exercise and sweat a lot, I always benefited from IV saline with hydrolites whenever I ended up in A&E. I don't know why though. Maybe it is my diet restrictions causes some deficiency in minerals or ME is causing the deficiency. However my last blood test was OK for most minerals.
I also eat a lot of molasses for iron replacement as I'm always either deficient or borderline. My favorite is carob molasses.