The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Cheap and worth having: ferritin, B12, vitamin D. Everything else on the deficiency list is adequately covered by a standard multivitamin at ordinary doses.
One thing that is still open after Dr.PulmRoch’s answer:
Which deficiencies actually show up when intake drops this far, and which are worth testing rather than supplementing blind?
PeptideSynthNJ said:Cheap and worth having: ferritin, B12, vitamin D.
Coming at PeptideSynthNJ’s question from a different direction. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.
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View ResultsOP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Closing the loop. The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.
PedsEndoPhilly said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.