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Hi Mrs.D,
As you may know, I am on several antibiotics. These are all metabolized in the liver/kidney. My kidney and liver functions are regularly monitored.

Prior to the antibiotics, I have religiously taken most of the supplements listed in your thread. However, due to the toxicities of the antibiotics, I am thinking of just taking hte supplements on a "randomly" basis. My question is: would I get any benefits, even minimally, by taking the supplements intermittently i.e. 3x or 2x a week?

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You might. In the beginning, people who start supplements may be filling a "void" that was long standing.

Once that is fixed, then just keeping a bit of them going into those enzyme systems may be enough.

There just isn't much research on this subject, because it would cost lots of money, to guide people.

Omega-3's are essential, meaning we need to have them in the diet or supplemented. But other things like carnitine, CoQ-10, lipoic acid, are actually made by our bodies. (statins will deplete CoQ-10 over time because of their chemistry).

If something a person is taking is a depleter...then adding the depleted nutrient back in is important.

Ethambutol for example depletes copper and zinc. So taking those in a multivitamin or in the form of OptiZinc may be necessary over time. I don't recall your other drugs. Many antibiotics though over time deplete B-complex, inositol, Vit K
Biotin. But not all of them do this equally.
B12 I think you need daily. I wouldn't stop that.
Taking acid blocking drugs reduce nutrient status of
calcium
zinc
magnesium
B12
folate
iron. And those are only the ones we know about so far.
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Thank you very much for your reply Mrs.D and so sorry for the delayed acknowledgement, it has not been easy for me the past days.

You are so helpful and I appreciate it. I will take the minimum supplements you suggested.

Other than Ethambutol, the other antibiotics I take are Rifampin and Azithromycin.

Again, thank you.

I had my VitD3 tested 2 weeks ago and the result was 40. I was expecting to be h igher than this because of my supplementation. I was taking 2000mg of VitD3 prior to the test. I remember this was about the same number when I had it tested 2 years ago when I was not taking the supplement. I increased it to 4500mg after I got hte result. The Rifampin must be affecting the absorption of my VitD3.
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Thank you very much for your reply Mrs.D and so sorry for the delayed acknowledgement, it has not been easy for me the past days.

You are so helpful and I appreciate it. I will take the minimum supplements you suggested.

Other than Ethambutol, the other antibiotics I take are Rifampin and Azithromycin.

Again, thank you.

I had my VitD3 tested 2 weeks ago and the result was 40. I was expecting to be h igher than this because of my supplementation. I was taking 2000mg of VitD3 prior to the test. I remember this was about the same number when I had it tested 2 years ago when I was not taking the supplement. I increased it to 4500mg after I got hte result. The Rifampin must be affecting the absorption of my VitD3.
Yes, Rifampin is listed as a depleter of Vit D.

Azithromycin is like erythromycin and other macrolides:
Depletes all the B's
inositol
kills off good bacteria in the bowel
Vit K
Biotin
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