there's quite a few drug interaction checkers in the useful sticky - some include vitamins and herbs - you might have to check to see which ones do - I can't remember.

here it is -
http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Interac...,4109,,00.html

Great site for looking up vitamins and minerals.

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/

Try to find a homeopathic store. We have one here and they have a licensed pharmacist/naturopath and I took in all my blood tests and meds and reviewed with hm and he made suggestions and took into account interactions.

I use two brands that i like metagenics and new chapter organics.

drugs is this:

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/

This is the most complete source on the net I have found so far.

thanks so much for everyones responses...i went and brought some flax seed capsules today and a multivitamin tablet too!

For brain nutrients:

b12

Flax seed oil or seeds ground. Something like 10,000 stronger than fish oil nutrients.

I like a Gatorade type drink - I don't know why but it clears my skin and makes me feel better.

Eating pure real food is always better than fried fast food. Remember that a LOT of chicken and beef and shrimp "comes from" (or is distributed by) China, where there are few if any checks. (The head checker from last year committed suicide over the dog food problem.) So your favoriate fast food place's $2 burrito may be from chicken literally flown around the world...yuck.

Try to buy local fresh food. NO preservatives, fake color, etc., food life extenders or food smoothers or thickeners that aren't real and you don't know what they are - so they are chemicals. READ the labels.

When making salads, start having a salad night where you start with torn greens, (don't buy those packages, but if you do, rinse with cold water throughly as they could have been processed right after a meat processing and maybe picked up something), add things like raising and nuts, or goat cheese and nuts, etc., to raise the nutrient level.

Do not buy salad dressing anymore. Use virgin olive oil as a base. Then add lemon juice. Then you can add anything - mustard, or cheeses, spices, etc. If you want a light dressing, use a light good oil, and you can use rice vinegar and soy sauce, or add a little peanut butter to get that good Asian taste. Does anyone buy dressing anymore? (Except on rare occasion?)

ALSO, wheat germ comes regular or honey nut, so you can add that to salads salty or sweetish, and really make a good salad the people won't even notice the wheat germ. I like Kretcner's (sp?) It's also good as a tsp. in soup. Or on ice cream, before the hot chocolate addition. Really tasty.

I am becoming, evolving, into a vegetarian because I hate how animals have to die for a steak! Anyone else getting like this?

Meat kind of grosses me out too... Not so much that it was an animal (we are on top of the food chain after all) but that God only knows what kind of hormones are put into animals being raised for food. Im not too big on dairy either, for that same reason.

Im not sure about vitamins - there are so many reports that one vitamin is good for you and another vitamin is worthless - that I dont know what to believe anymore. I just take with a womans daily vitamin and stick with a healthy diet (lots of whole grains, fruit and vegatables), low fat and no refined sugar.

Mtnmom- good for you w/ the diet!! I try to eat healthy, but if i'm up late (11pm-1 or 2am) its pretty much a given that I'll eat.

Regarding the supplements, my doc prescribed B-12 injections... the good part is that insurance paid, but I had to stick myself. That was the cyano-something B12. Now I take the methyl-something B12....it is supposedly absorbed by the body better.