What is on your Essential Daily Supplement list ?

[Richardg8092]

Not a real believer in the need for vitamins or supplements unless of course you have some underlying issue. All the vitamins you really need are in a good diet. I only add some vit D in winter.

Yes, folken, I agree that, in theory,  "All the vitamins you really need are in a good diet".
And whilst virtually everybody agrees on what makes for a BAD diet, the trouble is that NO-ONE can agree on what makes 'a good' diet.
Ask the experts, and you'll get - High Carb, Low Carb, Slow Carb. No meat, seafood, white meat, red meat. etc etc etc.
If we look at the western world, what most people eat is the Standard Americian Diet (the SAD diet). It's atrocious. High sugar, high fat, nutient poor.

Sometimes people say "as long as you get your fruit and vegies".
I say Fruit is 'Nature's candy'. Out in the field it's available for only a few weeks per year -  maybe that's about as often as we should eat it.
We talk about fruit as if it should be a staple - a part of our everyday diet. I think fruit should probably be regarded as a rare treat.
But the Supermarket is full of fruit ALL year round. (Picked before it's riped, cold stored for months...etc etc).

But I also would be the first to admit that the Supplement Industry is now Big Business - they're driven by profit, not concerns for people's health.
It's really difficult to sift out the science from the marketing.

I can only talk about my own diet - which I think is probably pretty good (most of the time) but I still wouldn't go without the supplements listed at the head of the thread.
Ofcourse, each to his/her/their own.
It's like ghostofjack says, the best we can do is " spend time keeping up with the newest research & opinions."