Pre-Conception Vitamin Amount Recommendations?

[Guest guest]

I've seen the WAP food guidelines for pregnant and nursing mothers and

I follow many of them. I know that some people here don't believe in

vitamins, since our food should be enough. However, in my case, I

think my body has been deficient in many things for years. In the

fall, I had my vitamin and mineral levels checked. B12 was almost

getting low and everything else was fine. I'd been taking massive

doses of things for 6 months in my quest to heal my adrenal fatigue.

It seems that when a person takes 10,000% percent of the RDA of

something (in my case, pantothenic acid), and their blood levels are

in the middle of normal, then their body must not being absorbing it

right, or they need more than most people.

Anyway, I imagine that before I started taking a zillion vitamins, I

must've been deficient in several things. My goal is to make sure I'm

not low on anything before conceiving. I had severe morning sickness

last time, which I hope to avoid. I was looking through Adelle 's

book " Let's Have Healthy Children " and saw the chart of her

recommended vitamin doses. Of course, I'm sure a lot of new research

has come out in 30 years, so I'd like your opinions of how much I

should take of various things.

I'm especially interested in your opinions of these amounts she

recommended:

-3 mg iodine (my multi has 150 mcg)

-1000 mg choline

-1000 mg inositol

-1-5 mg folic acid

Also, what is your opinion of vitamin K? My multi doesn't have any.

Finally, I'm thinking of following Dr. Klennar's recommendations on

vitamin C (4 g/day for the first trimester then increasing the amounts

after that).