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AREDS 2 and side effects

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I had the same thing happen with AREDS2, so I bought all the ingredients in that formulary separately and tested them each to see what was causing the stomach upset and pain. It turns out that the culprit was copper. So now I take all the ingredients minus copper and am doing just fine. I do eat liver once a week as it is a good source of copper. I might add that I did try a more user friendly copper for my stomach issue and that did not help. We just need to do the best we can.....

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mosaics | @mosaics | May 24, 2023

Did you take the same amounts of all the vitamins and minerals, excluding the copper, that the AREDS contained? I think it has a very high zinc content.

I’m not quite ready to call it for sure, but in addition to the digestive upset (described in another post by me), I think the AREDS was causing me to lose hair at an alarming rate. In the past few years, I noticed that I was shedding a more than normal amount of hair in the shower/after shower finger combing/seeing hairs on our dark hardwood floors.

At first I thought it was my imagination and I was being paranoid. Then I thought it was just an aging thing and I was just shedding more hair during the normal cycle that everyone goes through.

But it’s been about six months since I stopped taking the AREDS. And I’ve realized that I’m losing noticeably less hair.

So, like I said, I’m not ready to call it. But it’s very coincidental.

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