Benefits of Berocca

I had never heard of the stuff, but due to my excessive fatigue recently, a friend gave me some.

It really seems to have an effect.

Is there any scientific evidence to say it makes you ‘sharper’?

No,just makes your wee yellow(er)

If you are missing stuff like vitamins due to crap diet maybe. If not then its snake oil

Placebo effect, snake-oilery, homeo-bullcrap – what ever you choose to call it, we also use them.

We tend to do so when feeling under the weather at altitude, like skiing in the alps, and they work a treat. Absolutely no idea why.

Aspartame filled rubbish.

Overall I am a fan of multi-vits.

We had a thread on vitamins a while ago. I have been taking it for 15 (?) years. I used to get lots of colds (any time of year) Berocca knocked those on the head even though I was commuting in a packed train full of sick people. Spoke years ago to semi-pro footballer and they all take vitamins to avoid colds etc (Zinc plus Vit C is vip I recall). I have a decent diet with lots of veg and fish, relatively little meat (twice a week ?)

What? Benefits?

Or rather, what benefits…

Makes your piss orange, that’s about it.

I tried for 6 months last winter, I could have drank myself into oblivion with the money wasted on the fake nonsense…

Honestly, marketing at its finest.

Do what Jam says, Multi Vits and eat well..

[STW] Tried em once didn’t like em. All filler and no meat. As if anyone needed a reminder:

I live well on pork scratchings and pie and never feel listless. If I wanted to feel tired and weak I’d eat rabbit food [/STW]

I used it daily for ages. A mate who’s really into his nutrition and is a biochemist reckons it’s made from crap and that some of the contents may have less than a 5% absorption rate hence why you just wee it straight out. He advised I try Ola Loa which is powdered and not pressed into a tablet. It tastes foul and has got much higher quality ingredients albeit it at 5 times the price.

Made the swap about a month ago and have had a cold eve since.

Go figure.

Do what Jam says, Multi Vits and eat well

Isn’t it just a multi vitamin in a different form?! I prefer the Boots own brand ones. They’re cheap, taste nice, and may help in some way. Good enough for me.

Made the swap about a month ago and have had a cold eve since.

Amazing.

Isn’t it just a multi vitamin in a different form?! I prefer the Boots own brand ones. They’re cheap, taste nice, and may help in some way. Good enough for me.

Pah, Aldi for me. Contains real votamons apparently. And manerels.

I’m not a fan of the current marketing campaign which implies you need Berocca to perform well. It’s advertisements like that which twists viewers perspectives and makes them feel like they need something which they don’t. Like anti bacterial soap.

However, if you take a really complete multivitamin and don’t absorb 99%, then I do think that the 1% could be something you did really need. But this requires a really complete multivit.

Either way, they are not a substitute for eating rubbish all the time!

I believe most scientific research suggests that unless you are eating a very poor diet anything other than Vitamin D supplements are basically a waste of time, as your other needs are easily met by the modern diet.

I think you’ll find Sportsmen take multi-vitamins, you are not going to the Olympics on your 5 a day and a bit of poached chicken. Doctors regularly prescribe multi-vits eg during pregnancy and for fertility in both sexes or for recovery plus of course all the specialist “seniors” supplements 😉

Excess Vit-C you wee out and as Borocca has 500% recommended daily dose the body takes what it needs (maybe be more than 100% RDA ?) and these rest is surplus but does no damage. Much more than Vit-C in there of course.

There are many choices other than Berocca.

Cost. I buy it in Boots on 3 for 2 in the 45 tab box. From memory that works out at 25p a day, so that’s £1.75 a week.

I think you’ll find Sportsmen take multi-vitamins, you are not going to the Olympics on your 5 a day and a bit of poached chicken. Doctors regularly prescribe multi-vits eg during pregnancy and for fertility in both sexes or for recovery plus of course all the specialist “seniors” supplements

So what your saying is that the OP is a pregnant Olympian.

It’s the bit B in it that makes it work for you.

But don’t buy berrocca brand, both Tesco and Sainsburys sell their own version for about half the price. Think sainsburys is called energise, but either way just check the % of the vits on the back and you’ll see they are the same.

contents may have less than a 5% absorption rate hence why you just wee it straight out

If you haven’t absorbed it doesn’t come out in your urine. Its the other hole nearby that does the stuff you’ve not absorbed

My googling suggests it is Snake oil. But the Placebo effect is strong so I wish I could believe in it.

i used to use as quite happy to try anything that possibly stops me getting colds and then the resulting sinus infection I always get – stopped when during a chat with GP about smallest antigee’s low blood pressure (a complex medical condition which includes salt losing) she suggested berroca as rammed full of salt which I’d never noticed – so if like me you are trying to control high blood pressure avoid

If you haven’t absorbed it doesn’t come out in your urine. Its the other hole nearby that does the stuff you’ve not absorbed

That’s not strictly true now is it?

That’s not strictly true now is it?

Well if it is in your urine it was absorbed into you blood stream through the stomach wall. It is the removed from your blood by the Kidneys.

So I would say fibre is not absorbed

Excess vitamins are rapidly excreted

But its not my area of expertise

I think you’ll find Sportsmen take multi-vitamins

The “multi-vitamins” they take aren’t the ones you take.

I’ve been taking it for over a year and from that point I haven’t had a cold, despite the eldest now being at the greatest germ exchange know to mankind, school. Placebo effect or not it’s going to continue.

how about a flu vaccination instead ?

i found it useful if i had been burning the candle at both ends through work or as a hangover cure.
if i had a few early starts and late finishes i found it wouldn’t stop me feeling tired or give me energy but did alleviate the groggy fuzzy headed feeling.

wouldn’t want to be taking it every day though, one tube lasts me about a year.

how about a flu vaccination instead ?

How will that stop a common cold?

I found it makes me drink alot of water. Just to get rid of the taste.

Aspartame filled rubbish.

I’m going to regret this but, what’s wrong with Aspartame? It’s one of the most tested foodstuffs on the planet (largely because of baseless scare stories).

You can see your pee in the dark => you dont need to turn lights on at night => save electricity => the worlds a better place => drink more and repeat

The “multi-vitamins” they take aren’t the ones you take.

Really? In what way. Surely a vitamin is a vitamin.

If your pee is bright yellow you’re pissing out unused and unneeded vitamins.

Or colouring?

We recently halved the cost of taking them.
As there’s over 200% RDA for most of the ingredients, we use half a tab in a smaller glass of water.
bargain.

Or colouring?

Excess Vit B makes your piss orange.

We recently halved the cost of taking them.
As there’s over 200% RDA for most of the ingredients, we use half a tab in a smaller glass of water.
bargain.

🙂

By the way after Matt_OutwardBound’s thread I have been taking Montmorency Cherry Juice for blood pressure, seems to be working mine is down to 125/87 which is pretty low for me (140/90 more typical) and I am currently doing very little excersize which usually helps reduce it

I use generic effervescent vit tabs because I like the taste of them. For me they have a similar effect to nuun tablets (or other ‘hydration’ tabs) in that they make water feel more thirst quenching.

If you want the full berocca effect for a fraction of the cost then Aldi’s own brand tropical flavour will also turn your pee cool colours.

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By the way after Matt_OutwardBound’s thread I have been taking Montmorency Cherry Juice for blood pressure, seems to be working mine is down to 125/87 which is pretty low for me (140/90 more typical) and I am currently doing very little excersize which usually helps reduce it

cheers – didn’t see that thread – sounds like a good option, will give it a go