Vegan supplements: when calming heartburn with dairy doesn't cut it anymore

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When you're sick, it can often be very hard to stay vegan, as many of the

generic remedies on the market are not marketed to vegans. When you're coughing

up a lung or have unending heartburn, you just want to feel better without

worrying whether you're swallowing cow hooves.

 

 

Supplements can be just as bad. Often, people who are taking supplements are

deficient in a particular vitamin for a reason and need to take pills to either

prevent a condition or relieve it. Vegans are recommended to take supplements

because of the vitamins they don't get in their daily diet compared to a

non-vegan diet.

 

 

In the store looking for probiotics yesterday, there were only three brands (out

of a lot) that were non-dairy, and one that was vegetarian (i.e. did not use

gelatin capsules or any other animal product). If a supplement company is

vegetarian, it will normally go out of its way to say it on the label. If the

word " vegetarian " is not easy to find, it is probably not vegetarian nor vegan.

 

Things to watch out for in the ingredients of vitamins, medicines and

supplements:

 

Gelatin capsules

Anything that says whey or milk

Glycerin

Casein

Mono and di-glycerides

These are just a few; click here for a more complete list of non-vegan

ingredients and products.

 

There are so many vegan supplements out there today! Just take advantage of them

and you and your body will probably be better off. A friend told me about Alive!

the other day and prompted this article. This product has so many people raving

about it, I'm surprised I haven't 'become Alive!' too. The exclamation is a

definite selling point, if the thousands of vitamins and nutrients on the label

don't get you. In reading the label it looks good, though I'm not sure where the

amino acids come from. I'm open to information anyone has on the subject. For a

slightly biased but detailed review of Alive!,

 

Ask your pharmacist next time you go to read you the labels of what he is giving

you. Chances are if you ask for a product that is not animal-derived, they can

find you one.

 

Moral of the story: When it's bad, feel free to just do what you have to do to

feel better. But in the meantime, do some research and stock up on vitamins,

medicines and supplements that make you feel better physically as well as

emotionally. Next time you reach for those painkillers for your headache,

you'll have a vegan supply ready.