I take many other supplements (eg calcium and minerals) besides those emphasized in your book. It it OK to add them to the shakes?

I don't see any problem with that, but I would make sure, with your physician's help or perhaps ours, that you aren't taking too much of a particular vitamin or mineral.

Also, it does sound like you're taking a very large number of supplements. The trouble with that, unless you started them all separately, is figuring out how each one is affecting you. If you start them all at once, or even in groups, it can be really hard to now whether each individual supplement is helping, doing nothing or even harming. This becomes exponentially more complex with each supplement you add.

It may be very difficult for you to ascertain whether the elemental diet is working if you are taking so many other supplements along with it. Unless you know you are having great success with your other supplements, I might eliminate the ones that aren't essential for the other conditions you're dealing with during the elemental diet. At least a portioni of them are included in sufficient quantities in the elemental diet. Then, after you finish the elemental diet and have a sense of how that affected you, I'd add the supplements back in one by one.

This sounds laborious, and may be unnecessary in your case. But it's the only way I was able to ascertain how supplements affect me.

Chris