What kind of supplements do you take and how often?

Discussion in 'Health & Fitness' started by kira, Oct 10, 2011.

  1. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    No, she works on a computer all day, dont know why she gets them but she does
     
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  3. elte Valued Senior Member

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    Yours is a very swell and kind thoughtfulness.

    I take the aspirin mainly for colon protection from cancer. I've read that research implicates it in the lowering of cancer risk in general, even, and that might be because of its anti-inflammatory nature. Yet it is still a drug, meaning the body wouldn't normally know to seek it out or be capable of using it as well overall like natural nutrients. That is why I have decided to take it during the nutritionally lean months as a partial substitute for a nutritious diet.

    I've come to think that a lot of any one nutrient can become like a drug in the body. I can imagine meat-eating hunter/gathers getting pretty much vitamin B-12, yet, getting a lot of it without the meat could have side effects. I haven't the means right now for an active life, so having a lot of energy might not be a good thing.
     
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  5. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    I guess one reason to take half every day is it's easier to remember. I would do that with the aspirin when I am taking them, but they aren't elongated with the score line for easy breakage into two pieces.

    I tend to think that your thought is right about it being optimal to get just the right nutrients right where they are needed. However, between getting too much of something and too little, too little sounds better to me than too much.

    My dad took a lot of pills and supplements and I can't tell that it helped him, and maybe it hurt him, RIP. Maybe wore his body systems out faster.
     
  8. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

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    The uterus has smooth muscle...
     
  9. parul Registered Senior Member

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    yoga has much impact
     
  10. scheherazade Northern Horse Whisperer Valued Senior Member

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    You seem to have given considerable thought and weight to the preferred benefit of naturally sourced nutrients and then use supplements only to make up the seasonal deficiencies as you are aware of them.

    While I can only speculate on what challenges you are facing in the sentence which I have made bold, you demonstrate also that you understand the relationship between diet and personal energy.

    I appreciate your style of presentation. It is not confrontational nor assuming, you just state for the record what you are doing and the reasons you are doing so. It does not presume 'right' or 'wrong' and leaves the reader free to choose how to utilize the details you provide.

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  11. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    We're only a few hundred generations away from our Paleolithic ancestors, who spent many hours every day walking, running and exerting themselves physically in many other ways, such as overpowering tonight's dinner and reaching into the trees for fruit. That's not enough time for us to have evolved a different physiology. (Dogs, in comparison, have gone through more than ten thousand generations in those same 12,000 years, so they are considerably better adapted to modern life than we are--mentally, physically and emotionally.)

    It has lately been asserted that the Electronic Revolution has introduced a major health challenge into modern life, by allowing us to work while sitting down. Our caveman hunter-gatherer bodies are clearly not suited for this. We are exhorted to get up out of our chairs (designed so "ergonomically" that we become one with them like a plant taking root) once every hour and walk briskly for a few minutes, even if it's just up and down the hall. Up and down a flight of stairs would be even better. If you can pop outside and kill an aurochs for dinner, or at least outrun a cave lion who wants to make you his dinner, that would be super.

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    "Aerobic" workouts are certainly better than nothing, but going through the stylized motions of a caveman's daily life once every other day, without the endorphins and hormones that increased his alertness, strength and endurance, really is only "better than nothing," according to this latest generation of fitness experts.

    These people are actually advocating that the next generation of offices be built with the working surfaces about a foot (30cm) higher, so your children can work standing up like your great-greatgrandparents did.

    I've always believed that wacky new hypotheses should be tested carefully for a couple of generations (by somebody else!) before taking them seriously. Still, your friend's skeletomuscular discomfort could very easily be the result of her joints being held almost stationary for long spells--there's nothing really controversial about that suggestion.

    I do a yoga position called "The Writer." (Different schools have different names for it but this one suits my job.) I reach my right hand over my right shoulder, reach my left hand around my back, grasp the fingers of both hands together, and hold the position for 60 seconds; then reverse the position and do it on the other side for 60 seconds. I find it to be very good at releasing the tension in my upper body after working on a keyboard for an hour. If you try it and your fingers don't quite reach, that's prima facie evidence that you need to do it!

    For my lower body... well I just go outside two or three times a day and hunt groundhogs. The flavor is kind of gamey but my dogs love 'em.

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    One could easily find just as many articles taking the opposite position. Everybody's different. Some of us eat near-perfect diets and get all the nutrition we need from our food. Some of us don't. I despise vegetables and generally subsist on meat, bread, fruit and chocolate, so I'm careful to take supplements. I notice a major deterioration if I go off my calcium (which has to be taken between meals) or magnesium, my doctor insists that I take lots of potassium, and my wife is a Vitamin C advocate so I take it because as far as I can tell it won't cause any harm.
     
  12. elte Valued Senior Member

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    I see benefit in a diet whose objective is to enable the DNA to work as well as possible. In the cases where those biological instructions are seriously corrupted, drugs are the present way of treating the resulting disease. In the future, systemic DNA repair will hopefully be widely available as a cure.

    Thanks for your thoughtful observation about the way I post. I try to say things in an unemotional way, and hopefully that helps people relax.
     

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