How Many Supplements Do You Currently Have?

panda

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I was staring at my cabinet, and lord, just too many bottles of supplements (around 20).

These are the ones I have used at least once in the last month. (Lets use this metric to list your supplements)

Niacinamide
Vitamin E
Caffeine Pills
K2-MK4
Super K
Aspirin
L-Tyrosine
BCAA
Creatine
Vitamin D3
Magnesium Optimizer (magnesium malate and taurine)
Magnesium Citrate
Stress B-Complex (B's with zinc and cooper)
B-50
Vitamin C
Rhodiola
L-Theanine
Glycine
Taurine
B1 (Thiamine)

To be honest, I think it's insane, I need to do something about it. I wonder what is your opinion about taking too many supplements.

How do you control your variables?
How do you know if a specific supplement is helping at all? (and not the other 1356 things you're doing to improve your health).

Probably some of them are doing something, maybe one or two are really good for you, but I wonder if most of them are just expensive placebos, or even damaging you in some way in the long run.

How many do you have at home right now? Which ones have you used at least once in the last month?
 

Stilgar

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Well, if I ever throw mine out, I tend to get annoyed and wish I hadn't done it at some point in the future. I put mine on a shelf rather than in a cupboard so I would look at them every day, remind myself to take them, and so I can see what I have.

I tend to not worry so much about the supplements I can't feel working. If I can feel them working, then I probably needed them? There a couple of exceptions for me- vitamin K really, and some things which are temporary experiments to see if I feel a difference. Everything else I have at least at some point noticed a difference.

Mostly I use:

thiroyd
cynomel
aspirin
vitamin k
magnesium chloride
eggshell calcium
vitamin A
b12 methycobalamin
niacinamide
progest e
vitamin e oil
cascara
iron biglycinate

Everything else is just old stuff, experiments or stuff I don't use much or just occasionally, or are herbal remedies that I use very infrequently.

Stop worrying and take positive steps! Once you health improves, the supplements become a pride and joy or just pointless!
 

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I try to keep it as simple as possible.

I take these daily:

Vitamin A (x2) - NOW Fish Liver Oil
Vitamin D - Vitamin D3
Vitamin K - Life Extension Super K
Vitamin E - Unique E
Zinc - NOW Zinc Picolinate
Copper - Vitamin Shoppe
Aspirin - Dollar Store Brand
Thyroid

I have this laying around, but don't take it consistently:
Vitamin B - Pure Encapsulations B-Complex

I think the fat soluble vitamins are definitely helping. I don't really notice much from the Zinc/Copper.
 

Peatri Dish

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Here's the list of what's hanging around my pantry.


B1,2,3,6,7
Cynomel
Glycine
Taurine
Pregnenolone
Progest E
D3
K2
Aspirin
Caffeine
Yes. It's a little crazy, but when you consider how compromised our food supply is, it makes it a little more understandable.
Looking back over the list, I realize I wouldn't need half of these if I could get fruit fed pork, fee range (really) eggs, organic cream without carrageenan, grass fed beef that wasn't aged. Fruit that was picked when it was ripe, Cheese without enzymes made with grass fed cow milk...you get the idea.
 

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I think your question about how we know a supplement is working and how we control variables is a good one. I have similar questions about all the other tactics/variables we employ too. For most of the supps I use I have significant uncertainty; some of them I notice an effect quickly, others I suspect are positive.

Here's my list, not all Peat approved. * means I'm fairly sure I've noticed a short term difference from these at least sometimes.
Daily
*Vit B1,2,3,5,6,7,12 (I mix powders in water for a week's dosing)
Vit A, D, E, K (recently started estroban)
Calcium carbonate (oyster shell)
*Mag glycinate, mag bicarb water*
*progest-e
*NWT (small amount chicken neck stock, frozen in icecube trays, heated to eat)
*NaCl
*sucrose
baking soda (in commercial juice to reduce acidity)

Occasional/intermittent, used at least once in last month:
*casgara sagrada
Thorne K2
Vit E, Vit D
glycine, taurine, BCAA, theanine
zinc picolinate
*aspirin
ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate

Have in stock, considering trying, not sure if it's wise:
milk thistle
vitex
D-mannose (will use if I get a UTI)
Flower of sulphur (Im using it topically regularly, but not tried internally yet, may use briefly for worming later in the year. )
copper salicylate (don't know if this is wise, would like opinions)

I also use these medicines:
*pizotifen daily for migraine prophylaxis (have not read an opinion from Peat on this, would be interested if others have knowlege or experience of it)
*ibuprofen to interrupt early migraine
*sumatriptan to abort migraine
*cyproheptadine

I also have some old supps from RBTI times, several including dodgy excipients, and some min-col and seaweed.
I wonder if min-col (multi-mineral coloid) might be useful - opinions welcome.
 

yoshiesque

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Why are people taking glycine? I thought you could just get that (and in much greater amounts for cheaper too) through the use of Great Lakes Gelatin and bone broth?
 

BingDing

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I try to do every day:

Tyrosine
R Alpha Lipoic Acid
Theanine
T3 and/or NDT
Estroban-ADEK
Energin B1,2,3,6,7 1/2 dose, 20 drops
Thorne K2-15mg
Iodine-150mcg
Methylene Blue micro dose
Glycine
Taurine
Milk Thistle
Betaine Anhydrous or Methylfolate & Methylcobalimin
Creatine
Mag bicarb
Potas'm bicarb
Tianeptine

One day a week
D3 20,000 IU
Nutrisorb A 5,000 IU
Copper
Zinc
Chromium
Manganese
Selenium
CoQ10
Cinnamon
B5

Those are the goals, I often forget something.

Occasionally Progest-E for a while, pregnenalone for a while, cypro, cascara, charcoal, vinpocetine, piracetam, ondasetron.

I bought but have yet to try Lisuride, Naltrexone, Minocycline and Acetazolamide.
 

Sirkama

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Way too many. I'm trying to cut down because I feel that I'm having allergic reactions to some of them.

Daily:
Magnesium Optimizer (magnesium malate, taurine and some potassium)
Glycine
Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
K2 (MK-4)
B1
Methylcobalamin
Iodine

Occasionally:
Aspirin
Thiroyd
Meclizine
Copper
Manganese
Molybdenum
B2
Calcium carbonate
D3
 

uuy8778yyi

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vitamin c
silica from biosil

taurine
lysine
proline
glycine

all for collagen, learnt from Linus Pauling

vitamin k2
 

Candeias

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Daily:

Mag Glycin
Herbs for varicose veins (gotu kola, rutin, horse chestnut seeds, witch hazel)
Vitamin D
Selenium
Lugol 5% (topically)

Occasonally:

Lysine acetylsalicylate
Zinc Picolinat
Vitamin A
 

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