After having experimented with a lot of supplements over the years, I have found that they all end up causing side effects.
Whether it be T3, aspirin, B-vitamins, Theanine, Magnesium, Progesterone, Herbs, ....
Even in a supplement which had some initial benefits, the side-effects always end up outweighing those.
And it seems the benefits get less and less, with the side-effects getting worse and worse, the longer I use a supplement.
An example is minocycline. First times I tried it, it produced some great effects, with increased tolerance to foods, etc. Now, it has been several months since I've last used it, and if I try even a few days of taking it, it produces nothing but side-effects (which weren't so bad first time I used it, but are now horrible), with little to no benefits. Has my body "learned" about minocycline, now "rejecting it"?
What's your experience with long-term supplementation? Have you found any supplement/drug that you could take for long periods of time (weeks or months or more) and it still benefited you? Any strategies to overcoming the decreasing benefits/increasing side-effects of supplements taken long-term?
Maybe there is something to the bodybuilder philosophy of cycling drugs, because the body "gets used to them"
Whether it be T3, aspirin, B-vitamins, Theanine, Magnesium, Progesterone, Herbs, ....
Even in a supplement which had some initial benefits, the side-effects always end up outweighing those.
And it seems the benefits get less and less, with the side-effects getting worse and worse, the longer I use a supplement.
An example is minocycline. First times I tried it, it produced some great effects, with increased tolerance to foods, etc. Now, it has been several months since I've last used it, and if I try even a few days of taking it, it produces nothing but side-effects (which weren't so bad first time I used it, but are now horrible), with little to no benefits. Has my body "learned" about minocycline, now "rejecting it"?
What's your experience with long-term supplementation? Have you found any supplement/drug that you could take for long periods of time (weeks or months or more) and it still benefited you? Any strategies to overcoming the decreasing benefits/increasing side-effects of supplements taken long-term?
Maybe there is something to the bodybuilder philosophy of cycling drugs, because the body "gets used to them"