Supplements

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stvtm said the following on 11/14/2011 9:31 AM:

> Hi Rick,

>

> What supplements and brands do you take?

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>

Hi ,

I change all the time due to new info, price, availability, etc. Right now:

Dr Murray Mens 50+ MultiStart multi-vitamin 2 x day (2 x day is 1 in AM

& 1 in PM)

Country Life Calcium-Magnesium-Zinc 1000-500-25 2 x day

Now Foods Magnesium Citrate - extra 200 mg magnesium 1 in AM

Now Foods DHA500 2 x day

Now Foods EPA360 2 x day

Now Foods Amino Complete 1500 mg 2 x day

Now Foods L-Arganine 1000 mg 2 x day

Now Foods _D3 5000 iu 2 x day (most important!)_

generic biotin 5000 mcg in AM (what ever is prescribed by my PCP, paid

by PACE)

generic melatonin 3 mg in PM (what ever is prescribed by my PCP, paid by

PACE)

Nutrition Now PB8 Probiotics 2 x day (important)

Natural Factors CoQ10 100 mg 2 x day

Natures Plus Vitamin K2 (menaquinone MK7) 120 mcg in AM

Now Foods Spirulina 500 mg 2 AM 2 PM

Now Foods Chlorella 500 mg 2 AM 2 PM

Organic India Tumeric 500 mg 2 x day

Jarrow Methyl B-12 5000 mcg in AM

Solaray Astaxanthin 4 mg 1 in AM

Now Foods Ashwagandha 450 mg 2 x day

Natures Way Valerian Root 2 in PM

I get most of these from the local Natural Grocers (Vitamin Cottage)

store, some on Amazon.com

I regularly consult my PCP, a personal nutritionist, and the

nutritionist at Nat Groc

My PCP dr will prescribe all these for me but I have to take what they

have where my presc are filled. I do not know what I am getting so I

decline. They send the cheapest they can get. I am in this new PACE

program, they pay for anything your dr prescribes.

http://www.medicare.gov/Nursing/Alternatives/PACE.asp

Remember about 3-4 weeks ago there was an article in the mainstream

media from the CDC about how harmful supplements were and they were

trying to pass legislation to ban them? What they didnt say is that the

studies were conducted using " synthetic " supplements, which is true they

probably are harmful to your health. One of the studies cited was people

dying from taking vitamin E, it was synthetic.

Here is part of the article I saved:

No differentiation between synthetic versus natural vitamins

Further discrediting the conclusions of this study, *it did not

differentiate between synthetic vitamins and natural vitamins*. So

for all we know, these older women in the study could be taking

bottom-of-the-barrel vitamins found at common retailers like

Wal-Mart and grocery stores. These are cheap multivitamin brands

made with _synthetic chemicals that claim to be vitamins_ but really

aren't. Most of those vitamins are made by pharmaceutical companies!

And I would have to agree that taking /synthetic vitamin E/ is very,

very bad for your health, just like taking synthetic medications is

bad, too.

By avoiding any distinction between /synthetic/ versus /natural/

vitamins, the study authors knew that any negative results would

immediately be used to *discredit ALL vitamins*. This, of course,

was done by design. Virtually all the conventional medical studies

that look at vitamins use this same tactic, refusing to make any

distinction between natural nutrition versus synthetic vitamins,

which are *really just DRUGS* given vitamin " names. "

Just FYI for those that buy supplements.

Rick