What supplements/vitamins do you use and why?!
Question: what supplements, herbs, vitamins do you use and why?
Answers: what supplements, herbs, vitamins do you use and why?
Multi-vitamin - Because I'm a vegetarian
B-Complex: Help reduce stress, promote energy, reduce cholesterol, reduce blood pressure, protect heart
Vitamin C: Support immune system
Zinc: Support Immune system
Niacin (take in addition to B-Complex) to lower cholesterol.
Oat bran - added fiber and lower cholesterol
Circumin - lower cholesterol
Magnesium - asthma
Juice Plus+ - it is all natural fruits and veggies dehydrated into a capsul and helps you get all your nutrtition the natural way
Yohimbe and Horny Goat Weed to enhance my performance in the love making department.
I use magnesium to help prevent asthma.
I take a number of supplements every day.
Calcium - I have decreased bone mass
Fish oil capsule - I have a family history of cardio issues
B-12 - energy levels
2 aspirin - cardio
Multi-vitamin - diet insurance
I take a dietary supplement program called the Optimal Health Plan which includes 4 core products.
Product 1: Glyconutrients. These are nutrients science has identified that our cells have to have to keep our bodies healthy. These nutrients are named in Harper's Biochemistry medical textbook and taught in major medical universities, and are named in discussed in major magazines such as Science and Scientific American. This technology is so important for health, M.I.T. named it as an emerging technology that would change the world. In 2004 M.I.T. featured a product that is this technology. I take this product that is available as a dietary supplement because it is important for my cells to get what they need to do the job they were designed to do, and it boosts my immune system to keep me healthy.
Product 2: Food Based Vitamin and Food Based Mineral. Most Vitamins on the market are synthetic and the minerals are crushed up rocks. Our bodies do not recognize these as food, and most of them are just flushed down the toilet. I have found a vitamin and mineral that has been developed using a hydroponic technology (growing plants in water).
This is where they grow a plant that can absorb minerals and vitamins through it's roots, and the plant takes the vitamins and minerals and makes it into it's leaves. Then we eat the leaves and get our vitamins and minerals.
Another really neat thing about this is that they can measure the amount of vitamins and minerals in the water solution, and measure the amount of vitamins in the plant after the plant has absorbed the water. This has lead to scientist being able to develop a standardized vitamin and mineral supplement. I take a supplement that is produced using this technology and provides my body with all the RDA of all the vitamins and minerals need and in a food form that my body uses!! It has really given me lots more energy!
Product 3: Antioxidant. Antioxidants protect the cells from all the harmful things that attack the cells to make us sick.
I have found an antioxidant that I think is the best on the market. The research and development company that produces these antioxidants first of all require ingredients that are still active. They have the machines to test the antioxidant values of ingredients, and found that over 90% of the ingredients claiming to have antioxidant power did not.
Let me explain why they didn't. Let's say you take an apple and cut it in half. Place one half on the counter. Coat the other half with lemon juice and place it on the counter. In just a short while, the half of the apple that was not coated will begin to turn brown because the air is getting to it. Oxygen is in the air ... that is what Oxidates the apple (turning brown). That is what is happening to our cells. The oxygen, known as free radicals, are attacking our cells and damaging them.
The half of the apple that is coated with the lemon juice is protected and does not turn brown. That what an Antioxidant does. It protects our cells from the free radicals. They also repair the damage to our cells.
The antioxidant products on the shelves are not protected and the air oxidates them... thus you are not getting an active antioxidant product.
In antioxidant product I take as a dietary supplement, the antioxidants have been coated with the glyconutrients and the glyconutrients act like the lemon on the apple, and keep the antioxidants alive to protect my cells.
The 4th product I take is a natural product that regulates hormone production. Science has identified the nutrients our bodies need to produce our hormones (not just sex hormones. Actually there are 87 hormones in the body that do everything from helping our hair grow to the beating of our hearts! Only 17 are sex related...) This supplement just helps me keep on an even keel mood wise. I take it every day... Won't be with out it.... It really helps me.
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