While I applaude the magnificent support you have received here, really positive, all of it, I am a firm believer in eating well...
Lots of fresh fruits, veggies and the odd bit of meat. Really, I am one of those nuts that believe that if you are not doing Olympic style physical training, supplements only benefit the companies that make them.
Having reached a pretty fair stage in life with no known issues, healthwise, I think it is one of those perhaps debatible things. But my kid the ENT says I am lucky...
And as a kid I drank water out of the hose, swam in creeks, walked barefooted more than shoed, drank Kool Aid and Coke (my teeth paid the price!), and all of that stuff that was supposed to be ": bad:" for you...
Anyway, I agree that IF you are going to go the supplement route a monthly package from overseas is best...
HB, a little ranting is good...
Well, you are a big man, HB. "Us" skinny guys have to supplement to only make it out of your shade in a timely fashion and get noticed.
Really, I agree, food is medicine. You eat right, it
can help you to a greater age and in better shape. You eat badly, it
may sabotage that very dream.
Eating is supplementing, but the words "can" and "may" are very typical of the supplement industry.
It's a bit like smoking or not. Everybody knows an uncle who did nothing but smoke, and filter-less and lived to 90+ and died away peacefully with a smile on his face. And millions of people die from cancer, yes, even pulmonary cancer without having smoked, EVER.
But does that really mean that smoking is likely to be healthy?
I can't seem to do what I want to do, without some supplementation. Vitamins, minerals, cartilage derivatives and so forth. I don't "spray"!.
And eating in a rather complicate manner (5 to 6 small meals, NEVER cabs and fat together etc.).
But I did start to OD on Niacin (V B3) a few months ago... had to call Grahame until I found out what the heck was going on with me
.
The supplement industry is a competitive one, so they outrun each other by offering OD-packages (unreasonably high single doses). Why buy 60 tabs of 100mg for 10 bucks, when next to it, the competition offers 120 caps of 400mg for 12.99!?
It takes a GOOD and open minded Dr. to accompany one or a LOT of reading BEFORE swallowing "stuff".
But then again, eating the wrong stuff or in wrong quantities can be as dangerous... and then, there are those who can take it all, or almost.
... J-D.