What supplements do you take?

I've occasionally taken Vitamin D in the past. Initially in response to a deficiency several years ago. See also, my recent post about how I live in a very cloudy part of the U.S. during the winter. Combine that with being someone who writes software for a living and likes video games, and it isn't terribly surprising I had a deficiency.

Nowadays, I tend to get slightly more time outdoors, but I'll still take it occasionally in the winter.

That's about it, really. Occasionally some tea with catnip, but that's only because I'm part cat.
 
Narz said:
Oh I forgot I also take creatine & probiotics..


I try, it's not mutually exclusive.


You seem like a decent guy sometimes but othertimes come off as a total douche. I take your mindless snap to judgements comes from some deep insecurity but it comes off really gross & offputting.

To answer your "question" I got my T-levels tested in my early 20's and they were super low, like 65-year old dude low. I was having crazy stomach pain & trying lots of different diets, I've had health issues for most of my life so I was always curious how to optimize my hormones. I also had various food allergies & nutritional deficiencies.

My t-levels went from the 200s around age 22 (when they should be really high) to 700-800 range now (@ 41 :old: ). As much depression as I deal w/ now I can't imagine how bad it would be if my hormones were still out of whack as they were.


What nonsense, with your case study of 1, lol. Baldness is mostly hereditary. And testosterone is connected to well being, sex drive, muscle mass, all sorts of things. No human hormone does just one thing, I'm sure a "genuinely intelligent man like you" already knew that tho.


You're not asking a serious question just trying to stunt on me but everything I take I look into quite a bit. Creatine & l-citrulline have been studied. Ashwanghda shows promise. There's .01% the money is supplements that there are in drugs so there's not as much $ in research. I'm well aware that 50-80% of what I take could have little to no effect but you only get one life so I'm gonna do the best I can. It's true people can OD on certain supplements like Iron or Vitamin D and I take that into account.
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I was looking into something else and that reminded me of your post above
(one of my food interests is low cost wholesome food or low cost supplements to replace the fetishm of (expensive) smart food and (expensive) supplements: looking into the traditional food of regions)

IIRC it were scientists from India or Iran who investigated the testosteron increasing properties of onions. Both countries do a lot of research into low cost medicins and medicinal effects of food.
Here a recent article (Japanese research) https://www.ergo-log.com/cysteine-sulfoxides-in-onions-increase-testosterone-levels.html
Here an older list up on onion juice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19384830/
And as anekdote: the millionaire Greek shipping tycoon Onassis, a playboy, also the one who married Jacqueline Kennedy, always had as side dish thin sliced raw onions with olive oil.
 
I take these manly vitamin tablets for men. They are packed with all the vitamins and minerals my man parts require.

I take those every other day. Every other day in between I take a vitamin D+ supplement, since that's supposed to help quite a bit if I happen to catch covid19. The multivitamins have D in them, but apparently multivitamins aren't that great, as your body will just flush most of that stuff out (from what I've read). So I figure that is a good compromise.
 
Vitamin D every day, one of few supplements with decent documentation behind it. Others I take less religiously: quercetin, omega3, calsium, creatine, zink. I recently picked up an iron supplement as I've been feeling a little dizzy/lethargic at times lately. So I'll try that.
 
warpus said:
That's daily, right? My research unveiled either 1,000 or 600 daily dosage if you're just an average human. But I'm not sure how good my research was. My tablets are 1,000 units each
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Daily. I'm a pretty big dude, don't know how much difference that makes. 6'3", 260 lbs (190.5 cm, 120 kg)
 
I take 5000 IU probably every 2 days.

I took a multi vitamin today. Mom gets super primo brands. I had a fantastic second wind in class. My partner was fading.
 
hobbsyoyo said:
Daily. I'm a pretty big dude, don't know how much difference that makes. 6'3", 260 lbs (190.5 cm, 120 kg)
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With these things, you can normally just scale it up.
The average human is supposed to be 75kg, so if Warpus says that normally they say 600 to 1000, you'd be in the right range.

(rule of thumb though, biology has too much variation that it's often hard to say. EDIT: I didn't check what the recommended amount of units is; and there's also this debate if stuff gets properly absorbed, especially in multivitamin pills, etc)
 
Hygro said:
I take 5000 IU probably every 2 days.

I took a multi vitamin today. Mom gets super primo brands. I had a fantastic second wind in class. My partner was fading.
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Are you back in that super extremely difficult course again? How's that going dude? I'm rooting for you!
 
In my research most sites say 1000 units per person for vitamin D+.. BUT some American website that claims to know more than all the other ones said 600 is the way to go, for your average person. I forget who it was exactly but perhaps some sort of a government related institution? They seemed to say that 1000 is "old news". But most pills you can buy come in 1000 units anyhow so that's what I got.
 
warpus said:
@Snerk What dose is your daily vitamin D supplement? Curious what you landed on after doing your research
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Was hard to find a general dose everybody agreed on but I landed on a supplement that has 2000 UI per pill. I take one per day.
 
Why don't you simply catch the fish under that bridge of yours and eat it raw-and-wriggling-style?
 
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