Posted by lil' jimi on November 20, 2003, at 22:56:03
In reply to Re: my supplements, Lar » lil' jimi, posted by Larry Hoover on November 10, 2003, at 7:02:57
hi again Lar,
> > Sorry about the delay in answering, dude. You know why....I been busy.
... heh, well it’s all time better spent by me anyway ... took me like two months to write my original post ... after the initial inertial resistance, it was like a week of trying to transcribe all these little bitty numbers from off of the sides of more than a dozen bottles ... ... that was one learning experience all by itself ....
but there’s been learning going on since i posted .... .... plus another dose of the initial inertial resistance (activity adaptation syndrome) .... .... jim can’t be in too big a hurry if he hasn’t at least finished his homework ...
... ... i’m not in a hurry anyway ... and you have been busy, too ...
> > Everything looks well covered.
..... one thing i learned is What the heck i Am taking ... ... man, i Had almost no idea ... ... pure superstition ... ... now i know and i recognized, after i posted, that the mannatech “glycentials”, while being proud of their “phyto nutrient complex”, is nutritionally insignificant compared to the rest of my supplements ... it has a lot of microgram quantities for supplements i’m taking milligrams of ... ... “who knew?” says jim ... until i wrote up my list anyway ....
> > Possibly too much copper. If you've got copper plumbing in your house, you don't need copper supps of any kind.
i have copper plumbing ... ... my multi-mineral gives me 1 mg ... i got another mg from the glycentials, which i am going to quit ... i read that copper can help fight dihydro-testosterone, which is the agent responsible for male-pattern baldness ... ... what are the symptoms of too much copper? ... they start calling me ‘Penny’?
> > Why the level of aspirin and ibupprofen? Do you have arthritis? If not, you need only about 40 mg aspirin a day to obtain the health benefits attributed to it.
... .... i have gotten into this habit of abusing analgesics .... i don’t have arthritis ... ... although i do have significant orthopedic compromises ... ... it is really the allergy/sinus aches which encourage the ibuprofen ... ... plus i heard ibuprofen was shown to decrease the plaques which build up in the brains of alzheimer’s patients ... ... ... the garlic and the aspirin are attempts to help in the fight with my HDL/LDL ratio, to keep it below 3.44 ... ... and i want the blood thinning benefits from the aspirin too ... ... but my triglycerides and total cholesterol are low enough ... ... i work to raise my HDLs ... ... but i can cut back on the aspirin ...
how about my fish oils there? ... i’m getting enough, you think?
should i take some of these supplements separately from each other?
i feel a lot better knowing what i am taking, instead of gobbling 17 pills in blind faith ... thanks for your input!never in a hurry ...
.. ... appreciate your help here ... and always ...thanks!
~ jim
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