Posted by Ktemene on June 17, 2005, at 17:37:05
In reply to Re: New update on my progress with fish oil etc..., posted by LOOPS on June 14, 2005, at 15:56:46
Hi Loops,
Solgar is the brand of liquid Vitamin E that I use. I haven't tried any other brand of fish oil apart from Carlson's . I started using it because I had read here on Psycho-Babble that it was a reliable brand, and because you can buy it in liquid form. I can't stand to take fish oil in capsule form- the fish oil aftertaste is too much for me, baby that I am. But a teaspoon of Carlson's liquid fish oil can be mixed with tomato juice and wheat germ oil :) and it tastes just fine and there is no aftertaste at all.
I take wheat germ as well. In fact, I actually like the taste! Mixing wheat germ and whey into milk makes a great milkshake.
About multivitamins, I really don't know. I stopped taking them some time ago because I couldn't find a brand that didn't include something that I didn't want to take, e.g. too much iron, or too much Vitamin A or too much Vitamin E etc. So now I take a B vitamin, a C vitamin, a D vitamin, and zinc and selenium, all in separate pills! It is a lot of pills to take, but what with all the depression medications I have tried over the years, that does not bother me very much.
The things that have helped me the most recently, apart from wheat germ oil, are whey and creatine. Larry says somewhere in one of his posts that whey always makes him feel better. In fact, a number of people have said that, and someone speculated that it might be because whey protein, or some whey protein at any rate, has a disproportionately large amount of tryptophan in it. So I found a brand of whey that had a fair amount of tryptophan (the different brands usually have something on the back of the container that breaks down the amount of each of the amino acids in their whey). And I do feel better when I take it. Of course, it may not be because of the tryptophan- Lotus has another explanation in the thread on whey below. But for whatever reason, it helps. Recently I have been added three grams of creatine to the whey, fruit and yogart mixture I have for breakfast every morning. I read in a post of Raybakes that it helps to take TMG with creatine because creatine can use up methyl or something like that, so I take TMG as well. Anyway, my impression is that creatine does give me more energy and lifts my mood a bit.
Ktemene
> Hi -
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> no, no more vinpocetine for me. I still have a bottle, but quit taking it just because it sometimes made me a bit hyped. Also feeling more balanced with the fish oil I started taking less things anyway. I might save it for really mentally demanding situations though!
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> I'm still debating multivitamins as I'm not sure how they make me feel - sometimes I think they make me a bit hyped up, but that could just be me. I guess it's pretty impossible to get lots of vitamins/minerals from just food. Still taking the brewer's yeast and some vitamin C, but I don't want to get deficient in zinc EVER again like I once was (had a test), and even brewer's yeast doesn't really have very much zinc.
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> Gonna get that vitamin E in drops though - then I can see how much triggers acne. I think Solgar does a good one.
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> I heard Carlsons too was very good. I read on some website how people suffering from eczema should take heaps of high quality fish oil to get over inflammation. I still have some annoying patches - nowhere near as bad as before, but still getting rosacea round my eyes (damp house + food allergies yuk).
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> What do you think of multivitamins?
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> Loops
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> Loops
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