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[Forever21]

Here's my current supplement list. Please let me know if some of them I should drop (I dropped RevGenetics in the past, Orthocore, Vit C, E, CoQ10, due to threads where I've read potential risk or lack of expected benefits) Totally neophyte here admittedly. Goal: General Anti-Aging / Longevity / Youth / Beauty / Skin. No health/skin conditions. Age 37, 5'7, somewhat average built. Light-moderate workout. Transitioning to vegetarian. 

 

CURRENT

Total E

SeMet

R + NAC SR

Jamieson Omega Krill 500mg

Great Lakes Gelatin Co., Collagen Hydrolysate

Now Foods, L-Carnosine

Now Foods, Astaxanthin

Doctor's Best, Benfotiamine

Organika Pycnogenol

 

In food form

Green tea

Cacao powder

Lycopene (tomato paste)

Cinnamon

 

Do I need these? Safe to add? Any developments in the last 10 years?

Coenzyme Q10

Berries

Grape Seed 

Turmeric / Curcumin

Pomegranate

Lutein

Resveratrol? what brand?

 

Edited by Forever21, 24 April 2017 - 05:38 AM.

[Dorian Grey]

Thumbs UP on your stack.  I'd like to see you add turmeric.  

 

Regarding resveratrol, I tend to think micro-doses of this are best.  A glass of red wine before bed?  The French do remarkably well with longevity, but the mega-doses of resveratrol in most supp's scares me a bit.  

[mikeinnaples]

I love age inhibitors like L-Carnosine, but the amount you have to consume for it to even be useful is generally the problem for most. Personally, I switched to BA a long time ago.

 

 

Edited by mikeinnaples, 24 April 2017 - 01:08 PM.

[Forever21]

I love age inhibitors like L-Carnosine, but the amount you have to consume for it to even be useful is generally the problem for most. Personally, I switched to BA a long time ago.

 

Sorry, what's BA? Long time absent. I am not familiar with acronyms. 

 

Beta Alanine? 

[Skyguy2005]

Other herbs you might consider are Ginkgo Biloba and a mushroom like Red Reishi or Lions Mane. All these have some longevity evidence, it depends whats the best for you etc. You try it to find out etc.

 

 

Thumbs UP on your stack.  I'd like to see you add turmeric.  

 

Regarding resveratrol, I tend to think micro-doses of this are best.  A glass of red wine before bed?  The French do remarkably well with longevity, but the mega-doses of resveratrol in most supp's scares me a bit.  

 

Why does high doses of resveratrol scare you? Any more than quercetin, curcumin etc.
 

[Dorian Grey]

I prefer low doses in most everything I take, particularly with the "exotics".  More is not always better!  Quercetin & Curcumin are part of my iron homeostasis protocol: 

 

http://clinchem.aacc...tent/60/11/1362

 

I dose these rather sparingly too.  

 

When the French Paradox was investigated, many came to believe it was the red wine that provided longevity despite their not all that fastidious diet.  The belief that alcohol may have been the key was plausible, but not fashionable.  When resveratrol surfaced it generated a lot of excitement, but the micro-dose one gets with red wine didn't "seem" to be effective, and mega-dosing (compared to what you'd get in wine) was seen as the way to go.  

 

While this too may be plausible, I prefer to stick with the micro-dosing along with a little alcohol like the French get until we see the effects of long term mega-dosing of resveratrol in humans.  

Edited by synesthesia, 24 April 2017 - 08:47 PM.

[mikeinnaples]

 

I love age inhibitors like L-Carnosine, but the amount you have to consume for it to even be useful is generally the problem for most. Personally, I switched to BA a long time ago.

 

Sorry, what's BA? Long time absent. I am not familiar with acronyms. 

 

Beta Alanine? 

 

 

Yes

[MikeDC]

I would add 125 mg Niagen.

[Forever21]

 

 

I love age inhibitors like L-Carnosine, but the amount you have to consume for it to even be useful is generally the problem for most. Personally, I switched to BA a long time ago.

 

Sorry, what's BA? Long time absent. I am not familiar with acronyms. 

 

Beta Alanine? 

 

 

Yes

 

 

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. What brand do you use and how is it different from Carnosine?

[mikeinnaples]

http://www.longecity...vs-l-carnosine/

 

Some reading in an old bookmark, there may be more discussion on it here since then if you search a bit.

 

I do supplement Taurine with it as well.

[mikeinnaples]

I use NOW power for the BA mixed in water. It dissolves easily and tastes decent. Taurine is also NOW but in caps.

[Forever21]

http://www.longecity...vs-l-carnosine/

 

Some reading in an old bookmark, there may be more discussion on it here since then if you search a bit.

 

I do supplement Taurine with it as well.

 

 

Jesus. I just bought 3 bottles from LEF/AOR of this Carnosine. But thanks to your thread. I think I'm switching too.

 

I wonder what else you got in your bookmarks.