Fish oil: Why on an empty stomach? Wouldn't you want to have lipase to break it down?
Benfotiamine: What's the rationale for the empty stomach?
Resveratrol: In another thread maxwatt said
Quercetin increases serum levels of resveratrol for a given dose, by competive inhibition of glucoridation in the intestines. However, it also inhibits SIRT1, and may cancel resveratrol's effects at the cellular level to some degree. I prefer using larger doses of resveratrol instead, or simply taking resveratrol with meals (matching the conditions in Sinclair's and Auwerx' rodent studies) -- most meals should competitively inhibit glucoridation.
People are also trying mixing resveratrol powder with Miralax.
Kyolic's
website says to take with a meal in bold. Perhaps it's because garlic can only protect you against heavy metals if it's consumed with them.
J Korean Med Sci. 1987 Dec;2(4):213-24.
A study on the effect of garlic to the heavy metal poisoning of rat.
Cha CW.
Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul.
When garlic (Allium sativum) was administered to rat per os simultaneously with cadmium, methylmercury and phenylmercury to detect the protective effect against the heavy metal poisoning, accumulation of heavy metals in liver, kidneys, bone and testes were decreased, and histopathological damages and the inhibition of serum alkaline phosphatase activities by heavy metals were reduced. Such effect of garlic was not shown in the 1.7% garlic treated group and most remarkable in the 6.7% garlic treated group. The protective effect of garlic was superior to those of 2,3 dimercapto-1-propanol (BAL) and D-penicillamine (PEN), and nearly similar to those of 2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) and N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine (APEN), the current remedies, while
garlic was not effective as a curative agent for heavy metal poisoning. The excretion of cadmium was enhanced, more through feces than urine by garlic but the effect to the urinary excretion of cadmium was not significant comparing with DMSA or APEN when cadmium was ip injected in the first 3 days during the 12 days of oral administration of DMSA, APEN or garlic.
PMID: 3268178