Greetings everyone,
I have tested out a ton of supplements from Life Extension in the last 6 months, but
now want to finalize, make my own regimen, and most importantly, stick to it. I like
to be very precise and I'm overly critical, this has caused me to feel unable to make
a permanent choice. Therefore I would love to hear what a few of the experts here have
to say about it. All my supplements are from Life extension btw.
This is my current regimen:
3 Cognitex
4 Mitochondrial energy optimizer (without SODzyme)
1 super ubiquinol 100mg (the newest one that replaces the bioactive q10)
4 super omega 3
5 bone restore
2 two per day
1 magnesium citrate
2 vitamin D3 1000IU capsules
and 1x a week:
1 vitamin k2
I used to take the life extension mix and a bunch of other supplements, but the difference between
me and most other people is that I actually like IGF-1, DHT and testosterone. I don't have any specific
health concerns, at least, none that require supplements, and I'm a 20 year old male.
I'll give a few examples of my dilemmas:
high dose lycopene reduces IGF-1 levels and DHT levels (so no super booster for me)
high dose zinc reduces DHT
we all know soy's effect on DHT/testo, so no sodzyme with wolfberry, sodzyme in the mitochondrial, or separate soy.
green tea and it's effect on DHT
high dose biotin and it's effect on DHT
grape seed extract DHT.
Curcumin DHT
DIM and I3C Dht killers
pomegranate estrogenic, as are most other herbs
tocotrienols, cholesterol reducers... don't want that either.
resveratrol IGF-1 reducer
Beta-sitosterol strong DHT killer (along with saw palmetto, but I wouldn't want to take those anyways)
And of course I realize that fish oil is also a DHT reducer, and omega 3 and polyunsaturated fats by nature will do that...
I guess I just want to know if what I'm taking right now is beneficial at my age, or whether the cognitex/mitochondrial and q10 are a waste of money. I take the q10 due to heart disease problems being in my family, my father takes statins, and his father died when he was 49 of heart disease. The mitochondrial I take because A: it's a nice meat replacement in terms of carnosine, carnitine. B: because even if on a high meat diet, you'll get only about 300mg or less, and this gives me 1000mg, carnosine being correlational with longetivity, it seemed like a good choice, since it's not a testo killer as I dub it. The lipoic acid is a nice add-on with the carnitine, and getting them separately costs significantly more money, thus the move for the mitochondrial. The fish oil and cognitex are actually mostly taken for optimizing memory/brain function etc. I do get pleny of high intensity exercise which also gives more reason to take the q10 and mitochondrial. With the exception of maybe the rhodiola having a negative (in my eyes) effect on DHT/testosterone, or the PS found in cognitex, I can't think of anything that would lower it. And I haven't found any info on rhodiola or PS doing that yet, so that's why I've kept them in there.
I'll be taking all the best stuff at around 30+ or 40, but right now until at least 30, I want to keep DHT & testosterone levels as high as they can be.
Many thanks in advance for reading this, and checking it out.
Edited by piet3r, 25 October 2007 - 10:29 PM.