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[MatthewK]

What’s the ideal daily plan to minimize illness and extend health– somewhat research-based, somewhat realistic, somewhat affordable?



I’ve just spent the last weeks looking at the longevity literature. Learned a lot but have now crossed over from excitement and optimism into confusion and anxiety. Seems like to do it right (anti-oxidants, etc.) will take significant time, money, and maybe even some risk.



Can some seasoned warriors can save me time by summarizing your daily personal program and the logic behind it (the 20% of the best supplements and functional foods which produce 80% of the measurable effect.)



I'm brand new to group so maybe this topic is addressed already? If so, where?


Thanks,



Matthew

Scottsdale, AZ

[health_nutty]

You can look at my regimen:

http://www.imminst.o...o...st&p=137022

Cnorword's is very solid:
http://www.imminst.o...o...st&p=119881

[wayside]

Affordable is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. There are people on here with regimens costing a few hundred dollars a year up to $20,000+ a year. What does affordable mean to you?

What is most important to you? Inflammation control? Insulin management? Vascular health? Brain health? Oxidative stress? Immune system boosting? DNA protection? Lipid balance? Hormone balance? Cancer prevention? Etc.

Decide what is most important, then search here for information about it. And there is a lot of information, it will take time to get through it.

Look through people's regimens in the Regimens forum (mine is in there), there are lots of great ideas in there.

A few basics IMO you should take no matter what you decide: a high quality multivitamin, fish oil, vitamin D, vitamin C, pomegranate, tea extract, very dark (70%+) chocolate, maybe resveratrol, melatonin.

Check out this thread: http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=12409

and this thread: http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=13532

for some good discussion.

[jubai]

Check out the regimens indeed

What I consider to be cheap, proven and effective supplements/ideas

-UV skin protection daily
-Retin-A + good oil at night

-ALCAR + R-ALA (the dynamic duo) for energy, insulin and protection
-Taurine and Creatine (low dose) as cheap amino acids
-Benfotiamine and Beta-Alanine as cheap carnosine precursors/Age breakers
-Bulk Ester-C + GrapeSeed Extract + Green Tea Extract for cheap anti-oxydant and infllamation

-Good and cheap multi (ADAM now foods)
-good and cheap bulk fish oil + virgin coconut oil + avocados + ... for EFAs

-MSM+Glucosamine+Chondroitin bulk powder for cheap joint protection


combine with super foods (pomegrenate, blueberries, acai, and a green multi food like NOW PhytoGreens that contains much good stuff including wheatgrass, barleygrass, spirulina and chlorella) and some organic cocoa (instead of chocolate which has sugar or too much carbs)

Vit D3 is good, sun-tanning in the winter (short sessions, not for cosmetic effect) should be considered for health and mood


That is already a solid, cheap and proven regimen, almost all ingredients can be found in bulk or as cheap generics.


With extra $$$:

bulk collagen, jarrow's biosil sillicon for joints and skin
deprenyl for domapine, energy and possible life extension

That is a regimen around 75$ a month, including a cut in your food bill due to some of it beeing food (fats, phytogreens, superfoods etc).


Not bad!

Edited by jubai, 09 December 2007 - 05:52 AM.