While in Okinawa for 6 days I did a full stop of supplements and medicines. I didn’t feel that bad until I came back and started again. After taking my meds and supplements for a day, I feel remarkably healthier and energetic.
I never noticed my health and energy declining over the week as I stopped my meds and supplements, but I sure felt the snap back when I started again. Has anyone else had this feeling?
guess you still had some coffee, but anyways, some of your supplements do give a boost to anybody, much like coffee, no? I mean, in the sense of making me feel (!) more healthy.
With this in mind, which supplements you think are doing it most, apart from them all together (synergy)?
I mean, if it is just a week and you can feel it, experimenting a little more like this should reveal it relatively soon.
I did keep my coffee consumption during the trip. I do take a lot of meds and supplements so it’s hard to pin down exactly what it is. It’s just I feel a lot more healthy after resuming my normal supplements and meds. Although my urine flow has decreased again after returning to normal during the trip. So, something is affecting that.
My first bet would be on Taurine and my 2nd bet is on GLYNAC: When I don’t have taurine for a few days and then start again, I feel the difference, it gives me more energy-
It would be very informative to set up a blinded placebo controlled with multiple breaks and restarts. If you had a partner or friend that could single blind your stack. The easiest way would be to have supplements in powder form (even if in capsules) that could be dumped in a protein smoothie and would not alter taste. And then find a suitable placebo that would produce similar granular texture without altering the taste.
Placebo effect is extremely powerful especially after having read the benefits over and over again.
I feel no difference, but then again I am inherent skeptic. When I started taurine at 3 mg and then increased to 6 mg I felt no difference. Adding NAC 600 mg twice a day also made no noticeable difference.
BTW, drinking coffee makes a very noticeable difference in the morning, doxylamine make me drowsy, I didn’t feel like melatonin made any difference in terms of sleep.
I take these supplements hoping that it will make some difference in the long run because of the study results. I don’t think you necessarily feel anything in the short term with most beneficial compounds, just like you may not feel anything when you eat small amount of pesticides, dioxins, PFOA’s or trans fatty acids.
I hardly drink anymore, but I do feel good after a glass of wine, and those who smoke tobacco experience short-term wellbeing, and some people dislike the feeling they get when they exercise. Yes, I 100% agree that the short-term feeling we experience from an intervention is by no means a signal that it is a good longevity intervention. The feeling I get from an intervention is not something to base a decision on, if it will be a good long term intervention or not.
Feeling good and experiencing a heightened state of wellbeing immediately after taking a supplement does not mean it is good for you, but I see a double benefit: if I take something that is supported by reasonable scientific backing, and I also feel good when I take it, then I am happy for that short-term positive effect. That is an effect that makes life brighter for me, and it is a phenomenon that is much better than an intervention that is a long-term good but makes me experience short-term low energy or misery.
I have quite a long list of supplements that i have identified short term impacts from as well as longer term.
For example when drinking i take pantethine, dhm and melatonin. The end result is no or very little hangover and my MCV is perhaps 8-10 fl less than it was.
I’ve had the same experience after returning from travel. Getting back onto the too-many-pills feeling better. BUT during travel I do feel less energetic and constipation sets in for me even though water, food, probiotics don’t stop. So I do want to get home and my crazy by all standards protocol.
Just read the book; Longevity Guidebook by Peter Diamonadis, MD. He takes 75 nutricals a day, includiing Rapa. And including 100mg of modafinil. I bought a bunch off modafinilxl.com and my wife and I swear by it for a long car trip take upon waking and we can drive for 9 hr straight and not be tired. No jitters. I only take when endurance is needed. Re Diamandis; I take all but one of the 75 nutricals,. The new one is an activated form of CoQ10, MitoQ, yup $90/mo… Yet another expensive nutrical.