Supplements as you're getting older.

[Mr Moofo]

Turmeric also has been shown to have some cancer scavenging properties - so eat curry and dahl

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Aren't you lot a load of health conscious old gits, but as practically everything unhealthy either gives me a headache, a stomach ache or both, I also eat healthily and feel better for it.

[ZRX61]

I like block butter (the Lidl cornish one with sea salt is excellent) but wifey doesn’t because “it’s so hard”. Butter and the spreadable shit have the same calories.

President 'slightly spreadable' butter is the answer. It's not really spreadable, but it's softer than block, and it is LUSH!
And it's butter and cream, instead of butter and oil. The French know what's up.

I buy the Costco "grass fed New Zealand butter".. which I'm 99.9% sure is Anchor. It's spreadable here because it lives in a butter dish on the counter, not in the fridge.
Thanks to RFK, it's now easy to get actual tallow here now.

[Trinity765]

I don't take anything religiously. Magnesium, cod liver oil and spirulina tablets sit on my kitchen counter so I take them almost every day. I've heard our foods now lack magnesium because of over-farming, that's why I take that. I try to eat high protein so plenty of meat and fish (spirulina is very high in protein). I don't eat anything made with flour. I don't know if I'm gluten intolerant or not, I just know I feel better when I don't.

I keep fresh ginger and turmeric in the freezer and make myself a tea by grating them and adding honey and black pepper. The curcumin in turmeric has great anti inflammatory properties. Curcumin is absorbed better (apparently by 2,000%) if taken with piperine (pepper). So if you're going to use turmeric it's a good idea to have it with pepper.

[Noggin]

I got Maurice Hanssen's book 'E for Additives' which came out in 1984 and that was what got me on the anti-E mission at the time. (Not anti-all of them obvs but the azo dyes were a particular hobby horse).

That kind of change the food indudtry - but it wasn't very scientific for the lay person. People started adding up e numbers and saying if it was more that 1200 you should eat it - but vitamins, citric acid and various other perfectly good stuff had E numbers.

Yeah, it was the unecessary stuff that made me annoyed, not the stuff that made food safer, flow better etc + those manufacturers that kept using questionable ingredients when better options were available.

Now I've turned my irritation to pharmaceuticals and their apparent free pass on (completely unecessary) colourings. Looking at my 2.5mg active ingredient prescription it contains - in addition to black iron oxide (E133) and titanium dioxide (white) (E17), brilliant blue (E133), tartrazine (E102), sunset yellow (E110) and amaranth (E123)! I mean, really? FFS I'm tempted to demand a return to my previous prescription (plain, little white pills) just on the basis of the azo dye crap in these.

Most 'supplements' have some pretty horrible 'fillers'. Totally worth checking all the ingredients on anything like that - especially magnesium as they often fill with mag oxide which is not a good one for any body

[Noggin]

I generally try and take a VitD protocol (D, K2mk7,Boron, VitA,Magnesium) and cod liver oil and recently added a B mix

I say try because I sometimes get really fed up with shovelling pils and also with having to sort them all out, so I do sometimes have a week or few off

Started it because I don't sunbathe and am rarely in the sun anyway, also there is a massive issue for women in my family with osteoarthritis and vit D helps the body process Calcium (but it's not good to take calcium as it can often lead to deposits in blood vessels).

I usually add in turmeric with black pepper because it's supposed to help with inflammation (which is the main issue for me with my arm).


However, despite the suggestion of help with sleep etc from some of the above, they don't seem to do much for that! But I've found that having ginger, lemon and honey tea is helping the sleep side WAY more - and it's supposed to help with inflammation too, so I'll probably keep doing that now, and have a think about the rest. But the VitD protocol is probably a good thing for me even if I only do it in three month bursts, cos I really don't get enough sun to keep the vit D levels up

[MrLongbeard]

really fed up with shovelling pils and also with having to sort them all out,

I hear that, a pill box really does make life easier, just 3 minutes of effort a week to fill it up.

[Noggin]

really fed up with shovelling pils and also with having to sort them all out,

I hear that, a pill box really does make life easier, just 3 minutes of effort a week to fill it up.

Oh, I have two so I can only do it twice a month, I just struggle with that AND the taking them!! I mean, if they are sorted, I take them, if I've spazzed out and not filled the boxes, well that's when I have a few weeks gap

[Sunny]

I sort out t'other half's medication into pill pots, I do 28 days at a time, so he doesn't have to faff.

He has joint pain and arthritis in the family, so alongside his standard medication, I put in:
Tumeric & Vitamin D
Gloucosamine
Cod Liver Oil
Folic Acid (this one cos he once was told he had low folic acid, but they only prescribed him a month's worth)

He also has Marine Collagen powder that he puts on his cornflakes

[Noggin]

I sort out t'other half's medication into pill pots, I do 28 days at a time, so he doesn't have to faff.

He has joint pain and arthritis in the family, so alongside his standard medication, I put in:
Tumeric & Vitamin D
Gloucosamine
Cod Liver Oil
Folic Acid (this one cos he once was told he had low folic acid, but they only prescribed him a month's worth)

He also has Marine Collagen powder that he puts on his cornflakes

reducing animal fats can help some people/some types of arthritis - it helped my SDad a lot back many years ago. I noticed a difference too, but not convinced mine was arthritis as I don't suffer from it in the same place now!!

Also, Apple cider vinegar can help - but everyone is different!! xx

[The Martian]

I just try to eat a mostly healthy diet. Most meals I cook fresh, we have a "freezer dinner" about once a week.

I did get some kind of mushroom supplement to supposedly help with my memory amongst other things, but I forget to take them (true story).

I got off of codeine completely after 12 years last year, which is no doubt good for me but I haven't thought about it much as I've been keeping busy to try to distract from EVERYTHING fucking hurting

[Taipan]

I just try to eat a mostly healthy diet. Most meals I cook fresh, we have a "freezer dinner" about once a week.

I did get some kind of mushroom supplement to supposedly help with my memory amongst other things, but I forget to take them (true story).

I got off of codeine completely after 12 years last year, which is no doubt good for me but I haven't thought about it much as I've been keeping busy to try to distract from EVERYTHING fucking hurting

Magnesium L-Theronate for your memory bud and magnesium citrate for your joints.

[The Martian]

I just try to eat a mostly healthy diet. Most meals I cook fresh, we have a "freezer dinner" about once a week.

I did get some kind of mushroom supplement to supposedly help with my memory amongst other things, but I forget to take them (true story).

I got off of codeine completely after 12 years last year, which is no doubt good for me but I haven't thought about it much as I've been keeping busy to try to distract from EVERYTHING fucking hurting

Magnesium L-Theronate for your memory bud and magnesium citrate for your joints.

I've got weed for my joints and I'll not remember that other one

[Scotsrich]

72 and never taken anything.

Now I feel that I’m missing out. How do you determine if anything is wrong or just slowing down with age?

Apart from a touch of arthritis in my fingers occasionally I feel pretty good.

[dern]

Nothing. Get a health check at the gp and then do what they suggest. Repeat.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

72 and never taken anything.

Now I feel that I’m missing out. How do you determine if anything is wrong or just slowing down with age?

Apart from a touch of arthritis in my fingers occasionally I feel pretty good.

You'd know, I'm 14 years younger than you and I'm full of aches and pains caused by childhood poverty, drinking, poor diet and too many motorcycle related injuries.

I asked Google if some people were inclined to have unhealthy lifestyles, this is one of the things it came back with

What does an unhealthy lifestyle look like?
abusing alcohol, ie drinking too much and/or too often. misusing substances, eg taking drugs, using performance-enhancing drugs, overusing prescription or over-the-counter drugs. self-harming. taking unnecessary harmful risks, eg having unprotected sex, driving over the speed limit.

Apart from the drugs and self harm, that was me when I was young, and I tried drugs but they didn't do much for me.