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Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:24 am
by weeksy
I've just bought this week some 'mushroom gummies' to try. I guess i've bought into the 50+ male and some of the things we can do to make 'us' better and healthier. Don't have them yet, but i'm interested to see if they can bring any benefits in the first month to make me buy them a second month.
I don't generally do any other supplements though... but curious as to what people are trying.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:30 am
by KungFooBob
I have a Barroca every morning, no idea if it's actually doing anything.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:34 am
by MrLongbeard
Vit D as I mostly spend all day indoors.
Did try creatin but it did nothing for me and probably didn't play well with one of my blood pressure meds.
So far I've no desire to tap into the 'wellman' rabbit hole of snake oil.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:50 am
by Count Steer
Vit B and Vit D.
Probably don't need either given the foods I eat but they're not mega-doses so I won't be ODing on them.
Did try ginseng for a while as it was supposed to help with blood circulation. Can't say I noticed any difference.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:53 am
by Felix
I was taking B12 as a top of of my 12 week jabs but felt it was doing nothing. I started drinking Kifer every morning and my gut feels better for it.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:05 am
by Yambo
I don't take supplements but I eat more protein (and drink protein shakes most days).
As you get older, the body naturally loses muscle mass so more protein is beneficial.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:33 am
by Skub
No supplements for me,but I do watch what I eat more carefully than I used to. The past few years I've went back to real butter and non homosexual milk,rather than that marg clagg and semi skilled cow juice.
Mrs.Skub suffered quite badly from vertigo and has found vitamin D pills work to prevent an episode.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:36 am
by Count Steer
Felix wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:53 am
I was taking B12 as a top of of my 12 week jabs but felt it was doing nothing. I started drinking Kifer every morning and my gut feels better for it.
I do the 'good gut' thing a bit. Regularly drink kefir and eat stuff like sauerkraut and will eat kimchi occasionally. It helps that I like 'em.
Also eating a lot less red meat these days - which was why I started on the Vit B - but probably get quite enough from the other foodstuffs really.
Oh, and I have oat milk on my breakfast cereal + blueberries and my home made 'sprinkles' (toasted linseed, chia and hemp seed + goji berries, chopped dried cranberries, banana and açai powders).
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:52 am
by Taipan
VitD as I work in a darkroom and have a VitD deficiency because of it. Magnesium Glycinate (evening) and Theronate (morning). I did take apple cider vinegar and turmeric & capsicum tablets but have let them run out now as I felt I was just bandwaggoning myself!
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:55 am
by Yorick
No supplements but eat healthy. Lots of fresh fruit smoothies.
Full English around twice a month
Average 6 miles a day walking.
Feel like a teenager.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:55 am
by Taipan
Skub wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:33 am
No supplements for me,but I do watch what I eat more carefully than I used to. The past few years I've went back to real butter and non homosexual milk,rather than that marg clagg and semi skilled cow juice.
Mrs.Skub suffered quite badly from vertigo and has found vitamin D pills work to prevent an episode.
Same here. Kerrygold only in our house, and we've become obsessive ingredient label readers too, thanks in part to people like Jamie Oliver and Eddie Abbew for highlighting just what the shite is they put in our food.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:57 am
by Yorick
Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:55 am
Skub wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:33 am
No supplements for me,but I do watch what I eat more carefully than I used to. The past few years I've went back to real butter and non homosexual milk,rather than that marg clagg and semi skilled cow juice.
Mrs.Skub suffered quite badly from vertigo and has found vitamin D pills work to prevent an episode.
Same here. Kerrygold only in our house, and we've become obsessive ingredient label readers too, thanks in part to people like Jamie Oliver and Eddie Abbew for highlighting just what the shite is they put in our food.
For last 15 years had no butter or marg in the place. Still have loads of sarnies but feel no need to use butter.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 11:03 am
by MrLongbeard
Yorick wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:57 am
For last 15 years had no butter or marg in the place. Still have loads of sarnies but feel no need to use butter.
Same, occasionally I'll have a smear of butter on cold toast, but aside from that I don't touch the stuff
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 11:11 am
by Rockburner
Yorick wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:55 am
Average 6 miles a day walking.
That's probably the best thing for you, hope you can keep doing it!
I used to do about that when I was in the van, a daily 2 hour (at least) wander around wherever I was.
I really should start doing that again... but there's something about "pulling the car out and driving 10 minutes to get anywhere just for a walk around" that grates horribly with me. (there's no footpaths or even pavements within about 2 miles from our place, and I'm not walking down that road, it's murder)
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 11:15 am
by Yorick
Rockburner wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 11:11 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:55 am
Average 6 miles a day walking.
That's probably the best thing for you, hope you can keep doing it!
12 months average
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Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 11:47 am
by Mr Moofo
Vit D
Mangnesium
Omega 3 fish oils
Walk about 15k steps a day
Once my back sorts itself, it will be back on the push bike.
If you eat a balanced diet then you shouldn't need supplements … however I do feel my mood change when it comes to winter - hence the Vit D.
“The amount of crap they put in our food”. @Taipan - stop buying ultra processed shit. It’s easy.
And butter wouldn’t be one of issue . After years of telling everyone that dairy fat was going to kill you, it would appear that the French were right, and dairy fat is actually good for you.
Just leave margarine (no matter how Unilever try and tart it up) alone
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 12:04 pm
by Dodgy69
Just eat as much veg as you can and exercise often and you'll be grand, as long as you don't get something nasty.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 12:05 pm
by gremlin
High protein diet, creatine and vit D during the winter.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 12:10 pm
by Cousin Jack
Omega 3 fish oil and lots of veg
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And beet. Most important.
Re: Supplements as you're getting older.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 12:39 pm
by Taipan
Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 11:47 am
Vit D
Mangnesium
Omega 3 fish oils
Walk about 15k steps a day
Once my back sorts itself, it will be back on the push bike.
If you eat a balanced diet then you shouldn't need supplements … however I do feel my mood change when it comes to winter - hence the Vit D.
“The amount of crap they put in our food”. @Taipan - stop buying ultra processed shit. It’s easy.
And butter wouldn’t be one of issue . After years of telling everyone that dairy fat was going to kill you, it would appear that the French were right, and dairy fat is actually good for you.
Just leave margarine (no matter how Unilever try and tart it up) alone
I dont buy UPF with the exceptions of cheese and bread. I certainly don't buy ready made meals etc and never have, nor fed my kids that crap either. Been using butter (not even the oil added spreadable type) for some time now but I don't think we've ever had marg in the house? Until we started buying kerrygold I wouldn't have any of the buttery spreads on sarnies as the residual oily taste spoiled the sarnie for me.
