My supplement schedule

[Hockey Playa]

Wake up, with breakfast - One multi-vitamin, 2 Omega3 capsules
Duration of the day :
2-6 green tea extract pills, depending if i can brew one
1-2 protein shakes between breakfast and lunch, and between lunch and din
Before Bed: - 2 Omega3, 2 Vitamin C


Please critique, if i am using them at inappropriate times, or too much or too little or something

 

[simon]

Post a link to that study, please.

 

[Quiksilver]

I guess I'm going to die early then...Meh...

My schedule:

taken with breakfast: multi, zinc, magnesium, calcium, omega3, green tea extract, vitamin C, leucin. + protein shake

I haven't noticed any adverse health effects.

I'm willing to bet that people who suffered from taking supplements didnt take them as supplements, but instead as substitutes. There is no healthy substitute for fresh food, but to give you that extra nutritional boost, I say supplements are fine, especially with all the processing of todays foods which remove a good chunk of nutrients.

I'll be on the front lines of those who "suffer" from taking supplements as a part of a healthy diet and lifestyle.

 

[blinkwatt]

My buddy who reads the newspaper often read that supplementing certain vitamins DOES shorten your life. Now I haven't seen anything for multis,but it was the 500mg pills of Vitamin A and a few others I can't remember which. Remember 500mg of almost anything is over 800% of your daily value=mucho overkill. I will try and find out what other vitamins the article was talking about.

 

[Throttle]

Big Swedish study has shown that people who supplement with multi vitamins die earlier than people who just eat vegetables and stuff...

Excessive amounts of antioxidants make damaged cells to proliferate instead of dying. Just a hint... This study was published just 2-3 days ago and 200 000 + persons participated.

I suspect you mean this:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/02/27/antioxidant.vitamin.ap/index.html

Which is a "meta-analysis" (sifting through many studies to try to figure out which effects are signficant and which are spurious) done by Danish (not Swedish) researchers.

Basically it concludes that megadoses of vitamins A, C, or E do not reduce mortality, and could even increase risk of death slightly.

This serves as a warning to those looking for multivitamins to be careful about those that offer many multiples of the RDI for A, C, or E, and a reminder that as Quik says, a multivitamin is only a backup, not a replacement for healthy foods rich in nutritional content.

 

[spesmilitis]

too much fat soluble vitamens can lead to vitamen toxicity. For water soluble vitamens, its ok.

 

[Throttle]

too much fat soluble vitamens can lead to vitamen toxicity. For water soluble vitamens, its ok.

it's still possible to o.d. on water soluble vitamins in sufficient dosage. what you mean is that excess fat soluble vitamins tend to get stored and accumulate, whereas water soluble vitamins get flushed out daily. it would still be possible to get too much of a water soluble vitamin, but you'd only get accumulating damage, not the vitamin itself accumulating (and causing ever more damage).

 

[dopexile]

I don't really think that study means crap honestly. It can't show any cause and effect because it's based of 27 different studies... it can only try to show statistical correlation. The study doesn't claim that vitamins lead to a shorter life, only that people who took vitamins in their study averaged a 5% shorter life.

Perhaps people were more likely to participate in the studies because they were desperate for money, which probably means they don't have good health care. Or perhaps people suddenly decide they need to take vitamins because they've lead a bad lifestyle of smoking and bad dieting.

 

[Throttle]

well, statistically you're looking to disprove the null hypothesis (= vitamins are useless) and this finds insufficient evidence to do so. in the absence of further evidence, you have to conclude that these antioxidants in pill or capsule form are at best useless by themselves.

 

[EFFORT]

Wake up, with breakfast - One multi-vitamin, 2 Omega3 capsules
Duration of the day :
2-6 green tea extract pills, depending if i can brew one
1-2 protein shakes between breakfast and lunch, and between lunch and din
Before Bed: - 2 Omega3, 2 Vitamin C


Please critique, if i am using them at inappropriate times, or too much or too little or something

as a very basic supplement schedule

green tea- 3-6pills or 1 gallon
Fish Oil- 10-20pills
Multi Vitamin
Taurine- 15g divided into three 5g serv
CEE- 6g divided into two 3g dosages

Whey protein imo is food so thats why i didn't include it

theres a lot of other potentially good stuff to add to the list but its not worth the money if your training and diet aren't good.

 

[Hockey Playa]

Thanks Effort, The suggested dosage on the bottle contradicts with your suggest servings a lot.
- Green Tea says each pill is 2-3 cups, and it says use 1-2 times a day?
- Omega3 triple fish oil, says 2-4 pills a day on the back
- No idea what Taurine is, and its benefits
- CEE is vitamic C?

 

[simon]

CEE = creatine ethyl ester

taurine = conditional amino acids, many benefits, very cheap