Posted on 09/06/2020 9:12:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
My body could used all the help it can get after years of abuse bump.
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Hmmm... If I can get some, maybe I will make it to my target of 107... Hang the cost, I’ll take the 20 years...
When I was riding a couple hundred miles a week on my bicycle... I took two supplements, Alpha Lipoic Acid and Acetyl-L-Carnitine, they supposedly helped increase the rate that fat could be metabolized on long rides when the carbohydrate stores in my muscles became depleted. They were also intended to reduce oxydative stress on muscles used in strenuous exercise. They seemed to improve my comfort level and the recorded times on my 40 and 60 mile training rides. It was significant enough that it seemed to be more than just a placebo effect.
Unfortunately, they also seemed to cause me to have stinkier gas and body odor that my wife objected to... so I had to quit using them. But they are the only supplements that I have ever taken that really seemed to have any meaurable effect.
Ten or so years later my dad was perscribed the two supplements because they were shown to reduce the damage caused to the heart muscle after someone had a heart attack.
I do take a multivitamin to try and help make up for a diet that is not as diverse as it probably should be. But I do not really believe the claims made about most supplements sold that make so many “promises” that are not really backed up by studies on their effects on humans.
Just take niacinamide if cost is a problem. Both are forms of B3.
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There are cheaper alternatives. I don’t want to make any recommendations though but search at Amazon.
Kahn endorses Nicotinamide riboside.
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Thanks to ConservativeMind.
This story is dated April 2016. Is there updated information?
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I learned about this several years ago, and did some serious research on it, as the price gave me heartburn. I am still taking it, going on three years, and I have to say it’s one of the few supplements I take, and it’s subtle, buy my high blood pressure lowered itself, and I’m no longer on meds. My cholesterol is now half of what it had been, without any diet changes. Also, I take another supplement, which is a chemically altered form of CoQ10, called Ubiquinol, which has served me well. It has been said at high doses of Ubiquinol, the effects of arteriosclerosis can be somewhat reversed. Between the Ubiquinol, and atorvastatin, my doc tells me he believes my heart is now doing much better than it had been (CHF).
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“Will it work on my 42-year old piano?” I don’t know, man. But I tried using it on my trumpet and it really blew.
But did you get muted results?
I start screaming at my radio every time I hear ads for nutritional supplements (one of which is advertised heavily on talk radio).
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