posted Mon, 09/15/2025 - 21:02
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+ 2 Important topic: What health supplements do you use?
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Such a worthwhile investment. Health is wealth, and a healthy body is a responsive body! You don’t need to get crazy like me, but these are mine that I take year round (just about):
Vitamin D3 w/K2
Beet Root
Nattokinase
Baby Aspirin
Liposomal Glutathione
Kyolic Garlic
Maca
COQ10
TUDCA
Pycnogenol
Citrus Bergamot
Arjuna
Astragulus
Acetyl L-Carnitine
Astaxanthin
Before bed:
Magnesium Glycinate
Fish Oil
Milk Thistle
ZMA
Taurine
Turmeric
Let me hear yours!
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Whey, creatine and multivitamins
Creatine, L-citrulline, L-arginine, Zinc, Spirulina, Seamoss, Turmeric, Beetroot, Maca negra, Reishi, Shilajit, Lions mane, Magnesium, Melatonin
Creatine, protein powder, magnesium glycinate. Multi vitamins. Different kinds of hydration powder
Magnesium gylcinate for the win before bed. I use dr berg electrolyte powder it’s the only one I’ve seen with that much potassium
HMB Powder
Creatine
Fish oil
L- citrulline
Arginine
Mega men’s vitamin
Simple but solid!
Tudca
NAC
Vitamin C
Zinc
Pygeum
GABA
L theanine
5-HTP
Tryptophan
Ashwaganda
Vitamin D3
Glucosamine/msm
Fish Oil
Pre/Probiotic
Ginger/Tumeric
Artichoke Root Powder
Methylene Blue
Melatonin
Stacked up
I have some I take year round regardless and others I add in as needed. This stuff can get expensive real quick so you gotta carefully choose what you’re going to run.
Year round supps.
Multi vitamin
Fish oil,
D3+K2
DHEA for TRT
Electrolytes
Magnesium
DIM as an Ai for TRT
For cholesterol if needed
Red yeast rice, the real stuff
Policansol
CoQ10
Niacin, plus a baby aspirin to reduce the flush
If on anything liver toxic
TUDCA
NAC
Milk thistle
How much dim do you take?
I take 300mg ED along with 125-150mg ew of test for TRT.
Yeah, I've seen dosage between 200-400mg for dim, so, I was curious. Thanks brotha
Does the dim act as an ai? I used to take dim prior to starting trt. Was told it could raise natural testosterone levels along with dhea. Have a ton of both laying around
Yes it does. Works pretty well actually. Seems to be alot healthier than something like arimidex. It can raise test too if you aren’t on anything. High estrogen levels sends negative feedback to the hypothalamus to decrease or stop producing GNRH and to the pituitary to decrease or stop producing LH and FSH. If estrogen levels are low it’ll have the opposite effect signaling the body to increase test production. Similar to how nolvadex works in PCT, though nolva doesn’t actually lower estrogen, it just blocks or inhibits the negative feedback of estrogen on the HPTA.
Awesome. Good to know, as I have a pile of it. Also very cheap. I'm assuming you take dhea to free up test? Wonder how that stacks up to something like proviron.
Yea I’m curious because my bloods showed me dhea levels are pretty low, no idea why
Because you’re on exogenous testosterone so natural production is shut down. Testosterone is made from cholesterol and DHEA is a step in that process. Cholesterol is converted pregnenolone which is converted to DHEA, which is converted to androstenedione (same compound as the legendary first generation pro hormones in the early 2000s), which is converted into testosterone. So all that stops when you’re on exogenous test. DHEA supports a number of other functions within the body aside from making test, that solely taking test doesn’t replace so it’s good to supplement with it at 25-50mg ED. DHEA was the main ingredient in the useless 2nd gen pro hormones after 1-AD and the like got banned. Worthless as a performance enhancer being 2 steps away from testosterone. You couldn’t get enough converting to test.
I don’t know if it has any real impact on free test outside of someone natural and it slightly increasing total and free increasing in conjunction with total. On exogenous testosterone like TRT idk. But I’ll know soon enough. I started it after my last set of labs 3 months ago when I saw it was low. Got another set of labs coming up in a few weeks and I’ll see if it’s changed at all. Definitely has no comparison to proviron in terms of feel though, or cosmetic effects.
Guess we just gotta wait on @irongame427 to show us the way. Haha.
I presume taking dhea will free up test somewhat like proviron, I just don't know how the two stack up against each other. I know one you can buy at Walgreens and one you have to order from mainland China so there's that... I've been pretty much copy/pasting all your guys health supps. Glad you brought this up man. I'm really lacking in my ancillary dept.
I was on the same boat, literally not taking any. Then I saw how much of a different they can actually make for longevity, and the healthier you are the more gear will work positively in your favor. The better you feel will also obviously help with gains and pretty much everything else in life. Such a worthwhile investment
Im sold. Appreciate all the help from you fellers. Putting a list together now
Look up everything and get what you feel is best brother. Don’t be overwhelmed by my list or anyone else’s, just start somewhere. A few is better than none!
Haha for sure. Would be missing a mortgage payment if I bought all at once.
It’s so easy to go overboard on OTC supplements. You see something and you’re like fuck, that seems really important, or I don’t have anything protecting that organ right now so I should probably buy that. And all of a sudden you’re spending $200 a month on OTC supps. I constantly find myself doing this so every once in a while I gotta take a hard look at my supplement stack and figure out what’s really necessary.
Gonna have to try baby aspirin with niacin. Sometimes the flush annoys me.
It eliminates the flush most of the time. I take the baby aspirin with my first dose of niacin and don’t really get any flush. I take the 2nd and final dose of niacin about 4-5 hours later and get minimal if any flush. I used to take a dose a nighttime as well and i don’t like taking another aspirin and the flush would sometimes hit me right before I fell asleep and I’d be up itching for 20 mins, or It would wake me up and I’d be up itching for a while before it calmed down enough for me to fall back asleep. No matter how long I consistently take niacin for the flush is always brutal. But ya with a baby aspirin it mostly eliminates it.
Well took two chewable aspirin before my niacin earlier and it greatly reduced the flush. Hopefully not just a fluke.
It definitely works man. If i don’t take it I will literally spend 15 mins itching from head to toe . It starts on my head and face and slowly goes down my entire body. But one 81mg baby aspirin taking with my dose of niacin and at most I feel a little tingly on my head and neck but that’s it. Doesn’t spread further and doesn’t make me itch. I usually take my 2nd dose about 4-5hrs later and there must still be enough aspirin in my system as the flush is just as mild as the first dose.
Vitamin K2 D3
Dim
Turmeric
Berberine
Nac
Glucosamine
Vitamin c
Fish oil
Probiotic
TUDCA
NAC
Omega 3
Multivitamins
Vit D3 K2
Creatine
COQ 10
Antioxidant Complex
Complete Bio-Culture
Collagen + Vit C
Glutamine
BCAA
Great stuff
Milk Thistle - 500mg
Niacin - 1000mg
COQ 10 - 200mg
Hawthorne Berry - 1000mg
Red Yeast Rice - 2500mg
Astragalus - 3000mg
Vitamin C - 1500mg
Zinc - 60mg
NAC - 1500mg
TUDCA - 1100mg
Fish Oil - 4000mg
Krill Oil - 4000mg
Sunflower Lecithin - 3240mg
Vitafusion Multivitamin - 2 servings
Cialis - 5mg
Medchoice Sleep Stack
Nice picks, also we all know why you take Sunflower lecithin ;)
lol. uhhhh for lipids of course… i take the zinc for lipids too…
I think you got autocorrected to lipids when you meant loads*
The first 10 supplements i buy in powder form. Greatly reduces cost.
1,500mg of seamoss iodine and 200mg manganese glycinate in the mornings is great
That's a great list of supps. These days I don't go crazy on supps like I use to, but still take some of what you have listed already. Maybe a few more to add would be, NAC, Astragaloside IV, and L-Glutamine. Maybe some joint support like glucosamine/chondroitin/,msm was popular back then. Now I see many adding oral bpc157, cardarine and berberine with their daily supps.
Never heard of Astragaloside IV! And yea oral BPC seems to work actually based off of what I’ve heard, and apparently real good for gut health
Def. read up on Astragaloside IV. Works much better than regular Astragalus extract, which you have to take so much of it to even actually work. Problem is its more pricey, but it will def. improve you creatinine and egfr #'s on your next lab work.
Great to know, will do and probably with swap out astragulus for it!