Tell Me About Your Pills

[ricketyclik]

Had a hefty gas bill from winter. Electricity is always high, what with the kids leaving everything on all the time. Had to order second oil and water seals for my water/oil pump after I broke the first set trying to install it - $40 a go. Kids new year's school stuff. Christmas food and presents. It never ends.

[MrFun]

Had a hefty gas bill from winter. Electricity is always high, what with the kids leaving everything on all the time. Had to order second oil and water seals for my water/oil pump after I broke the first set trying to install it - $40 a go. Kids new year's school stuff. Christmas food and presents. It never ends.

What ...... does this ...... have to do ...... with the topic of this thread??

[SlowwHand]

He misread. He read bills, not pills.

[Al B. Sure!]

Had a hefty gas bill from winter. Electricity is always high, what with the kids leaving everything on all the time. Had to order second oil and water seals for my water/oil pump after I broke the first set trying to install it - $40 a go. Kids new year's school stuff. Christmas food and presents. It never ends.

Easy solution. Do like me in the winter. No heat. If you're cold, put on another layer.

[kentonio]

Is anything about your life not weird and sucky Al?

[Al B. Sure!]

Is anything about your life not weird and sucky Al?

This is Sparta!

[DaShi]

I don't take any pills. Western medicine, pfft!

[Sava]

Vitamins and supplements are voodoo and quackery.

I disagree. A specific mixture of supplements is the difference between 250 pound depressed Sava and 200 pound happy Sava.

[b etor]

I'm often skeptical but will spend the money anyway, for science! I bought Zinc pills (with some other vitamins in them) that said they were for acne and have been giving them to my boyfriend. Wonderful results in less than a week.

Also skeptically taking raspberry keytones + green tea extract. Not expecting anything, but it can't hurt, right?

I'm also attempting 24 credits at school this term and am relying more on Fiberone bars and the like for lunch and snacks since I'm in class or working all freaking day, so I'm hoping my multivitamin does its thing.

[Alexander's Horse]

nicotine and alcohol only

[MRT144]

Paleo is more than what you eat. It's a lifestyle. Paleo requires an endurance-based exercise regimen. Otherwise, you're half-assing it. Many paleo practitioners also fast and put their training at the end of the fast; essentially simulating a hunt: long-time no eating, run a couple miles (the chase), do burpees and pullups (the kill), carry around a log (head back to camp), and eat meat (the hunted animal).

This is what human biology demands.


You act like there's something crazy about a freaking low carb diet

Paleo is stupid because it deprives you of the pleasure of food for very little health benefit given similar activity levels.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Voodoo and quackery by the same doctors that say that red meat increases your cholesterol levels? My 73 HDL, 50 LDL, and 31 mg/DL triglycerides asks who the real quacks are?

You, if you assume your current values are normal for the population as a whole (everyone is different), or that your cholesterol values will stay static as you age.

I take a multivitamin, 1000mg of calcium (to prevent bone injuries), 3600mg of fish oil, and 20,000 IU's of Vitamin D (yeah I know that's 5000% RDA but it's still well below toxic levels).

The fish oil is contributing to reducing your cholesterol levels.

Not sure if it's worth it if you're broke and/or not physically active.

If you're D deficient, you won't be physically active.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Actos 15 mg 1 i.d. in am
Glyburide 10 mg 2 i.d. am and pm
Januvia 100 mg 1 i.d. pm
Benazapril 40 mh 1 i.d. am.

Omega 3/6/9 from flax meal and acai berries

protein drink in am with 2000 mg added BCAA
4,000 mg L-Arginine in am
Creatine and L-Carnitine in am

all of above pre-workout.

Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM 2 i.d. for joints

Multivitamin plus extra D (have diagnosed chronic D insufficiency due to limited ability to absorb, so need to supplement with excess)

[MichaeltheGreat]

And what is wrong with a paleo diet?

Paleo diet is another fad. The average lifespan, excluding infant mortality, of paleolithic humans appears from the fossil record to be in the 20s to 30s depending on locale and era. No need to worry about long-term or chronic nutrient insufficiencies if the Mammoth you invited to lunch decides instead to gore your ass then stomp it into the ground.

[Uncle Sparky]

Low dose aspirin 1 daily

... and medicinal herbs for the prevention of glaucoma.

... so that was two weeks and 1 quintuple bypass ago.. I'm now juggling 9 different pills. I take all of them too.