Supplements I sometimes take are inspired by Rhonda Patrick.
- Magnesium (1 capsule)
- Vitamin D3 (1 capsule)
- Vegan Omega 3 DHA & EPA (1 capsule)
- Lions Mane (1 capsule)
From these, Magnesium & Vitamin D3 are the more important supplements.
I try to minimize the number of things my body has to process to bare essentials so more often than not I don't take any supplements. I maximize the quality of food I eat by eating natural whole food plant based food. I also fast but not routinely.
And I enjoy taking psychedelics once in few months. Tryptamines being my favorite.
Some maybe interesting supplements I don't take routinely but tried.
- Multivitamin (1 capsule)
- Sulforaphane (1 capsule)
- Pregnant women taking 1,000 mg of the omega-3 DHA had 50% fewer early preterm births than women given 200 mg. The high dose DHA also reduced feeding issues and genitourinary and neurologic problems in infants (randomized controlled trial).
- Recent study suggests anti inflammatory meds contribute to chronic pain by preventing an inflammatory process that resets the pain baseline. We have been using these for decades and didn’t catch this. This should make you nervous about playing Guinea pig.
- Iron is needed in the electron transport chain as a component of cytochrome C oxidase. If fewer iron molecules are being prioritized for creating this enzyme, then less oxygen will be reduced at a time. The rest of the Krebs cycle can be in an optimal state but the cycle can only go as fast as the electron transport chain will allow it. I imagine that given a deficiency, the human body will prioritize iron formation in the blood over creating new cytochrome C oxidase since transporting oxygen to cells is more important than running the Krebs cycle at full speed.
- Optimum Nutrition Recommendations
- WFPB supplements (2019)
- Health benefits of lion's mane mushroom (2018)
- Beginner's Guide to Nootropics
- Magnesium and major depression (2011) (HN)
- What are your essential supplements? Like if you could only take a few each day what would you pick? (2019)
- What are the nootropics that are currently believed to be the best at increasing neurogenesis/BDNF? (2019)
- What are supplements/nootropics (almost) everyone should be taking? (2019)
- Oriveda - Has great Lions Mane.
- Dr Rhonda Patrick Supplements List
- Paul Stamets: Psilocybin Mushrooms & The Mycology of Consciousness (2017)
- Jed Fahey, Sc.D. on Isothiocyanates, the Nrf2 Pathway, Moringa & Sulforaphane Supplementation (2017)
- HN: Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 (2020) (HN 2)
- Vitamin D supplements do not reduce the risk of depression
- Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics (HN)
- Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story (2020) (HN)
- The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017) (HN)
- Do you need to take multivitamins? (2019)
- HN: Multivitamins' 'benefits' are all in your head: study (2020)
- Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT (2020) (HN)
- General Notes On Supplements (2020)
- What supplements do you take and why? (2021)
- Ask HN: What supplements do you take? (2021)
- Taking multi vitamins still a waste of money, or no? (2022)
- Vitamin D and Depression (2020) (HN)
- Vitamin D, FOXO3a, and Sirtuin1 in Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (Tweet)
- Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia? (HN)
- Find out where your supplements are made & sourced (HN)
- Vitamin Cheat Sheet
- Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) (HN)