Supplements seem to be a divise subject on here, but I’m keen to know what regimes people have put themselves on and why?

I occasionally drink a protein mix when hungry and if i’m feeling sluggish i have berocca. that’s it, but i think i could do more – perhaps.

One word “Craze”

asprin
tildium
lansaprazol…….. 😉

do Jaffa cakes count as a supplement?

testosterone, hgh, equipoise….. oh supplements…none

Alcohol as I don’t produce it myself.

Aspirin
Statins
and Guinness still riding as fast as possible 😀

Aspirin
Statins
and Guinness still riding as fast as possible 😀

Vodka
Sailor Jerry
Beer

I take this supplements as it’s the easiest way to deal with some of the f.tards that life throws your way

Glucosamine sulphate, been taking this for donkeys years.

Vit C high dose.

Vid D high dose cos I was deficient.

Co-Q10.

Special drugs and my lips are sealed.

Edit: us wimminz are different. 😉

Skol

Do they still make that?

I eat shed loads of garlic, and green tea too.

It’s makes your body better at dealing with fat apparently…. And a bunch of other benefits too. But I find it easy to take these because I like them, and that is largely why I do it. Whole garlics go In to my soups, and I cook whole peeled cloves in a chilli beer batter.

Great mental image of supplementing daily with Skol and Guiness.

Vid D high dose cos I was deficient.

nearly everyone is deficient in Vit D:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20710026

http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/02/vitamin-d/

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Lettersandcirculars/Dearcolleagueletters/DH_132509

The RDA for vitamin D in the UK is 1/3rd of what it is in Canada, and the Canadian level is probably the correct one.

Read

for more info

Doesn’t help for depression either.

A daily garlic pill, seems to be doing a good job of keeping colds and flu away. I teach young kids and previously seemed catch allsorts from the snivelling bundles of joy.

I occasionally drink a protein mix when hungry

Try this one… I eat food when I feel hungry 😆

For someone who rides 2 or 3 times a week in daylight, I was very surprised that my vit d level was so low. I’ve been taking 5,000iu daily which is a high dose and my levels are now acceptable. Not top of the range though.

Edit: this supplement costs me around £10 per year.

and if i’m feeling sluggish i have berocca.

I had a daily Berocca a few years ago (in a vain attempt to compensate for poor diet & lack of exercise). A few months later I developed chronic backache which only went away after I read something about overdosing on vitamins and knocked the Berocca on the head. Coincidence? Dunno, but I try to get as much of my vitamins/minerals from real food these days.

That said, I do supplement with fish oil every day (for the omega 3) and vit D in the gloomy months. I also use a protein supplement after weight training (although I wouldn’t argue that this was essential).

A daily garlic pill, seems to be doing a good job of keeping colds and flu away. I teach young kids and previously seemed catch allsorts from the snivelling bundles of joy.

Once you’ve been working with the public for awhile you build up a nice immunity. When we get new staff they spend half their time with colds and bugs.

Ready Brek because it’s fortified with B vitamins, but mostly because it turns my pee green.

From about 14 mins in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rlrzj

This weekend, (cough) Multibonta probiotics, creatine, (cough, cough) berocca, fresh honey & lemon (cough).

Is it safe to ride a sportive on day nurse? 😐

Magnesium because I’m on a keto diet and apparently you lose a lot of it when you’re not eating carbs. And a multi vitamin with cod liver oil. Sometimes have a vanilla protein shake after a workout, or just as a snack because its delicious 🙂

Used to take Vitamin B12 for fatigue

Take cod liver oil for vitamin D

A multi vit and omega 3 dunno why realy

Cider. I had just a cloudy pint of “traditional” for lunch Today and i rode like Steve Peat with his pants on fire for the next hour. I think it’s a combo of sugars and uninhibited recklessness it induces.

glucosamine sulphate, been on it about 3 years, I had bad cartilage in my knees, I reckon this has helped.
protein shake after gym.
multi vit, omega 3, vit d and calcium pills in the morning.

Have a shake every morning after the gym. At the moment, using Sci-Mx OmniMx. Chuck a banana in with a dollop of peanut butter and a handful of oats – it’s breakfast as well.

Tend to have a shake mid afternoon as well.

I don’t eat meat, and while my diet is very good – this is an efficient, tasty way of getting protein in.

Real ale, red wine, and the occasional square of dark chocolate.

That radio programme is interesting, although the panorama docu came out just before the gov’t put VAT on sports supps so I think they over demonised them so the genral public wouldn’t be fussed when they did put the tax on, so I think that professor is a bit of a berk and took his views wi a handfull of salt. They did the same thing with gregs, going on about sausage rolls being “gregs dummys” and they were partly responsible for the obesity epidemic, when they wanted to put on the pasty tax but too many people complained and it was overturned. More recently its been fizzy pop, yeah everyone knows its not the best thing for you but putting a tax on it is ridiculous. Just the gov’t trying to claw money back from folk, rather than actually getting the brass they’re owed off companies and folk who can afford it.
Rambling rant done.

i eat a well balanced diet, am healthy and dont listen to snake oil bullsh1t. Why the frak should I take any supplements?

but in keeping with the above

Beer and wine do make me feel better and relaxed.

Panorama OMG. Life too short to watch that sort of alarmist drivel.

I have cod liver oil capsules in winter – it helps stop my hands splitting open, which is nice.

I take a multivitamin with iron which turns my poo a pleasing shade of black. Guinness isn’t allowed at work.