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Recently, on a whim, I stopped all supplements. For years I've had daily ingestion of the following (and at times many more supplements I was experimenting with short term):
Morning
ProCaps Essential 1 MultiVitamin
Kirkland CoQ10 300 mg (Ubidicarenone)
Night
Pure Encapsulations Magnesium Glycinate (4 caps/day - 480 mg/day total)
Half a Zrytec for chronic allergies
Topical Progestelle oil @ days 12-26 of cycle
Now, you should know that I've suffered from "chronic fatigue" for decades. No matter what, I've always felt tired. I also had hair loss from a Wellbutrin prescription I was looking to fix but nothing really worked.
Anyhow, in the last 3 years several big changes occurred - I got pregnant, had a baby, breastfed for 19 months, and then stopped. When breastfeeding was over, I slowly looked to restart my "good olde" supplement routine. It started when I had a particularly sniffly day and took half a Zrytec and it knocked me out. I mean, OUT. I was shocked. Then, a few days later I had scheduled a restart to my progesterone schtick and same thing - a total struggle to keep my eyes open.
It dawned on my that my chronic fatigue had mostly resolved itself while I wasn't supplementing. And that by returning to just two of my previous supplements (Zrytec & progesterone) I was back to how I felt before - trying to function while half sedated. And then the dots connected and I realized I've been sedating myself for years and didn't even know it!
I've stopped all supplementation since and haven't died or fallen apart. I actually feel, great. But I still have this nagging sense that I *should* be taking supplements because its all I've known all my life.
So now what? Do I continue on this supplement free path? What about vitamin d? K? Aspirin? Covid?! Will I prematurely age? At 38 I have no wrinkles or age spots, but I've also supplemented all my life. Is this the calm before the storm - is my body just going through stored vitamins and once it runs out then I'm in trouble?
I do keep magnesium on hand and if I have heart palpitations (from mitral valve prolapse) I take one and it seems to work pretty much immediately. Briefly I went back on the multi and immediately saw massive amounts of hair shed. Massive.
For progesterone, I now can only tolerate <3 drops of progestelle under the tongue with vitamin e right before bed. I may or may not restart it. I immediately feel a heavy sedation effect, like within 5 minutes of under tongue application.
Even milk, which during breastfeeding I was drinking ridiculous amounts of, caused me serious and debilitating joint pain. I thought it was extra weight, but after stopping almost all milk consumption (also on a hunch) except for the occasional craved glass here and there, joint pain has dissipated to almost nothing.
What is this strange new paradigm? Is it possible to only marginally, if at all supplement? All the while maintaining good health, a youthful appearance, and energy? Any personal experiences?
Morning
ProCaps Essential 1 MultiVitamin
Kirkland CoQ10 300 mg (Ubidicarenone)
Night
Pure Encapsulations Magnesium Glycinate (4 caps/day - 480 mg/day total)
Half a Zrytec for chronic allergies
Topical Progestelle oil @ days 12-26 of cycle
Now, you should know that I've suffered from "chronic fatigue" for decades. No matter what, I've always felt tired. I also had hair loss from a Wellbutrin prescription I was looking to fix but nothing really worked.
Anyhow, in the last 3 years several big changes occurred - I got pregnant, had a baby, breastfed for 19 months, and then stopped. When breastfeeding was over, I slowly looked to restart my "good olde" supplement routine. It started when I had a particularly sniffly day and took half a Zrytec and it knocked me out. I mean, OUT. I was shocked. Then, a few days later I had scheduled a restart to my progesterone schtick and same thing - a total struggle to keep my eyes open.
It dawned on my that my chronic fatigue had mostly resolved itself while I wasn't supplementing. And that by returning to just two of my previous supplements (Zrytec & progesterone) I was back to how I felt before - trying to function while half sedated. And then the dots connected and I realized I've been sedating myself for years and didn't even know it!
I've stopped all supplementation since and haven't died or fallen apart. I actually feel, great. But I still have this nagging sense that I *should* be taking supplements because its all I've known all my life.
So now what? Do I continue on this supplement free path? What about vitamin d? K? Aspirin? Covid?! Will I prematurely age? At 38 I have no wrinkles or age spots, but I've also supplemented all my life. Is this the calm before the storm - is my body just going through stored vitamins and once it runs out then I'm in trouble?
I do keep magnesium on hand and if I have heart palpitations (from mitral valve prolapse) I take one and it seems to work pretty much immediately. Briefly I went back on the multi and immediately saw massive amounts of hair shed. Massive.
For progesterone, I now can only tolerate <3 drops of progestelle under the tongue with vitamin e right before bed. I may or may not restart it. I immediately feel a heavy sedation effect, like within 5 minutes of under tongue application.
Even milk, which during breastfeeding I was drinking ridiculous amounts of, caused me serious and debilitating joint pain. I thought it was extra weight, but after stopping almost all milk consumption (also on a hunch) except for the occasional craved glass here and there, joint pain has dissipated to almost nothing.
What is this strange new paradigm? Is it possible to only marginally, if at all supplement? All the while maintaining good health, a youthful appearance, and energy? Any personal experiences?