Supplementation

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I'm doing some research on supplements. If you guys could send me some feed back on supplements/natural methods, herbs etc. that you find helpful I would be much obliged.

well, i'll try to be helpful...
truth be told, i have found very little obvious effect from taking supplements, other than the thought that maybe my health would be even worse if i didn't take them. i take turmeric, fish oil capsules, cinnamon capsules, vitamin c, vitamin e, multivitamins, aside from my scripts.
i noticed that since i started taking the fish oil capsules, my skin is markedly less greasy, so i take that as a sign my total cholesterol has gone down- it was elevated at nearly 400mg/l, and the last time i rechecked it, it had gone down to the low 200s range. but i don't know how much of that is also influenced by my 20 mg. of lovastatin and also the vigorous daily exercise regimen i undertook. the turmeric is supposed to cut inflammation and indeed my arthritic SI joint hurts a bit less and is less stiff. again, however, i don't know how much of that is influenced by the exercise regimen. the cinnamon is supposed to better regulate my blood sugar, but it was normal to begin with, but i am hoping to avoid my late father's fate with diabetes, so i will keep on with the cinnamon. linus pauling swore on vitamin c's general health-boosting qualities, and since he was smarter than me i must defer to his judgement- i have taken C supplements since my teen years and indeed, i have not often had colds and influenza but when i do get caught, i am sicker than a dog.
in the past, i tried valerian root to help me relax, but it had no obvious effect on me, IOW after i took some i was as keyed-up as i normally was. i avoided kava due to the fact that i have liver issues and kava has been implicated in liver failure in folk with weak livers. but i have known folk who took it to help them sleep and it worked well for them. i took echinacea for a maximum of 3 weeks straight, for many years in an attempt to ward off whatever bug came down the pike, and indeed i didn't get sick often for many years, until i turned 40- but i don't really know how much of that was just dumb luck.
sorry but my personal experience is just no substitute for a quality double-blind clinical trial.

Feverfew has potentially lessened my migraines. I haven't had one since I started taking it. I still get headaches, but not full blown migraine so far.

Although, who knows if I would have had one if I wasn't taking it, there's no way to know for sure if it's helping.

I also take multivitamins, vitamin d, and omega 3 fish oil. I'm not really sure if they're doing anything at all, the only difference I've noticed is that my urine is fluorescent yellow.

I take Estroven which is a combination of vitamins and herbs for ladies of a certain age. It helped my mother at this age. Her doctor recommended it. It helps with the mood changes and hot flashes associated with the changes my body is going through as I age.

You can probably look it up online to see exactly what's in it. It's commonly available in the USA. Even places like Wal-Mart and CVS carry it.

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I've been on athletic supplements (to compete with a deficient diet) mixed in with supposed AS supplements. The AS supplements are usually correlation data based but the health ones are dandy and pretty straightforward.

However, I have no reason to believe the adjective "natural/organic" makes any differences other than higher costs.