Skin care, vitamins and everything else

[gcursor]

So i have a question for everybody:

 

1. what type of skin care products do you use for your skin regimen?

2. what type of vitamins do you take?

3. what other type of regimens would you like to share?

 

Inquiring minds want to know..

Gcursor

[doitb4ugo]

Simple for me:

 

1. None....

2. Only Vitamin D

3. I have no regimens

[+ Hoover42]

1. Witch Hazel (a magical invention that works wonders), and a light skin lotion (preferably with sun block)

2. One Daily Multi-vitamin plus a half-teaspoon of Carlson Lemon-Flavored Norwegian cod liver oil (THE best!)

3. Walk or use the treadmill or elliptical machine at least 5 hours a week

 

and,

 

3b. Three of four Cherry Flavored Prunes every day! They're delicious and put an end to any irregularity problems you might have.

[Guest Merlin]

Multi-vitamin a day. Centrum is probably the most reliable.

Most doctors now seem to recommend 2 grams of Fish Oil capsules a day. Cod oil probably the same.

Vitamin D, 2000 mg recommended by most doctors.

[Poolboy21409]

I am a virtual Vitamin Shoppe junkie with Platinum Status times Ten. Ever since I went on HRT (Hormone replacement therapy), I also do a fair amount of supplements all recommended by my internist and the "Testosterone doc". Here goes:

 

1. NO real regimen for skin but I have some stuff from Ivo Pitengay (sp), a noted Brazilian plastic surgeon. It is a two part facial routine with a "lifting serum" and followed up with a "lotion". I get it at Bergdorf's. People say I look great when I use it which is abut once a week. I think they are just humoring me.

 

2. Daily routine follows: some in the AM and some in the PM

Multi vitamin

CoQ10 (Ubiquinol) 100 mg

Fish Oil 3000 mg

Magnesium 200 mg

Red Yeast Rice 1200 mg

Zinc 1200 mg (for prostate health)

B-6 50 mg

Vitamin D 2000mg

L-Arginine 500 mg

 

Creatine in pill form. One each morning and two immediately after workout

Glutamine in my morning protein shake immediately on getting up (after feeding the dogs)

 

3. Gym 4 days a week and trainer at home 2 days a week. Each body part twice a week. Every 3 months lay off cardio for one month. When doing cardio, it is after a workout and is 15 minutes hard treadmill (fast walk at big incline because of knee surgery) and 15 minutes of hard elliptical. Always take one day of - usually Sunday. For forearm development, alternate jerking off between right and left hands. That body part is frequently exercised more than 2 times a week with seldom a day off.

[Guest Rich.]

1. Saddle soap. Garnet paper for stubborn spots.

2. 2 x large BMs every hour (with celery) + 40 fags a day (helps with patch withdrawal)

3. 20 hours a day prone position (to rest liver)

 

Richard

[Steven_Draker]

It's no secret that I'm a GNC freak. I used to have a whole cabinet in my kitchen full with nutritional supplements that now has been reduced to half. Currently I take GNC's Mega Men as multivitamin. Recently the brand started the distribution of various Vitapak® which contain 30 individual packages (one per day) with: multivitamins, fish oil, lycopene, L-arginine, whole oat and all the good stuff individually packed and very practical, I must say, which makes them perfect for traveling.

 

Centrum is probably the most reliable.

Centrum is the best selling multivitamin in America. That's a fact. The downside with Centrum is the %DV and servings part. Observe the % Daily Value on the packaging. It takes several doses to reach the daily value. Now compare with the %DV of Mega Men Multivitamin sold at GNC and you'll see what I'm trying to say.

 

Another example: "There are 32 ingredients in "The Kitchen Sink" multivitamin formula versus 13 in the Centrum for a start. The Kitchen Sink averages 760% more of each ingredient! That means you would have to buy 7.6 bottles of Centrum to have as much vitamins as in one bottle of The Kitchen Sink."

 

Other alternatives for multivitamins:

http://www.usana.com (top-shelf)

http://www.herbalife.com

http://www.nutrilite.com

 

You may find the following "Full Report" on Multivitamins interesting: http://www.consumersearch.com/multivitamins/review

[trilingual]

Recently one of my physicians recommended I be tested for Vitamins D, B-6 and B-12. He said that in the past year he had become aware that many of his patients, especially older ones, are severely deficient in those vitamins. I was tested and turned out to be very deficient in Vitamin D and B-12 (B-6 was fine). Right now I'm on an oral prescription-strength Vitamin D supplement -- 50,000 I.U. taken once a week for 16 weeks (it's just one little bright blue caplet). It perked me up quite a bit! Now I'm also going to start with Vitamin B-12. That's shots -- once a week for a month or two followed by once a month.

 

I was also tested for testosterone, as long as I was going through all of this, and it came back somewhat low. Not uncommon at age 65. I'll be talking with my physician about supplementing that, as well.

 

It looks like it's worth talking about this with your own doctor and getting tested -- it's inexpensive to remedy any vitamin deficiencies and you may find yourself feeling much better and more energetic. Our bodies and metabolisms do change as we age, so it's good to be aware of simple causes of some of the things we may experience as we get older!

[justaguy]

I think the GNC Mega Men's vitamins are the best. When I switch to another brand, I notice a difference.

[+ deej]

It looks like it's worth talking about this with your own doctor and getting tested -- it's inexpensive to remedy any vitamin deficiencies and you may find yourself feeling much better and more energetic. Our bodies and metabolisms do change as we age, so it's good to be aware of simple causes of some of the things we may experience as we get older!

 

Thanks for mentioning that, tri.

 

We all face it: somewhere between 30 and 60 (it varies) we realize (or admit) we aren't teenagers any more. It really is important to have these conversations with our doctors.

 

George Clooney isn't just naturally "that way" at his age. He has doctors he trusts and he works with them to keep everything in balance. We should too.

[Guest Rich.]

Thank fuck I was lucky enough to have a proper role model in Jeffrey Bernard.

 

Richard

[Guest rodeo]

I'm female, but since skin is skin...

 

1. A cold cream bar cleanser, Retin A, and a broad spectrum sunscreen. Sunscreen is key for prevention--but most of the ones on the market aren't very good. The only ones that really protect have Mexoryl or stable Avobenzone as the active ingredient. Anthelios and Avene have some good ones.

 

Rx Retinoids (Retin A, Tazorac etc.) are the best miracle workers on the market as far as diminishing wrinkles and age marks. TCA peels are also very effective, but require some downtime.

 

2. Just a multivitamin and just started taking 900mg of Omega 3 oil daily. The omega 3 seems to be helping my mood too.

 

3. I try to walk as much as I can.

[leigh.bess.toad]

Recently one of my physicians recommended I be tested for Vitamins D, B-6 and B-12. He said that in the past year he had become aware that many of his patients, especially older ones, are severely deficient in those vitamins. I was tested and turned out to be very deficient in Vitamin D and B-12 (B-6 was fine). Right now I'm on an oral prescription-strength Vitamin D supplement -- 50,000 I.U. taken once a week for 16 weeks (it's just one little bright blue caplet). It perked me up quite a bit! Now I'm also going to start with Vitamin B-12. That's shots -- once a week for a month or two followed by once a month.

 

I was also tested for testosterone, as long as I was going through all of this, and it came back somewhat low. Not uncommon at age 65. I'll be talking with my physician about supplementing that, as well.

 

It looks like it's worth talking about this with your own doctor and getting tested -- it's inexpensive to remedy any vitamin deficiencies and you may find yourself feeling much better and more energetic. Our bodies and metabolisms do change as we age, so it's good to be aware of simple causes of some of the things we may experience as we get older!

 

Thanks for the reminder trilingual. Yes, Vitamin D deficiency is definetly coming into a lot of doctor's sight lately -- there's been a big push in the medical community about it. I was tested about a year or so ago and went through a simiular regimen. We're not getting out in the sun enough and when we do we wear sunscreen and hence a big drop in Vitamin D levels. That and not drinking as much milk. But this is not only a problem with the elderly (god I'm the elderly) but even a lot younger people too.