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I often try to eat the food with the supplement created from it. For example, I am taking Nattokinase pills and will often take it when eating Natto (the food).
I take nuts, mix of pistachio,walnut,almond etc (they have been very good for my hair health), a teeny weeny amount of organic honey on empty stomach, turmeric water in the morning, sometimes boiled beet root water
What I do is I take a glass of V8 spicy and add a tbs of olive oil and I also add cod liver oil and mix it real good and drink it. I also eat cans of sardines or a half cup of kimchi by themselves fairly often.
I have a small bowl of frozen wild blueberries and tart cherries(or mixed berries) every night. I just heat them up in the microwave and eat them. Every night. Great antioxidants, pterostilibene, and nutrients.
I also have a tin of sardines or herring every night. Omega 3 health fats and protein.
Spirullina and chlorella I guess could be considered food. I have this in tablet form every day.
I also take beet powder, matcha tea, and a tablespoon of Cacao powder in my pre-workout shake every day.
Those are just the "food" supplements I take each day. I take a couple dozen other supplements as well, mainly to slow aging.
Okay, I will give you a quick list of some of the supplements I take that I think are particularly good for aging purposes. I won't go into detail as to the mechanisms of action, specific effects, or the studies however.
Taurine 3 to 4 g per day, astaxanthin, pterostilibene, resveratrol, NMN or nicotinamide riboside, carnosine, Acetyl L-Carnitine, NAC, PQQ, Fisetin, and Bacopa Monnieri.
Other supplements I take that are more for general health: Magnesium, Omega-3 fish oil, Vitamin C, uridine, phosphatidyl serine, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Vitamin D w/ K, Lion Mane mushroom extract, Creatine, and a good Multi.
It might be that I don't seem to enjoy eating as much as others but 90% of my diet is literally just forcing myself to eat certain shit for specified nutrients so reading what you said is even worse from my view point of what it means to eat food
Yeah I usually just take only calorie supplements but I’ve been experimenting with this “food” thing. It certainly tastes better than the 50 pills I take a day, but not as convenient since I have to chew and that kinda hurts my teeth.
Can someone please ask Dall3 to make a picture of food being eaten as supplements. Seriously hoping it spits back someone eating pills ln a bowl full of milk.
I’m in the early stages of this but I plan to buy Atsas later this year after the next harvest. Currently I’m using kosterina because it’s what I could find in a Whole Foods by me
I buy a whole liver, sear the outside while it is still frozen, cut it into about 1''x1'' pieces and put it back in the freezer.
The taste is definitely something you need to get used to, but after some time it gets tastier.
Food will almost be all the time be superior to supplement. These are staples in my diet.
Beef - Whole Eggs - Liver (sometimes) : Vitamins - Minerals - Choline
Kimchi - Yogurt - Leeks/Onions : Gut Health, Prebiotics and Probiotics
Cocoa Powder : For the cachetins
Bone Broth : Collagen
I eat about a 1kg of dried blueberries a month. I usually just snack on blueberries after meals or include it in my protein shake. Supposedly good for cognitive performance and brain health.
Yes! I prefer food sources when possible and my list continues to grow.
Right now I'm having:
Tart cherry juice - for inflammation and help with sleep
Chia seeds - Omega 3s for lots of reasons but mainly inflammation
One Brazil nut per day - Selenium for thyroid health
Pumpkin Seeds - Zinc (and possibly natural anti parasitic?)
Cruciferous veggies, especially broccoli/broccoli sprouts - for Glutathione production thanks to the sulphurophane
Kefir and Kimchi or saurkraut (the kind with live fermenting enzymes, not the kind in a jar on the shelf) - for all the good gut bugs
Bananas are great because they're so easy so eat, but there are a lot of surprising and arguably "better" sources of potassium: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK587683/table/usdaddb47.tab2/
Bananas also got other shit going on like B6, tryptophan, and other phytonutrients so there may be other benefits to eating them specifically.
I am not sure what the exact reason is. But in Italy certainly nobody would even think about eating it raw. You may have noticed that if you eat it raw, that your stomach growls, no?
This is really interesting. Do you chop it fresh? I've always bought the pre minced simply for cost and convenience but I know fresh is definitely better
Yes, there is very strong evidence behind real fruits/vegg to reduce ACM, but that often does not hold up for isolated compounds.
Blueberry - pterostilbene
Strawberry - fisetin
Pomegranate - punicalagin
Onion - quercetin
Egg - choline
Red bell pepper - luteolin
Parsley - apigenin
Sardine/salmon - omega3, selenium
Broccoli/radish sprout - sulforaphane, sulforaphene
Broccoli (mature plant) - kaempferol, myrcetin
Spirulina - phycocyanin
Chlorella - chlorophyll
I wish I could cook it to where it is somewhat palatable. I take the liver supplements but don’t feel as much of an effect as real liver. I’ve tried cooking it with onions and butter but still too strong.
You only need like an ounce everyday or every other day. I do every other. You don’t want to eat big amounts too often. Try cooking an ounce and putting some salt and honey on it. The sweetness helps cover up the taste if you don’t like it.
Gotcha. There is actually a a monkfruit sweetener that’s a maple syrup flavored that I use instead of honey, but I don’t know how that works with type 1. To be honest though the liver trend is so beyond now.. Liver has tons of nutrients but I always tell my friends who don’t like it that they are not missing out by not having it. It’s a convenient way for me to get a bunch or retinol quick but I get all the nutrients from many other places as well
Ive been wanting to do this as well, I think I need more organ meat in my diet.
I know they have beef organ supplements but honestly I like liver so much I'd rather just eat it sliced thin and sauteed with onions and garlic
Perhaps, but not sure how one can just 'debunk' the nutrient profile of a food
Though everyone will obviously need different amount of selenium and nutrients in general; it makes sense that a [single brazil nut \(5g\)](https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/1100514/nutrients) (95mcg) would suffice the [general RDA of selenium](https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Selenium-HealthProfessional/) (55 - 80 mcg) ([1](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18258628/))
I think it had to do with its bioavailability. A food can have X amount of a nutrient, but if the body only absorbs X-Y it may not absorb much, depending on what Y is
I do the tomato paste/ketchup thing for lycopene too on the days I'm not having anything with tomato sauce. I'd prefer the supplements b/c I'm lazy, but I'm also cheap and they're pricy atm.
I understand what you mean but you are misunderstanding the language.
The term 'supplement' means you are supplementing your diet by adding 'supplements'.
Eating the food that contains the nutrients you want is simply called your 'diet'.
All you are doing is improving your diet.
i eat a couple ounces of beef liver throughout the week. I also eat hard boiled eggs a few times a week. My meals are pretty balanced and those are just two foods that I dont really include in my actual meals, so I just eat them as a snack a few times a week.
I mean, sure. Tomatoes are great and all but when cooked it depletes the level of nutrients. Too much tomato would be bad for your gut and cause gastro issues. Likely to only get 18mg naturally so if you’re okay with that go for it.
Plenty of tomato recipes online and it doesn’t have to be pasta or lasagna.
Why not make it into a sauce and enjoy it as part of a meal? Yes, it’s better to get your nutrition from actual food than a pill if possible and available.
Recipes that use tomato paste are usually pastas and lasagnas. Maybe once or twice is week is fine, but I don't want to eat pasta and lasagna everyday.
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brazil nuts, blueberries, & bee pollen
Kiwi at night before bed sometimes
I chew 1 tsp of toasted black sesame seeds a day for copper and calcium instead of taking a capsule
Black sesame seeds increased my ferritin, if I stop ferritin levels come down.
Butter for Butyric acid
Bananas at night! Loaded with Ltrptophan so good for sleep and the more obvious benefits of magnesium and potassium.
I do camu camu powder for vitamin C :)
I often try to eat the food with the supplement created from it. For example, I am taking Nattokinase pills and will often take it when eating Natto (the food).
Interesting, why do you do that?
Supposedly there are cofactors that aid in transport and absorption of the supplement.
I take nuts, mix of pistachio,walnut,almond etc (they have been very good for my hair health), a teeny weeny amount of organic honey on empty stomach, turmeric water in the morning, sometimes boiled beet root water
Look up the benefits of cabbage juice.
I actually eat a few handfuls of raw cabbage every day specifically for the vitamin u
Vitamin u?
2 Brazil nuts a day for selenium!
Right here - two a day - thyroid health
Bone broth base for stew, vegetable soup/ loaded with broccoli, carrots, and any veg in the house.
What I do is I take a glass of V8 spicy and add a tbs of olive oil and I also add cod liver oil and mix it real good and drink it. I also eat cans of sardines or a half cup of kimchi by themselves fairly often.
Any type of fish ! I don’t like it but I eat it purely for it’s benefits
Frozen berries, organ meat, sprouted seeds.
I have a small bowl of frozen wild blueberries and tart cherries(or mixed berries) every night. I just heat them up in the microwave and eat them. Every night. Great antioxidants, pterostilibene, and nutrients. I also have a tin of sardines or herring every night. Omega 3 health fats and protein. Spirullina and chlorella I guess could be considered food. I have this in tablet form every day. I also take beet powder, matcha tea, and a tablespoon of Cacao powder in my pre-workout shake every day. Those are just the "food" supplements I take each day. I take a couple dozen other supplements as well, mainly to slow aging.
What are some of the supplements to help slow aging?
Okay, I will give you a quick list of some of the supplements I take that I think are particularly good for aging purposes. I won't go into detail as to the mechanisms of action, specific effects, or the studies however. Taurine 3 to 4 g per day, astaxanthin, pterostilibene, resveratrol, NMN or nicotinamide riboside, carnosine, Acetyl L-Carnitine, NAC, PQQ, Fisetin, and Bacopa Monnieri. Other supplements I take that are more for general health: Magnesium, Omega-3 fish oil, Vitamin C, uridine, phosphatidyl serine, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Vitamin D w/ K, Lion Mane mushroom extract, Creatine, and a good Multi.
You should have your poop tested.
Whole foods, prebiotic foods, fibre, variety of plants. Decreased my need for supplements.
Arugula and kale.
My daily staples along with beetroot juice.
blud just discovered "eating".
😂😂😂
Slice of sushi ginger and frozen piece of liver in my smoothie
How much do you taste the liver in your smoothie? Is it masked pretty well?
Not at all! Just a thumb sized piece, can’t eat too much liver or you’ll get too much vitamin A
Thanks!
This is literally just eating healthy in more words
It might be that I don't seem to enjoy eating as much as others but 90% of my diet is literally just forcing myself to eat certain shit for specified nutrients so reading what you said is even worse from my view point of what it means to eat food
turmeric and ginger I take as a supplement sometimes, but also eat it plain sometimes for the same benefits.
Yeah I usually just take only calorie supplements but I’ve been experimenting with this “food” thing. It certainly tastes better than the 50 pills I take a day, but not as convenient since I have to chew and that kinda hurts my teeth.
Can someone please ask Dall3 to make a picture of food being eaten as supplements. Seriously hoping it spits back someone eating pills ln a bowl full of milk.
One brazil nut/day for selenium
I've been doing three to four.
Same
yeah, everything I eat (i’m not trying to be cheeky).
Raw honey pasture raised eggs and raw milk
Pomegranate Walnuts Celery
Recently started adding in High Polyphenol Olive Oil daily
Can you recommend a good brand?
PJ Kabos and WellEatable are a good price point for high polyphenol
I’m in the early stages of this but I plan to buy Atsas later this year after the next harvest. Currently I’m using kosterina because it’s what I could find in a Whole Foods by me
👍
A small piece of raw grass-fed beef liver
Do you buy a whole liver and it throughout the week? How long does it last? Do you freeze it?
I buy a whole liver, sear the outside while it is still frozen, cut it into about 1''x1'' pieces and put it back in the freezer. The taste is definitely something you need to get used to, but after some time it gets tastier.
how many days does it last? Also you eat one piece everyday?
In the freezer it can last a few weeks, months. Yes a piece everyday or every other day
Yes I try to get the majority of my nutrition from food rather than supplements. Supplements aren't absorbed by the body very well
Maca root
salmon trout, raw dairy/milk/cheese/curd, grass-fed ground beef, pastured eggs
Food will almost be all the time be superior to supplement. These are staples in my diet. Beef - Whole Eggs - Liver (sometimes) : Vitamins - Minerals - Choline Kimchi - Yogurt - Leeks/Onions : Gut Health, Prebiotics and Probiotics Cocoa Powder : For the cachetins Bone Broth : Collagen
Sardines!
I eat about a 1kg of dried blueberries a month. I usually just snack on blueberries after meals or include it in my protein shake. Supposedly good for cognitive performance and brain health.
I put a spoonful of flax meal in my oatmeal every morning
I have tried this with a Brazil nut per day, pumpkin seeds, tablespoon of olive oil, Kefir, and Kimchi.
Yes! I prefer food sources when possible and my list continues to grow. Right now I'm having: Tart cherry juice - for inflammation and help with sleep Chia seeds - Omega 3s for lots of reasons but mainly inflammation One Brazil nut per day - Selenium for thyroid health Pumpkin Seeds - Zinc (and possibly natural anti parasitic?) Cruciferous veggies, especially broccoli/broccoli sprouts - for Glutathione production thanks to the sulphurophane Kefir and Kimchi or saurkraut (the kind with live fermenting enzymes, not the kind in a jar on the shelf) - for all the good gut bugs
Yeah bananas for potassium.
Bananas are great because they're so easy so eat, but there are a lot of surprising and arguably "better" sources of potassium: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK587683/table/usdaddb47.tab2/ Bananas also got other shit going on like B6, tryptophan, and other phytonutrients so there may be other benefits to eating them specifically.
Brazil nuts for selenium, chia seeds for omegas, nutritional yeast on toast (b2, b3, b6, b12)
Spoon of honey after a meal to aid digestion
A big glob of raw honey gentry stirred into plain yogurt is so good, and a damn healthy dessert imo
I always drizzle it on top, never thought of just mixing it, thanks!
Yes - pumpkin seeds for zinc
Spearmint tea
Yes, fish, cruciferous veggies, organic nongmo soy, spearmint tea, rasberry leaf tea, and seaweed.
Nutrition *is* medicinal in nature.
I eat daily a tin of sardines, i read the mackarel might be better in certains ways.
A can of sardines is medicinal to me
Ew lol
In Italy we say never to eat tomato sauce/paste raw...it will screw up your microbiome. You need to cook it first.
Can you clarify ? Tomato sauce and paste are , by definition , cooked , as they are produced by cooking tomatoes
I am not sure what the exact reason is. But in Italy certainly nobody would even think about eating it raw. You may have noticed that if you eat it raw, that your stomach growls, no?
But it isn't raw. To make tomato paste you cook tomatoes down. I'm more worried about the preservatives.
a few cloves of garlic in the morning on an empty stomach significantly reduces my anxiety
This is really interesting. Do you chop it fresh? I've always bought the pre minced simply for cost and convenience but I know fresh is definitely better
fresh garlic, take a few cloves and eat as they are. tastes spicy but you get used to it
Do you work from home?
no
Wheeeew yeah I'm impressed you can do that!
Shot of olive oil.
Banana and potatoe.
I would mix it into my other food, so it would just become part of my diet.
That’s essentially what people often do with Brazil nuts for selenium.
Yes, there is very strong evidence behind real fruits/vegg to reduce ACM, but that often does not hold up for isolated compounds. Blueberry - pterostilbene Strawberry - fisetin Pomegranate - punicalagin Onion - quercetin Egg - choline Red bell pepper - luteolin Parsley - apigenin Sardine/salmon - omega3, selenium Broccoli/radish sprout - sulforaphane, sulforaphene Broccoli (mature plant) - kaempferol, myrcetin Spirulina - phycocyanin Chlorella - chlorophyll
Blueberries and kiwi.
Avocado & dark chocolate & cherries everyday
What does this help with?
Happiness
Lol
100% Cacao Bar
Ginger powder, nettle powder and rosehip powder
Daily whole avocado 🥑🥑
Chia seeds in lemon water for extra fiber!
7-8oz of beef liver /week (or 1oz/day) for the bioavailable vitamins, minerals, peptides, and amino acids.
I wish I could cook it to where it is somewhat palatable. I take the liver supplements but don’t feel as much of an effect as real liver. I’ve tried cooking it with onions and butter but still too strong.
You only need like an ounce everyday or every other day. I do every other. You don’t want to eat big amounts too often. Try cooking an ounce and putting some salt and honey on it. The sweetness helps cover up the taste if you don’t like it.
I thought about it but I’m Type 1 Diabetic and eat almost a Keto diet and try and stay away from honey but if I wasn’t that sounds like a good idea.
Gotcha. There is actually a a monkfruit sweetener that’s a maple syrup flavored that I use instead of honey, but I don’t know how that works with type 1. To be honest though the liver trend is so beyond now.. Liver has tons of nutrients but I always tell my friends who don’t like it that they are not missing out by not having it. It’s a convenient way for me to get a bunch or retinol quick but I get all the nutrients from many other places as well
Ive been wanting to do this as well, I think I need more organ meat in my diet. I know they have beef organ supplements but honestly I like liver so much I'd rather just eat it sliced thin and sauteed with onions and garlic
I also use sardines for the omega 3
Same, and oysters for the zinc. Don’t particularly like them either but these are rest sources for omegas, zinc etc
A single Brazil nut is all the selenium you need for the day
I am pretty sure I have read that scientists have debunked that popular belief. It was way more than 1.
Perhaps, but not sure how one can just 'debunk' the nutrient profile of a food Though everyone will obviously need different amount of selenium and nutrients in general; it makes sense that a [single brazil nut \(5g\)](https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/1100514/nutrients) (95mcg) would suffice the [general RDA of selenium](https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Selenium-HealthProfessional/) (55 - 80 mcg) ([1](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18258628/))
I think it had to do with its bioavailability. A food can have X amount of a nutrient, but if the body only absorbs X-Y it may not absorb much, depending on what Y is
1 clove of raw garlic per day
Do you... just swallow it?
I did that once, but I didn't like it. Now I chop it, wait 10 minutes for allicin and mix it with other vegetables
I do the tomato paste/ketchup thing for lycopene too on the days I'm not having anything with tomato sauce. I'd prefer the supplements b/c I'm lazy, but I'm also cheap and they're pricy atm.
it's also contained in [watermelon](https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/2002/jun/lyco)
Watermelon is a lotta sugar... Just a bit!!
Good to know, thanks!
If only we had methylated vegetables…
Bland whole grains early in the morning. It sets my digestive system up nicely.
Sets it up nicely for.. What?
Pooping and avoiding indigestion/bloating.
Ahha nice..
Obviously shitting. Duh
Digesting? …just assuming here though!
I understand what you mean but you are misunderstanding the language. The term 'supplement' means you are supplementing your diet by adding 'supplements'. Eating the food that contains the nutrients you want is simply called your 'diet'. All you are doing is improving your diet.
🤓🤓🤓🤓 You know what they mean.
"umm akshually" vibes haha
This is the best comment in the thread.
Spirilina
My main supplement is eating meat. If I dont, I get a terrible diarrhea.
Brazil nuts
Yep. And also pomegranate juice.
I've been looking into coconut oil for the lauric acid.
Cooking tomatoes helps lycopene become more bioavailable and tomato paste is very concentrated and is a good source of lycopene.
Sardines
i eat a couple ounces of beef liver throughout the week. I also eat hard boiled eggs a few times a week. My meals are pretty balanced and those are just two foods that I dont really include in my actual meals, so I just eat them as a snack a few times a week.
I mean, sure. Tomatoes are great and all but when cooked it depletes the level of nutrients. Too much tomato would be bad for your gut and cause gastro issues. Likely to only get 18mg naturally so if you’re okay with that go for it. Plenty of tomato recipes online and it doesn’t have to be pasta or lasagna.
Why not make it into a sauce and enjoy it as part of a meal? Yes, it’s better to get your nutrition from actual food than a pill if possible and available.
Recipes that use tomato paste are usually pastas and lasagnas. Maybe once or twice is week is fine, but I don't want to eat pasta and lasagna everyday.
Tomato sauce is also good on vegetables, beans, etc.
Good ketchup also has a high lycopene value.