PPL Supplement & Vitamin recommendations?

[Hootis]

I'm starting the PPL, and can find no clear recommendations on brand names of the various supplements.

I'm looking to lose a lot of weight, so I need additional chromium as well.

Is the "Drs. Eades Daily Regimen" sold on the website sufficient? Do I need to add anything to that?

Please, be specific. I searched the forums but cannot find specific brand suggestions. :eek:

[Kathy]

People use many different brands of supplements. I generally us whatever is natural that happens to be on sale. On edit: by natural I mean no added crap in them.

[joanneb608]

Hi there Hootis!

I guess I can't help you with the Eade's formula 'cause I haven't looked at it. What I DID do, however, is get out my copy of Protein Power LifePlan, and it has a table towards the back, of suggested amounts of vitamins and minerals for a days' eating. Also it has columns for extra amounts if one is diabetic, has heart problems, etc. I found that VERY useful. I would take it with me or write down the basic amounts and then compare it to the labels of brands at the pharmacy or wherever you shop. I think the Eades also siad somewhere that the amounts of vitamins and minerals in a multi don't have to be perfect right-on with their suggestions, but close.

I take a multi with no added iron, per Eades' suggestion in the Protein Power Lifeplan book, I take additional magnesium (per their book), 3 tabs per day, one at each meal, I take an alpha-lipoic acid capsule, CoQ10 capsule and an extra Vitamin E with tocotrienols. Sometimes I take a fish-oil cap too, Carlson's brand.

Whew! Sounds like a lot! Also I myself take extra chromium which seems to help me with getting rid of a sweet tooth. But if your multi has about 400 mcg in it I think they said that was sufficient.

The Protein Power Lifeplan book has some further tweaks in their suggestions for supplements, over the older Protein Power book, so I've been following the PPLP suggestions. It sounds like a lot, but I just divide some of them up during the day, and take all of them at mealtimes so the absorption is better.

The Eades suggest getting the type of magnesium that is chelated, so any of the ones that say magnesium malate, citrate, aspartate, ummm, there are others too I think, they are absorbed MUCH better and do you more good than the magnesium oxide. Also the Eades suggest getting the CoQ10 in a gelcap form that has it in oil inside, they said the powdered variety is useless.

If you can get ahold of a copy of their new book PPLP and read in the supplement section, it will pretty much explain everything you need, and why. And then you can look in the back where that one table is, I find that helpful when buying a multi, I just try to get close with most stuff and their amounts. Or if one is close but about half as much as Eades recommend, then just take 2 of them per day.

Hope this has been of some help. Feel free to jump in anytime, and check out the new November challenge coming up!!:)

[Hootis]

Thanks for the quick responses.

I have the PP and PPL books, believe me.

What I also have is roughly a million billion brands of supplements to choose from. Really. A million billion.

Too many choices make baby Hootis cry.

I want to use quality supplements. Please, for the love of Hootis, some of you smart people tell me which brands (Twinlab, Usana, etc) to buy and which to avoid.

Please. A million billion please with a cherry on top.

[Missy]

Okay Hootis

I'll give you brand names that I like. Your opinon may very...but I believe these are very good ones.

Source Naturals and NOW brand are most of my suppliments.
Source Naturals Life Force Multiple for my daily vitamins
Biotics Research (many times have to ask for these) for additional thyroid support.

Rarely...almost NEVER do I buy suppliments from regular grocery stores. I've read too much that says alot of them aren't all they are cracked up to be.

I get with the health food store owner, who usually is very willing to help....give me guidance...and one store even has ~ good, better, best choices.

So, it's confusing, yes, but I imagine most mom and pop health stores are ON TOP of the quality of what they offer. Not always...but more then likely the brand they believe in as good one.

This has NOTHING to do with the Eades suggestions...and everything to do with my opinion.