Breakfast of Supplements

It has been a while since I began writing about the nonsense which is my diet.  So I thought that I would provide an update of my current supplements, diet and nutritional balance. I'm still taking Co Q 10, 600 mg per day, and B2, which should increase its effectiveness.  Vitamin D, 4000 to 6000 IU. I have a hard time making up my mind about how much vitamin D to take, there are some people who say don't take too much, but no one gives me a good explanation of what that is. Also according to a famous biochemist on You Tube, Rhonda Patrick, vitamin D helps slow telomere shortening.   The recommendation for increased neurogenesis is 400 IU Co Q 10 and 400 mg vitamin B2 each day.  I don't take the 600mg of Apha-lipoic Acid which also promotes neurogenesis.  Maybe I should. I'm one of those fools who thinks they need more brains. I stopped taking DHEA, everyone's favorite precursor hormone, back in the bad old days when I had no EPA/DHA in my system and i...

Sadly, I've learned more about diabetes since posting about my soup, so I had to remove excess protein and fat from it.  I also changed what I put into it. The new information about diabetes is that it is a condition in which amino and fatty acids can accumulate in liver and muscle cells, shutting down insulin receptors until they are metabolized.  I've verified this in personal tests with fasting and seeing how quickly my blood sugar would go down following a meal after a fast. In a sense it's a more basic soup, because I found the extras that I had been putting in pushed up my blood sugars. organic vegetable broth from whole foods organic onion (chopped and frozen)  organic beans (pinto, navy) from a can (I open a can and keep it in a jar in the refrigerator) organic frozen chopped blue curled kale (you can substitute frozen chopped spinach) organic frozen peas and carrots organic frozen mixed mushrooms small yellow (Yukon Gold) potatoes (organic where poss...