This is an update on my supplement, anti-ageing, health and fitness diet knowledge to share with other new vegans who are into fitness. It has been one year 2 months since I started focusing on supplements and I am finally feeling and looking the way I wanted to gain from taking supplements and from really eating optimally.
One year 2 months is not a short time, I have a very high IQ so I could figure this out pretty quickly. If you think you know better as a beginner or novice then stay on your way, I know I am right because I can see and feel all the results. I have been vegan for 18 years so I have been through all the struggles than come with being on this diet.
Feel free to suggest more to add to this list.
Vegetables, fruits and multi-vitamin pills(Methyl B12 and others) are the basic. You can buy the listed supplements from www.iherb.com
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[To prevent/reduce muscle soreness from working out(DOMS)]
glutamine, taurine
[for muscle growth]
creatine
L-leucine
arginine
L-citrulline
[to maintain muscle volume]
L-glutamine
arginine
L-citrulline
[For bone growth]
Calcium Citrate with magnesium, zinc and Vitamin D for absorption
[to increase energy]
creatine
arginine
L-citrulline
electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, magnesium
Iodine
[to remove tiredness and lethargy from the day or when waking from sleep]
GTF chromium(improve metabolism of fats, carbs and protein)
DHEA
distilled water
[to have good sleep]
acai juice or other berry juice before sleep
arginine
L-citrulline
[anti-aging against skin glycation(wrinkles) if you consume high GI carbs]
Benfotiamine
L-carnosine
Inositol
[anti-aging]
DMAE
astragalus
[skin health for good supple skin]
sunflower oil for vitamin E
vitamin C crystals powder
protein
arginine
L-citrulline
no heavy fried foods(can cause acne)
miso that can remove toxins
coconut oil(anti bacterial and weight loss)
[brain health for feeling alert and alive]
Omega 3 fats
DHEA from algae
distilled water
[blood vessel health for feeling young again and energetic]
omega 3 fats
arginine
L-citrulline
[how to avoid getting sick that can interfere with muscle training]
Take berry juice concentrate or lemon juice to avoid getting sore throats. Take glutamine to avoid muscle infections. Clean up mouldy stuff in your room and machine filters that are the worse cause of sickness.
[how to eat for best anti-aging results]
When eating high-GI foods, mix it with sufficient omega 3 fats and protein. For example when eating mashed potatoes, mix it with sunflower and flax oil, and vegan bacon bits for the protein.
Take lemon and other alkaline foods for negative ions that can increase lifespan and prevent cancer.
Fruit juices are high in sucrose, glucose and fructose and can cause glycation. It is better to take fruits without juicing them.
[How to get good skin externally]
Bath with shower lotion that contains marula oil, mafura butter, argan oil. Tighten skin with DMAE gel.
[mix supplements with foods for optimal absorption]
Powdered supplements are more absorbed compared to tablets because they are already mixed with food before entering the body.
Add powdered supplements such as calcium citrate, creatine, glutamine, arginine to foods such as mashed potatoes.
[How to take protein powder with enjoyment]
Do not drink it, mix it with omega 3 oils, brown sugar and water to turn it into a peanut butter kind of mix.
Add other powdered supplements while you're at it such as calcium citrate, creatine, glutamine(take alone for better absorption).
[foods to avoid]
Fried foods, cocoa and coffee can cause cancer because they contain toxins and cancer-causing agents. The marketing hype keeps people in the dark. Take carob instead of cocoa for heavy users.
MSG taste enhancers can cause headaches interfere with an optimal life.
[common health and diet fallacies]
What defines natural is not by consuming what is only found on trees/soil or vegetables that look green.
What is natural is to give the body what it needs even with supplements(B12 and others), this is what is really being natural.
The body naturally creates myostatin that inhibits muscle growth and creatine(naturally found in the body) can naturally reduce myostatin.
It is not natural for the body to be muscular on its own. Being a so-called 'natural bodybuilder' is an oxymoron term.
To be natural is to be basic and anti-proactive.
Being skinny is natural. However, taking creatine to build muscles is also natural.
It is also natural to seek what you want for yourself.
What is artificial is to not follow your human desires but become like a robot.
Showing posts with label anti-aging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-aging. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Sunday, March 2, 2014
6 of the Most Potent Anti-Aging Secrets to Thrive Much Further in Life
I have some personal recommendations for anti-aging since I haven't seen these being widely practiced around. I follow these recommendations myself to thrive at what I do in my own life as well as to maintain my youthfulness, and I would like to share these with everyone who also have such intention to thrive. They are all based on well-documented scientific studies.
Purple Foods for Anti-Aging
Purple and blue foods such as purple cabbages, eggplant, small red beans and berries contain anthocyanins good for anti-aging results. Even Mariah Carey takes purple foods 3 times a week. I don't recall seeing many people making purple smoothies, the popular type is still the one containing green vegetables that contain green chlorophyll.
Chinese Herbs for Anti-Aging and Resilience/Strength
2 of the most potent Chinese herbs are yellow astragalus(Huang Qi) and fleeceflower root(He Show Wu). Yellow astragalus is actually better than ginseng, it has been scientifically proven to be able to extend the telomerase at the end of chromosomes, extending the cells' expiry date and prolonging lifespan.
He Shou Wu has a strengthening effect from the introduction of the root's resilience into the body to increase its resilience/strength. It promotes faster healing during sickness, increases the body's resilience to physical stress endured in high and low intensity sports, as well as increase sexual function for men. It is useful for warming up the body during cold winters, and has been widely claimed to be able to restore hair loss and reverse premature greying of hair.
Common everyday vegetables in the supermarkets do not have as much resilience as such resilient plants that are trees and roots that can live hundreds of years. Eating such plants would therefore 'transfer' the plants' longevity and resilience into the human body. This is how such herbs actually work in order to improve the body's health and resilience/strength.
Negative Ions
Negative ions are found abundantly from water splashes such as waterfalls, beaches, fountains, the washing sink, the bathroom shower. It is also found in lemons. Negative ion generators can provide a constant flow of ions that has been scientifically demonstrated to improve brain function, prevent depression, prevent cancer and extend lifespan.
Negative Ions Create Positive Vibes
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/negative-ions-create-positive-vibes
Science : The Power of The Negative Ions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66oE44rejQ
Distilled Water
Non-distilled tap water contains animal wastes from water-based animals such as fishes and frogs and therefore is not actually vegan if you think of it. Such non-distilled water also contains added chemicals such as chloride, fluoride and other unknown pollutants from the environment. I usually find a puddle of foul-smelling yellowish liquid at the bottom of my distiller after the water has been distilled away.
Water can only hold a certain amount of impurities and if it is not distilled, it would not have the full ability to hold on to the body's impurities to effectively flush them out of the system. If the impurities from non-distilled water is reduced from getting into the body, the body would contain less impurities and one doesn't have to consume as much water for hydration purposes. With less impurities and toxins entering the body from drinking distilled water, the body can function at a higher level, and not age as quickly.
Avoid Foods Cooked in Dry Heat and Oil
Meat and vegetables that are cooked in dry heat and oil create toxins that can age the body as well as contribute to illnesses such as cancer. For me to avoid the toxins, I rely mostly on boiled foods such as chickpeas and lentils.
The Hidden Toxins in Cooked Foods
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/hidden-toxins-cooked-foods
"Many may not be aware, however, of the toxins and carcinogens that exist when food is heated past a certain temperature or for a period of time"
"Cooked meat and fish contain heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), both of which have been shown to be mutagenic and carcinogenic."
"Acrylamide is a carcinogen that is found in cigarettes, coffee, and many baked or fried foods, particularly breads, potato and corn products."
Chemicals in Meat Cooked at High Temperatures and Cancer Risk
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cooked-meats
Choose Foods Low on the Glycermic Index
Foods that are high on the Glycermic Index can lead to excessive glycation that can age protein fibres such as skin, blood vessels and nerves. Common foods that are high on the Index include donuts, cakes, buns, white bread, sugary drinks, and candy etc
Even when eating foods that are low on the Glycermic Index, one also has to be aware of the Glycermic Load to ensure that there is no overloading of blood sugar in the blood by consuming too much food at once. The Glycermic Load can be effectively reduced by practicing grazing, which is done by dividing the number of large meals in a day into smaller meals.
Foods such as white rice(66) and potatoes(over 90) are high on the Glycermic Index. Alternatives such as brown rice(46) and chickpeas(28) are much lower on the Index.
Avoid consuming carbohydrates on its own but eat it with protein and fats. Consume vegetables first before consuming carbohydrates to reduce the speed of digestion.
Taking too much low GI fruits at once such as binging on a large amounts of sweet juices and smoothies can still increase the sugar level in the blood to high levels. The key is to either eat fruits whole without juicing or limit juices and smoothies to smaller portions.
(Elle Magazine) Sugar and Aging: How to Fight Glycation
The relationship between sugar and fine lines can be sticky. Find out why!
http://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/sugar-aging-how-to-fight-glycation-614621
"The science is this: When you have sugar molecules in your system, they bombard the body's cells like a meteor shower—glomming onto fats and proteins in a process known as glycation. This forms advanced glycation end products (commonly shortened, appropriately, to AGEs), which cause protein fibers to become stiff and malformed."
"The proteins in skin most prone to glycation are the same ones that make a youthful complexion so plump and springy—collagen and elastin. When those proteins hook up with renegade sugars, they become discolored, weak, and less supple; this shows up on the skin's surface as wrinkles, sagginess, and a loss of radiance. The presence of AGEs also makes the complexion more vulnerable to bad-news assailants such as UV light and cigarette smoke. As New York–based dermatologist Cheryl Karcher, MD, puts it: "Number one, the glucose makes the cells abnormal; and number two, it creates free radicals. So you get a double whammy when it comes to aging."
"The external signs of glycation show up around the age of 30 or 35, when a perfect storm of built-up sun damage, environmental oxidative stress, hormonal changes, and the development of AGEs begins to result in, well, a-g-e. "When you're younger, your body has more resources to ward off damage, and you're producing more collagen," says New York– and Miami-based dermatologist Fredric Brandt, MD, who in 2007 was one of the first to launch an anti-aging skin-care line specifically addressing glycation. "When you reach a certain age, these sugar by-products begin to build up at the same time that your threshold for damage is getting lower."
Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects(2001)
Glycation
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/14/insulin-part-one.aspx
"Everyone knows that oxygen causes damage, but unfortunately the press has not been as kind to publicize glycation. Glycation is the same as oxidation except substitute the word glucose. When you glycate something you combine it with glucose. Glucose combines with anything else really; it's a very sticky molecule.
Just take sugar on your fingers. It's very sticky. It sticks specifically to proteins. So the glycation of proteins is extremely important. If it sticks around a while it produces what are called advanced glycated end products (A.G.E.s).
That acronym is not an accident. If you can turn over, or re-manufacture, the protein that's good, and it increases the rate of protein turnover if you are lucky. Glycation damages the protein to the extent that white blood cells will come around and gobble it up and get rid of it, so then you have to produce more, putting more of a strain on your ability to repair and maintain your body.
That is the best alternative; the worst alternative is when those proteins get glycated that can't turn over very rapidly, like collagen, or like a protein that makes up nerve tissue. These proteins cannot be gotten rid of, so the protein accumulates, and the A.G.E.s accumulate and continue to damage.
That includes the collagen that makes up the matrix of your arteries. A.G.E.s are so bad that we know that there are receptors for A.G.E.s, hundreds of receptors, for every macrophage."
Purple Foods for Anti-Aging
Purple and blue foods such as purple cabbages, eggplant, small red beans and berries contain anthocyanins good for anti-aging results. Even Mariah Carey takes purple foods 3 times a week. I don't recall seeing many people making purple smoothies, the popular type is still the one containing green vegetables that contain green chlorophyll.
Chinese Herbs for Anti-Aging and Resilience/Strength
2 of the most potent Chinese herbs are yellow astragalus(Huang Qi) and fleeceflower root(He Show Wu). Yellow astragalus is actually better than ginseng, it has been scientifically proven to be able to extend the telomerase at the end of chromosomes, extending the cells' expiry date and prolonging lifespan.
He Shou Wu has a strengthening effect from the introduction of the root's resilience into the body to increase its resilience/strength. It promotes faster healing during sickness, increases the body's resilience to physical stress endured in high and low intensity sports, as well as increase sexual function for men. It is useful for warming up the body during cold winters, and has been widely claimed to be able to restore hair loss and reverse premature greying of hair.
Common everyday vegetables in the supermarkets do not have as much resilience as such resilient plants that are trees and roots that can live hundreds of years. Eating such plants would therefore 'transfer' the plants' longevity and resilience into the human body. This is how such herbs actually work in order to improve the body's health and resilience/strength.
Negative Ions
Negative ions are found abundantly from water splashes such as waterfalls, beaches, fountains, the washing sink, the bathroom shower. It is also found in lemons. Negative ion generators can provide a constant flow of ions that has been scientifically demonstrated to improve brain function, prevent depression, prevent cancer and extend lifespan.
Negative Ions Create Positive Vibes
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/negative-ions-create-positive-vibes
Science : The Power of The Negative Ions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66oE44rejQ
Distilled Water
Non-distilled tap water contains animal wastes from water-based animals such as fishes and frogs and therefore is not actually vegan if you think of it. Such non-distilled water also contains added chemicals such as chloride, fluoride and other unknown pollutants from the environment. I usually find a puddle of foul-smelling yellowish liquid at the bottom of my distiller after the water has been distilled away.
Water can only hold a certain amount of impurities and if it is not distilled, it would not have the full ability to hold on to the body's impurities to effectively flush them out of the system. If the impurities from non-distilled water is reduced from getting into the body, the body would contain less impurities and one doesn't have to consume as much water for hydration purposes. With less impurities and toxins entering the body from drinking distilled water, the body can function at a higher level, and not age as quickly.
Avoid Foods Cooked in Dry Heat and Oil
Meat and vegetables that are cooked in dry heat and oil create toxins that can age the body as well as contribute to illnesses such as cancer. For me to avoid the toxins, I rely mostly on boiled foods such as chickpeas and lentils.
The Hidden Toxins in Cooked Foods
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/hidden-toxins-cooked-foods
"Many may not be aware, however, of the toxins and carcinogens that exist when food is heated past a certain temperature or for a period of time"
"Cooked meat and fish contain heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), both of which have been shown to be mutagenic and carcinogenic."
"Acrylamide is a carcinogen that is found in cigarettes, coffee, and many baked or fried foods, particularly breads, potato and corn products."
Chemicals in Meat Cooked at High Temperatures and Cancer Risk
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cooked-meats
Choose Foods Low on the Glycermic Index
Foods that are high on the Glycermic Index can lead to excessive glycation that can age protein fibres such as skin, blood vessels and nerves. Common foods that are high on the Index include donuts, cakes, buns, white bread, sugary drinks, and candy etc
Even when eating foods that are low on the Glycermic Index, one also has to be aware of the Glycermic Load to ensure that there is no overloading of blood sugar in the blood by consuming too much food at once. The Glycermic Load can be effectively reduced by practicing grazing, which is done by dividing the number of large meals in a day into smaller meals.
Foods such as white rice(66) and potatoes(over 90) are high on the Glycermic Index. Alternatives such as brown rice(46) and chickpeas(28) are much lower on the Index.
Avoid consuming carbohydrates on its own but eat it with protein and fats. Consume vegetables first before consuming carbohydrates to reduce the speed of digestion.
Taking too much low GI fruits at once such as binging on a large amounts of sweet juices and smoothies can still increase the sugar level in the blood to high levels. The key is to either eat fruits whole without juicing or limit juices and smoothies to smaller portions.
(Elle Magazine) Sugar and Aging: How to Fight Glycation
The relationship between sugar and fine lines can be sticky. Find out why!
http://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/sugar-aging-how-to-fight-glycation-614621
"The science is this: When you have sugar molecules in your system, they bombard the body's cells like a meteor shower—glomming onto fats and proteins in a process known as glycation. This forms advanced glycation end products (commonly shortened, appropriately, to AGEs), which cause protein fibers to become stiff and malformed."
"The proteins in skin most prone to glycation are the same ones that make a youthful complexion so plump and springy—collagen and elastin. When those proteins hook up with renegade sugars, they become discolored, weak, and less supple; this shows up on the skin's surface as wrinkles, sagginess, and a loss of radiance. The presence of AGEs also makes the complexion more vulnerable to bad-news assailants such as UV light and cigarette smoke. As New York–based dermatologist Cheryl Karcher, MD, puts it: "Number one, the glucose makes the cells abnormal; and number two, it creates free radicals. So you get a double whammy when it comes to aging."
"The external signs of glycation show up around the age of 30 or 35, when a perfect storm of built-up sun damage, environmental oxidative stress, hormonal changes, and the development of AGEs begins to result in, well, a-g-e. "When you're younger, your body has more resources to ward off damage, and you're producing more collagen," says New York– and Miami-based dermatologist Fredric Brandt, MD, who in 2007 was one of the first to launch an anti-aging skin-care line specifically addressing glycation. "When you reach a certain age, these sugar by-products begin to build up at the same time that your threshold for damage is getting lower."
Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects(2001)
Glycation
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/14/insulin-part-one.aspx
"Everyone knows that oxygen causes damage, but unfortunately the press has not been as kind to publicize glycation. Glycation is the same as oxidation except substitute the word glucose. When you glycate something you combine it with glucose. Glucose combines with anything else really; it's a very sticky molecule.
Just take sugar on your fingers. It's very sticky. It sticks specifically to proteins. So the glycation of proteins is extremely important. If it sticks around a while it produces what are called advanced glycated end products (A.G.E.s).
That acronym is not an accident. If you can turn over, or re-manufacture, the protein that's good, and it increases the rate of protein turnover if you are lucky. Glycation damages the protein to the extent that white blood cells will come around and gobble it up and get rid of it, so then you have to produce more, putting more of a strain on your ability to repair and maintain your body.
That is the best alternative; the worst alternative is when those proteins get glycated that can't turn over very rapidly, like collagen, or like a protein that makes up nerve tissue. These proteins cannot be gotten rid of, so the protein accumulates, and the A.G.E.s accumulate and continue to damage.
That includes the collagen that makes up the matrix of your arteries. A.G.E.s are so bad that we know that there are receptors for A.G.E.s, hundreds of receptors, for every macrophage."
Sunday, February 16, 2014
The first introductory post for this blog
I recently wrote about the social and political climate in Denmark while debunking its status of being the "happiest nation" in the world from a global ranking that I also explained to be heavily flawed. What I wrote was endorsed by a Danish book-writer and that got me thinking about sharing what I write to more people.
I am currently 32 years old(but still look 22 due to great health) and living in tropical Singapore. I first got into serious writing in the local newspapers about local politics in the early 2000s most notoriously dealing with Free Speech and government negligence of handicap accessibility in key public areas. I stopped writing and dealing with local politics after a few years and moved on to research about the meaning of life and Happiness that was spurred by the huge increase in books with such topics in bookstores. I later self-published my findings to experience self-publishing that was becoming popular a few years ago.
While in 2007, I assisted a local international school's debate team to win the finals at a national debating tournament that was telecast on national TV.
The research in the meaning of life that ended in late 2007 eventually got me heavily interested in Spirituality in the following year. Since then, I have been researching about the greater spiritual reality and have accumulated lots of insights that most people are not aware of. I realized that what most people on this planet knows about spirituality is only at the surface level, there is a much greater spiritual reality that is beyond the public's knowledge. My level of consciousness has since then evolved into becoming more powerful to handle the bigger picture of reality.
Throughout the last 5 years, I have also researched and accumulated lots of information on other topics such as nutritional health, anti-aging methods, weight-loss methods, natural cures for various diseases, sports nutrition, nature of various emotions, positive psychology, sociology, sexuality, energy-saving methods, money-saving methods, Intelligence, flaws in IQ-testing, culture, vegan cooking, art, video-making, video-editing, music remixing. I have also recently debunked lots of flawed diets, faulty scientific studies, false social notions etc and I hope to publish them all in this blog.
My hobbies are: listening to music, making art, beauty appreciation, making fan music videos, spiritual exploration, spending time with nature, exploring new cultures and trying foods from other cultures, and investigations in the supernatural as well as UFOs and aliens.
I have had experiences during my dream-time state of encountering different species of aliens as well as being assisted by spiritual beings in my own life. Such experiences no doubt have enabled me the ability to relate to other people's encounters of such similar experiences and made me somehow of a believer in such beings.
I hope this new writing journey will bring me closer to my goals of experiencing more of the greater spiritual reality while getting more out of life, and I wish to share such a journey with the readers who would visit this blog.
I am currently 32 years old(but still look 22 due to great health) and living in tropical Singapore. I first got into serious writing in the local newspapers about local politics in the early 2000s most notoriously dealing with Free Speech and government negligence of handicap accessibility in key public areas. I stopped writing and dealing with local politics after a few years and moved on to research about the meaning of life and Happiness that was spurred by the huge increase in books with such topics in bookstores. I later self-published my findings to experience self-publishing that was becoming popular a few years ago.
While in 2007, I assisted a local international school's debate team to win the finals at a national debating tournament that was telecast on national TV.
The research in the meaning of life that ended in late 2007 eventually got me heavily interested in Spirituality in the following year. Since then, I have been researching about the greater spiritual reality and have accumulated lots of insights that most people are not aware of. I realized that what most people on this planet knows about spirituality is only at the surface level, there is a much greater spiritual reality that is beyond the public's knowledge. My level of consciousness has since then evolved into becoming more powerful to handle the bigger picture of reality.
Throughout the last 5 years, I have also researched and accumulated lots of information on other topics such as nutritional health, anti-aging methods, weight-loss methods, natural cures for various diseases, sports nutrition, nature of various emotions, positive psychology, sociology, sexuality, energy-saving methods, money-saving methods, Intelligence, flaws in IQ-testing, culture, vegan cooking, art, video-making, video-editing, music remixing. I have also recently debunked lots of flawed diets, faulty scientific studies, false social notions etc and I hope to publish them all in this blog.
My hobbies are: listening to music, making art, beauty appreciation, making fan music videos, spiritual exploration, spending time with nature, exploring new cultures and trying foods from other cultures, and investigations in the supernatural as well as UFOs and aliens.
I have had experiences during my dream-time state of encountering different species of aliens as well as being assisted by spiritual beings in my own life. Such experiences no doubt have enabled me the ability to relate to other people's encounters of such similar experiences and made me somehow of a believer in such beings.
I hope this new writing journey will bring me closer to my goals of experiencing more of the greater spiritual reality while getting more out of life, and I wish to share such a journey with the readers who would visit this blog.
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