Best Supplements for Men.

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Muscle Growth

These are safe and effective products that aid muscle growth, when combined with resistance training.

Whey protein and BCAAs: 

Undenatured and cold-processed whey is best, since it contains bioactive peptides that have important health benefits, beside the superb amino acid profile that makes whey the best protein for anabolism and glutathione support. 

NutraBio Whey Concentrate (or Isolate, with a higher protein content) is the brand I recommend. 

Take 20 grams immediately before or after a workout. Can also substitute for a meal.

Creatine: 

Creatine helps build strength and increases muscle hypertrophy, and extends life in lab animals. Purity is important with creatine, since it’s taken in gram amounts. 

NutraBio is a highly pure product. 

Suggested dose: 2 grams daily, or 5 grams two to three times a week.

Testosterone/Potency Boosters

Magnesium: 

Required for over 300 enzymatic reactions, including in energy production, relieves depression and fatigueprevents sudden cardiac death.

Gut absorption is important; magnesium oxide (common drugstore magnesium) has virtually zero absorption. NOW Magnesium Citrate is virtually 100% absorbed. 

Suggested dose: 200 to 400 mg (one to two tablets) daily.

L. reuteri Probiotic: 

In mice, the probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus reuteri raised testosterone levels dramatically, from 4 to 8 times higher, and yielded much more luxuriant and shiny fur. 

L. reuteri increases oxytocin and immunity, and promotes wound healing, mental health, metabolism, and muscle maintenance.

Nature’s Way Lactobacillus reuteri probiotic. 

Suggested dose: one capsule daily.

Zinc: 

NOW Zinc Gluconate boosts testosterone levels and promotes immune function and decreases incidence of infection in the elderlyrestores the thymus gland in aging mice, and a shrinking thymus is a major cause of lowered immunity in older people, leading to recurrent, even life-threatening infections.

Suggested dose: 15 mg daily. Alternatively, 50 mg once or twice a week.

Ketones

MCT Oil. Boosts ketones, curbs appetite, improves brain function. Increasing ketones in lab animals extends their lifespan.

Viva Naturals MCT Oil.

Ketone Supplement: Works like MCT oil, but this is the direct stuff, pure ketones.

KetoCaNa Ketone Supplement.

Vitamins and Fatty Acids

Vitamin D: 

Has many important health functions, including for athletes and for men’s sexual health. An oil-based form is best for absorption; some dry forms don’t raise serum vitamin D levels much or at all.

NOW Vitamin D is olive-oil-based – be sure you don’t buy a brand that uses soy or other garbage oils. 

Suggested dose for a 75 kg man: one 5,000 IU capsule daily, unless you get regular sun exposure. Less often for someone who weighs less.

Vitamin K

Vitamin K ensures that calcium goes to bone, not arteries, and is an absolute must for preventing coronary artery calcification. It prevents cancer and heart disease. Adequate amounts of vitamin K are difficult to get from dietary sources; the most abundant source is full-fat, pastured dairy, which most people don’t eat much of. 

The MK7 form of vitamin K2 is much better absorbed than MK4, so I recommend that form.

Doctor’s Best Vitamin K2, MK7 form

Suggested dose, one capsule several times a week, up to once daily.

Omega-3 fatty acids: 

Reduce inflammation and have many beneficial effects on the brain, including increases in cognition and elevated mood, and might even raise IQ

Capsules are more subject to oxidation during storage, so use a liquid form.

Carlson Cod Liver Oil is a premium brand. Store refrigerated. 

Suggested dose: one teaspoon, which supplies 1 gram omega-3, daily or every other day.

Life Extension

IP6 (inositol hexaphosphate): 

Also known as phytic acid or phytate, this cheap natural supplement chelates iron, prevents cancer and neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

The gold standard is IP6 Gold, Dr. Shamsuddin’s formula. One reader used it to lower his ferritin from over 400 to around 100 in a year and a half. 

Suggested dose: 500 mg to 1 gram daily on an empty stomach. Does not interfere with fasting.

Resveratrol: 

Promotes mitochondrial biogenesis and autophagy, extends lifespan in lab animals, and inhibits aromatase, raising testosterone levels in lab animals

Bulk resveratrol is the least expensive.

NutraBio trans-Resveratrol Powder. This is a 100-gram supply, which if taken at 100 mg a day, ought to last about three years, so it’s worth the cost. 

Suggested dose: 100 mg daily.

Curcumin: 

Hormetic supplement that activates antioxidant defenses and autophagy, chelates iron, decreases inflammation and cancer risk. 

Don’t get ripped off by companies selling turmeric.

Doctor’s Best Curcumin is 95% curcuminoids and contains piperine for maximum bioavailability. 

Suggested dose: 600 mg, one to three times daily, with a meal.

Intermittent Fasting / Autophagy Boosters

Berberine

Berberine is as effective as the well-known anti-aging drug metformin in producing a healthy metabolism: lowering blood sugar, and activating AMPK and autophagy. 

Results in fat loss in the overweight and in diabetics.

The closest thing to an anti-aging pill that you can get over the counter.

Autophagy Stack: 

A combination of curcumin, pterostilbene, resveratrol, and others designed to promote autophagy, the cellular self-cleansing process. 

Autophagy Stack, the first supplement designed to boost autophagy.

Skin Care for Wrinkles, Acne, and Baldness

Niacinamide 5% Face Serum: 

Skin care products are notorious for making claims that have no backing and don’t withstand scrutiny. This one is the real deal though: lotion that contains niacinamide (vitamin B3, also known as nicotinamide) has a significant effect on wrinkles and in lightening dark skin. 

InstaNatural Niacinamide 5% Face Serum.

Olive Oil

You should never use vegetable (seed) oils, and olive oil is a healthy substitute. 

But you must be careful buying them, since up to 70% of olive oils sold in the U.S. have been adulterated with soybean oil, and Italian brands are particularly notorious for this. Buy the wrong olive oil and you’re just getting the same old crap vegetable oil.

Selo Olive Oil is 100% pure. From Croatia.

Self-Defense

Obviously not supplements, but anyone interested in preserving his health should have them for protection against the most dangerous predators: other human beings.

Pepper Spray: 

OC Police Magnum Pepper Spray: good value with the 4-pack. Have one for bedside, desk, by the front door, and car. Stops criminals in their tracks. 

Suggested dose: use until criminal stopped in his tracks.

Tactical Flashlights: 

The ProTac 1L is just over 3 inches long, weighs 0.13 lbs, and has high, low, and strobe variations for its light. It’s very bright at 180 lumens strength. As bright as a Mag Light, but weighs only a small fraction of it. Fits in your pocket, or keep it at your bedside.

The ProTac HL3 emits about 5 times the light power as the 1L, at 1100 lumens.

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