I find it easier if you put your concerns together and then look at the pathways and work out what vitamins you might need. It can also reduce the number of tablets and vitamins you have to take as some might have been generated within the pathways concerned and hence no need for extra’s.
Take this example for instance:
Take care of skin colour and condition of the skin, cardiovascular, lower your blood pressure, create methyl (-ch3) switches for epigenetics and regrow of hair and keeping it in good condition. You need only 3 tablets to sort all the above. Remember this is an observational exploratory idea and we have to look at this together and then decide if this is plausible or not.
Look at this pathway combination: you can see why the Homocysteine levels come down – because you take it off the system by giving it B6 and converting it to Cysteine. You can see why B6 is important to reduce H levels. In fact, all this is required to make that puzzle of a pathway spinning completely to get the H levels to reduce: Trimethylglycine, n-acetyl l-cysteine, vitamin B6, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, zinc citrate, folic acid.
You can see the pathway to the left is of melanogenesis and controlling skin colour. Next to it on the right is for the reduction of Homocysteine (H) levels for good cardiovascular health.
looking for common ground to reduce the vitamin tablet numbers to take:
To reduce H levels you need:
Trimethylglycine, n-acetyl l-cysteine, vitamin B6, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, zinc citrate, folic acid.
and you get it from here:
Connect® 60 Capsules – homocysteine support
I gather revital, UK is already starting to sell these.
Patrick Holford Connect, 60 VCapsules
Amazon also sells them:
Patrick Holford Connect 60 Capsules
Homocysteine breakdown generates cysteine and you enter the melanogenesis pathway. You can add Pycnogenol to this pathway from pine bark extract and you can lighten the skin colour.
Cysteine is also important for hair:
Most doctors agree that cysteine is the most important amino acid for hair growth. Of all the amino acids, it makes up the biggest component of keratin.
Cysteine is great for improving hair strength. It provides sulfur to hair cells which can improve hair’s texture, elasticity and strength. Stronger hair grows longer, faster. Your hair growth becomes much more noticeable as cysteine gets to work.
methionine is an essential amino acid that helps make pre-collagen (the precursor to collagen). It also works as an antioxidant to help prevent an imbalance called oxidation stress.
Not only is methionine a great amino acid for hair loss, studies have suggested that it may even play a role in slowing down grey hair! We’ll take it.
If you add L-arginine and L-lysine to this you can further enhance your hair condition and also reduce your blood pressure because L-arginine produces Nitric Oxide which is a vasodilator.
The arginine amino acid is huge for hair growth as it stimulates blood circulation around your hair follicles. That helps all the nutrients your body makes and digests get up to your scalp. When blood is circulating well, you’ll have a much better hair growth environment.
Lysine is another essential amino acid with restorative properties. It stimulates collagen production — a big role considering collagen production can drop pretty drastically as you age. When your body is producing more collagen, your hair will be more resilient and it will look much healthier.
For L-lysine and L-arginine:
Omega 3 Amino Acids for Hair Growth
Blood Pressure reduction with L-Arginine and nitric oxide.
So you start with Homocysteine level reduction and end up also changing your skin colour and taking care of your hair plus a whole lot of other things by just taking 3 tablets:
You start from the centre and work your stack of vitamins outwards taking a few vitamins as possible for a lot more of health especially as you age, as depletion of natural vitamins and enzymes etc is a Kalachakra movement with aging time and reversing aging is looking at what you have lost from when you were younger.
To add to this stack you could look at say reducing your blood sugar levels. They tend to rise toward prediabetes and diabetes with time aging. How can I reduce blood sugars with just vitamins to add to my stack of vitamins?
what does this do:
Maximum Spectrum Enzym-Complete/DPP-IV™ Fruit Free w/Isogest – 120 caps – Kirkman
You want to look up Transglucosidase:
Scientists have shown that an enzyme called transglucosidase converts starches into prebiotic fiber within the digestive tract.
It does not convert starch, carbohydrates to glucose and fructose, or sugars BUT rather converts starches to a soluble fiber that then is food for the microbiome or gut bacteria. Hence starches do NOT become sugars if Transglucosidase is present. It hence keeps blood glucose levels down.
detoxpeople – nature’s warehouse
Maximum Spectrum Enzym-Complete/DPP-IV™ Fruit Free w/Isogest – 120 caps
This above probably pretty well takes care of your digestive enzymes?
This below is something else that can reduce your blood sugar levels and increase your energy. You probably had lots of it when you were younger but now probably just 2 pennies worth in your body bank – Creatine.
It gets straight into your muscles and generates ATP for energy by using the Krebs cycle pathway. It produces energy and now have lots of garden time compared to Pre-KRE-ALKALYN. But what does it have to do with reducing your blood sugar levels?
Creatine Shows Potential In Managing Blood Sugar And Insulin Levels. One natural consequence of creatine’s ability to boost muscle energy levels is a subsequent increase in your body’s ability to utilize glucose as metabolic fuel.Creatine has long been known to lower blood glucose levels in healthy patients
It increases metabolic rate and hence in that way burns more sugars. If you find that your sugar levels are creeping upwards with age, you can bring in down to below 5 with this. Please consult your doctor first before taking this as there is a process to build up the creatine levels first for about a week if it is the first time you are taking creatine.
So, what else is there? I would like to live for 150 years. I need to build up my supplement stack to compensate for aging. Time is running out and I want more time doing nothing.
Think about it, research it and get it sorted. Make it easy on yourself. Try and get them all into just a few tablets.
Wait a minute: I need a DHT blocker for my falling hair. You can get a pharmaceutical drug for this but I really should be taking a natural DHT blocker:
ok, another tablet but worth it I think.
Homocysteine levels is really a good place to start your stack. When it is too high it attacks everything. Even your hair follicles are not exempt from this vandalism from this homocysteine molecule. I refuse to give this molecule a capital H anymore. I think it destroys all the blood vessels at the base of the follicles. It does the same to all the other blood vessels, causing plaque build-up and internal inflammation.
Do your s-CRP test for inflammation to see how your inners are doing and remember that if you are doing a homocysteine test – it needs to be done soon after taking the blood sample – because the red blood cells in the sample will continue to secret H into the blood and give you a false high reading. These tests are usually done in hospitals where the labs are next door for testing or there is a postal test kit that you can buy where the test is designed to extract the red blood cells leaving the blood serum behind that is then sent off for testing.
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