Why Supplements Help Less Than You Think (What To Do Instead)

Question on Supplementing with Quercetin00:00

Randy asks about supplementing with quercetin, which is mentioned frequently. Prefer getting quercetin and other supplements like N-acetylcysteine in natural form because it produces benefits in a more natural state with fewer side effects. Science shows benefits of supplements, but opinion is that natural forms of these beneficial molecules, substances, and metabolites are better than supplements. Challenging to get adequate amounts naturally, so occasionally use supplements personally, but weigh pros and cons. Important not to take them in a fasted state, except things in water.

Fasting State and Water Intake01:31

Ancestors drank water even when not eating or hunting. Water contains calcium, magnesium, potassium, lithium, bacteria, yeast, fungi, and undetectable species of life forms that optimized the microbiome. Living water contributed to microbiome optimization. Modern water is diseased, polluted, with imbalanced life forms, risking pathogenic microbes. In the past, beneficial microbes balanced pathogens. Not advocating drinking creek, river, or lake water unless pristine like Lake of the Woods in Canada, suitable for consumption even near diseased people with poor diets camping nearby. Some alphas could drink closer to shore.

Water is an interesting paradigm for fasted state intake: yes to microbes for optimization, no to calories; yes to minerals and electrolytes, no to amino acids, quercetin, fisetin, cyanidin.