INSIDER EXCLUSIVE: My Tried-and-Tested Supplement Routine Revealed
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My love of supplements started back in Austin, Texas 19 years ago.
I used to wake up at 6 AM everyday, make coffee, get in my car and go for the 1 HOUR wholesome drive to Smithville, Texas where I worked at MD Anderson Cancer Center. I loved to get there at 7:30 AM and start all of my experiments before anyone stepped in the lab!
By the time people started arriving - 9:30 AM - I had everything going beautifully and peacefully and experiments well under way! - cell culture cells washed, phage particles packaged with DNA, western blot materials ready to go.
I loved my research work there! Loved it so much! So, in exchange for the mind blowing and fun work, I was ok driving there everyday.
But it was a whole hour of commute, and even without traffic that is quite a bit of time, specially because I did this 5 days per week! After awhile, it started to compound and I wondered if I had made the right decision.
So, I pivoted and started playing around with different ways to keep me entertained and sharp minded throughout my drive.
XM radio was a thing at the time and they gave me a month long free trial, to which I happily accepted and then later signed up for the membership! To my delight, I found many channels talking about health in a more out-of-the-box way.
Every day I listened to various shows but my favourite was the one by Dr. Oz- haha! It was truly great as he had all kinds of interesting ‘crazy’ health people come in to discuss specifics about different supplements and how they made ‘health’ easier.
I was flabbergasted with delight! I loved it!!
I adored my XM radio health shows so much that my commute started to get shorter and shorter hahahaha! Because I wished it took me longer to get there so I could finish listening to my show!
Needless to say, I started learning about supplements then! And the thing that really got me interested, was not only the science of it, of course, but the REAL LIFE effect it had on real lives and real people.
Science evidence is one thing but does it really help a person in real life?
I became obsessed with this question.
AND this very question has served me and my clients amazingly well OVER and OVER AGAIN (and now, as you know, I ask this same question about everything that has to do with health, not just supplements)
Ever since then, I have read thousands upon thousands of people’s real live supplement reviews: for example, what do people who are taking Magnesium Glycinate by the brand Designs for Health have to say about the effects of it in their daily lives?
(I still do this, by the way, not only with reviews but learning from hundreds of clients’ experiences!)
So, for 19 years, one of my most delicious hobbies has been (and is, to this day) to get a dang interesting compound say, like, MAGNESIUM or TAURINE, learn everything about their science, start connecting their science to how it can help clients, and then go to amazon or iherb and read all the reviews (good and bad) that people leave for that brand of supplement.
I have been curating supplements for years!!
If you are my client you know that if I recommend a specific brand, there is a VERY SPECIAL reason why I gave you that brand to try, so don’t even ask if you can buy another brand because it might not work!
And, as you can imagine, I am the biggest guinea pig of all time.
I love trying out different compounds but also different brands of the same compounds (and yes! They can be VERY different).
I also like to stack and pair supplements for different goals, diets, recovery routines.
Supplement protocols are as unique as your fingerprint!
So! Today, without further ado, here is my tried and tested supplement routine!
For now, I will give you the ‘long story short’ of why I take each but I will most definitely make 1 entire post for each of these over time - they are all so freaking awesome and interesting that they deserve a space of their own at Health Minis.
HELENA’s Amazing List of Tried-and-Tested Supplements
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