It's funny you wrote about this yesterday - A friend of mine made herself sick from supplements the same day. She attended a talk by a Danny Russo, who is touring the country talking to women about their health and fitness. He has no medical background.
Here is what she said he said:
Danny is a really enthusiastic speaker, and of course he tried to recruit people to sign up for his program, but it wasn't a total sales pitch. In fact, he didn't mention anything about money or signing up for his program until the last 5 minutes. He just talked about how women retain water differently than men, and how our sodium and potassium levels really affect how our muscles tone. He advised the following program for the first 30 days:
1. 20oz of water consumed quickly within 30 minutes, three times a day, at the same time every day. If you drink water at any other time during the day, be sure to sip it slowly, as women can over hydrate easily.
2. Eliminate all vitamins and supplements except those prescribed by your doctor (Dina ad-lib - and apparently what he prescribes, below)
3. B-complex: 50mg (50mg of each B vitamin in the B-complex pill), B-6: 50mg, C: 1000mg, and potassium: 99mg. Take these once per day after a real meal (not a bagel and coffee)
4. Eat chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, fruit, fruit, veggie, veggie 6 days a week and whatever the heck you want on day 7
5. Less than 2000mg sodium daily in any food canned, preserved for a long time, frozen, or your salt shaker
That was pretty much it. He handed out some PH test strips to test your PH level, and it should be above 6.5. Apparently if your PH is off it is bad for building muscle...he used to train NFL players and said they all test PH before leaving the gym each day. Overall it was a pretty informative lecture, and I'm going to adopt the vitamins and the water.
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So she loaded herself up on B vitamins and potassium yesterday and it made her sick.
My favorite idea? Stick to the supplements suggested by the doc, period!
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Here is what she said he said:
Danny is a really enthusiastic speaker, and of course he tried to recruit people to sign up for his program, but it wasn't a total sales pitch. In fact, he didn't mention anything about money or signing up for his program until the last 5 minutes. He just talked about how women retain water differently than men, and how our sodium and potassium levels really affect how our muscles tone. He advised the following program for the first 30 days:
1. 20oz of water consumed quickly within 30 minutes, three times a day, at the same time every day. If you drink water at any other time during the day, be sure to sip it slowly, as women can over hydrate easily.
2. Eliminate all vitamins and supplements except those prescribed by your doctor (Dina ad-lib - and apparently what he prescribes, below)
3. B-complex: 50mg (50mg of each B vitamin in the B-complex pill), B-6: 50mg, C: 1000mg, and potassium: 99mg. Take these once per day after a real meal (not a bagel and coffee)
4. Eat chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, fruit, fruit, veggie, veggie 6 days a week and whatever the heck you want on day 7
5. Less than 2000mg sodium daily in any food canned, preserved for a long time, frozen, or your salt shaker
That was pretty much it. He handed out some PH test strips to test your PH level, and it should be above 6.5. Apparently if your PH is off it is bad for building muscle...he used to train NFL players and said they all test PH before leaving the gym each day. Overall it was a pretty informative lecture, and I'm going to adopt the vitamins and the water.
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So she loaded herself up on B vitamins and potassium yesterday and it made her sick.
My favorite idea? Stick to the supplements suggested by the doc, period!