Health food supplements

Behold...Hot Stuff. A friend of mine used to take this years ago. Never tried it myself...here's why.

Take a look at the ingredients list...actually, look at one ingredient in particular, about halfway through the list:

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Orchic Substance

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What is "Orchic Substance", you ask? Click here.

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Orchic Is The Chemical Name For The Testicular Glands Or Testes. They Are Two Male Sex Glands Which Hang Outside The Body In A Small Sac Of Skin Called The Scrtum.

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Yes, you're eating balls.

Anyone take any health suppliments, weird or not? I take fairly normal stuff- just a heavy-duty multi-vitamin, an extra vitamin C, whey protein powder (mostly right after I work out), and L-glutamine (an amino acid that boosts recovery and your immune system).

Not anymore. Creatine was making me all jittery for some reason (probably because of my anxiety disorder), and I ditched the protein powder in favor of exorbitant amounts of tuna fish. Why, I don't know, as I think it's pretty gross.

Heh that reminds me last quarter in my nutrition class. We had to do reports on vitamins, minerals and other supplements and stuff.

I remember learning about how if you take too much vitamin C, I believe you skin can start becoming orange. I'll have to check and see which one for sure but you had to take like toxic levels of it over long periods for it to happen.

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Originally Posted by Rtificial

Heh that reminds me last quarter in my nutrition class. We had to do reports on vitamins, minerals and other supplements and stuff.

I remember learning about how if you take too much vitamin C, I believe you skin can start becoming orange. I'll have to check and see which one for sure but you had to take like toxic levels of it over long periods for it to happen.

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Beta-carotene (the form of Vitamin A found in carrots) will turn you orange if you consume too much of it, but I haven't heard of this effect from Vitamin C.

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Originally Posted by dietitian.com

With regards to carrots, yes you can eat so many of them that your skin will turn yellow. One carrot (7 1/2" long) has 2025 RE of vitamin A, which is 203% of your Daily Value. One pound of carrots has 1276% of your RDA for vitamin A. So since you have eaten more than 3 carrots in a day (> 34,000 IU), you have probably saturated your body's ability to store vitamin A over a short time and so it is showing up as an orange tint on your skin. I would suggest you decrease your carrot consumption and increase other low vitamin A vegetables.

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When I was a baby my favorite foods were like carrots and squash, things that had lots of betacarotein. My mom freaked out when I turned orange. :)

I make myself Sustagen at the hospital sometimes, since there's always lots of that shit hanging around where I work, does that count?

Dolemite, are you one of those bodybuilderds that lives pretty much on supplements and doesn't eat much else? I know a dude that simply lives of one brand of supplements. It's crazy. You're better off eating really carefully, but taking the whey powder and creatine monohydrate to boost your body building.

So THAT's how Hogan got his healthy orange glow...

Nothing strange here. Vitamins and whey protein powder (Optimum brand). I am trying creatine again at the moment to see if it does more for me now than it did six years ago.

I take Vitamin C, and Niacin every now and then.

Just in case you were wondering, Niacin can have very interesting effects of you take more than the reccommended dose.

I just take my daily Centrum multi vitamin... that's it.