Vitamins, Supps for Immune and Respiratory Support?

[Impregnator]

for the past couple years i either get bronchitis, flu, or pneumonia in winter. usually the bronchitis turns into pneumonia. i dont smoke anything and i suspect its from my workplace, or from other people.
and it costs me alot of money every time between doctor visits, payments, scripts, time out of work, and it cuts into my weight lifting really bad.


heres my current selection, i need to know what else i can add. or what other vitamins you guys recommend and swear by.
zinc should be supplemented pretty well with OT, as long as i take 6 a day lol.

OT
oximega
now vit d3
now vit c 1000
now mens virility power
drs best chelated magnesium

and i already take melatonin for a good sleep

how about these?
quercetin?
echinacea?

[Robsolutely]

Vitamins won't help with this in the way that you think. Lots of people get sick around the Winter. Do you take any medication right when you notice you're getting sick? Mucinex DM always helps me when I have respiratory cold related issues. If it's more serious, then you will need to get a doctor's prescription.

[KimJong-il]

Hand sanitizer is my preferred preventative measure. Use it whenever I have to touch a door during cold season.

Also, by sanitizing wipes and when people arent looking (people will probably think your weird and paranoid) wipe down door knobs, cell phones (including those around you when they are not looking), keyboards, etc.....even at your job especially if you work in a public place. Germs love cell phones I think you can find more on that than a toilet bowl.

[ChrisVigor]

Hand sanitizer is my preferred preventative measure. Use it whenever I have to touch a door during cold season.

Also, by sanitizing wipes and when people arent looking (people will probably think your weird and paranoid) wipe down door knobs, cell phones (including those around you when they are not looking), keyboards, etc.....even at your job especially if you work in a public place. Germs love cell phones I think you can find more on that than a toilet bowl.

Ill have you know toilet bowls are very clean

[Impregnator]

yea its hard to fight off viruses naturally, i do take all these precautions..
just want to have some peace of mind that on my end, im good.

since i work outside in winter, its definately becoming a strain on my body since im getting older, now 32yo

[mtpaquette]

Have you considered trying glutamine?

Doses of glutamine

Oral glutamine (0.3 g/kg body weight/day) administration showed beneficial effects on intestinal integrity and the overall incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis/septicemia in preterm infants.47 Administration of enteral nutrition with a glutamine enriched formula (30.5 g/100 g protein feeding) resulted in a significant decrease in the incidence of pneumonia, bacteremia, and sepsis of critically ill patients as compared to control feeding (3.5 g/100 g protein).48 Intravenous infusion of glutamine dipeptide as L-alanyl-glutamine (0.285 g/kg body weight/day) reduced the rate of mortality in critically ill patients.49 Glutamine (0.4 g/kg body weight/day)-supplemented total parenteral nutrition significantly decreases leukocyte and natural killer cell count and therefore suppresses inflammation in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome.50

MAN offers 100g of glutamine peptides in the BB.com store for $13 before any kind of discounts are applied if you're thinking about giving glutamine a shot.

[Impregnator]

Have you considered trying glutamine?




MAN offers 100g of glutamine peptides in the BB.com store for $13 before any kind of discounts are applied if you're thinking about giving glutamine a shot.

interesting, thanks bro. gonna read up more about it.
ive always skipped glutamine, always thought it was pointless.

[mtpaquette]

interesting, thanks bro. gonna read up more about it.
ive always skipped glutamine, always thought it was pointless.

In terms of recovery from resistance training yes, but it does have some benefits.

[VicMackey92]

ive always skipped glutamine, always thought it was pointless.

not for gi issue or other things


do you still get sick while using ot

[Cheftepesh]

I would also look into pau d'arco. From what I remember it does the same as echinacea without putting you immune system into over drive.

[TheFugitive]

Wash your hands often

[Gym God]

Other supplements you may want to look into are fish oil, colostrum, astragalus… and just eating nutrient rich foods. Get quality rest.

[djansen]

garlic and NAC

[macwad]

Astragalus.
And, believe it or not, after I started taking Clear Muscle I haven't been as often sick as before. As it helps with recovery, maybe my body doesn't becomes so fragile to a point where the virus can take over... But this is anedoctal...

[allieninja]

Some great suggestions in here. You can also look into Green Supreme Fusion which has a bunch of immunity-boosting ingredients:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/sa...me-fusion.html

[Mr.Cooper69]

Have you considered trying glutamine?




MAN offers 100g of glutamine peptides in the BB.com store for $13 before any kind of discounts are applied if you're thinking about giving glutamine a shot.

Please refer to supplement spotlight #2. Glutamine does not boost immune function. You just bolded a quote referring to pneumonia, sepsis, and bacteremia in critically ill patients...this is all mentioned LITERALLY in the same exact sentence as the part you bolded. Come on mayne

[Mr.Cooper69]

In terms of recovery from resistance training yes, but it does have some benefits.

Negative to this too. This is why I do these writeups, please read:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=163984831

[Mr.Cooper69]

All of this said, Anacyclus pyrethrum/Anabeta and Prototype 7-spray both have excellent data for immunostimlation

[mtpaquette]

Please refer to supplement spotlight #2. Glutamine does not boost immune function. You just bolded a quote referring to pneumonia, sepsis, and bacteremia in critically ill patients...this is all mentioned LITERALLY in the same exact sentence as the part you bolded. Come on mayne

Coop is coop.... From work I just did a quick google search and pulled up the first study I seem pertaining to humans and not cows. Didn't read the full text as it wasn't even 6am my time. Not that I need to explain myself as I was merely giving him another spectrum to explore.

Negative to this too. This is why I do these writeups, please read:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=163984831

Is that the form of "L-glutamine" that most companies are using? AI? ON? PF? Body Tech? I bet not.

[Joe D]

Op, do you happen to have allergies? My allergies were so bad, that it brought on sinus infection, which then became bronchitis. I knew I had allergies, but didn't know they were all connected

[Mr.Cooper69]

Coop is coop.... From work I just did a quick google search and pulled up the first study I seem pertaining to humans and not cows. Didn't read the full text as it wasn't even 6am my time. Not that I need to explain myself as I was merely giving him another spectrum to explore. Is that the form of "L-glutamine" that most companies are using? AI? ON? PF? Body Tech? I bet not.

Correct, no mainstream companies I know of use the effective form. I may be overlooking some though so reps should feel free to chime in.

I'm of the school of thought that it's irresponsible to deliver misinformation to an already misinformed industry, but I know I differ from a lot of people in that regard so take what I say with a grain of salt