Balance And Simplicity May Be The Best Approach With Natural Vitamin Anti-Oxidant Supplements

One of the best things you can do short of digging in to find all the supplements that apply to all your specific aliments is to take a good balanced anti-oxidant based group of supplements every other day or whatever feels right for you. The idea is balance and to play it lightly as opposed to mega doses of supplements that can sometimes burden the body's system. Often you will feel the burden, seriously.


This and the two below are some of the products I have used
and approximate the formulations suggested here

I would suggest an ACE antioxidant with the following fundamental vitamins and anti-oxidants -

Beta-Carotene (5,000 to 20,000IU)

Vitamin C (is usually about 250mg in this formula which is fine especially when you combine it with the Ester-C supplement below. Some people like to keep the amount of C from getting too high)

Vitamin E (100 to 400 mg per tablet)

Zinc 7 to 20mg per tablet)

Selenium (15 to 50mcg per tablet)

Along with-

A vitamin Ester-C supplement w/bioflavnoids such as hesperidin, rutin or quercetin (get the 500 or 1000 mg tablets that you can halve if you need to. It may read calcium ascorbate instead of Ester-C)

A carotene formula w/ lutein and lycopene (and this should include many other smaller amounts of carotenoids and the lutein should be at least 5mg).


The above ACE formula is a guide but you can find many formulations that will include some of these -
grape seed extract, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, alpha lipoic acid, glutathione, green tea and more. I wouldn't weight your formula down too much. A couple of these added to the ACE formula should do nicely.
I like a little grape seed extract with perhaps some N-acetyl-L-cysteine, or green tea. You see a lot of different combinations out there. Again the above ACE-vitamin C-carotene formula is the essential. You can add some of the grape seed extract and so on but doing that is mostly when you want to pump up the anti-oxidant intake a little. If at all possible keep it light, keep it balanced, play it smart.

After going for complicated formulas with every anti-oxidant and supplement out there I have found this relatively basic supplement plan above helps you get the fundamentally important vitamins, anti-oxidants and amino acids you may often miss in a diet short on fruits and vegetables.

Some effective amounts per tablet or capsule to look for regarding the additional anti-oxidants mentioned above-
Grape seed extract - 15mg or more
N-acetyl-L-cysteine - 50mg or more
Alpha-Lipoic Acid - 25 or more
Green Tea - 10 to 30 is nice, any more and you get the edgy caffeine effect
Glutathione - usually found in small relative amounts 2 to 10mgs
There are more but when you find these in the amounts listed here the other anti-oxidants listed will usually be in a quality amount also.


If you take any natural supplements that cause the stomach even some mild distress you can always take a simple calcium carbonate tablet that will usually ease that distress. Tums and many other equivalent brands of antacids are usually 100% simple calcium carbonate and cheap.

A couple of tips - Be careful of bogus formulations out there with miniscule amounts, there are a few.
Vitamin C is the most essential vitamin for the synthesis of the other supplements you take.

One more thing. I know some of these are pricey so let's get real. You can look through the bargain bins and find much of this still completely effective even though they may be recently expired and you might look into online stores such as Puritan's Pride. You can often get in on their buy one and get two free offers if that works for you.   

A Natural Health Overview

Of course the problem today is with the severity of which our environment has increased our incidence of illness in everything from increased environmental pollution to environmental stress factors in this relentlessly fast paced society. All this together has contributed to debilitating our health and it is possible that it is a blessing that we have discovered many drugs which can treat these drastic conditions brought on by drastic causes. Man is in an unnatural state of existence relative to most of his history so perhaps it is appropriate that unnatural drugs are necessary to deal with that but in many cases it is a catch-22 because of the side effects of these new drugs and the toxins they can release in your system. I would hesitate to say that natural solutions are the cure all for all of us but for many, the natural way of health is the preventative way to go and it all begins with detoxifying all the unnatural chemicals & carcinogens out of our bodies, reducing stress when possible and beginning again.

Long Ago Near The Garden

It is interesting to note that based on biblical scripture man did not depart from eating plants until the exit from the ark of Noah. This is where God changed man's diet from eating only plants to eating other animals probably as not only a necessity due to the nature of the flooded earth but also due to the nature of man as he evidently became excessively violent with longevity.

It seems that before this time through all of the antediluvian period man ate only plants and probably the notion of eating any fleshly living thing was quite repugnant to men just as eating our own species would be to us now. It appears that no other living thing was eating another living thing but that all creatures in creation were eating plants. The point here is that the lifespan of men before the flood, at least for some of them, was close to one thousand years, yes, 1000 yrs. None were recorded to live actually that long but some lived well into their 900's and 800's as recorded in scripture and many more must have lived for hundreds of years in general. So, we connect the dots. Eat plants only, live hundreds of years.

The absence of animal oils and cholesterol was apparently critical in mans longevity and it is surely no coincidence that when man began eating animals immediately after leaving the ark his lifespan quickly dropped to about 120 yrs at the max.
There may have been other unmentioned changes in man's physiology and perhaps even the actual air environment may have changed relative to the working of man's lungs or that some of the vital plants man needed no longer grew from the earth but the introduction of animal products into man's system seems to be the working proponent in the reduction of his longevity in that it is the simple mechanics of the collection of blockage in the blood system.

Alright, so why cannot man just stop eating animal products today and begin a hundreds years life? No doubt after so many thousands of years of the consumption of these oils and cholesterol men have become mutated or internally conditioned with the change so that we can not just give up it up and eat only vegetables for dramatically increased longevity. In short our body has become programmed in the sense that it expects to die after so many years.

Today if a working individual just gives up meat and goes vegetarian they have a hard time maintaining the energy level to accomplish what they need to do but long ago men did accomplish all they had to do and received the energy they needed by eating only plants.
So, this is not a call to vegetarianism to achieve any fountain of youth but a call to improve the quality of your life and extend it to the degree that animal oils and cholesterol may shorten it do to cancers and heart disease.

After so many years of man eating meat he probably still needs some characteristics of it to function at his best but we can eat the healthiest of meats such as fish, turkey and chicken breast with fruits and vegetables and take the essential vitamins and antioxidants that so characterize the beneficial aspects of the plant family that we probably cannot really get into our system without actually walking up to the fresh plants and eating them as they did so long ago, round the garden.

The Key Benefit

Natural vitamins and antioxidants can make you feel better by supplying increased energy but the boon of these natural nutraceuticals is in the removal of dangerous toxins from your system which in the long run will make you feel better and probably more energized because of the improvement it will bring to your overall health. The special duty of antioxidants is to remove harmful oxidants and toxins from your system. Some of the best of these antioxidants include: Vitamin C with bio-flavonoids, Vitamin E, Beta Carotene, N-Acetyl Cystiene, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Glutathione, CoQ10, Selenium, GrapeSeed Extract, Silymarin(milk thistle extract), GreenTea extract, Quercetin, Lutien and others in the flavonoid and carotenoid family which are derived from fruits and vegetables.