I was thinking about melatonin and astaxanthin together. Is there a potential synergy or is this overkill? There is the obvious evidence with astaxanthin and the ITP and melatonin has it’s advantages as well. Anyone taking both of these together? In full disclosure l am taking around 120 mg of astaxanthin in the morning and currently around 60 mg melatonin at night.
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Ean, I take 8x12mg=96mg of astaxanthin a day. I settled on the brand Bulk Supplements. What brand do you take?
When I first started about a year ago, I tried several different brands that were obviously bogus. I thought they were bogus due to the color and viscosity of the liquid in the caps and the color of my feces. Now, my hands and feet have a nice pinkish flamingo hue. (and my poop is dark purple)
The astaxanthin is suspended in maybe 100mg of sunflower oil. I also take fish oil, so I need to space it throughout the day due to potential GI overload. With meals, I add psyllium husk for bulk, and that eliminates the GI issues.
In an earlier thread, RapaAdmin had calculated the mouse/human equivalent as around 3.5 grams per day. If I put my mind to it, I could take 200mg of the pills, but I would have to rearrange and properly schedule my food intake around my astaxanthin pill routine. Plus, that’s a lot of sunflower oil to consume. In the current available formulations, I can’t see getting to a 3.5gr dose. Impurities make salmon and flamingo food additives a no-go. If one of the bulk supplement companies comes out with kilo bags, I’d experiment with much higher doses.
Oh, the most important point: it was fantastic on helping my hip joint pain, a game-changer. It was one of the very few supplements from which I felt an almost immediate striking effect. I quit ibuprofen, 1800mg/day, which was starting to give me an ulcer.
Astaxanthin is one of the few things I will mention/recommend to my reqular acquaintances. I have mentioned the anti-inflammatory effects that I experienced to various nurses/doctors I run into, but of course, they are just mildly annoyed at my “hallucinations/delusions”. Oh well, I felt it was my moral duty to report this important anecdotal experience to the “authorities”, so I did, to no avail.
As for melatonin, I take 6-10mg at night when I use the bathroom to put me back to sleep. I’ve read some good things about it, but 10mg takes care of my immediate sleeping needs.
Best Wishes, TC
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I take bulk supplements astaxanthin as well(at least for the moment). I am impressed that you have benefited so much from taking it. I have not perceived any benefits but l will still continue. I think l may adopt your 8 pill strategy. I should have read the ingredients better l didn’t realize it was dissolved in sunflower oil. I will probably switch to NOW after my supply runs out. Thanks for the info
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From what little I know sunflower is not a terrible oil, and I just guestimated the amount, still it adds up. I know the annual productions levels of asta must be at industrial scale because most farmed salmon are fed asta. With thousands of tons of raw bulk asta floating about the free market you’d think I could score a couple keys of high quality powder, but I haven’t found any (yet)
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If you come across a reliable bulk supplier, please let know.
