I try really hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Really hard. (You can review my do and do nots here) Sometimes, I’m successful, sometimes I have lots of room to improve. But for the most part I try to eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly. But for all that I do to be healthy, apparently I need some help.
I went for just an annual check up and turns out my blood work came back severely deficient in Vitamin D. Shocking. So I started to revaluate my nutritional intake and because of that, I now take supplements. But not just any supplements, but the world’s LARGEST supplements:
Horses take smaller pills.
2.) Vitamin D and Calcium –Turns out you need calcium to absorb Vitamin D, calcium being another thing I get very little of. To remedy this naturally, I started drinking 8 oz of calcium enriched orange juice every day which has over 100% of your daily vitamin C needs and 30% of your calcium needs. I eat tons of broccoli already so that adds even more calcium. But not enough so I pop these enormous suckers for strong bones.
3.) Glucosamine: I’ve got the joints of a 75 year old. Mostly in my shoulders, hips and knees. The kicker about this one is that it has to be taken consistently every day for 3 months before you feel any effects. I can barely do anything for consistently for more than 3 days, let alone 3 months, so this one is tricky, but I try.
Besides being annoyed every time I take these, I am curious is why they have to be so large. You'd think we'd have found a better solution than this. I have to believe that if we can make a little blue pile that gives men boners, little yellow pills that relieve headaches and little white pills that serve a variety of purposes, we can certainly find a way to make supplements, whatever color they may be, smaller.
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