My accountant R.S. was just in my office. He told me about the taxes but then he didn’t get up to leave… so I knew he wanted something.
I said, “Is there anything I can do for you?”
“Well, yeah,” he said. I was doing P.A.C.E. and I thought I should go to a trainer for help. But the trainer had me do something else, and now I hurt myself. $38,000 later, in and out of the hospital, I find out I have a damaged L5 disc in my back and I’m back where I started.”
So now he’s going to do PACE Express so he can follow along with our trainer on the videos, Rob.
But then he said, “I decided I want to take supplements. How should I go about that? I’m a little overweight, I’m older, I don’t feel so great and I want to try to get myself back to feeling good. What should I take?”
I get this question all the time. From patient, readers and even people I just met who find out what I do. They say, “Dr Sears, what should I take?”
I told R.S., “Well, without knowing your labs and knowing more about you, I can tell you that you should at least be taking a multivitamin. And you have to pick a good one.”
I say this because there are a lot of bad multivitamins out there.
The most popular one in the world – I won’t mention the name – is the worst one I’ve ever found. It’s pure junk. It’s just chemicals and minimal doses.
And they make all these different ones for different people that have token amounts of herbs in them. But you wouldn’t want to put herbs in a multivitamin anyway. Herbs alter physiology and that’s not the point of a good multi-nutrient.
I told him Daily Power is a good one, and he wrote that down and asked me how many he should take every day… the he said, “What else?”
I told him the one thing I would take is CoQ10. It’s very hard to make as you get older, very hard to come by in the environment, it’s very important, you’re probably not getting enough and it will help you heal.”
Some vegetarians like to tell you that you can get CoQ10 from brewer’s yeast, but there’s no bioavailable amount in it. And red meat is a good source, but not commercial meat. I don’t normally tell people to supplement instead of getting a nutrient through food, but CoQ10 is a rare exception.
R.N. was also looking for something to take to improve his performance. He wants energy for when he’s at the gym. So I told him the best thing was Better Than Coffee. It has lots of choline and vitamin B12 for energy and a big dose of quercetin which helps performance, too.
Quercetin is also very good for a man as you age because it protects against lung, skin and prostate cancers. A study in the journal Carcinogenesis found quercetin could stop cancer-causing changes in prostate cells. It flushes away carcinogens and can block tumor development and growth.
For even more quercetin, it’s also a good idea to eat onions, apples, peppers, berries, grapes, tomatoes, black tea and garlic.