Re: Vitamins and supplements
I take Co-Enzyme Q10 daily as I have to take Statins but I occasionally take Vitamin A during the Winter to counteract SAD and Vitamin E on a run-up to my holiday, particularly if I am going overseas.
Other than that I will eat certain foods if I feel I'm in need of a boost.
I don't know why but for some reason I get a craving for something in particular that is rich in this or that so I do tend to react to that.
In 1977 I met and got talking to a Buddhist monk in Thailand when I decided to go there for a break from Saudi Arabia and one of the things we talked about, other than Buddhism, was food and what's good for you.
I spent 5 hours with him at a temple and it was one of the most memorable things that I ever did.
He said my body would guide me to what I needed and I've interpreted that to these cravings.
Whether this is right or wrong I don't know but I feel happier following this "regime".
Before this, and during the time that I was in Thailand I stayed in a typical long house - they're village huts on stilts out in the countryside, usually very remote.
I wanted to meet the real Thais and these people lived mostly on what they grew, hunted or traded.
That too was memorable and I left them three days later feeling I should stay.
The really odd thing is that a few years back, my daughter went back-packing in Thailand and when she came back she talked about a large valley with a brown river running through it.
She showed me photos and I recognised it as the same area but a cigarette Factory and Palm Plantations had replaced the jungle and no villages survived. stevmk2