My Personal Experience with Protandim

Protandim

I confess to having a built in prejudice against all dietary supplements, and fundamentally have believed that if you eat a healthy diet that should be enough nourishment to the body. So until relatively recently, I even did not take supplemental D3, Calcium, or fish oil as recommended by my primary care physician. That’s how anti supplement I have been, regarding the supplements i as a multibillion dollar near snake oil industry.

That being said, my husband in June 2009 was diagnosed with a terminal form of brain cancer, Glioblastoma Stage 4[the kind that took Senator Edward Kennedy’s life] I started to research the possible causes of his disease, and besides the conventional treatment he was getting, whether complementary medicine had anything to offer. My search took me down many roads, discussed elsewhere in this blog, but I did find out that his chemo therapy due to stop this month, will have lowered his immune system, and intuitively after chemo, it seemed like a good idea to locate the best immune boosting antioxidants I could find as he will be relying on his body’s natural defenses to ward off the reoccurrence of his tumor[average lifespan 14 months].

When you stare down the ugly barrel of a terminal disease like Glioblastoma and are caretaker for one’s spouse, it gives rise to a great deal of introspection about disease and death. I am not afraid of death as I have had a happy and full life, but the process of aging has become increasingly unappealing, and living to a “ripe old age” has seemed like a very dubious aspiration. I have seen my father die with Parkinsons and my mother with Alzheimers, so I have dreaded a future that seemed inevitable to me because of my genes. Now, with my husband’s life now assuredly dramatically shortened, the idea of facing the diseases of aging alone seemed even less appetizing. I have already suffered from back problems associated with a herniated disc and sciatica 2 years ago, and osteoarthritis sometimes has me as stiff as a board and creak across the room to my sauna which incidentally gives me a great deal of relief.

This brings me to Protandim. I was introduced to it by a friend over dinner, who said that I might be interested in its powerful anti-oxidative properties, and that its claims were actually based in science and clinical studies. This was music to my ears as I have long disregarded the exuberant self reports of users of various supplements. I was curious enough to put myself on a 30 day trial. Not so much for any short term benefits which I seriously doubted, but I figured if anti-oxidants could actually ward off some of the dreaded diseases of aging, then what was the harm? I also researched the company, the science and the ingredients in Protandim, so that I could feel confident in asking my husband’s oncologist whether he could start taking Protandim in October 2010. To date, I found no reasons why I would not want my husband to take it, and every reason to hope that it might help with his battle against cancer. I was amazed to read that oxidative stress was associated with over 100 diseases and that Protandim could reduce the oxidative stress levels back to that of a 20 year old. The ABC Documentary on Protadim is a real jaw dropper, and well worth the time to view.

Despite my knowledge that one clinical case has no bearing on scientific proof, I cannot resist sharing with you my experience with Protandim having been on it for nearly 2 months. After a month, I did a mental check just for the heck of it to see whether I could ascribe any health benefits to Protandim. Much to my surprise, I reflected that I had been feeling unusually invigorated at work and my brain seemed to be working so much faster and with better concentration, even during massive July heat waves which usually has me feel very sluggish. Also I had been sleeping better. It wasn’t that I was sleeping longer but I was feeling better rested in the mornings. Some colleagues at work had noticed how productive I had been in the last few weeks. So then I watched and waited, was my improvement in my wellbeing just a temporary random event or was it here to stay? I was thrilled over the next month to find that this new found alertness, concentration and rested feeling was here to stay. As I was driving one day I said to myself, how would I even begin to explain this to someone else- I just felt “normal” again. Then I finally figured out that “normal” to me was how my wellbeing felt 5 or 10 years ago before I noticed the effects of the aging process creeping up. In the last couple of weeks I have also noticed my arthritis has suddenly improved dramatically for no apparent reason, and I am walking around upright and with a spring in my step. Now two weeks is way too short a period for me to say definitively that Protandim has helped my arthritis, but it sure makes me wonder. Since I was not expecting any effects by taking Protandim, I sincerely doubt that the effects I have reported are due to any placebo effect.

I will be updating this blog periodically with my experience with Protandim.

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