Good evening, friends. Let’s talk supplements, shall we? For I have updates. I’ve shared my supplements regimens in the past, and I believe I said that I’d share my overhauled menu. I’m happy to deliver on that. Perhaps this may inspire or enlighten.

So!

In a manner unsurprising given a misadventure with a large supplement – ashwagandha, in this case – going down the trachea into the lung, one would consider alternative methods of supplement consumption. I settled on the idea of procuring supplements in the form of liquid extracts and sugar-free, vegan gummies, thus I now find myself with just such a collection. It covers everything I normally take: a multivitamin crafted for women; vitamin C; a collagen-builder; antioxidants; omega-3 fatty acids; and the aforementioned ashwagandha, which is neatly formulated in a complex of seven mushrooms.

About that: Prior to my aspiration event, I’d decided to cycle back into medicinal mushrooms, so the fashioning of a new mushroom menu didn’t occur without premeditation, nor did it necessitate inhaling a vitamin. This time around, my mushrooms of choice are lion’s mane; cordyceps; maitake; reishi; chaga; shiitake; and turkey tail… altogether coated in sugar, which, I know, I know! – I generally avoid. My supplement gummies are all sugar-free, except for the mushrooms. It’s okay. I’m really that skittish when it comes to taking supplements these days.

Here’s my new line-up:

Current daily supplement menu. I have these after lunch every day.

The liquid extracts go down in a single shot of zero-sugar Gatorade, and that is that. The gummies, too, seem to be just fine. None of them taste terrible. The mushroom gummies are straight-up candy. I can work with this.

(I can’t help but reflect that being home all day makes it easy to take these supplements. I don’t have to pack them up and worry that they’ll melt and then deal with the shot of Gatorade and so on and so forth. There are silver linings all over the place, it turns out.)

I hope this finds you doing well in this first week of August. Blessings and good health to you all!