Trying to find supplements I can trust.

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First question?  Is the supplement made, bottled, shipped through, or in any way touched by the Chinese?  If so, scratch that right off the list.  American companies are bad enough.  Canadian and Mexican?  Getting out into medical ghetto land.  China?  You might as well just scrape your own stuff from a gutter and add it to whatever.  Companies refuse to answer, so, when I ask... the same question three others asked, I then add that if the "manufacturer" won't answer, while they answer other questions, that it must be from China.  Bottled in Illinois?  Illinois?  Right, that's bad enough.  They have pushed many legit businesses out.  Socialists, mafia types, and communists seem to work well together... as long as they aren't all in the same small area.

I am sure I need potassium.  Actually, fasting as I am, I really need to be back on my full vitamin schedule, and for a short while probably on the additional vitamins I had been taking as part time extras.  Drinking even in more moderation without eating means I am voiding things I need without replacing them.  Bone broth might help, and yeah I best restart that too, but I don't think it is enough.  And that's for starters.  Then I'll look at some other possible adds... once I somewhat stabilize on those things.  So, tonight, I'll put my medicine dispensers back into action.  Skipping, for now, the otc heart stuff.  I want to look more closely at what that is supposed to do.  If it is just covering things up, or tricking the body, I'm not so sure that is a good thing.  Vitamins, though, definitely.  I think the ones I have were vetted, though I should check again.  Some things, like food, vitamins, or anything taken internally for any reason... don't buy Chinese.  Clothes, electronics (minus computers if at all possible, down to components), typical short term use junk, duct tape?  Cool.  Just nothing used on or for the body.

I have heard that one of my problems may be a general vitamin b deficiency with my diet (that makes sense with some issues, like exhaustion coming back).  B5 seems to be the real problem with energy, at this point.  Potassium has always been an issue, I just ignored it.  The VA actually did try with this, but I couldn't handle the pills, and the powder was nasty.  I think I am pretty much down to the powder.  I guess, at this point, I'll have to push through.  Now, my numbers were low, always, on potassium.  That would not have changed.  Now that I am climbing out of the hole on my own, and I see that it is needed, I'll take a shot at it again, but without their saying not to do it this way or that, or with this or...  Shut the fuck up.  Gah!  I'll add it to whatever will allow me to drink it down that fits my nutritional deal... probably liquid splenda sweetened tea with cream, in an attempt to cover the nasty.  Or, maybe, if that doesn't work, in with bone broth or bone broth and cream.  Whatever works and works for me.

I am handling the heat well.  I honestly don't think that is the problem.  Even at 80, I was napping fairly well earlier.  I don't think heat is causing me to be tired... B5.  That I can fix.  Not sure, even if that does fix well, that I want to run with it until I get potassium under control though, now that I have done a bit of looking.  That is a good way to tempt blowing the motor.  Once I find a non-Chinese potassium powder, I can get that going.  I have a super B complex that worked fairly well to now, and a general vitamin, plus some others (everything but potassium, actually, in that line of what diuretics force the body to void).  Electrolytes, I think would be the term I keep not being able to recall.

I'll keep at it.  Something I have noticed is that I am finally making my way with the hand exercises.  I can do 150 so easily it's barely useful as an exhaustion part, I do 200 rather well.  Oddly 250 is a bit of a strain, while 300 isn't much worse.  I think the 300 grip has a bigger size, perhaps more of an angle too?  For me the size difference offsets the greater compression demand.  Now the 350 still kicks my butt... or such.  Beside strengthening, my arms are showing it.  Hey, it's the only exercise I can get going on, so... I got going on it.  I am also beginning to use the dyna-flex gyroscopic exercise for hands, wrists, lower arms.  If I get it all going, I might really be ready for climbing, at least in this area.  And rowing?  Maybe.  Later.