So the issue might be that I got too much progesterone not estrogen. I was really disappointed when I got these side effects. I really wanted the benefits from using resveratrol. I also got constipated and starting having heartburn. That well may be from the progesterone. I think my husbands feet stopped hurting after he quit the Reveratrol also. I am wondering if we should try again with a much lower dose.
You are the first person who has reported constipation with resveratrol use. Usually if there is any problem, the effect is quite the opposite.
In your position I would quit all supplements except D3 at 1000mg, more if you live in the Northern States or Canada. Then use a food/nutrient calculator such as CRON-O-METER to determine if my diet had any deficiencies, and correct those, and only those, by supplementation, or better yet, by improved diet. Once the basics are covered, and only then, would I consider using the phytonutrient du jour. When starting a supplement where one does not know ones tolerance, it is a good idea to start with a very low dose, and increase it over time. If no improvement is noticed, why are you taking it? Stop. And if some desirable benefit is noticed, do not increase the dosage beyond the least amount that maintains or maximizes the desired effect.
Good luck.
I very strongly disagree with this view. Someone else brought up the loss of nutrients that occurs as food is aged and shipped. that is only one aspect, there are many others:
(1) Tools like this use the minimum daily allowance, which is a measure of the MINIMUM requirement of a nutrient to prevent outright disease (NOT a measure of how much is required for health, nor for OPTIMAL health)
(2) The minimum daily allowance is based on short term tests and not generally reflective of the amount of a nutrient required to prevent LONG-TERM disease. (For instance, the iodine requirement was set based on the minimum to prevent goiter w/o knowledge or regard for the fact that breast tissue has iodine receptors and the Japanese, who consume an order of magnitude (12.5 mg/day) more iodine than Americans, have an extremely low rate of breat cancer unlike Americans).
(3) The minimum daily requirement is based on "the average person" and there is no such thing as an average person.
(a) As recent research has been showing, there are many genotypes out there which affect enzyme binding of cofactors, making higher vitamin cofactors required for those individuals. Some common genotypes, such as MTHFR C677T are actually increasing globally. Sports nutrition, which is a study of OPTIMAL nutrition, shows according to Dr. michael Colgan, for instance, remarkably huge differing individual requirements for niacin.
(b) People make different lifestyle choices which affect their nutritional requirements way beyond any MDR. For instance, the MDR for calcium is measured in the "average person" but vegetarians who do not eat meat do not have as high of a calcium requirement (meat is acidic and makes one lose calcium in order to correct ph).
© People's past dietary choices affect their present requirements (nothing to do with MDR). For example, if you eat a diet that does not have FOS and other such things to feed the helpful gut flora, not so helpful flora will colonoze, and will consume some of the nutrients you eat as well as give off acid wastes requiring alkaline minerals to de-acidify.
(d) Another way that past dietary choices affect current nutritional requirements is that deficiencies cause the buildup of potentially harmful partial metabolites - for instance, a deficiency in any methyl cycle nutrient (methionine, P5P, l-methylfolate, methylcobalamine, B2, betaine/choline, ATP), will cause the buildup of homocysteine, which requires more nutrients to clear it.
(e) Another way that past dietary choices affect current nutritional requirements is that deficiencies may cause enzyme deficiencies or ATP deficiency that may be very hard or impossible to replace. Active vitamins can be taken (which are not listed in CRON-o-Meter) such as P5P instead of B6 (where B6 will do NO GOOD if you haven't the enzymes necessary to turn it into P5P), and the people with ATP issues (chronic fatigue) find it very hard to escape this catch 22. It can be done, but most people never manage to figure out how.
(4) A whole lost of necessary nutrients are not listed in CRON nor are a whole lot of foods. And it makes a world of difference, how a food is prepared. If the exact food prepared the exact way is not listed, choosing something "close" is meaningless.
SO. Tools like CRON-o-Meter are of passing minimal interest to suggest possible gross dietary deficiencies but if you have a symptom, you should not trust CRON but should start looking for a solution.
I basically would not trust CRON at all because I observe most Americans have mood problems at least by the time they are my age and I observe the quality of types of foods most Americans eat and I deduce easily lack of vitamin content. In whole grocery stores I cannot find a single loaf of stone ground whole wheat bread with all the natural B vitamins in it, and I shudder for the average American who does not supplement with B complex. So...if it detects a deficiency you probably have a SEVERE deficiency. If it does not, don't for a minute believe you are home free.
I will do my best to update on my mom's experience.
