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[Nate-2004]

Keeping up your vitamin D levels is vital, I do 4000 to 8000 IU daily with fatty foods for bioavailability.

 

I second the lycopene comments. Add tomatoes to your green smoothies.

That's pretty much it for oral. UVB/UVA protection on the other hand helps a lot.

Edited by Nate-2004, 24 April 2018 - 06:42 PM.

[Nate-2004]

Astaxanthin is perhaps a 30-60% more potent physical quencher than lycopene in hydrophilic solutions, though less potent in lipophillic solution. However a 6 oz (170 g) can of tomato paste (or tomato sauce equivalent) will have 50 mg lycopene. Locally, I can get the paste (or more often equivalent pasta sauce) for less than half the cost of equivalent quenching activity of astaxanthin in capsules, with perhaps better absorption if the sauce includes oil, and I have to eat something.

 

Nishida Y et al. 2007. Quenching activities of common hydrophilic and lipophilic antioxidants against singlet oxygen using chemiluminescence detection system. Carotenoid Science, 11(6), pp.16-20.

 

The easiest way to supplement Astaxanthin is with Krill Oil where it comes naturally. Viva Naturals is a good brand and DHA is highly bioavailable in this phospholipid form, so is the astaxanthin. 

[TheFountain]

Keeping up your vitamin D levels is vital, I do 4000 to 8000 IU daily with fatty foods for bioavailability.

 

I second the lycopene comments. Add tomatoes to your green smoothies.

That's pretty much it for oral. UVB/UVA protection on the other hand helps a lot.

You taking your vitamin K2 with that? 

[Filler]

Polypodium Leucotomos Extract, is there a difference between the root vs leaf for UV protection? I noticed the root extract is cheaper than the leaf extract.