Use ‘Losalt’ enriched with potassium, or sea salt, or rock salt, not the modern table salt that is chemically bleached. Eat Avocadoes which in addition to extra potassium also have high soluble fibre and on Feast days eat bananas and also incorporate Moringa leaves and pods into your diet, all of which contain potassium.

If you are one of the few people who are already sensitive to Arachidonic Acid (AA) in your diet you may also take a small dose of aspirin (50 to 100 mg) daily to prevent the adverse effects of any excess of AA in your diet especially if such AA is from vegetables sources. Aspirin also helps to protect against strokes and it is anyway generally prescribed as a prophylactic for all above 50 years. Please consult your Physician.

These should be adequate for most people.

However, though not essential, there are some other simple supplements that can also be taken to further improve fat loss and muscle gain.

1. Policosanol – is an extract of plant waxes, often sugarcane. Addition of Policosanol (20-25 mg just before bed) results in good fat loss effects. Higher doses have little additional benefits. It helps in lowering total cholesterol and improving HDL. Recommended dosage – 25 mg on waking and again prior to bed time.
2. Alpha – Lipoic Acid – is a potent anti-oxidant and free radical scavenger, found in yeast, red meat, organ meats, spinach and It has been proven to regenerate vitamins C and E; restore levels of intra-cellular glutathione, an important anti oxidant that declines with age; increases excretion of toxic heavy metals such as mercury and improves liver condition. Helps absorb nutrients and also inhibits triglycerides and therefore fat storage. Also helps store the excess glucose from carbs in muscle or liver as opposed to in fat. It is used to treat diabetes and nerve related symptoms of diabetes including numbness in the arms and legs and also for treating eye related disease.

Recommended dosage – 100 to 300 mg with each meal and not exceeding 900 mg total per day. Reduce dosage if experiencing acid reflux syndrome. It has no other observed adverse effects even at 60 mg/kg of body weight.

3. Green Tea Flavonoids (EGCG): It protects against UV – induced skin damage and has anti-ageing properties. Also increases GLUT – 4 recruitment to the surface of skeletal muscle cells, while inhibiting glucose recruitment in fat cells and thus it inhibits the storage of excess carbohydrates as body fat and preferentially diverts them to muscle cells.

EGCG also appears to increase programmed cell death (apoptosis) in mature fat cells. The ease with which people regain fat is due to a certain ‘fat memory’ (the size of the fat cells decrease but not the number), which makes EGCG a fascinating candidate for preventing the rebounding most dieters experience.

Dosage – 325 mgs – 3 to 4 times per day (decaffeinated green tea extract pills)

If undergoing cancer treatments please consult your doctor or avoid EGCG.

4. Garlic extract and its constituent parts have long been used for enhancing the immune system and other medicinal purposes, and for cholesterol management and even for management of the lethal MRSA staph infections. Allicin: If delivered in a stable form, appears to inhibit fat regain. Recommend using an aged garlic extract (AGE) with high allicin potential that includes all constituent parts, including S-Allyl cysteine for convenience.

Dosage – daily 200 mg can go up to 650 mg.

Garlic in cooking can act as an additional supplement. Fresh garlic cloves, in the quantities needed to be effective, can cause problems in the digestive tract. Cooked garlic is not as effective as fresh. You may eat about 6 garlic cloves either steamed or lightly roasted with food.

5. The Ayurvedic medicinal plant extract ‘Cissus Quadrangularis’ (CQ) usually prescribed for joint repair when used in combination with PAGG, show a synergistic anti-obesity and anabolic (muscle growth) effects. Pending further research Ferriss suggests not exceeding 7.2 gms per day (2.4 gms X3 taken 30 minutes prior to meals) for a maximum of 6 to 8 CQ may be available combined with Omega-3 in cod liver or fish or krill oil capsules.

Supplements Timing:

If you decide to take these additional supplements, then do so as follows Daily PAGG intake is timed before meals and bed, in a schedule like this:

Prior to breakfast: AGG (PAGG without the P – Policosanol) + CQ optional all taken 30 mins prior to the meal

Prior to lunch : AGG + CQ optional & taken 30 mins prior to the meal

Prior to dinner : AGG + CQ optional & taken 30 mins prior to the meal

Prior to bedtime : PAG (omit Green Tea extract and CQ)

Follow this dosage schedule 5 days a week. Take two days off every week (Fast and Feast days) and one week off every two months. This week off is critical.

However Spirulina and Astaxanthin and cod liver or krill oil can be taken on Feast day.

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