Yesterday I wrote in that day's post that I hoped to be able to get away on an early evening hike to do some grocery shopping.
It was to be so.
However, it was just after 8:00 p.m. before I got my hike begun in a light rain. My ultimate destination was the Walmart Canada outlet over in Surrey Place (Central City) located at least a mile from my home.
I do not drive, so the walk was my sole recourse.
Along the way, I stopped in at the elementary school where I sometimes perform four sets of pull-ups on the gymnastics-style rings in its playground, and I had that bit of extra exercise.
One of the items I wanted at Walmart was Nature's Bounty Ginkgo Biloba (standardized extract) ─ 180 capsules at 120-mgs per capsule ─ priced at $22.37.
I had read yesterday that a specific standardized extract of ginkgo biloba identified as EGb 761 has been found in at least a couple of studies to potentially be able to improve vision in seniors experiencing age-related macular degeneration.
My vision is deteriorating dreadfully, but I have no medical AMD diagnosis. I am just hoping that this stuff can help me.
The study that especially interested me used 240-mgs daily, and benefits were in evidence in as little as four weeks ─ the study was for six months. Obviously, the brand I bought is a three-month supply if I take 240-mgs daily, so I would hope to detect some sort of improvement in that time.
As I wondered in yesterday's post, is Nature's Bounty's "standardized extract" actually the EGb 761 used in the study? I am thinking that it maybe is.
I found this at WebMD.com:
How much ginkgo should you take?
There is no standard dose of ginkgo biloba supplements. However, in medical studies, almost all clinical trials have used a standardized extract of ginkgo, standardized to 24% flavone glycosides and 6% terpene lactones. A common dose in people with dementia is 40 milligrams of that extract three times daily. For improving cognitive function in healthy people, studies have used between 120 milligrams to 600 milligrams of the extract daily.
And that appears to be precisely what is on the Nature's Bounty label:
I didn't do a thorough search at Amazon Canada, but I got the impression that if anything matching this was available, it was more expensive. And the only Nature's Bounty Ginkgo Biloba products that I noticed were weaker and / or contained fewer capsules.
Also, I didn't want to buy some unfamiliar brand that mightn't be legitimate or reliable.
However, I have to admit that this exact product is far cheaper at Amazon U.S. ─ I linked to a couple of searches that I made in yesterday's post, for anyone who might be interested.
Interestingly, as I was leaving Walmart, I set off an alarm. The security guy on duty admitted that it sometimes happened when someone had bought nutritional supplements.
It was also a little off putting ─ the bit of attention I garnered from a few other customers, that is. I did not appreciate it at all.
It was well after 9:00 p.m. when I was back home ─ maybe even after 9:30 p.m. My younger brother was already here and watching T.V. ─ a movie he set in play via Netflix.
I wasn't about to sit in on a movie already well begun, so I gathered together some supper and came here upstairs to my computer to spend some time. Then when I heard his movie terminate, I finally joined him to watch episodes of a couple of the T.V. series we follow through our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box that I operate.
I also had one of the cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer that I try to keep in stock.
We watched T.V. deep into the midnight hour, and it may well have been after 1:00 a.m. by the time I was into my bed.
My sleep was breaking up by around 7:00 a.m., but I remained in bed until after 8:00 a.m., rising mainly because I wanted to put in some work on the post that I have under production at one of my six hosted websites.
We were to have a rather sunny day, but there was a nasty chill wind blowing throughout the morning and afternoon that cut through the open windows upstairs and made it rather uncomfortable up here. I finally had to shut the window here in the small room where I keep my computer.
But my sole exposure to the day was late in the afternoon when I went out to retrieve the now-empty garbage wheelie bin that had been emptied earlier by a garbage truck. However, in going out, I coincided with one of our immediate neighbours ─ Arun, by name.
He's a very friendly chap who managed to get me opening up about a lot of things that even my brother has no idea about. I have no friends near with whom I can socialize, so I have no one to talk to. I say far more in this blog than I ever say to anyone in person.
But I shall speak of none of the conversation at this time here.
My brother left at some point ahead of mid-afternoon to bus off to Port Kells where he was to hook up with at least one of his drinking buddies, so I am expecting to be able to get to bed early this evening.
I could stand to do a little further grocery shopping of a local nature once it gets dark (where concerns the day, I am very public shy), but I don't want to jeopardize that early bedtime opportunity as I did any such opportunity yesterday.
And since it is now already after 6:30 p.m., I might as well wind up this blog post and get it published, and clear away things for whatever is yet to come before I finally do get to bed.
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