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Health Supplements you should be taking

Hello once again! Here is a list of supplements you should likely be taking. Note that this is not medical advice, and some supplements are tolerated better by some people than others due to health / genetic factors. Generally, taking excessive amounts of supplements do not increase benefits, so stick to reasonable dosages. There is some variation between male and female in terms of requirements, I'm more familiar with male physiology and supplementing. There are some supplements I will mention that are not OTC, or are special prescription, which I may or may not take myself, and are not freely available. These supplement types are generally more expensive and less accessible, but I will discuss them also. Ideally you would start supplementing in your mid to late 20's. Most people only discover vitamins/supplements later in life when they begin to feel run-down, and by that point a lot of 'damage' has already been done to your body, which is accelerated with life
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Restoring car plastic headlights / tail-lights


Well I picked this up today. Meguiar's PlastX. Clear plastic cleaner and polish. Both headlights had done a bad fade, and one was even a bit yellow-looking and foggy. I was a bit skeptical about these products, and Meguiars sell a full restoration pack that was more expensive, and looked pretty involved. The PlastX was pretty expensive at $27 or so a bottle.


I'd already cleaned the car earlier in the day. Using an old clean woven collared shirt, I applied dabs of this in relatively small circles with a bit of rubbing action, then both clock-wise and anti-clockwise to a thin film. Left it to setup and start drying, then buffed the headlight with a microfibre cloth (well polished then buffed). Just as you would with a car wax/polish really, but with a bit more forceful rubbing action. This resulted in some light yellow/brown left on the initial woven material, which was the oxidation/dirt contamination coming out.

I was blown away by the result, was far better than I had expected. The headlight was immediately cleared, and looked near new. Did both headlights twice, then the tail-lights (which were in much better shape). The result looks like new.

So for removing oxidation and cloudiness from non-coated plastics, I can highly recommend this PlastX stuff. I also used it on some other acrylic I had and a motorcycle windshield. It is great on things like plastic headlights to bring them back to near-new. It is more of a cleaner however, than a polish, it cannot remove light to deep scratching unfortunately, you would probably require something a bit more specific for that, and a lot more elbow grease to get a perfect result.

Overall 9/10 for Meguiars however for a regular faded headlight scenario (non-coated). It is a pretty specific product however, you can't just go dabbing it all over the car, it is for those specific types of plastics and that's about it.

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