If someone asked me what would I do if I had Fibromyalgia this is what I might do. First I would find out what has been written about Fibromyalgia. It turns out there is not much information available, but maybe I will find a lead to follow based on all my previous readings. On my first few searches it seemed I was right. I found there were a few things mentioned that made my ears prick up. Here is the first half of the list that caught my attention and the next four things follow with a click of a button: To see the full list click
Neuropathy is a general term used to describe the loss of sensation at the peripherals. This may include toes and fingers. This condition is also associated with diabetes. The damage is thought to occur in diebetics because of obesity. However, I would think that even diabetics that are not over weight may just as easily develop this condition. Although the diabetics associations of both
I think that most of us instinctively know better. The sciencetific method is limited after all, in its approach. Even the most lauded scientific method The Double Blind was designed to handle very complex and by complex I mean too many variables, problems. The two complex conditions this approach was designed to combat was the common cold and arthritis. This was because these conditions had so many different things affecting the outcome, that a better experiment was needed. So this approach was their best ever. However, it is easy to see that given our bodies are much more complex then just 3 or 4 variables, this method can fall short of what is required in complex systems that have potentially thousands of interacting components. Even cloud computing is too complex for the scientific model to be useful according to
So where does this leave us? I think that neuropathy has a route in sugar. Even complex carbs like potato, rice and bread (wheat). I think this because there has been many books written on this subject already. Like the
and many more.
As young as 19 with the beginnings of heart disease?
We were sold the idea that carbs were safe and that fat was bad. This has been the mantra for more then 50 years. But it may of been wrong, according to
Vietnam 1968-78, Iraq 2001-11 and was allowed to perform autopsies, but to the docs surprise, the doc discovered that of these GI"s in their late teens and early twenties a
already had the beginnings of heart disease. (furring up of the arteries). This was not due to their lack of exercise or them being old or their poor diet or them being overweight, but the doc concluded that this heart disease must have been something else. The doc was right about that. It has taken many years to figure this out, but if the GI"s had been raised on a high fat diet like the keto diet, like many others have since the 1920"s due their personal tragedy of having epileptic fits,
then like them you would have clear arteries. Incidentally those keto dieters of the 1920s, after they died had there brains looked at and they had crystal clear amyloid plaque free brains (no Alzheimers), according to
than perhaps why should sugar and complex carbs and neuropathy escape the same correlation? If one was to stand a random sample of 100 people together with neuropathy I would bet that anyone would see something of a correlation. The similarity between all the sufferers would look really clear in my opinion. This ofcourse is not scientific, but one should not throw out anecdotal hypothesis with the proverbial bath water. However,
Next is to treat exercise like brushing your teeth and do it as regularly as possible, even some squats or light weights or a regular walk is better than not proverbially brushing your teeth at all.
Next would be to take supplements that promote good blood circulation and epithelial repair. Since epithelial cells line our cardiovascular system and are a little elastic and are mostly made from collagen which is made primarily from three things and they are
The last two can be got from food, especially if you eat eggs, cabbage, asparragus and for proline eat mushrooms and red meat and for glycine eat salmon and seeds. Ofcourse the number one absolutley essential ingredient and the hardest to get in sufficient quantities is vitamin c, and since we cannot make it ourselves in our own bodies, it has become vital to supplement. I know some people dissagree with this notion of supplementation. However,
including my back health, my teeth health, my brain health, my hair health, my skin health etc and I would never again drop below this 3g fresh hold again by choice, and getting all this vital vitamin c from my food would be very very difficult if not impossible.
This site suggests that the maximum level of vitamin c in the body that can be maintained in your leukocytes (immune cells) is approximately 2g. It also goes onto say that leukocytes, eyes, adrenal glands, pituitary glands, and the brain have the highest concentrations of vitamin c in the body in this order.
For more information on vitamin C and its benefits, other than on epithelial cells and leukocytes, but instead, you would like to see a focus on how it might fix other structural things like
With this information about heart disease, which is a kind of restricted blood flow being helped by vitamin C, I would start there. Vitamin C ofcourse, here is helping to fix a problem called hardening of the arteries, there is a lot of debate about the precise scientific causes here. So this is just my speculation. That of taking vitamin C may help give back elasticity to your stiff inflexible arteries, and that this maybe worth the every effort, no matter how unproven. Especially if it can do no harm. Why do we have to wait for our gums to start bleeding before we relise we might be lacking vitamin C and start taking extra vitamin C just in case?
Now we have our capilleries, (connections between viens are arteries), working better it is time to give them a kick start with benfotiamine. This is a vitamin b1 extract and has been seen to have some promise in helping neuropathy sufferers. This site suggest that benfotiamine is the fat soluble form of b1 and in Germany it has been used for many years to directly stop
Indeed taurine helps with alot of things, but again only if in sufficient quantities. Remember no one has died from over dosing with vitamins or amino acids, ever. Although some have claimed such things and you will find almost anything your are looking for on the net. However, in his excellent book
explains that even in these cases, there are degrees of association, like direct cause of death, or that high levels of a certain ingredient was found in a dead person, and another level that escapes me right now, but surfice to say, all relationships to the death of an individual, were clearly put into the third category. Meaning ofcourse that vitamins or amino acids did not directly cause any death. Because, people just stop taking whatever it was they were taking and recover almost instantly. That is not to say that if someone ignored the signs and continued deliberately to force tablets down themselves that they would not be harmed, I am sure they might be if they wanted too.
The amount of Taurine is dependent on your size, sex, age and level of physical exercise and general metabolic health. However, if you were male, in your 50s and physically active and about five feet ten inches, then I would say that 1.5g twice a day is not too much. Starting with a smaller dose will not do any harm and gradually work your way up. This site says the same,
I have checked it out and I have been taking over 1000mcg a day since 2nd March 2022 and as yet no problems. If this site is to be believed, there will be no problems, because trials have already been run with this amount with not a problem. Moreover, it has been implicated in carbohydrate metabolism. This is good news for us, as we want more glucose control. Chromium can be stored by the body in the liver, spleen, soft tissue and bones. This is even better news, since that means to me we therefore have very good storage capabilities, so over doing it for a while will at worst lead to more stores of chromium and at best will give our bodies something it desperately needs. This maybe more significant than at first glance. Chromium is used up at a high rate when stressed, eating carbs, doing exercise, and not enough chromium has been linked to increased production and use of insulin. So for me, this is an easy cheap win if needed with no side affects if not needed. I currently take chromium picolate, but my next purchase will be chromium nicotinate, since it might be more bio available to the body. Also one tablespoon of brewers yeast contains 60mcg and brocolli is high in chromium. All this info comes curtisy of the website at the top of this paragraph. This website
if you want to increase its affectiveness, especially if you happen to have any tumor cells lying around as well, because the study showed slight improvement in effectiveness with a sugar hungry disease. Again the levels of supplementation are unnessasary low. If I had a tumor, and most tumors (over 80% according to Dr Thomas Seyfried in his wonderful book Cancer A Metabolic Disease.) perfer sugar, therefore any attempt to improve metabolism or better still if you have a tumor stop eating sugar, is worth it.
Here is a very interesting problem. This country is still caught up in the popular notion that the NHS is great. Which ofcourse it is. However, what has come along with this notion is that it can do more than it actually can do. Some of us are slowly becoming aware of some of its limitations. The problem lies in where the NHS cannot help any more. I would describe the NHS as an emergency service. This is where people go that have had good health so far and now something has happened. If this is an emergency, then you are in the best possible hands. But if this problem is a disease caused by a chronic ongoing decline over many years that has now resulted in the NHS finally diagnosing it as something, then you are in serious trouble. Because the NHS does not deal with causes as much as it does with accute situations. It deals best with solutions to an emergency state. This is OK if you want immediate relief. But if you want the overall problem to go away than you need a different service. Mainly because of finance and technology, finance because you have to draw the line somewhere and technology because the problem maybe old age related, which puts it in the hands of innovation. Since this field is relatively brand new.
Alternative medicine.
The NHS is not enough on its own. A whole industry of alternative medicine is growing out of this fundamental knowledge that the NHS emergency service is insufficient for some people, because they do not fit inside the catchment area of the NHS. So some problems are not seen as a NHS problem until it gets really bad. A good example of this is MS (multiple scerosis), because MRI do not detect it until some 80% of the mylene sheeth has been destroyed. Infact some people keep going back and forth to the NHS without resolution, until they are sick enough to fit inside the recognised detectable treatment modal. This is a shame because, if patients had known of this, and had seen the whole new alternative health care industry growing in the suburbs, than they might of been able to get an earlier intervention and thus avoid getting sick enough to be treated by a NHS professional. Another example includes Alzheimers, because this disease has a long incubation period, maybe some 15 to 25 years. This means there were symptoms before the final diagnosis.
My recommendation is take your chronic condition, not its symptoms, the condition itself into your own hands, and seek help or read alot. This mostly depends on finances ofcourse, since the NHS is free and any alternative apart from reading and learning yourself is costly. It is not likely that you will make great progress by yourself fast! However, occasionally visiting an alternative expert, like a functional medicine expert, that porports to have some knowledge in your area of concern may give you pointers in directions that may speed up the process of self healing. I have no such suggestions because, I have only begun this research in mid February 2022 on the subject of Fibromyalgia.
Some GPs have retrained as functional medicine doctors so they can offer help in the alternative fields, and maybe catch some of these patients before they get too sick. In the hope that they might be better placed to help people get to the root of their particular predicament that ails them. Some of us like myself have discovered somethings after reading and practising on themselves and so the analogy that everything looks like a nail to a carpenter does fit here. What I mean by this is that once I find something that helps for one thing I tend to think it might also fix other things. However, that is not to say that mine or anyone else discoveries might not help. You are on a journey. The Chinese say that health is the easyest of things to fix. I think that is because, we are really motivated once we get going.
Pain has to be one of the most brutal symptoms telling us something is wrong. Especially if everyone is telling you that you have to live with it for the rest of your life. When I began to feel pain ten years ago, it began very slightly. It got worse and worse until it began to affect my decisions. Anything that might cause me more pain was off the agenda. It started to affect my future carear options. I was begining to think that I would need to find something easier to do in my career in the future.
Some of you will relate to this. However, some of you are in a lot of pain a lot of the time. Ofcourse the emergency service the NHS will do what it can for the symptom of pain, but this is still not getting to the route of the problem. When we are in pain who cares what is causing the pain if we can just take something to make it go away. Well although anyone would definitely seek that pain relief in the short term. It is in the long run perhaps worth investigating what might be causing the pain. This is a really wierd thing to do in modern western culture. I do not know why.
Here are a few interesting discoveries that I have made in regard to pain. 1st that my mother was in a lot of pain in her legs and she was 74 years old, and had become registered blind in the recent four years. I had recently discovered some things and I had an apithany after reading 3 books about mega supplementation called orthomolecullar medicine and a book on senility and one on ADHD, which culminated in me running some experiments on myself, which worked.
I decided to use the same experimental philosophical approach with my mum as I had on myself and see if it helped with her pain in her legs. I asked her if she was willing to try some inexpensive supplements and see what happens? She said OK. The first thing we tried was what I tried, and that was taking as close to 3g of vitamin c or more as she could manage every day. She agreed and tried it immediately. Within two days her pain in her legs had gone!
On a visit to her bank, the bank manager looking at my mums state of health, said I have seen this before, I recommend you get power of attorney soon as it can be really difficult later if she passes. I told my mum this and said shall we try and tackle your senility? She said yes. So we began by her taking 500mg of b1 and b3 a day. I also advised to try and eat one egg a day. She agreed, and within 8 months that conversation with her bank manager seemed strangely distant and an unessasary piece of advice.
Next my mum mentioned a pain in her hand around her thumb area on both hands. Well quite by accident we both had started taking omega 3 fish oil at that time, and within two days her pain in her hands had vanished. She decided immediately to stop taking it and see what happened, well the pain came back. So that is another thing she is completely sold on as a good investment.
My dad had been complaining about the pain in his shoulders for years. So I called him and got him to start taking a b complex and vitamin c every day. He said he felt a little better after a week. So I mentioned that magnesium has had some positive feedback in regards pain, and that maybe he should try it. He agreed and within two days I got a very excited phone call saying it had taken the pain away. He still suffers a bit when he forgets to take his magnesium.
I myself had so much back pain for so many years that I never imagined that supplementation would ever change anything, however, after spending a year taking vitamin c whilst studying in college I went back to work as a carpenter and joiner and have never had a bad back since. It turns out that collagen is a significant ingredient in back structure and its support. Which is made from vitamin C and glycine and proline.
Also my general decline reversed and I am now very happy to work as a carpenter and joiner, and I am no longer worried about being a carpenter in the future, and have used my education to help spread the word about alternatives to chronic diseases other than waiting for the NHS to accept me as a patient.
Sleep problems have all sorts of possible causes ofcourse, like too much coffee, or being in pain, or stress, or restless leg syndrome, or lack of magnesium or improper sleep habbits and the list goes on. However, there are other things that have a much deeper metabolic significance. The first thing
that I noticed in regards my sleep was that on some occasions I would wake up in the early hours. I mean fully awake, like something had happened. I soon found out that it had more to do with my adrenals than me not being tired. It turns out that there are a couple of things that will kick the adrenals into action that are worth sorting out if you want to stay asleep for any length of time. One of these is too much sugar before going to bed. This includes complex carbs too, like potato, rice and wheat. This kind of diet before sleep will begin a insulin glycose rollercoster of sugar levels in the blood stream. Our blood stream can only hold 5g of sugar at any one time. A slice of bread has 9g of sugar! If you want that sweet taste instead go for berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.
Rats poisoned by iodine.
Also the adrenals are helped to function properly if the HPA axis (hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal) is working properly. The thyroid is part of this process too. Iodine is the trace element that helps all these work. This is a little contraversial at the moment because, some doctors still believe in a study some 60 years ago where rats were poisoned to death with iodine, but the rats were given way too much iodine for it to be a fair evaluation of iodine. However, there has been a comeback for iodine now that this study and so many personal testimonies have declared it safe.
Iodine is found in every single cell in the body. Especially the thyroid and the brain. It is also in high concentrations in the overies, breasts and the pancreous. Iodine also helps in testosterone production. In a study of 700 school girls two thirds were found to be low in iodine. The government RDA (recommended daily amount) is low 148mcg, which is 250 times lower than what has now been found to be affective. So since then it has been found that
Cortisol pushes out iodine,
but iodine helps regulate cortisol, so raising your iodine levels will help regulate cortisol. Bromide and flouride competes for the same receptors as iodine too also resulting in lower levels of iodine. This is not good for iodine levels in the body. They have even put bromide in bread as an emulsifier to make bread more appetising for both machines and people. I want to take this opportunity to say more about cortisol.
cortisol. Having too much visceral fat can also be a problem because it has more receptors for cortisol than normal fat. The problem with cortisol is that in a stressful state, only the sympathetic nervous system works, and this is because the parasympathetic nervous system can not operate at the same time, therefore it is cortisol that is driving the sympathetic nervous system. This system is in charge of the fight or flight or freeze mechanisms in the body. So if in the short term your survival is at stake, it will take over and fix it. What does it matter that you did not digest your food properly. The problem with having a constant injection of cortisol over the long run, is an increased risk of
Sleep continued
Sleep requires magnesium to get a good nights rest. I found that some of the additives in some foods gave me restless leg syndrome. So I started cooking all my own food and this way I knew what was going into it, and my restless leg syndrome vanished. Alcohol and coffee seemed to affect my sleep quality too. Also I found that my circadian rhythm was affected by the amount of blue light I allowed into my night routine after 6pm. The more blue light resulted in less sleep for me.
Mark C. Barry BSc. and his materials are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure or prevent any disease. All materials written by Mark C. Barry BSc. is provided for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider for any questions you have regarding a medical condition, and before undertaking any diet, exercise or other health related program. This artical is copyrighted material of Mark Barry BSc. 2024. I was in full time education doing an Access course to science and I am very much looking forward to studying nutrition and dietetics, which will give me the opportunity to help people by diagnosing and prescribing a treatment program that might be the fastest path towards a natural remedy. If this article has been of any value or interest to you and you feel it may also be of interest to someone else please feel free to pass it on. I would be grateful for any hints or tips you feel may help also.
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