reflections on select supplements
Just like pharmaceutical drugs, vitamin supplements are never guaranteed miracle cures. I've a documented propensity for developing immune dysfunction symptoms which doctors have no idea what to do about, and I've spent a lot of time successfully dealing with these symptoms by alternative means. I've no longer got arthritis and or bells palsy. I've reduced my hyperthyroid symptoms significantly, but there is still a big bulge of a goiter on/in my neck. This year, taking a multivitamin with no iodine (generally counterindicated for hyperthyroid persons) and no iron (no good for haemochromatosis persons) twice a day, every day, has made a HUGE positive difference to my general health. I've had only one mild cold this year!
Tonight I thought I'd document what hasn't worked for me. Mostly because I've trawled the net many a night looking for information which isn't there. Here's one story. Vitamin C is supposed to be bad for haemochromatosis persons, though slowly there is emerging a small group who note it for it's usefulness regulating iron rather than merely increasing iron absorption. Vitamin C does lots of good things for me, has done since the arthritis phase which started six and a half years ago and is now a rare sensation. But glucosamine never did.
I couldn't track down any adverse effects for CoQ10, including not from the very knowledgeable John Appleton. But I started and stopped CoQ10 several times to work out if it was the culprit triggering my arthritis and all the symptom evidence said yes!
My most recent 'discovery' was l-carnitine. I'd read many good things and only one significantly bad study about it, and it was an amino acid like taurine which had done good things for me in summer (but been rather expensive in terms of buying it outside the health shop remainder table). But-carnitine, like glucosamine and CoQ10, turns out not to be my thing. It was supposed to supress the symptoms of hyperthyroidism and it seemed to do the opposite. I could feel everything get a little frantic, sleep was compromised, and I was missing a much needed base equilibrium to deal with life. So that one is on hold for the moment, and maybe for the long term as well.
The medicine which helps me the very very most is the one I'm going to take very soon: a good night's sleep
Today was a very beautiful day and I spent it inside working. I've just marked the beginning of spring by making my Kings Seeds order. English winter thyme, two lots of mesclun, tomato sungold and edible violas. Tomorrow, I think it's time to be in the garden. No amount of supplements could do as much good as an afternoon digging, weeding and planting.
Tonight I thought I'd document what hasn't worked for me. Mostly because I've trawled the net many a night looking for information which isn't there. Here's one story. Vitamin C is supposed to be bad for haemochromatosis persons, though slowly there is emerging a small group who note it for it's usefulness regulating iron rather than merely increasing iron absorption. Vitamin C does lots of good things for me, has done since the arthritis phase which started six and a half years ago and is now a rare sensation. But glucosamine never did.
I couldn't track down any adverse effects for CoQ10, including not from the very knowledgeable John Appleton. But I started and stopped CoQ10 several times to work out if it was the culprit triggering my arthritis and all the symptom evidence said yes!
My most recent 'discovery' was l-carnitine. I'd read many good things and only one significantly bad study about it, and it was an amino acid like taurine which had done good things for me in summer (but been rather expensive in terms of buying it outside the health shop remainder table). But-carnitine, like glucosamine and CoQ10, turns out not to be my thing. It was supposed to supress the symptoms of hyperthyroidism and it seemed to do the opposite. I could feel everything get a little frantic, sleep was compromised, and I was missing a much needed base equilibrium to deal with life. So that one is on hold for the moment, and maybe for the long term as well.
The medicine which helps me the very very most is the one I'm going to take very soon: a good night's sleep
Today was a very beautiful day and I spent it inside working. I've just marked the beginning of spring by making my Kings Seeds order. English winter thyme, two lots of mesclun, tomato sungold and edible violas. Tomorrow, I think it's time to be in the garden. No amount of supplements could do as much good as an afternoon digging, weeding and planting.
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