Health Matters

In response to:Iodine effects on oestogens

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:04:50 +0100

Good post, iodine deficiency is epidemic across all Western populations. This has happened since 1948 with the introduction of thyroxine and the phantom Wolff-Chaikov effect.

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:31:16 +0100

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2009.09.007

Happy Birthday Jan

Sorry I missed it.

Bob

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:11:24 +0100

Yes thanks Jack, just behind at present a tad :)

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:16:34 +0100

In response to:peripheral neuropathy?.. B1 deficiency?? or something else

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:35:51 +0200

I honestly can't recall what stopped the neuropathy? I'm sure going to watch not to take as high as 25mg B6 in future.. maybe 15mg max is my limit per day in tablets!
I didn;t take that 25mg daily either, but for a while it was most days. I just noticed the headaches at the 50mg level
Thanks for the link.
I've often ben "pooed" on forums for advising that the 50mg and especially the 100mg of B6 was way too high and could cause problems.
Jan

In response to:peripheral neuropathy?.. B1 deficiency?? or something else

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:31:05 +0200

Thanks Paul.
I used to take B6 but limited myself to 25mg, still high by your count.
I know I get headaches with 50mg in tablets. Some multis i advised againsyt had this much or even 100mg!
I also limited my P5P B6 to no more than 20mg(more active form form of B6). I didn't notice the B6 caused my neuropathy, but I did notice a definite increase after a B12 injection. My soles of my feet and palms of my hands would tingle and go reddishpurplish.
The same would happen to my Mum. I thought it was the B12 depleting(using up) something else. I had less of an effect(but still some)if I injected the B1 first and then the B12 in a different spot and made sure I also took about 25mg of B6 and a multiB.
Sorry I took so long to reply to you, just working thru my backlog of emails here!
You do have a good point, and it's something I will pay more attention to. At present I haven't needed either and I'm not getting any neuropathy at all.
Jan

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:20:19 +0200

AWW.., thanks Jack:)

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:56:32 +0200

In response to:Cholesterol lowering with herbals

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:58:06 +0200

Cholesterol natural herbs are trusted to control blood Cholesterol and nourish small intestine, liver, heart and kidney, which are responsible for its cause or affected due to long run. http://healthy-ojas.com/cholesterol/cholesterol-herbs.html

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:57:33 +0200

I've updated the swine flu post to add a cancer concern.. great link at bottom is a must read if nothing else.
Hoping this might save a few people

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:51:29 +0200

I was thinking of you in particular. Glad you are not being "forced" into it via your job.
I'm increasingly disturbed by , I'm unsure what to call it, but it's a change in govt attitude as being for the prople by the people to being more for corporations by corporations (including big pharma, banks, .. the list seems almost endless) It includes enforing the population...for their own good. Unfortunately I just don't have it "in " me to have the strength to try to fight it, hopefully one day, but I was pleased you had seen the light on the swine flu vaccine:)

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:15:17 +0200

Geez Jack..that's terrible
I guess the point is you don't really know what they are injecting, and it seems the industry can't be trusted.

In response to:Warning - Do Not get the swine flu vaccine

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:50:18 +0200

no way am I having it....i have friends who took the shots in the first gulf war 50% of their troop had Gulf war syndrome.

In response to:Alcohol may produce hypoglycemia by increasing insulin release

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:53:07 +0200

Thanks for sharing. Great post.

In response to:peripheral neuropathy?.. B1 deficiency?? or something else

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:54:08 +0200

TOO MUCH B6 CAUSING YOUR PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY?

http://www.nutritionatc.hawaii.edu/HO/2007/378.htm

Check out this article re peripheral neuropathy and taking too much B6. Avocado lovers take note and do the math. (You don't have to stop eating avocados, but you might not want to exceed 1 per day or every other day. One avocado has half your RDA of B6.) (Also check the quantity of B6 in your multivitamin. Mine had 3 mg of B6 in each capsule and my age/gender RDA is 1.7 mg daily.) B6 lingers in your system and accrues.

In response to:Biotin , cradle cap

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:47:17 +0100

That's interesting, thanks

In response to:Biotin , cradle cap

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:32:14 +0100

my baby,s cradle cap vanished after my wife took biotin supplements dring breast feeding stages

In response to:Fluoride water filter

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:37:51 +0100

No Problem :-) Wish they had them in Australia myself.

In response to:Folate and Methylation cycle, Peripheral Neuropathy

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:35:18 +0100

This is getting interesting:-

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v62/n8/abs/1602810a.html

Association between decreased vitamin levels and MTHFR, MTR and MTRR gene polymorphisms as determinants for elevated total homocysteine concentrations in pregnant women.

Barbosa PR, Stabler SP, Machado AL, Braga RC, Hirata RD, Hirata MH, Sampaio-Neto LF, Allen RH, Guerra-Shinohara EM.

Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) (C677T and A1298C), methionine synthase (MTR) A2756G and methionine synthase reductase (MTRR) A66G gene polymorphisms and total homocysteine (tHcy), methylmalonic acid (MMA) and S-adenosylmethionine/S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAM/SAH) levels; and to evaluate the potential interactions with folate or cobalamin (Cbl) status.

SUBJECTS/METHODS: Two hundred seventy-five healthy women at labor who delivered full-term normal babies. Cbl, folate, tHcy, MMA, SAM and SAH were measured in serum specimens. The genotypes for polymorphisms were determined by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP).

RESULTS: Serum folate, MTHFR 677T allele and MTR 2756AA genotypes were the predictors of tHcy levels in pregnant women. Serum Cbl and creatinine were the predictors of SAM/SAH ratio and MMA levels, respectively. The gene polymorphisms were not determinants for MMA levels and SAM/SAH ratios.

Low levels of serum folate were associated with elevated tHcy in pregnant women, independently of the gene polymorphisms.

In pregnant women carrying MTHFR 677T allele, or MTHFR 1298AA or MTRR 66AA genotypes, lower Cbl levels were associated with higher levels of tHcy. Lower SAM/SAH ratio was found in MTHFR 677CC or MTRR A2756AA genotypes carriers when Cbl levels were lower than 142 pmol/l.

CONCLUSIONS: Serum folate and MTHFR C677T and MTR A2576G gene polymorphisms were the determinants for tHcy levels. The interaction between low levels of serum Cbl and MTHFR (C677T or A1298C) or MTRR A66G gene polymorphisms was associated with increased tHcy.

PMID: 17522601 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v62/n8/abs/1602810a.html

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2008) 62, 1010–1021; doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602810; published online 23 May 2007

Keywords: cobalamin, folate, polymorphisms, homocysteine, methylmalonic acid, pregnant women

No Surprise here then ....!
L&BW
Bob

In response to:Goitrogens & Goiter

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:25:35 +0100

Millet can be a useful gluten free grain and is found in some GF breads and four mixes. Celiac's are the people most likely to be eating it in Australia, or perhaps immigrants from Africa and other places where it can be a staple, and may want to be cautious of it.

I have also read that fermentation of goitrogenic foods can sometimes decrease their goitrogenic qualities, but that this does not work for cabbage ie. Sauerkraut. I am looking for more information on this.

I have had past difficulties with Hypothyroidism and am not sure where I am with it now. I find it difficult to monitor what foods are affecting me in which ways. I am also Gluten free Vegan.

I would be interested in learning more about your experiences with thyroid issues.

In response to:Fluoride water filter

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:27:41 +0100

Wow. Very cool stuff! I heard about this from a friend and was kind of curious. Thanks for the information.

In response to:Hair Loss in Females

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:38:12 +0100

101 has solution and hair products that work for men and woman.

try www.tcm4u.co.uk for both 101 and other chinese remedies relating to hair loss.

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In response to:Folate and Methylation cycle, Peripheral Neuropathy

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:31:45 +0100

Dear Jan

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/86/3/728

Plasma folate concentration and cognitive performance: Rotterdam Scan Study 1,2,3

Lonneke ML de Lau, Helga Refsum, A David Smith, Carole Johnston and Monique MB Breteler

Background:Evidence is increasing for beneficial and independent effects of folate on cognitive function, but the underlying biologic mechanism is as yet unknown.
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Conclusions:Higher plasma folate concentrations are associated with better global cognitive function and better performance on tests of psychomotor speed, regardless of homocysteine concentration. These associations may be mediated by vascular mechanisms.

L&BW Bob

more to follow

In response to:Folate and Methylation cycle, Peripheral Neuropathy

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:45:27 +0200

Hi Jan,

The serum folate is measured, then the whole blood folate, so they take one from the other and get the value for red cell folate. My inference from my result was that perhaps something was wrong with the apparent measurement of folate in serum and/or its availability
ie perhaps a transport problem.

We both ( Anne and I ) had a prescription check with our local pharamacist last week and I reported that folate was of benefit even though it was measured 'in range' according to lab tests....heard that one before!!

So it might go onto someone's database as being a beneficial treatment for short-term memory loss ~ maybe even the local doctor's 'puter!

I hope to get some feedback soon from the guys in Manchester doing a study on pernicious anemia.

Glad that you can keep smiling :-)

Knocks over another dragon ......

ROFL

L&BW Bob

In response to:Folate and Methylation cycle, Peripheral Neuropathy

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:53:38 +0200

Thanks for the update Bob. I was wondering if you were still improving. It's great to hear.
My Mum and I both have high red cell folate, as I've mentioned before :-) Mum has now been diagnosed with vascular dementia presumably from the heart attack . The CT scan shows a slightly "shrunk" brain and calcification of blood vessels within the brain. I have no idea if the high red blood cell folate (which appears to be possibly hereditary as I have it too) with NO suppplementation of folate and all else normal has anything to do with it. It perhaps may imply an inability to "use" folate optimally, but so far nothing in the research has covered this one. Mum does seem to improve slightly with B12 injections as well as B1 (about 10mg) of B1. We both go red/purply in palms of hands and soles of feet with a B12 injection(so I give a lower dose).. which has to mean something too..and it doesn't seem to happen with B1 accompanying the lower dose B12 injection .. I think?? perhaps just B12 depleting B1, but it's not the case for anyone else I've ever come across.
In your test results was it just serum folate that was low in range? I can only get a test for "red blood cell folate" over here. It could, of course, be a derived test figure, as you say, and I have NO way of finding out unfortunately.
Mum's grandmother died of dementia.

I'm still recovering from that truck accident.. still improving. Still busy trying to get some money to cover treatment costs. At present reading anything scientific is beyond me :-) I seem to bew gradually picking up and can read some blog entries of my friends though . That has been helping me a lot, with laughs and smiles>

L.BW Jan

In response to:Folate and Methylation cycle, Peripheral Neuropathy

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:46:36 +0200

Hi Jan,

Thanks for digging this work out.

I'll get my head around it later after a swim (promised Ellie I'd take her swimming today)....

My 5mg/day of Px folic acid has been in place this last year and is doing very well for me (the first very subtle signs of improvment appeared after about 6-8weeks).

I'm delighted to be gob-smacked at its value in relieving the short-term memory problem...since it also improved the intellectual functioning as well.

I could barely recognise that I had written some of the stuff I put together a few years back.

My short-term memory was what drove me to the docs (and stumbling around first thing in the morning)...

The serum folate level came back within the 'normal range' and I suggested that it was obvious from my 'brain effects' that the level was inadequate. The 'average' value was about 2x times as high.

Since the Red Cell Folate level is deduced from the difference between whole blood folate and serum folate

it seems that low serum folate has to be viewed with some suspicion ~ not telling all of the story!

My experience is a possible explanation of a long-term and sporadic variation in folate level leading to mental ill-health problems going back decades....and I suspect ADHD may be associated with this problem.

L&BW Bob

In response to:Hair Loss in Females

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:16:35 +0200

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In response to:Hair Loss in Females

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:31:08 +0200

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In response to:R-lipoic acid restores vasorelaxation in arteries-glutathione

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:34:22 +0200

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In response to:Salt - made how

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:09:21 +0200

Hello,

I just went to the shops to get myself some sea salt. The most natural one I could find at a reasonable price was:

'Saxa Iodised Rock Salt Sea Salt Crystals'. A 500g bag cost around $2.

The granules are quite big.

I have an idea for you though. You can buy small spice/coffee grinders from brands like Sunbeam for no more than ~$20. These are really handy for grinding up spices for curries, etc., and of course for fresh coffee. I have also used it to grind raw sugar so it dissolves better for baking, etc., and I assume you could also put salt in these grinders and get quite a finely milled result. I am going to do this with some of the salt I've just bought so I won't be restricted to using it just in cooking.

Best of luck
Ashlee