Posted on 04/25/2010 11:48:58 AM PDT by decimon
Thank you very much!
I read that too, and looked into it. If you take the D3 with K2 ( some are sold that way, but you can buy K2 seperately) it’s supposed to minimize that. K2 keeps the arteries soft and supple, according to claims anyway.
That's what my PCP has me taking. Also Citrical which has some vitamin D in it.
When the spinal column is transected, aka cut, the distal axons degenerate. However the accompanying inflammatory reaction promotes scar tissue formation that the regrowing nerves can't cross. The neurons can't regrow their axons through the fibrotic scar tissue.
Snip off the scarred ends and then apply the chitosan stuff?
They'll probably try that on rodents with old spinal cord injuries. Only time will tell if it works, but other factors might come into play such that removing the scar won't be enough. It might be good only for acute injuries before the scar is completely formed. The initial spinal cord injury sets off an inflammatory reaction. There may only be a short window to get to a neurosurgeon who knows what they are doing.
Thanks.
Terrific! Thanks for the tip. :-)
Beginning in November I upped my D3 dose from 2,000 to 4,000 units per day.(flu season)
In January, early on , I ceased riding my bike, too cold. By late March and warmer weather I resumed riding my bike. After several days on the flat, I attempted the hills. Couldn’t make it up the hills for the first time ever.
Vitamin D does not promote strength. Repeated exercise promotes strength. I’ll try again in a week or so
I use to have one of those Earl Mendell Vitamin Bibles...it helped me through periods when I need it most. Booked marked the site you recommend. Mendell said that Zinc was the Master mineral while E was the Master Vitamin of the body.
I don’t take A, but do E, C, probiotics, plant sterols, flax seed, fish oil, B12, and Coleagen. You have to be careful of the oil based vits building up in the blood stream. I do take the D3. It’s strange that when my husband takes the fish or flax seed oil his heart does a random double beat, scares the day lights out of him. We were trying to get his cholestrol down with out all the drugs which have so many muscle side effects. Diet doesn’t help much, it’s more hereditary.
What’s the one with the aliens in the water and the seniors?
“You finally did it!” Heston on seeing the Statue of Liberty half buried - “You finally elected Obama!” How the movie should have ended.
My hubby has the same problem with his cholestrol. I’m not a fan of almost all drugs, but, they do have there place. The cholestrol lowering drugs as far as I’m concerned are bad news. And my hubby has the same problem that diet doesn’t lower it a whole lot. He takes the fish oils and doesn’t have a problem. I don’t know what brand your using, maybe that’s it??? I’m just guessing. I buy Nordic Naturals for my hubby. they have several different ones. I’ve been buying him the complete omega 3.6.9. My hubby also eats oat meal every morning and that did lower it some, 10 points or so. I think it’s just the fiber.
I take quit a bit of vitamins also. I did get to where it was getting nuts. I was taking so much. I had to really think about what was important to take and let the other things just go. I take a good basic multi, c, magnesium, chromium, D3, E, COQ10. Sometimes I add other things for awhile. My adrenals are messed up so I’m taking extra B5 right now.
Blustery, drizzle, and I got dehydrated sweating in the rain jacket, so my quads cramped.
Did I mention the 20-mph headwinds?
Still finished the 65-miler; but for the first time my cubs (on their respective high school track teams) beat me.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Natures Bounty is the brand I usually buy. We tend to eat Cherrio’s & Raisin Bran mixture for breakfast with a half a banana each, skim milk. I bake, boil, broil or grill most of our foods. Fried is few and far between.
I avoid multi’s because I react to some of the things in them like the chromium, bilberry.
Hubby’s cholestrol is not all that bad, triglicrides get him he’s a starch/sweetaholic, his doc just thinks 230 is to high. Just like his BP is usually 140 when we go in...after driving the chaotic I-240 loop..any one would have high BP! We are doing more walking now he has his new partial knee.
B5 activates and helps build up weak adrenals. B5 or Pantothenic acid is part of the Krebs cycle(cellular energy) I take extra C and DHEA. I don’t take the over the counter DHEA. My doc gives me a script for DHEA. And I get it from a compounding pharmacy.
Yea, my tri’s are bad too. I have a sweet tooth you wouldn’t believe. I take extra chromium and it seems to cut my cravings for sweets. I usually do a whey protein drink in the morning with 2 or 3 quarters of a frozen banana or any other frozen fruit.
My hubbies BP also is to high so he takes BP meds. My BP would be through the roof if I had to drive those city high ways regular....lol
BTW the Sunday Housecalls Doctor on Fox stressed anyone taking cholesterol-lowering drugs should take CoQ10 with the statin drug...
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