Impressive Benefits Of Lavender
The most important health benefits include the abilty to relieve stress and improve your mood, helps you to sleep, prevents infections, and reduces inflammation.
Read about Lavender Essential Oil
Worried About Taking Vitamin B6?
Some people have asked about the vitamin B6 they are taking as a result of using the Nerve Support Formula. This question is one that people ask about any B6 in any formula.
The Linus Pauling Institute found that adverse effects have only been documented from vitamin B6 supplements and never from food sources.
Therefore, safety concerning only the supplemental form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, also called pyridoxine hydrochloride) is discussed here.
Although vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin and is excreted in the urine, long-term supplementation with very high doses of pyridoxine (Vitamin B6) may result in painful neurological symptoms known as sensory neuropathy.
Symptoms include pain and numbness of the extremities and in severe cases, difficulty walking. Sensory neuropathy typically develops at doses of pyridoxine (Vitamin B6) in excess of 1,000 mg a day.
However, there have been a few case reports of individuals who developed sensory neuropathies at doses of less than 500 mg of Vitamin B6 daily over a period of months.
None of the studies in which a neurological examination was performed reported evidence of sensory nerve damage at intakes below 200 mg of pyridoxine (Vitamin B6) daily.
To prevent sensory neuropathy in virtually all individuals, the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine set the tolerable upper intake level for pyridoxine (Vitamin B6) at 100 mg/day for adults.
Please let me know if this answers any questions you might have had on this subject.
Opioid Use and Abuse – The Opioid Epidemic
Opioids are drugs that were created to work on the nervous system to relieve pain. They were designed for short term use. Continued use of only a few weeks can lead to physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms when trying to stop.
In the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical companies who created these drugs reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers, and the medical doctors began to prescribe them at greater rates.
This assurance led to widespread use and misuse of these medications. It has now become clear that these medications could indeed be highly addictive.
Read the full article on Opioid Crisis
The Holidays are Over – Now What about your Health
I know that people are not too interested in their health when shopping, wrapping presents, attending parties and eating holiday cookies? It is the season for good friends and family to get together.
However, it is January. It is time to attend to your health.
What about the New Year Resolutions?
What is your resolution?
To lose weight – See Diets
To Get Healthy – See Ketogenic Diet & Dr. Berg’s Book
To get your life back – See Health Conditions
& the McVitamins Index
Antibiotics – natural or not?
How did “antibiotics” so freely dispensed come about?
Well, Alexander Fleming, Scottish physician, biologist, pharmacologist and botanist returned from holiday on September 3, 1928, he looked at his petri dishes containing colonies of Staphylococcus, bacteria that cause boils, sore throats and abscesses He found something unusual on one dish. It was dotted with colonies, save for one area where some mold was growing. The zone immediately around the mold (later identified as a rare strain of Penicillium notatum) was clear, the mold had secreted something that inhibited bacterial growth. He found it was capable of killing a wide range of harmful bacteria. And thus, Penicillan was created. It was not till 1941 that it was developed enough to be used on a human.
It is now 76 years later, do we use anything other than mold, which is a type of fungus actually, and ….. well, the basis of the “modern” day antibiotics is still mold.
Now, even the CDC is telling people to look for fungus when the body is not getting well through standard medical treatment.
So, do you take these chemical antibiotics/mold or do you find something natural. There is a host of things you could be taking.
See: What is an Antibiotic with a list of natural antibiotics.
A Natural B Vitamin – Nutritional Yeast Tablets
Dr. Berg specializes in helping people lose weight by getting them healthy.
You don’t lose weight to get healthy, you get Healthy to lose weight.
His Nutritional Yeast Tablets which are especially designed for a Ketogenic Diet.
But they are a Natural B Vitamins for anyone
Fine out about Nutritional Yeast Tablets.
A Diet that Builds Health
Losing weight is not the way to get healthy, but Build Health and You can Lose weight
What’s the secret – you change from burning sugar and carbs for energy to burning fat for energy. Makes a big change in your health. Do you know that if you eat too many carbs, the body will take the excess and turn it to fat?
Read about the Ketogenic Diet
Irritable Bowel Syndrome – What is it, What to do about it
It is an intestinal disorder.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects the large intestine. Signs and symptoms include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation, or both.
Only a small number of people have severe signs and symptoms.
Most people with IBS experience times when the symptoms are worse and times when they improve or even disappear completely.
What are the TIPS to relieving this problem IBS TIPS
Flu Activity is High this Season? What can be done?
There is a lot of talk this year about how bad the flu is, they even report on the news of the deaths. The actual numbers vary greatly depending on you are talking to? And which “news” station you listen to. But getting the flu is never pleasant. Of course, they are also talking about getting a flu shot? Does that work?
I’ve heard from many people how they got the flu shot and still got the flu, but then the answer has been, it would have been worse if they didn’t get the flu shot. I’m skeptical. I know one person who rarely gets sick much less gets a flu, but her doctor talked her into getting one this year. Yes, she got sick.
Whatever you think about this, you should some information to help with the flu if you do get it (or even if you get a cold)
Here is our article on Flu
And, of course, the right thing to do is build a healthy immune system
The Cause of Your Neuropathy, is it Unknown
I’ve been talking to people about their neuropathy for 14 years. I offer a quiz to help people to know what can make the neuropathy worse, or what will slow down building healthy nerves when taking supplements. (Here is the quiz, if you are interested – Quiz
One thing that I get often is that the cause of their neuropathy (nerve damage) is unknown. Not only does that bother me as they could be doing something everyday that creates more nerve damage, but I don’t understand why the cause can’t be found.
So, on that note, here is an article where all the causes of nerve damage is listed.