Posted by bleauberry on October 26, 2010, at 17:13:18
In reply to Re: so tired and fatigued even on Adderall » bleauberry, posted by jerryTRD on October 25, 2010, at 17:29:53
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> WOW! You know your stuff!! I've been taking a multi-vitamin along with magnesium glycinate + some probiotics but only for a couple of days now.
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> What I'm wondering is I've been on sooo many combinations of meds before - why NOW all the sudden am I having such problems with my gut? diarrhea? fatigue?
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> And btw- I am allergic to soy and have an anaphylactic reaction to nuts - so if anything above contain either of those please let me know.
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> Thanks! And I'll start trying it out! Seems like a lot - but heck....
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> Oh P.S. - my diet is horrible. I eat FiberOne fiber bars which I think make everything worse and I eat A LOT of bread - I'm addicted to bread!!!!!!!!A multivitamin is a good start but not nearly enough. Nearly all easily avialable vitamins have either poorly absorbed ingredients or forms of the vitamins that require your body to convert them to the usable forms...which commonly might not be happening in a person having symptoms or disease.
That's why the need for specific vitamins like the ones I mentioned. Thorne Research is usually only available in a doctor's office, but I noticed the other day there are sources on the web so you can buy them directly without a doc. The B-Complex #12, Ultimate E, and the others I mentioned, all crucial.
Probiotics need to be a good brand that is sold refrigerated and preferably guarantees the potency on the bottle up to the expiration date....most guarantee the potency at the time of manufacture, which is useless. You will likely need high doses for a short time, like 50 billion per day for a couple weeks, followed by an aggressive maintenance dose in the 15billion range.
Diet is so important. You will not heal without close attention to what you put in the grocery cart.
They say the worst offending foods are the ones we crave the most. It's a lengthy explanation, but makes a lot of sense. It's basically an addiction to the foul allergic toxic reactions to the food that have an affinity for the opioid receptors....and thus the addiction, despite feeling like crap. And as the addiction is broken, you feel even more like crap for a while. It's called a healing crisis. With the right diet, you'll also be killing a lot of fungi such as candida, and their death toxins will feel like crap. That's called a Herxheimer reaction.
If you are allergic to soy and nuts, you are likely allergic to more than you know. The most common ones are gluten (wheat, rye, barley, barley malt, oats unless gluten free oats), dairy (butter is usually ok and cream in coffee is usually ok), citrus and citrus juices, tomatoes. Food allergies are basically large molecules of undigested food getting through the intestinal wall via damaged walls directly into the blood stream, at which time your immune system freaks out. The most common resulting symptoms are debilitating fatigue, brain fog, and psychiatric.
If it is more than an intolerance or allergy, such as Celiac Disease, then the offending food must be strictly avoided for the rest of your life.
Without much doubt, I would highly suspect gluten in your case. That's usually the top one evident in all kinds of gut problems and psychiatric problems. The toxic chemicals caused by it are just about as powerful as poisons. You said you feel "sick". I told my doc, "I can't explain it, I just feel kinda poisoned?" A lab test confirmed extremely high gliaden antibodies. There should not be any antibodies. The easiest cheapest way though is to do food rotation tests, or to just simply go strictly healthy stuff and not take any chances.
For meds, there are two I would consider in your case. One is Diflucan 200mg once every three days for about 2 weeks. This is to knock down Candida to manageable levels. Follow that with a maintenance rotation of some of the common anti-fungal herbs all over the web. Caprylic Acid is one. OTC and cheap. The best most potent against all kinds of gut invaders...fungi, bacteria, yeast, parasites, is raw garlic. Either raw cloves, one to three per day, or take the garlic pills (they must be the non-deodorized ones, preferably ones with enteric coating). I get a good one at Whole Foods Market. Odor becomes a problem after 3 days with me, so I do it once every three days and it keeps things in check, but I did a lot of Diflucan prior to that.
The other med is LDN. Research on the LDN home page. This is a no brainer for anyone and everyone with either psychiatric problems or gut problems or infections or mystery diseases (lyme, colitis, chrones, lupus, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, etc). LDN at a mere 1.5mg dramatically improved my energy, reduced allergies, and improved mood at about the two week mark. It has to be made by a compounding pharrmacy since the smallest pill is 50mg. The is a wonder drug for so many things. It is not a cure, but probably about 80%-90% of people who try it stay with it because of the benefits they feel on it. With me, the primary benefits include much greater energy and much less brain fog.
I mentioned Japanese Knotwood. Geez, where to start. Anti-bacterial including Lyme, antifungal including Candida, protects brain neurons from toxins, reduces Herxheimer reactions, modulates a confused immune system, analgesic, calming to the mind yet mildly energizing to the body. Not to mention the scientific benefits of the high amounts of Resveratrol naturally found in it. Centuries of use as antimalarial and antileprosy, indicating its effectiveness against not just bacteria in general, but specifically spirochetes such as Lyme. Source Naturals is the one to buy. It's called Resveratrol, but is 100% Japanese Knotweed. This one has gained fame and success since the incredible research done by Stephan Buhner in his book Healing Lyme.
So anyway, between this post and the prior one, you know what has to be done. The supplements and meds are easy enough. The diet change is hard. I've done it, I know. Funny though, they say taste buds change. That is true. I now actually prefer my organic romaine leaves wrapped around organic meat slices more than the donuts I used to eat. Actually, the donuts kind of scare me now and don't taste as good as they used to.
Gluten free is not that hard. Whole Foods has tons of stuff. Rice Chex is gluten free! So is Cocoa Pebbles. (too much sugar in both though, Candida love that). There is a bread called Millet Zuchinni bread in the frozen section. Believe me, I've tried them all, most suck. This one is really good. Especially toasted, you can't tell the difference from wheat bread. They make gluten free pastas of rice, quinoa, corn, and soy (don't do that one :-))
Many canned and jar goods in WalMart specify right on the container they are gluten free.PHd Andrew Cutler of the book Amalgam Illness recommends wide spectrum digestive enzymes with each eating to reduce or eliminate food allergies/intolerances. The enzymes break down the food molecules before they have a chance to seep into your blood stream undigested. I've tried them. They do work.
We are what we eat. Simple as that. And all health depends on what happens in the gut. Simple as that. All healing begins there. Amazing cures thought unattainable occur there. Many disease and symptoms originate there.
Wishing you the best! I basically summed up about 1000 hours of research, years of personal experience, and over a dozen specialty books. Use it and feel better.
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