Posted by bleauberry on January 5, 2012, at 10:52:28
In reply to just added vitimin C and I have so much energy, posted by torrid2 on December 29, 2011, at 18:17:04
Just reading your post, you might want to include rhodiola on your radar screen of things to add. It is specific to the things you mentioned.
I'm sure all of the supplements have wide ranging effects and mechanisms that we don't know or understand. Unlike meds, supps are much more wide spectrum and do stuff we don't even have any clue of yet. A single supp can have many multiple functions. So if high dose C creates energy and well being, cool. It isn't what someone normally expects from C and honestly I've never seen anyone report that before, but hey, it is what it is, right?
High dose C is often used in fighting stealth infections such as lyme. Here is a common scenario..... Patient starts taking something that is specific against their infection....high dose C qualifies for that....the immune system is beefed up and now some of those stubborn stealth bugs are able to be found and killed....which feels good at first....until their death begins to backlog and you can't clean out the toxins fast enough....that's called a herxheimer reaction. So what you might want to look for is a worsening of your symptoms, or even new symptoms added on top of them, sometime within the next 2 weeks. A herx almost always happens within a period of a day up to 2 weeks. It can last indefinitely until the pathogen load comes down. Could be days, weeks, or even months. In any case, it is a useful diagnostic tool. If that were to happen, you would conclude C is a bad supp for you....which would be the opposite of the truth....it would actually have already proven itself as a great supp for you, but the Herx caused a lot of confusion and wrong pointing of fingers.
Ok so let's assume it's a month from now. You started C and felt good and then it turned sour and you felt bad.....that is a positive diagnosis of a stealth infection, and is potentially THE thing behind all of your psychiatric history. So now you are on to something, and now your whole strategy can change and branch out in new meaningful directions. On the other, let's say after a month C is still feeling good but we don't know why....well, ok, we can't really explain it definitively but does that matter? No. Feeling better does. In that scenario, you keep the C because it improves quality of life and it really doesn't make any difference or not if we understand how or why it does that.
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