Calcium and Your Health: A Balancing Act by Your Body
Calcium is an element which is essential to life and health. Like potassium and chloride, too much or too little of this key element can literally kill us! Your body has some aging mechanisms built in to keep calcium levels in our blood nearly constant. So much so that, if we consume too little, our parathyroid glands send hormone messengers that break down bone to release more usable calcium.
Calcium is necessary for proper heartbeat and normal nerve function. A disturbance in blood calcium can cause fatal arrhythmia of our heart, and "tetany", which is a severe disabling contraction of our muscles!
Now, if you live in the USA, you probably have been lead to believe that dairy consumption is the only way to get adequate calcium. You might even have been told that calcium consumption alone can prevent or treat osteoporosis.
Neither of these assumptions, by themselves, are true.
For example, John Robbins was one of the first to point out in the '90s that in cultures where daily physical activity and plant-based diets are the norm, osteoporosis was virtually non-existent. These cultures do NOT consume any dairy at all.
Instead, they eat like the NeuropathyDR Diet says to?lots of vegetables, nuts, and lean protein like fish, using animal products sparingly. This diet is far healthier than the typical sugar, fat, and soda consumption of the average modern diet!
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
A Warm Bath Can Do Wonders Dr. John Hayes
A Warm Bath Can Do Wonders
Warm baths increase blood flow; reduce stress and aid in relaxation. All three of these benefits will make the pain a little easier to tolerate. But a word to the wise, check the water temperature with your elbow or your wrist before you get in the bathtub. The nerve damage in your feet makes them an unreliable source for judging temperature. Use a thermometer. We like 100 degrees Fahrenheit with some added minerals like Epsom salts (don?t be stingy) and antioxidants.
Warm baths increase blood flow; reduce stress and aid in relaxation. All three of these benefits will make the pain a little easier to tolerate. But a word to the wise, check the water temperature with your elbow or your wrist before you get in the bathtub. The nerve damage in your feet makes them an unreliable source for judging temperature. Use a thermometer. We like 100 degrees Fahrenheit with some added minerals like Epsom salts (don?t be stingy) and antioxidants.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Another Neuropathy Nutrient: Vitamin E
Another Neuropathy Nutrient: Vitamin E
Vitamin E is a key nutrient involved in protecting our cells from damage due to oxidation. At least that is the role that was once presumed to be the most important?researchers are now suggesting its role maybe much deeper than that.
Vitamin E is essential to proper nerve function. The deficiency of vitamin E can cause many different health problems.
Like most nutrients, too much is dangerous. Bleeding tendencies can increase, especially when Vitamin E is consumed at levels above 400 IUs per day in some patients. Bleeding tendency can combine if you are on anticoagulant medication?even aspirin?so please be very careful here. This is also why working with a neuropathy treatment professional, and not just supplementing with single nutrients, is so important to good neuropathy care.
It's also important to understand that there are several different vitamin E variants, called tocopherols. Each of these has slightly different functions. In most modern diets, the gamma component is the largest consumed. This is found in primarily corn and soybean oil, and some other foods.
The most biologically active is the alpha, which is found in wheat germ, sunflower, and safflower oil. Small amounts are also available in other plants, including many vegetables. Avocados and asparagus are reasonably good food sources...
"John Hayes Jr."
burningneuropathy.com
Vitamin E is a key nutrient involved in protecting our cells from damage due to oxidation. At least that is the role that was once presumed to be the most important?researchers are now suggesting its role maybe much deeper than that.
Vitamin E is essential to proper nerve function. The deficiency of vitamin E can cause many different health problems.
Like most nutrients, too much is dangerous. Bleeding tendencies can increase, especially when Vitamin E is consumed at levels above 400 IUs per day in some patients. Bleeding tendency can combine if you are on anticoagulant medication?even aspirin?so please be very careful here. This is also why working with a neuropathy treatment professional, and not just supplementing with single nutrients, is so important to good neuropathy care.
It's also important to understand that there are several different vitamin E variants, called tocopherols. Each of these has slightly different functions. In most modern diets, the gamma component is the largest consumed. This is found in primarily corn and soybean oil, and some other foods.
The most biologically active is the alpha, which is found in wheat germ, sunflower, and safflower oil. Small amounts are also available in other plants, including many vegetables. Avocados and asparagus are reasonably good food sources...
"John Hayes Jr."
burningneuropathy.com
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Your Thyroid Gland Making Your Neuropathy and Fibromyalgia Worse?
Is Your Thyroid Gland Making Your Neuropathy and Fibromyalgia Worse?
You wont know for sure unless it?s carefully looked at. Your thyroid is often referred to as your bodies master control. And to an extent it is!
Your thyroid influences so many different aspects of your health.
In the clinic we find undiagnosed thyroid diseases is rampant. Endocrinology experts think there are environmental and dietary factors at work here! I agree.
Most common is an under functioning thyroid or hypothyroidism. The signs of this can include widespread aches and pains, hair loss, cold sensitivity and dry skin. We find very commonly these patients are depressed, and sometimes profoundly fatigued. Sleep disturbance is also common.
On clinical examination we will often observe abnormalities in the patient?s neurologic examination, specifically the reflexes and also note specific changes in the patient?s skin texture and temperature...
Dr. John P. Hayes, Jr
You wont know for sure unless it?s carefully looked at. Your thyroid is often referred to as your bodies master control. And to an extent it is!
Your thyroid influences so many different aspects of your health.
In the clinic we find undiagnosed thyroid diseases is rampant. Endocrinology experts think there are environmental and dietary factors at work here! I agree.
Most common is an under functioning thyroid or hypothyroidism. The signs of this can include widespread aches and pains, hair loss, cold sensitivity and dry skin. We find very commonly these patients are depressed, and sometimes profoundly fatigued. Sleep disturbance is also common.
On clinical examination we will often observe abnormalities in the patient?s neurologic examination, specifically the reflexes and also note specific changes in the patient?s skin texture and temperature...
Dr. John P. Hayes, Jr
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Vitamin D and Neuropathy?
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"John Hayes Jr."
Yes, and this essential vitamin has a role in many other disorders too. Vitamin D is a key nutrient, responsible for many essential functions in human body.
What?s the Connection?
Perhaps the most significant functions are maintenance of bone mass and a powerful immune system.
The more recent research suggests many additional roles for this key nutrient.
We now know that when Vitamin D levels are low, widespread aches and pains plus more illnesses like flus and colds are common.
Yes, and maybe even neuropathy, both directly and indirectly.
Regarding infections, some researchers suggest we should be heading out vitamin D tablets as opposed to flu shots as they probably would be so much more effective, with minimal side effects.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tingling and Burning: Fluoroquinolones and Peripheral Neuropathy
Tingling and Burning: Fluoroquinolones and Peripheral Neuropathy
by Dr. Sharon Orrange on August 19, 2013 at 9:56 am
Don’t get me wrong, these are great antibiotics with broad coverage that save lives when used for the proper indications. But levofloxacin made news a few years ago for a rare but reportable risk of Achilles tendon rupture. Now this class of antibiotics, the fluoroquinolones, will carry a new warning for peripheral neuropathy. Huh?
• Peripheral neuropathy, or neuralgia, means nerve disease or damage.
• Peripheral nerves take messages from the brain and spinal cord to muscles, organs and other tissues.
• These nerves affect pain sensation, movement and balance.
• Hypersensitivity to painful and not painful (light touch) stimuli occurs with peripheral neuropathy.
• Tingling and numbness in hands and feet is an early sign of peripheral neuropathy. You may also have burning, hot and cold, and stinging shooting pain (good times, huh?)
• News came out last week that the FDA is requiring drug labels of all fluoroquinolone antibiotics to warn about the serious adverse effect of peripheral neuropathy. The nerve damage may occur from these antibiotics and may be permanent.
• Is this new news? Not really, but the FDA wants a stronger warning. It’s exceedingly rare, and in premarketing studies reports of tingling, weakness and neuropathic pain occurred in less than 1% of folks taking the drug and usually ceased after stopping the medication.
• What you should know is that any of these drugs should be stopped immediately if you if experience pain, burning, tingling, numbness, and/or weakness.
• Stopping the medication if you get these symptoms can prevent the development of an irreversible
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Your Toxic Exposures and Good Neuropathy Care
Your Toxic Exposures and
Good Neuropathy Care
One of the things that is new to many patients who suffer from peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain is the effect that daily exposure to multiple environmental toxins can have.
For example, the average person is exposed to numerous chemicals everyday in our air, water, and even our food. Some of these substances may pass through the body harmlessly, yet others may linger in fatty tissues, creating a whole host of health problems.
But this is tricky. With rare exception, most accumulations are slow or insidious. Exceptions could be exposure to large amounts of acute toxins, such as solvents.
Note these toxins can be anything from radon gas in the house to chemical pesticide residues on food, to antibiotic residues, which are now commonly present in water.
Living healthily means you need to avoid as much toxic exposure from your environment and food as possible. So let?s talk about some of the most important things we can do.
Perhaps the most important source of toxins you can correct immediately is filtering your drinking water. We strongly recommend a pitcher or whole house type water filter with a carbon filter..."John Hayes Jr." <info@perfectpracticeweb.com>
Good Neuropathy Care
One of the things that is new to many patients who suffer from peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain is the effect that daily exposure to multiple environmental toxins can have.
For example, the average person is exposed to numerous chemicals everyday in our air, water, and even our food. Some of these substances may pass through the body harmlessly, yet others may linger in fatty tissues, creating a whole host of health problems.
But this is tricky. With rare exception, most accumulations are slow or insidious. Exceptions could be exposure to large amounts of acute toxins, such as solvents.
Note these toxins can be anything from radon gas in the house to chemical pesticide residues on food, to antibiotic residues, which are now commonly present in water.
Living healthily means you need to avoid as much toxic exposure from your environment and food as possible. So let?s talk about some of the most important things we can do.
Perhaps the most important source of toxins you can correct immediately is filtering your drinking water. We strongly recommend a pitcher or whole house type water filter with a carbon filter..."John Hayes Jr." <info@perfectpracticeweb.com>
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