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"We need to shift our focus from treating disease to generating health..."  Hippocrates (AMA"The Father of Medicine")

 

Acetyl-l-carnitine increases nerve regeneration

Acetyl-l-carnitine (ALCAR) has been used as a mood, memory, and fat-burning nutrient. There is a study that shows acetyl-l-carnitine helps the re-establishment of connections between nerves and organs.

Nerve cells do not split and divide and make new nerve cells. Injured nerves must heal. This can a lengthy process. The body needs specific nutrients to do this (mostly B vitamins).

This study shows that ALCAR increases the body's ability to regenerate myelin sheathing of nerves, produce new nerve fibers, and improve the function of important nerve connections to organs.

Here is the study which shows this this Nerve Regeneration study.

Acetyl-l-carnitine teamed up with Alpha Lipoic Acid is best.  While Acetyl-l-carnitine is helping the cells create energy, a lot of free radicals are formed.   Alpha Lipoic Acid is an anti-oxidant that eats up those free radicals so they don't cause any damage to other cells.

We recommend the WSN® Nerve and Energy Booster

 

 

 

The Truth about Neuropathy & Vitamins

All you have to do is search on the internet for vitamins to take for neuropathy and pages of articles come up regarding what natural method you can use to improve or relieve the neuropathy symptoms. Of course, they are all different. Some of them are similar, but not one agrees on what you should take.

So how to you wade through the confusion of it all and figure out what to take.

Okay, here are the things you need to know.

• Neuropathy is nerve damage. The nerve tissue is damaged.
• The body will repair itself
• The body uses vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids in its daily task of energy production and repair. If it doesn’t get these tools, it can’t repair damaged tissue.
• Thus, what does the body need to repair the nerve tissue?

Well, we know we can rule out the use of herbs. Herbs are medications. They force the body to do something it normally wouldn’t do, just like drugs. However, they are superior to drugs as they are natural not made in a laboratory.

When using herbs you do need to know who is creating the herbal remedies as quality of the herb and manufacture of the herbal remedy can vary. But simply put, the body doesn’t use herbs to repair itself.

A lot of articles written by medical doctors and medical professionals will only talk about using vitamins when the cause of the neuropathy was a deficiency of B12.

But the simplicity is that the body uses amino acids, vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids to repair damaged tissue.

So what vitamins are actually needed for nerve repair?

B1 – Vitamin B1 functions along with other B vitamins to turn nutrients into energy, normal heart functions, formation of blood, HCL in the stomach for digestion, and proper functioning of muscles, Vitamin B1 supports the normal function of the nervous system. It is required for nerves to function correctly, and helps in the maintenance of healthy nerves. It is required for regulating the transmission of particular types of nerve signals along the brain and the spinal cord.

B12 –Vitamin B-12 is necessary in human health for the formation of proteins and red blood cells, and for the functioning of the nervous system. It is vitally important in maintaining the health of the outer sheathing (protective covering, also called the myelin sheath) that surrounds nerve cells.

B2 - Vitamin B2 riboflavin helps produce red blood cells and protects the nervous system.

B6 - Vitamin B6 helps in the production of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that allow brain and nerve cells to communicate with one another, ensuring that metabolic processes such as fat and protein metabolism run smoothly, Vitamin B6 helps the body make several neurotransmitters, chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another.

Folic Acid - Vitamin-B12 and folic-acid work together. Folic acid is needed to activate B12. Both vitamins together help nerves to function properly.

D3 induces nerve growth factor production in the human body.

Together these vitamins give the body what it needs to repair the damaged nerves which is called Neuropathy.

There is one vitamin formula that does have all of these together. You can read about it here

 

 

 

An Understanding:  What is Behind a Sluggish Thyroid Gland?

 

This is a good explanation as there are many things that create a sluggish thyroid gland and he explains is simply.

Sluggish Thyroid

 

 

Is Preventive Surgery heroic? 

Actor Brad Pitt called the decision by his partner, Angelina Jolie, to have a preventative double mastectomy "heroic."  

Jessica Bowen underwent chemo and   a mastectomy and still had cancer cells in her body.

Jessica changed her diet and the cancer   was reversed.

She's a hero.

Jessica Bowen was diagnosed with aggressive stage 3 breast cancer at the age of 29. She had surgery and chemotherapy and still had cancer in her body. She was told she'd need to go through chemotherapy again, and then she discovered that there was another way.

Jessica regained her life through the McDougall Program. 

Jessica's story is an inspiration.

See her testimonial

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