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1. Could Low Macro-minerals Be Causing Your Symptoms?
2. Is mold the cause of your symptoms?

3. Hair Loss in Males & Females – Treatment of Hair Loss
4. Are you confused about what you’ve been told about Neuropathy? Do you understand all the terms used?

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Could Low Macrominerals Be Causing Your Symptoms?

We all know that the body needs a well-rounded amount of daily vitamins and minerals. And many of us take a multivitamin every day. But what about the “mineral” part?

Minerals are either trace minerals (needed in trace amounts) or macrominerals (required by our body in fairly large amounts). So let’s look at macrominerals.

The most common macromineral deficiencies in adults and kids are calcium, potassium, and magnesium, as they are lacking in the standard American diet.

How can you tell if you’re low in a macromineral? There are signs and symptoms that may alert you to a deficiency. Let’s start with low calcium. Here are some signs of low calcium levels (in the blood):
• Dry or scaly skin
• Brittle nails and coarse hair growth
• Painful muscle cramps and muscle spasms, especially in the back and legs
• Tingling and muscle weakness
• Confusion, memory loss, depression, and hallucinations
• Irregular heart rhythm (arrhythmias) and congestive heart failure

But before you jump to buy a supplement, when it comes to calcium supplements, more is NOT better. To learn more about how to recognize and top off low macromineral levels like calcium, read the article by Dr. Ruscio

Is mold the cause of your symptoms?

Are you tired of feeling sick and not knowing why? Have you visited doctor after doctor, only to leave their office without a clear answer? It can be so frustrating and confusing.

What you don’t know is that the reason maybe in in your home —right under your nose.

Mold exposure can weaken your immune system and make you more susceptible to infections. It can create all sorts of problem. If you’ve been experiencing fatigue, headaches, digestive issues, and respiratory symptoms, it could be mold toxicity.

These symptoms are often misdiagnosed.

They’re treated with prescription drugs that only mask, if not worsen, your condition.

If you don’t take action now, mold can wreak havoc on your body and cause complications. The good news is that you have the power to stop mold.

Find out how you can test for mold easily.

Learn more about mold and what can be done

Hair Loss in Males & Females – Treatment of Hair Loss

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Are you confused about what you’ve been told about Neuropathy?

Let’s clear up the terms

You might be confused by all the names that are given to “Neuropathy”. I want to clear some of this up.

The main thing to understand is that neuropathy is nerve damage. You can call it by the area affected or by the cause of the nerve damage, but it is still the same thing – nerve damage.

In the age we live in there are lots of ways to damage the body, and the nerves. The toxic chemicals in the environment, the food we eat with all its additives, preservatives and processing as well as many of the drugs that are so readily given to treat health problems can all be causes of nerve damage.

There are also many diseases that cause neuropathy as well as trauma that come from not only accidents but surgery.

For a full list of these causes, you can read:

Causes & Risk Factors of Neuropathy.

Neuropathy is also named by the type of damage:

Types of Neuropathy Damage:

There are many names given to the type of neuropathy depending on the nerve involved:

Focal neuropathy – this means that only one (or at most a few) nerves are injured. The pain, numbness and/or weakness are confined to a single limb or a small area of the body or the head. They are usually caused by compression or trauma. Basically, one nerve gets damaged. The best known of these is carpal tunnel syndrome where the median nerve is damaged by compression of that nerve.

Mononeuropathy – Another term for only one nerve being affected.

Generalized neuropathies – these are associated with general medical problems – infections, diabetes, immune, nutritional related, drug induced, etc. Again, the nerves get damaged. In this case it can start with one nerve and spread, or it can affect many nerves depending on the cause of the neuropathy.

Polyneuropathies – another name for generalized neuropathy

Axonal neuropathy – this is a technical term for the microscopic part of the nerve that is damaged. If you think of a wire you have the inner core of the wire and the insulation around it. The core of the “wire” is called axon.

Demyelinating – again if we think of a wire, the nerve is surrounded by a fatty tissue called myelin. This is similar to the plastic insulation around an electrical wire. When the medical doctor calls your neuropathy demyelinating, it means that the myelin sheath around the nerve is breaking down. The way that medical doctors determine if it is demyelinating or axonal is to do a nerve conduction studies (NCS) which can distinguish between these two types.

Small Fiber Neuropathy – Nerve Endings Damage – this is when the very ends of the nerves are damaged.

Special “types” of Neuropathy:

Hereditary Neuropathy – When it is considered inherited. Charcot Marie Tooth is considered hereditary.

Idiopathic Neuropathy – When they can’t figure out what the cause is.

The following types of Neuropathy are actually the area that is affected. In each type of neuropathy you can have a sensory nerve damaged or a motor nerve damaged. Sensory nerves damage creates pain, numbness, tingling, etc. Motor nerves create the inability of the body to send messages to the muscles and thus you get weakness and sometimes even drop foot.

Autonomic – affects the autonomic system – glands, internal organs, etc.

Cranial – affects the head

Diabetic Amyotrophy weakness on both sides of the body, blood vessel disease may be the cause.

Femoral Neuropathy develops in the front of one thigh, with muscle weakness and wasting.

Optic – affects the eyes

Thoracic/Lumbar Radiculopathy occurs in the torso. Affects a band of the chest or abdominal wall on one or both sides.

Unilateral Foot Drop – damage to the peroneal nerve – trauma injury.

Hope this clears up any confusion you might have had with all the names being used to describe “neuropathy”.

Still have questions? Email us. We will know the answer of be able to figure it out.

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What can you do about Neuropathy once the nerve damage is there? Go to Neuropathy for information and the treatments available.

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Nerve Damage - Why R-Alpha Lipoic and Acetyl L-Carnitine?

If you have nerve damage, R-Alpha lipoic acid and acetyl L-carnitine are two key supplements that you should add to your daily routine.

Evidence indicates that alpha lipoic acid has an ability to kill free-radicals which may help provide added nutritional support to people who have nerve damage in the arms and legs, such as:

- pain
- burning
- itching
- tingling
- numbness

Alpha lipioc acid comes in two forms. R and S. Alpha lipoic acid is a combination of these two forms. Most supplements have alpha lipoic acid with both forms, not just the R form.

The R form of alpha lipoic acid is the form normally found in the body. Studies indicate the R-alpha lipoic acid form appears to be better absorbed than the combination of R and S alpha lipoic acid.

Additionally, some small preliminary studies suggest acetyl L-carnitine may help provide nutritional support to people with pain and who want to improve feeling in affected nerves. It is also possible that acetyl L-carnitine can help nerves regenerate.

The Nerve & Energy Booster is a nutritional supplement which contains acetyl L-carnitine and R-alpha lipoic acid (the better, more absorbable form of R-alpha lipoic acid).

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