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1. Does Neuropathy and Nerve Pain Feel Worse during the Holiday Season?
2. It's the Holidays - What to do if you know you will eat too many carbs (sugar) ?
3. RHP Vitamin C that Now Uses Organic Camu Camu
4. Addressing Your Neuropathy, what can you do?

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Does Neuropathy and Nerve Pain Feel Worse during the Holiday Season?

Have you noticed it yourself?  Whatever it is that you were doing that was helping, doesn’t seem to work.   What changed?   Is it the weather?

Have you noticed that your diet changes after Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is an eating holiday followed by pies, desserts and Christmas cookies. Most religions have holidays at this time of the year and celebrate the same way – with food.

Are you now eating more often with friends and attending parties with friends and at work?

So what does this have to do with neuropathy?

B vitamins are vital for healthy nerves. And during the Holidays, we can unknowingly create a vitamin B deficiency.

Some of the things that cause a B vitamin deficiency are alcohol, soft drinks and stress. Decaffeinated beverages also act as diuretics that cause the loss of both water and water-soluble B vitamins from the body.

Sugar burns B vitamins. Yes, those holiday cookies, pies, desserts, etc. burn B vitamins. And where else is the sugar? Sugar can be found in candied yams, fancy meals, etc.

So if you feel worse at this time of the year, this may be the reason.

Taking more B Vitamins if you indulge will help.

Eating too Many Carbs?

This information is offered as a solution for those times when someone (especially a diabetic) because of social reasons, a party, or special occasion, will be eating more carbohydrates than would normally be eaten.

A study done in Sweden in 2001 showed that blood sugar spikes were held in check when pickles preserved in vinegar were consumed immediately after a high-carbohydrate breakfast. Earlier Swedish research indicated that vinegar might help control blood sugar spikes.

In his book The Diabetes Improvement Program, Patrick Quillin, Ph.D., states the following:

“Real vinegar has not been filtered or pasteurized, and is rich in organic acids, pectin (soluble fiber), and acetic acid, all of which help to slow down the emptying of the stomach. This simple ‘detour’ for the digestion of food creates a slowdown in dumping glucose into the bloodstream. A meal with 2 tablespoons of vinegar can slow gastric emptying rate by 30% and drop blood glucose peaks by 30%.”

“Recipes for salad dressing with flax oil and vinegar not only taste great but can dramatically improve overall health by lowering rises in blood glucose. Red wine vinegar works best at this.”

As a result of the earlier research, Carol S. Johnston, Ph.D., from the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University, created a study to put vinegar to the test on three groups of subjects: ten type 2 diabetics, 11 subjects who showed symptoms of pre-diabetic insulin resistance, and eight subjects with normal insulin sensitivity. None of the subjects were taking any diabetes medications.

Subjects were randomly assigned to consume the apple cider vinegar or a placebo drink. Two minutes later, each subject ate a meal consisting of a white bagel with butter and a glass of orange juice, containing approximately 90 grams of total carbohydrates. Blood samples were collected before the meal, and 30 minutes and 60 minutes after the meal.

Dr. Johnston and her team reported several significant results:

• Each of the three groups had improved glucose and insulin profiles following meals that started with the vinegar drink
• In subjects with type 2 diabetes who drank vinegar, blood glucose levels were cut by about 25 percent compared to diabetics who drank placebo
• In subjects with pre-diabetic conditions (insulin resistant) who drank vinegar, blood glucose levels were cut by nearly HALF compared to pre-diabetics who drank placebo

And here's the most surprising result:

Pre-diabetic subjects (insulin resistant) who drank vinegar actually had lower blood glucose levels than subjects with normal insulin sensitivity who also drank vinegar.

Dr. Johnston notes that vinegar dietary supplements may not be useful for managing glucose and insulin spikes associated with meals as they don't contain acetic acid [ acetic acid: a colorless acid with a pungent odor that is the main component of vinegar ] — the key ingredient she feels is responsible for vinegar's effectiveness.

Apple cider vinegar is another vinegar that works well. It is recommended that the typical apple cider vinegar product carried by large grocery chains carry be avoided. Instead, look for raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized apple cider vinegar, usually available at many health food stores.

To make a quantity of your own salad dressing just mix one part oil (or water) to two parts vinegar. Condiments such as garlic and/or onion powder, salt and pepper, should be added to taste.

Vitamin C that Now Uses Organic Camu Camu

Addressing Your Neuropathy, What Can You Do?

What can you do to address the symptoms of neuropathy?

1. Control your Blood Sugars if you are diabetic – it is the high blood sugar that creates nerve damage.

2. Find out what the Cause of Your Neuropathy is – and make sure you eliminate the cause.  

If you got neuropathy from trauma, it isn’t a problem unless someone is beating you up every week, but there are many causes, and you need to find out what created your neuropathy and eliminate the cause. 

Not sure what caused your Neuropathy – go to Causes and Risk Factors for Neuropathy; and see if it can be spotted.   

Idiopathic Neuropathy just means someone hasn’t found out yet.  There is always a cause and it might even be more than one cause.  The combination of risk factors can create the problem that you are now feeling.

If you have neuropathy, I'd check all the possible reasons and contributors to neuropathy, and stay away.  You don't want anything that might contribute to your neuropathy

Don’t eat things that include artificial sweeteners or MSG (watch for the names this ingredient may be hidden – see other names for MSG)

It can be toxins to avoid, or medications such as statins or blood pressure medications with a possible side effect of neuropathy. Talk to your doctor about changing the medication. 

You can find a natural solution for High Cholesterol.  See article on Cholesterol

3. Alpha Lipoic Acid & Acetyl l Carnitine will help the body address the condition by getting the nerves to become healthy faster. For a good source of Alpha Lipoic Acid & Acetyl L-carnitine

4. Take B12 (methyl B 12 NOT cynocobalamine)  The body uses B12 to prevent and correct neurological defects including regeneration of neurons and the myelin sheaths protecting the nerve cells.  cynocobalamine isn't always absorbed by the body and you only get a small amount. 

5. Take B1 (benfotiamine) Benfotiamine is fat soluble B-1 and has 360% greater bioavailability than any other form of B-1 which is essential to overall nerve health.  It doesn't wash out of the body like regular B1.

For a good source of these vitamins and others that work together to build healthy nerves.  

Go to RHP Nerve Support Formula

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Nutritional Support for Nerve Pain

Omega-3 fatty acids can provide important nutritional support for those who have nerve pain.

Nerve pain (or neuropathic pain) is usually caused by a deterioration of the myelin sheath that surrounds and insulates pain nerves.

Then, just like an electrical circuit with exposed wiring, nerves that shouldn't be communicating directly with each other, cross paths and create a feedback loop that perpetuates pain.

The February 2010 "Clinical Journal of Pain" describes five patients with neuropathic pain that experienced lasting relief by taking high dosages of EPA and DHA. Dosages of 2,400 to 7,200 mg a day contributed to improvements that were maintained for as long as 19 months.

It then follows that the higher the Omega-3 (EPA & DHA) content of the fish oil, the more it will nutritionally support and help your body to maintain normal nerve function.

* Average fish oil has 600 mg (EPA & DHA) Omega-3s.
* Higher Quality fish oil has 800 mg (EPA & DHA) Omega-3s.
* RHP Cold Water Fish Oil has 1500 mg (EPA & DHA) Omega-3s.

Not all fish oils are the same. The highest quality fish oil comes from wild caught, cold water fish, and the best cold water fish are found in deep cold waters of the sea.

RHP Cold Water Fish Oil gel caps are also "enteric coated" so that they do not dissolve until they pass through the stomach and reach the intestines. That way there are no "fishy burps" or aftertaste.

To order the RHP Cold Water Fish Oil

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