Chemotherapy & Neuropathy

Individuals at risk for acquiring neuropathy are those associated with chemotherapy and also have the following conditions

·        Diabetes

·        Alcoholism

·        Severe malnutrition

Why? Because these conditions all result in the nerve damage, specifically the myelin sheath surrounding the nerve starts to deteriorate.  

Symptoms include:

·        Numbness, tingling (feeling of pins and needles of the hands and or feet.

·        Burning of hands and/or feet

·        Numbness around the mouth

·        Constipation

·        Loss of sensation to touch

·        Los of positional sense (knowing where a body part is without looking)

·        Weakness and leg cramping or any pain in hands and/or feet

·        Difficulty picking things up or buttoning clothes

Chemotherapy and other chemicals and drugs can cause the nerve’s myelin sheath to deteriorate and this is what needs to be repaired.   This can be done:

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The Healing Power of Vitamin C

Vitamin C was intensively studied for over 70 years by the medical profession. Most of what was found in terms of the healing power of this vitamin has never been broadly published.

If the general public were made aware of what proper supplementing with vitamin C could do, and people took the correct amounts to meet their individual needs, the sales of many drugs and medications would drop like a stone and the overall health and well-being of the population would skyrocket.

There are some wonderful benefits you can realize by supplementing with the correct amount of vitamin C. Here are the first few:

In a double-blind study of elderly patients hospitalized with severe bronchitis, those given 200 mg a day of vitamin C improved to a significantly greater extent than those who were given a placebo [Definition: a substance containing no active drug.]

When bruises (where skin turns blue to purple-colored that may turn yellow to dark brown over a few days) occur often and from minor, often unnoticed impacts, supplementing with 100 mg to 3,000 mg a day has shown to reduce bruising.

Vitamin C levels in the eye decrease with age. People who supplement with vitamin C develop far fewer cataracts, with doctors often recommending 500 to 1,000 mg a day as part of a cataract prevention program.

As a result of 21 closely monitored trials it was found that using 1,000 to 8,000 mg of vitamin C a day reduced how long the common cold persisted and the severity of symptoms by an average of 23%.

Sorbitol is a type of sugar that can collect in the body and damage the eyes, nerves and kidneys of people with diabetes. People who are diabetic appear to have low vitamin C levels. 2,000 mg of vitamin C a day lowers sorbitol in people with diabetes.

Glaucoma is an eye condition where there is additional pressure within the eye. It leads to loss of side vision, blurred vision, blind spots, seeing halos around lights, poor night vision, and if untreated, blindness. Supplementation with 2,000 mg a day can significantly reduce pressure within the eye. Much larger amounts are sometimes given.

23 controlled trials showed that vitamin C supplementation produces greater benefit for children than for adults. The review also found that a daily amount of 2,000 mg or more was better that 1,000 mg at reducing how long cold symptoms remained in children.

The finest and most effective vitamin C that will nourish the cells of your body is a food, is  not man made chemicals like ascorbic acid.  A whole food vitamin C is needed, that means that it is an actual food and recognized by the body as a food... NOT a chemical substitute.

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What You Can Do to Boost the Effectiveness of Vitamin C

In numerous studies, vitamin C has been shown to protect against infection, the common cold, and support a healthy cardiovascular system, when taken correctly.

It's important to know how much to take and how often to take it.

The following excerpts are from studies done using ascorbic acid or ascorbate, two common forms of "vitamin C".

"Higher levels of vitamin C can be protective against damage to blood vessels, and greatly reduce death rates in the elderly."

"Blood levels [of vitamin C] increase substantially with a larger dose and these higher amounts are excreted more quickly."

"A 1,250 mg dose raises blood levels more than a 200 mg dose for the first six hours. Larger doses provide an even bigger increase in blood levels in the first six hour period."

"For the second six hour period, these and even higher doses give similar blood levels."

How can this be? How can you take a 1,250 mg dose (or even two, three or four times this amount) or as little as a 200 mg dose and have virtually no vitamin C in the blood after six hours? There is a reason:

"Vitamin C has a short half-life in the blood."

A "half-life" is the amount of time it takes for half of the vitamin C to be depleted from the blood stream. The half-life of vitamin C in the blood is 30 minutes.

This means that every 30 minutes there is only one-half of the vitamin C left!

As an example, say you start with 1,250 mg of vitamin C in your blood stream. In 30 minutes you have only 625 mg left. After 30 more minutes you have only 312 mgs. In another 30 minutes you're down to 156 mg (that's after only 1 hour and 30 minutes).

If you continue reducing by half every 30 minutes, six hours after you took the initial amount of 1,250 mg of vitamin C, the amount left in your blood stream is less than 0.5 mg. Basically there is nothing left.

"Taking an oral dose will raise blood levels for only a few hours."

"The benefit of a single dose is short lived. If high levels of vitamin C provide protection against the common cold, then a single multi-gram dose of vitamin C would have little more effectiveness than a 500 mg dose."

"In the prevention of colds and other diseases, if a single dose of vitamin C raises blood levels for about six hours or one quarter of the day, the person is unprotected for the other three quarters of the time."

"Five 100 mg doses taken at intervals through the day would raise average blood levels more than a single one-gram dose."

excerpted from Ascorbate, The Science of Vitamin C
by Dr. Steve Hickey & Dr. Hilary Roberts

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