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Therapeutic Recommendations: Nutrients (continued...)
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Individual tolerance for vitamin C is different. When your body reaches its tolerance level, you can be subjected to increased gas and possibly loose stools. This event is known as “bowel tolerance”.
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Dosage: Mild allergy reactions require about 2,000-10,000 milligrams per day, taken in divided doses (the body excretes vitamin C within 4-6 hours).
Caution: If you consume aspirin and standard vitamin C (ascorbic acid) together in large doses, you may experience stomach irritation—possibly leading to ulcers. So, if you have to take aspirin regularly, please use an esterified form of vitamin C, and take it separately from the aspirin. Pregnant mothers are advised not to take more than 5,000 mg of vitamin C daily. A growing fetus may become dependent on this supplement and acquire scurvy when deprived of the accustomed megadoses after birth.
Recommendation: Any esterified vitamin C is our first suggestion as we feel that it is a remarkable form of C. It is created by having the vitamin C react with a necessary mineral, such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, or zinc. This produces a vitamin C that is non-acidic and includes metabolites identical to those produced by the body. Esterified vitamin C is absorbed into the bloodstream and tissue four times faster than standard forms of vitamin C because it moves into the blood cells more effectively and also remains in the body tissue longer. The concentration of vitamin C in white blood cells achieved by using esterified vitamin C are four times higher than those attained with standard vitamin C. Furthermore, and a very important fact; only one-third is lost during excretion in the urine.
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Coenzyme Q10- Has the ability to counter histamine. In 2002, a Slovakian study that included 56 asthmatics found that they all had lower concentrations of CoQ10 than healthy volunteers. The authors of the study suggest that since the contribution of free oxygen radicals in the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma is generally accepted, and as CoQ10 acts to help prevent cellular damage from free radicals, the asthmatics could profit from supplementing CoQ10.
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Dosage: 100-200 mg per day of the soft gels.
Recommendation: While most CoQ10 softgels will do the trick, Life Extension Foundation offers a Super Absorpable CoQ10 with D-Limonene. Just a warning though, that while it is the best, it has a price tag to match.
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Vitamin B6- Asthma is common problem with children that is successfully treated with B6. Platon J. Collipp, M.D., chief of the Nassau County Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics, and his researchers, have discovered that B6 is both safe and valuable when it comes to alleviating asthma. Doctor Collipp and his research team discovered noteable improvement in asthma sufferers who were treated with 50 milligrams of B6 daily for 3 months, followed by 100 milligrams of B6 daily for six months. As a matter of fact, children using 200 milligrams daily were eased of their wheezing, difficulty breathing, and tightness in their chest, more rapidly than those who used only 100 milligrams.
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Dosage: 1 capsule daily with meals.
Caution: Some people have experienced temporary symptoms of peripheral neuropathy (tingling, numbness sensation, decreased sensation to touch or balance difficulties) while taking vitamin B6 in doses above 300 mg daily, particularly if the nutrient is taken without other B complex vitamins. This vitamin should not be used without co-ingestion of equivalent doses of other B-complex vitamins. Consult your doctor before taking this vitamin if you are taking levodopa (L-dopa).
Recommendation: Life Extension Vitamin B6 250mg
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