Friday, January 25, 2008
Is It Worth It?
Time to take stock after more than six months of stuffing supplements down Mike.
Costs: considerable at first under Dr. Amy Yasko, much less in the past 2-3 months under the applied kinesiologist chiropractor. The chiropractor was able to test whether a Yasko supplement is helping. She also suggested some new supplements that do help Mike. Her testing is just a fraction of the cost of the Yasko-style urine testing. Mike is on 15 supplements now as opposed to 31 under Yasko. He is not taking the terribly expensive RNA one that Yasko's protocol called for. But I can't complain about Yasko; she got us started on this, and if we hadn't gotten started, we wouldn't have the benefits.
Benefits:
For Mike (age 15): a much smoother emotional ride each day, not such a roller coaster. Better able to focus. Still has occasional blow-ups, so is not "cured."
For me: able to abandon my no-carb diet, which I relied on for many years to keep depression at bay. When I ate carbs, I felt terrible. Now I can eat them, thanks to supplementation with P5P B6, a form of this vitamin my body apparently can't make by itself. By eating carbs, I mean eating bread! Yahoo! And pasta! Things most people take for granted. Now I can also eat the occasional sweet thing. Also, my knees are no longer swollen. I found I am allergic to wheat and have been avoiding it, and I do feel a lot better for that too.
For Shannon (age 20): much better digestion. Not sure what else.
The applied kinesiologist chiropractor isn't done working on us yet, so we'll see what else happens.
Costs: considerable at first under Dr. Amy Yasko, much less in the past 2-3 months under the applied kinesiologist chiropractor. The chiropractor was able to test whether a Yasko supplement is helping. She also suggested some new supplements that do help Mike. Her testing is just a fraction of the cost of the Yasko-style urine testing. Mike is on 15 supplements now as opposed to 31 under Yasko. He is not taking the terribly expensive RNA one that Yasko's protocol called for. But I can't complain about Yasko; she got us started on this, and if we hadn't gotten started, we wouldn't have the benefits.
Benefits:
For Mike (age 15): a much smoother emotional ride each day, not such a roller coaster. Better able to focus. Still has occasional blow-ups, so is not "cured."
For me: able to abandon my no-carb diet, which I relied on for many years to keep depression at bay. When I ate carbs, I felt terrible. Now I can eat them, thanks to supplementation with P5P B6, a form of this vitamin my body apparently can't make by itself. By eating carbs, I mean eating bread! Yahoo! And pasta! Things most people take for granted. Now I can also eat the occasional sweet thing. Also, my knees are no longer swollen. I found I am allergic to wheat and have been avoiding it, and I do feel a lot better for that too.
For Shannon (age 20): much better digestion. Not sure what else.
The applied kinesiologist chiropractor isn't done working on us yet, so we'll see what else happens.
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... THAT IS AWESOME! I am so happy for you.
As a side note, conversion of B6 to P5P requires magnesium: a lot of it.
We live in a magnesium-depleted world... and every bite that has calcium in it further depletes our bodies of that ever so important mineral.
So while it is absolutely true that for some people the conversion is a genetic problem... for most people, it's a magnesium deficiency: a LARGE ONE.
To see which foods have magnesium, and to convince one's self that food doesn't give magnesium in the minimum required amounts in our diets: www.whfoods.com do a search on magnesium. Remember that any food that is calcium rich means even more magnesium is required.
Also, a "good multivitamin" often doesn't have a lot of magnesium because magnesium would turn the pill into a horse pill... so it's important to take magnesium even if someone is on a multi (which I know is your case, Phyllis... but just in case someone else reads this).
And magnesium oxide, is not a highly absorbable form of magnesium. Magnesium citrate is much better. And for those CBS people, consider magnesium aspartate... yes, that's aspartate. I know what Yasko says... but aspartates are FABULOUS at gobbling ammonia. Give enough magnesium aspartate to my little CBS darling and she sleeps like a baby. Not a crazies-inducing substance for her at all. Clears up her eczema in no time flat.
And last, but not least... Phyllis, remember to ask your chiro/AK to test all the pills together at the end. Just because something tests strong individually, doesn't mean when it's mixed with something else that the combo is strong.
For example... we're sensitive to methyl donors in my family. We'd been put on turmeric, a multi that had methyl donors, and CoQ10. All three tested strong... but put all three together and we were dreadfully weak. This means, in our family, that we have to rotate them (we later found out that by adding magnesium aspartate we could take all three together... but then it really meant all four together since the magnesium became part of the equation).
So just because something tests strong by itself...
Hope this helps...
As a side note, conversion of B6 to P5P requires magnesium: a lot of it.
We live in a magnesium-depleted world... and every bite that has calcium in it further depletes our bodies of that ever so important mineral.
So while it is absolutely true that for some people the conversion is a genetic problem... for most people, it's a magnesium deficiency: a LARGE ONE.
To see which foods have magnesium, and to convince one's self that food doesn't give magnesium in the minimum required amounts in our diets: www.whfoods.com do a search on magnesium. Remember that any food that is calcium rich means even more magnesium is required.
Also, a "good multivitamin" often doesn't have a lot of magnesium because magnesium would turn the pill into a horse pill... so it's important to take magnesium even if someone is on a multi (which I know is your case, Phyllis... but just in case someone else reads this).
And magnesium oxide, is not a highly absorbable form of magnesium. Magnesium citrate is much better. And for those CBS people, consider magnesium aspartate... yes, that's aspartate. I know what Yasko says... but aspartates are FABULOUS at gobbling ammonia. Give enough magnesium aspartate to my little CBS darling and she sleeps like a baby. Not a crazies-inducing substance for her at all. Clears up her eczema in no time flat.
And last, but not least... Phyllis, remember to ask your chiro/AK to test all the pills together at the end. Just because something tests strong individually, doesn't mean when it's mixed with something else that the combo is strong.
For example... we're sensitive to methyl donors in my family. We'd been put on turmeric, a multi that had methyl donors, and CoQ10. All three tested strong... but put all three together and we were dreadfully weak. This means, in our family, that we have to rotate them (we later found out that by adding magnesium aspartate we could take all three together... but then it really meant all four together since the magnesium became part of the equation).
So just because something tests strong by itself...
Hope this helps...
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: February 18, 2008 9:10 PM
: February 18, 2008 9:10 PM
I asked the chiropractor to muscle-test magnesium aspartate (Mike has been on magnesium citrate). Testing showed positive; that is, we should switch. So we will! We'll see what happens next. Thanks for the tip!! And we'll be testing all the stuff together too. I really appreciate your advice.
Phyllis
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This blog describes how we started out on the protocol by Dr. Amy Yasko, who many say has cured or improved children with autism using a genetic-based nutrition therapy.