Hello, Friends,
Over the past several days, I've been reduced to processing my written words in short bursts of thoughts -- what I call "thinking in pieces." Synthesizing details in a global fashion has been a great challenge. I've found myself typing and retyping the simplest things due to my inability to process more than one detail at a time. This difficulty has encompassed even nonverbal, visual details.
All of this is due to my having had a heavier variety of chemical exposures on Sunday than usual. Today is the first day that some of the physical fog is lifting. Ironically, it's also the first day that the impending migraine is finally coming through. It's been a three-day event instead of a two-day event, this time around. Now the body begins to fight. Its reaction time was extra slow and dreary due to its having been literally deluged with airborne toxins. The effects were so "heavy" that, first, all reactivity was frankly suppressed while my body endured a growing sensation of "stupor." As my body "awoke" to its exposures, I felt progressively worse and more and more useless.
Laundry toxins figured first on the list, then cigarette smoke. Creepy effects, this time, as though I'd received a novocaine shot at the dentist which was slowly wearing off in parts of my face. This has improved, but it's not gone yet. Such heavy nerve involvement. I so much hate this.
The B and C vitamins have helped, plus magnesium (with some calcium). The "creepy" physical reactivity gets a bit muted each time I take another dose. With the magnesium, I opt for the higher ratio of something like 2:1 or 4:1 magnesium to calcium. The only calcium I "take" is included in my formulation of Buffered C powder. I don't want to calcify my soft tissues. Already had that problem and that required a biopsy. Don't want to go back there again. My ratio of magnesium to calcium may look radical to some -- so be it. I personally found the biopsy -- and the logic behind mainstream medicine's requesting future checks and biopsies -- to be quite radical. Insane, even. I'm convinced that I'm severely deficient in magnesium and maybe even have a bona fide magnesium-absorption problem. So I'll mention here what a friend kindly lent to me -- and now I've purchased my own:
Ancient Minerals Magnesium Oil (topical)
Perhaps unrelated but worth mentioning: When my shoulder froze up with severe spasms of tendonitis and my arm was completely stuck, this oil began to free it up by degrees. It begins to loosen up the joints almost right away. Makes me feel better all-around, too.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have another post "on tap" which deals with a separate (and new) topic. Please bear with me while I complete that one, and kindly accept this post as a sign that this blogger is "still present" with you!
Cheers!
~ Carolyn
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Monday, May 30, 2011
B Vitamins and Happiness
Happy Memorial Day to all in the U.S.!
Today, I'd like to focus on the word "happy."
Although "happy" is first thought of as an emotional state, our immediate "happiness" -- or lack thereof -- can sometimes be physically based.
This I learned yesterday -- again -- in case I had any doubts. My mood was unusually low, the worst "low" I'd felt in decades. My energy was nonexistent. I recalled, dimly, through the crippling gloom, that I'd been out of my B-complex supplement for about two months.
Big problem.
So I took a simple remedial measure. I bought a good B50-complex, took two yesterday and one this morning; and the results have already been astounding. My body, today, has "automatically" rushed to complete chores -- without my even thinking about it -- chores that had been taking extreme willpower, concentration, and physical strength to approach for many days prior. Chores that I could not complete. I'd have to keep sitting down. And then I couldn't get up!
We hear all the time about how much we need our B-complex supplements, in general. The B-complex vitamins are known to affect nerve transmission, stamina, and mood. Deficiency states of some of the B vitamins can be as severe as psychosis, edema, and heart failure.
It's easy to forget that, in addition to the usual reasons for mild to severe B-vitamin deficiency (e.g., stress, fatigue, high sugar consumption), the chemically sensitive population also has "laborious chemical detoxing" to add to those reasons. Our detoxing capacities are already tremendously compromised. This results in many extra B-vitamin-sapping stresses on the body. We could be losing our daily stores of B vitamins at a very, very rapid rate.
Which means that we must pay extra attention to replenishing those stores.
I always know I've hit upon something truly beneficial when "the chores start getting done of their own accord."
Friends, what a huge difference a B-complex makes!
Cheers!
~ Carolyn
Today, I'd like to focus on the word "happy."
Although "happy" is first thought of as an emotional state, our immediate "happiness" -- or lack thereof -- can sometimes be physically based.
This I learned yesterday -- again -- in case I had any doubts. My mood was unusually low, the worst "low" I'd felt in decades. My energy was nonexistent. I recalled, dimly, through the crippling gloom, that I'd been out of my B-complex supplement for about two months.
Big problem.
So I took a simple remedial measure. I bought a good B50-complex, took two yesterday and one this morning; and the results have already been astounding. My body, today, has "automatically" rushed to complete chores -- without my even thinking about it -- chores that had been taking extreme willpower, concentration, and physical strength to approach for many days prior. Chores that I could not complete. I'd have to keep sitting down. And then I couldn't get up!
We hear all the time about how much we need our B-complex supplements, in general. The B-complex vitamins are known to affect nerve transmission, stamina, and mood. Deficiency states of some of the B vitamins can be as severe as psychosis, edema, and heart failure.
It's easy to forget that, in addition to the usual reasons for mild to severe B-vitamin deficiency (e.g., stress, fatigue, high sugar consumption), the chemically sensitive population also has "laborious chemical detoxing" to add to those reasons. Our detoxing capacities are already tremendously compromised. This results in many extra B-vitamin-sapping stresses on the body. We could be losing our daily stores of B vitamins at a very, very rapid rate.
Which means that we must pay extra attention to replenishing those stores.
I always know I've hit upon something truly beneficial when "the chores start getting done of their own accord."
Friends, what a huge difference a B-complex makes!
Cheers!
~ Carolyn