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From the desk of Richard
Penfounde, your Naturally Healthy Lifestyle specialist. HOW many times have you walked into your doctor's rooms, sat
down and declared "Doctor, I'm always so tired" ?
Modern living is frantic and getting more so. We devote less and
less time to balancing our lifestyles because we are trapped in this
frantic mode. We feel that if we were to stop for a moment we'd lose
our jobs, businesses, our ability to pay the school fees, credit
card, overdraft...
Frantic living then becomes translated into stress, layers of it. We
don't sleep properly, exercise properly, or relax.
Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? Who got there
first, cool, calm and certainly without heart strain?
Out-of-control speed and low nutritional intakes spell future
disasters. How many of us today devote sufficient time to selecting, preparing
and eating proper food and taking time to digest It ? Lower the
quality of the fuel that is the only daily support your over-taxed
body and brain gets, and over time the engine will fall apart,
giving rise to symptoms that can not only baffle you, but your GP
too.
In the past GPs assumed their patients practised balanced eating.
Not so today.
A recent analysis of 65 000 blood tests by a private medical lab in
the UK discovered 7 out of 10 were borderline to severely deficient
of the Vitamin B group nutrients in their bloodstreams.
The B group affects moods, thoughts, feelings, depressions, fears.
It is drained out of the body by alcohol, drugs and "trash" foods,
all of which actually destroy the “good" bacteria in our bodies and
encourage the overload of "bad" bacteria.
Also, if 7 out of 10 are B-Vitamin deficient, how many are deficient
of all the essential vitamins and minerals?
With such deficiencies we can expect a huge amount of yeast
overgrowth to occur. Examine your body for symptoms ranging from
thrush to athlete's foot, from mouth ulcers to yellowing
fingernails.
Candida and ME cause "tired all the time" symptoms, but another
equally debilitating cause is an under-active thyroid -
hypothyroidism.
Other symptoms range from depression to loss of sex drive.
Evaluating hypothyroidism is tricky as the usual blood test mimics
hjpoglycaemia. However, a simple reliable home test is The Barnes
Basal Temperature Test", listed for years in the Physicians Desk
Reference Book.
Take a thermometer, shake it below 95F (35C) and place it by your
bed before going to sleep. On waking, place it comfortably under an
armpit for a full 10 minutes moving as little as possible. Read and
record the temperature and date. Repeat for three days and take the
average.
Your basal body temperature should be between 97.6F (36.4C) and
98.2F (36.7C). If yours is lower, it is appropriate to visit your GP
and ask for a hypothyroidism test to confirm self-diagnosis.
I came across a statement by a world-renowned endocrinologist, the
late Louis Berman, written in 1921. "Without thyroid there can be no
complexity of thought, no learning, no responsive energy, no
physical unfolding of faculty and function.''
In cases of hypothyroidism be careful not to eat turnips, cabbage,
mustard, soybeans, peanuts, pine nuts and millet. These are the
currently known goitrogens. Helpful supplements, with suggested
daily dosages are: Copper 300mcg; Iodine 300mcg; Tyrosine 50mg;
Vitamin A 7,570mcgRE; Zinc piccolinate 50mg; Vitamin E 12.5mcg;
Vitamin B Complex (with Niacin) 25-50mg, Vitamin C l000mg; Folic
acid 250mg. |
