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Your Cardiologist Needs To Know This Supplement – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 524
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Your Cardiologist Needs To Know This Supplement – InViteⓇ Health Podcast, Episode 524
Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.
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Jerry Hickey, Ph.:
[00:00:41] Hi, Jerry Hickey here. Heart disease and high blood pressure are not a normal part of aging. What you eat, your diet, the amount of exercise you have or you don’t have, the exposure to pollutants such as bus exhaust and car exhaust, and your nutrient intake all affect your risk of developing or not developing heart disease and circulatory diseases. Now, of course, genes play a part. But as one researcher pointed out, genes only load the gun. It’s the environment which pulls the trigger. So the way you live matters.† [00:01:18]
[00:01:20] Now one risk factor for heart disease and heart issues, which is not commonly noted, is a low intake of magnesium, the mineral magnesium. Magnesium is very important to many processes that affect the entire body, but also your heart that affect your blood pressure, that affect your circulation, that affect your blood sugar levels. Yet, according to a large government survey, approximately 68% of Americans consume far too little magnesium from their diet. Now, this is important because magnesium has been found to affect your blood pressure in a good way, your cholesterol, your triglyceride levels, the rhythm of your heart, the way it beats, blood sugar levels, the energy, your heart… it requires to pump blood approximately 100,000 times per day. Now, all of this adds up to a very important need for the mineral magnesium to be looked at as something that’s important for the health of your heart. This is very important for cardiologists to take note of. Yet over my career, many decades as a pharmacist and a nutritionist, I’ve only seen two board certified cardiologists commonly recommend the mineral magnesium to their patients. And perhaps this needs to change, and I am starting a new series now looking at different practices, different specialties in medicine such as cardiologists and neurologists and diabetologist, etc. and what supplements may be core to the needs of their patients. What supplements specifically can help the lion’s share of their patients. So this is the first in a series of podcast episodes describing, in my opinion, and I’m very well read in these matter, the number one nutrient for each specialty of medicine. So welcome to Supplements and Your Doctor: Magnesium and Cardiology. So my name is Jerry Hickey. I’m a nutritional pharmacist. You can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts, all of our InViteⓇ episodes. But you can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @invitehealth. All of the information in this episode is linked at the podcast description. So let’s get going. By the way, at the end of this episode, I will tell you a good amount of magnesium for your daily needs. It’s slightly more in men than women. Of course, that depends on size also and the level of activity. I’ll tell you foods that supply magnesium. I’ll tell you my favorite supplements for magnesium. And then I’ll give you a brief description of other episodes I’m planning in this series.† [00:04:37]
[00:04:39] So magnesium is a macro mineral. There’s a lot of them calcium, potassium, sulfur. There’s a lot of macro minerals. These are minerals you need in higher levels. Micro minerals, you only need a tiny amount like copper or selenium, but macro minerals you need a good amount and magnesium plays a role in over 300 incredibly important reactions in our body. You need magnesium to create DNA, you need magnesium to create protein, you need magnesium for your muscles to function. Now your heart, of course, is a very important muscle that’s beating over 100,000 times a day, pumping blood up to your brain and down to your legs. Magnesium is very important for your heart. It’s important for nerve function. There’s many nerves associated with your heart. It’s needed to create bone and hold it together. It’s needed to activate Vitamin D. Now, Vitamin D itself is needed for the heart, but Vitamin D is also needed for your immune system, for your bones, for your brain health. You need magnesium to release melatonin and other neurotransmitters, and that’s incredibly important. Melatonin is needed for regulating nighttime blood pressure. Melatonin is needed for your immune system. Melatonin is needed to build bone. So I mean magnesium’s just like core to good health. You need magnesium for energy. Energy is made mostly out of the body processing sugar into something called ATP. ATP is stabilized by being attached to magnesium, so you need magnesium for energy and the heart, of course, eats up a great deal of energy. You also need magnesium to control your blood sugar. So magnesium is needed for your muscle energy and nerve functions, both of which are key to a properly functioning heart. So, I mean, that’s just a basic thing.† [00:06:28]
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[00:06:30] Now, the major risk factors for a stroke, a stroke is damage to the brain caused by a clot or a blockage or bleeding. The major risk factors for a stroke have to do with the heart. High blood pressure is the number one risk factor for a stroke, and after that is atrial fibrillation, which we’ll go into later. It’s an improper rhythm of the heart where it’s racing and it’s not pumping properly and it leads to strokes. So in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, they analyzed 15 human clinical trials, and magnesium definitely reduced the risk of a stroke, but not just the most common stroke, which is an ischemia stroke like a blockage or blocking blood flow to specific parts of the brain, but also bleeding strokes. Now, according to the Office of Dietary Supplements, taking magnesium can help lower your blood pressure. The British Medical Journal, known as Open Heart in 2018, described how magnesium is needed for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. And a study of patients in the intensive care units, the cardiac intensive care units, cardiac meaning heart, the majority were low in magnesium, and we’ve seen in many studies that if you lack magnesium, you have a high risk for stroke, which we already mentioned, a heart attack, high blood pressure, diabetes, clogged arteries, a weakened heart and heart failure.† [00:08:02]
[00:08:03] So magnesium is needed for energy for the heart so it can pump blood. It also is the energy source for an important regulator of the rhythm of the heart and the flow of blood. It’s called the sodium-potassium pump. Sodium and potassium are two macro minerals. You need a lot of them. Now, most Americans get too much sodium, and very few Americans get enough potassium. So you need the sodium-potassium pump to function properly, to regulate the rate of the heart rhythm so you don’t have an arrhythmia. Therefore, if you’re low in magnesium, it contributes to arrhythmias, an improper beating rate of the heart. And magnesium, if it’s low, it causes a loss of potassium in the heart with an influx of sodium and calcium. Now these ions affect your blood pressure. They can increase your blood pressure. They excite the heart. And they can affect the speed at which the heart pumps blood. That’s your pulse rate. More on this later. Also, with a reduction in magnesium, you have increased inflammation. This contributes to stiffening and narrowing of the arteries in the heart and leading to the heart and around the heart. So coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease, so it increases your risk of heart disease. So there’s an awful lot going on between magnesium and your heart.† [00:09:45]
[00:09:46] So I just mentioned that magnesium affects the interaction between potassium, sodium and calcium. The interaction of these minerals, they’re also known as electrolytes, also affects your blood vessel walls. So when sodium enters the cell, it makes the blood vessels squeeze so if the blood vessels are squeezing, the heart has to pump harder to deliver blood to the brain and the feet and everywhere else. That’s elevated blood pressure. Whereas potassium opens up the blood vessels, so it’s easier for the heart to pump blood to your brain and your legs and your muscles, etc. That helps reduce blood pressure. So where does magnesium come in? Magnesium moves potassium into the cells of your blood vessel walls and your heart. And, of course, the sodium to migrate out of the cells. This allows easier blood flow due to widened, better functioning blood vessels affecting your blood pressure in a very good way. You have better blood pressure control. You have improved levels of blood pressure. You’re less likely to develop high blood pressure, and you’re less likely to suffer with high blood pressure because magnesium helps to lower your blood pressure. If you lack magnesium, it traps the sodium within the cells of your blood vessel walls and in your heart and it allows calcium to migrate into these cells. This tightens up and squeezes the blood vessel walls, increasing your blood pressure. And of course, so this contributes to high blood pressure, obviously, but… That’s also called hypertension. This also, this increased rate of blood flow is whacking into your blood vessel walls, causing damage and a result of that is hardening of the arteries.† [00:11:43]
[00:11:45] So in a meta-analysis published in the journal Hypertension, which is one of the journals of the American Heart Association, this included 34 human clinical trials. Magnesium as a supplement absolutely helped normalize high blood pressure. It absolutely helped lower elevated blood pressure. The, the effect was real. It was significant, especially in people with elevated levels. And when they looked at how much you needed and what minimal amount of time you needed the magnesium for, they found out, within the first month, taking 300mg of magnesium a day improved your blood pressure. Now in the journal Nutrients, magnesium helps control blood sugar. Blood sugar, when it’s elevated, your blood becomes kind of like maple syrup. It thickens. And the sugar attaches to blood vessel walls, even the heart muscle itself, and it causes a process called glycation. This leads to heart disease, cardiovascular disease, increased blood pressure, increased risk of stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer’s disease, kidney damage, etc. Magnesium absolutely helps control your blood sugar. There’s a number of nutrients that help control your blood sugar, but magnesium is key. Magnesium also helps decrease your bad cholesterol and your triglycerides, which is another kind of greasy fat that hardens your arteries. So both of these fats contribute to stiffening your arteries. And this, of course, leads to elevated blood pressure.† [00:13:26]
[00:13:28] Now, lowered magnesium is also connected with developing heart failure. In heart failure, your heart is just not doing its job of pumping enough blood to the body, and it’s quite dangerous. In a review of 40 human clinical trials that included over a million people, increased magnesium intake decrease the risk of developing heart failure by a solid 22%. It also additionally reduced your risk of developing a stroke and additionally reduced your risk of developing diabetes. This was in the journal BMC Medicine in 2016. Finally, low magnesium is connected with a higher risk of atrial fibrillation, but this is a, this is even in people healthy hearts and good circulation. That’s part of Framingham Heart Study. So atrial fibrillation… The top chambers of the heart fill up with blood and the bottom chambers pump it out. In atrial fibrillation, the beating pattern of the top chambers is all over the place. There’s extra beats, there’s triple beats, there’s missing beats. The heart is racing like crazy and as a result, not enough pump, blood, oxygen-rich blood is getting pumped throughout the body, and the little, little pieces of blood get left behind and clotting cells can adhere to them creating a blood clot, and this could get pumped up into the brain. It’s a major risk factor for a stroke. Lacking magnesium increases your risk of developing atrial fibrillation.† [00:15:03]
[00:15:05] So here’s my recommendation. You need… I would say both men and women really want to aim for between 350 and 450mg of magnesium every day. Women, 350, men, 450 mg. There are foods that supply a good amount of magnesium. Nuts, especially almonds, seeds like pumpkin seeds and flaxseeds. Green leafy vegetables, especially spinach. Legumes, that could be edamame, that could be peas and lentils, all kinds of beans. Fish offers some magnesium. So do whole grains, especially quinoa and whole wheat.† [00:15:46]
[00:15:48] Now, as far as magnesium supplements, my two favorites are magnesium citrate and magnesium glycinate. They’re both extremely well absorbed. Here’s the difference. Magnesium citrate has a stool softening effect. It absorbs moisture into the stool, so if you’re constipated, you might want to opt for magnesium citrate. Magnesium glycinate doesn’t have that effect. It’s so rapidly and so well absorbed, it doesn’t affect your stool, really. So if you don’t have a problem with constipation, you might want to opt for magnesium glycinate, which, according to human clinical trials, is the most rapidly absorbed magnesium and the most completely absorbed magnesium. In other words, the best absorb magnesium. In fact, I take the magnesium glycinate tablet every day just to make sure I am getting adequate levels of magnesium because there are heart issues in the Hickey men, in my family, in the men.† [00:16:37]
[00:16:39] Now does other important supplements for your heart. You have to mention fish oils and bear in mind if you’re on a statin drug that actually takes some of the fish oils out of your body, so you actually need additional fish oils if you’re on a statin drug, the drugs that lower your cholesterol. Taurine. Taurine is a sulfhydryl amino acid, so it’s in a class of its own. You could get taurine in green leafy vegetables to an extent, but in fish. Taurine’s needed to control your blood pressure, the rhythm of your heart, blood flow. Lacking taurine leads to strokes and heart attacks and clogged arteries. Coenzyme Q10, a very well-known supplement, for older people or people with diabetes. The best form is Ubiquinol. That’s the one I use because I’m older. Alcar, the acetylated form of carnitine. It’s very safe, and it helps regulate the energy production in your heart. And B-vitamins, especially B1, B2, B6, B12 and folate. Very important for the, for the energy of your heart. Those are supplements I always recommend to people with heart failure.† [00:17:39]
[00:17:40] Future episodes of this series will discuss what’s the best supplement for a rheumatologist, in my opinion. But you know, I’ve read an awful lot about these things. Gastroenterologists, orthopedists, ophthalmologists, cardiologists, neurologists and diabetologists. So thank you for listening to this episode of the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. You can find all of our episodes wherever you listen to podcasts for free, or you can go to invitehealth.com/podcast. And please, if you could leave us a review and if you could subscribe, it’ll be helpful. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @invitehealth. Thanks for listening. This is Jerry Hickey signing off.† [00:17:40]
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Can Anything Help?, Part 2 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 490
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Can Anything Help?, Part 2 – InViteⓇ Health Podcast, Episode 490
Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.
*Intro music*
InVite Health Podcast Intro: [00:00:04] Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast, where our degreed healthcare professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InViteⓇ Health has to offer at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code PODCAST at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started. [00:00:34]
Jerry Hickey, Ph.: [00:00:40] Welcome back to part two of my episode, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Can Anything Help? My name is Jerry Hickey. I’m a nutritional pharmacist. I’m also the Senior Scientific Officer over here at InViteⓇ Health. So welcome to the episode, and thanks for tuning in to this podcast today. You can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to a podcast or visit invitehealth.com/podcast. Subscribe and leave us a review, if you could. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @invitehealth, and the information on this episode is linked at the episode description.† [00:01:14]
[00:01:15] In part one, I spoke about typical treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome. I spoke about conditions that may be causative of it, how they tend to diagnose it, what tests, etc., and I explained that it was a diagnosis of exclusion. So there’s no test for chronic fatigue syndrome. What they have to do is rule out everything else that can lead to fatigue, such as alcoholism, such as insomnia, such as anemia, such as thyroid disease, such as having depression or anxiety, such as having cancer or some autoimmune disease, or something that can cause fatigue. So they rule out all those things. And if you’ve had that fatigue for six months or more persistently and you also have pain accompanying it, they probably will diagnose it as chronic fatigue syndrome. It’s also called myalgic encephalomyelitis.† [00:02:08]
[00:02:11] Now in part one, at the end, I spoke about cocoa and why cocoa might be helpful, but they found that cocoa in several small studies that it did help people with chronic fatigue syndrome, and I wouldn’t doubt it. I mean, there are ingredients in cocoa that probably would be helpful.† [00:02:26]
[00:02:28] But there’s also studies showing that probiotics and prebiotics help with chronic fatigue syndrome. Now, a probiotic are enough good bacteria that make a difference for your health. It’s a supplement, but you can also get in yogurt, and prebiotics are the food for them. Usually that comes out of chicory root. Chicory root is a cousin of Belgian endive and the good bacteria, by the way, love fiber. They love foods like lettuce and broccoli and spinach and beans. They love that kind of food. So that’s an easy way to feed them, right? So this is the journal Microbiome, which is a great journal. It’s all about bacteria. So, you know, the bacteria rule us. We have, it looks like well over 100 and… 100 trillion bacteria living with us, but they’re all over us. They’re in our lungs. They’re in our urinary tract. They’re in, they’re on our skin, they’re on our eyeballs, they’re on our scalp, they’re all over. But most of them are in our digestive tract. And the truth of the matter is we… If you took a square inch of our digestive tract, a square inch of our colon, our large intestine, there’s more bacteria living on that square inch of large intestine than all the people that were ever born on planet Earth. So who rules? So when you have a lot of bad bacteria, they inflame you. They cause problems. They can’t do the job the good bacteria do. And when you have good bacteria, it’s just the opposite. They reduce inflammation. They guide your immune system so they help prevent and even help reduce allergy reactions and allergies. They help guide your immune system towards fighting off viruses and infections and cancer cells. They do a lot of really good things, but strains matter. Species and strains matter. So not all species and strains can accomplish these things.† [00:04:34]
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[00:04:37] So here’s the journal Microbiome. And it’s Cornell University, and they said signs of chronic fatigue syndrome have been found in the gut bacteria in research conducted at Cornell University. So that raises the question, does chronic fatigue syndrome start in the brain? No, it might start in the intestines. They’re finding that with other brain diseases like Parkinson’s disease. There’s a lot of evidence now. It’s building, but the research hasn’t gotten around yet, but there’s a lot of studies if you look it up, that Parkinson’s disease, a movement disorder that occurs in the back of the brain that affects your, your gait the way you walk, it makes you stiff, it causes tremors, like your hand and your head shaking, that it starts in the gut. And there are studies in people with Alzheimer’s, when they give them certain strains of good bacteria, they help improve their brain function. So there really is a gut-brain axis. There were studies from Ireland and from Framingham State University, up in Massachusetts, etc., that certain probiotic bacteria help with mood and stress and anxiety, and possibly even depression. So, according to the Cornell University researchers, people with chronic fatigue syndrome, they constantly frequently have digestive tract issues, including irritable bowel syndrome. Irritable bowel syndrome is triggered by stress and anxiety and allergies, and you could be constipated. You could have diarrhea. You can have pain. So they found that when they gave probiotics in two studies, previous studies that there were marginal improvements in certain symptoms of people chronic fatigue syndrome. So the Cornell University researchers, they found that there are markers in your blood and your stool that indicate you have chronic fatigue syndrome. They found that certain bacteria are related to chronic fatigue and that lacking bacteria was connected with chronic fatigue. And they found that the bad bacteria create things that inflame you. And this is part and parcel, apparently, of chronic fatigue syndrome.† [00:07:05]
[00:07:06] They also found that it led to leaky gut syndrome. Now we’ve been talking about leaky gut syndrome in nutrition since the 1980s. What it is, you’re… There’s tight junctions between the cells that line your intestines, but it’s not very deep. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s shallow. And if those junctions get loosened, things that shouldn’t get into the bloodstream, bloodstream are escaping from your digestive tract and entering your blood. So if your food is not totally digested and you have leaky gut syndrome, large molecules of food can escape into the bloodstream and then your immune system thinks that’s an infection and attacks it and that leads to food allergies. The leaky gut syndrome has also been connected to systemic lupus erythematosus, where your immune system is attacking your organs, rheumatoid arthritis, where your immune system is attacking your joints. They also find out a lack of healthy bacteria is connected, not just with chronic fatigue syndrome, but Crohn’s disease. So it wouldn’t hurt if you have chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, that you took a probiotic. It’s a good idea, and it wouldn’t hurt to try cocoa. It’s a good idea.† [00:08:31]
[00:08:33] So this is the journal of the British Dietetic Association. It’s called the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. It’s the School of Medical Sciences, Griffith University. Griffith University’s in Australia, and they’re looking at what helps chronic fatigue syndrome. So they’re doing a systematic review. With a systematic review, you go on all these electronic websites that collate research, and you fish through them to collect the data. So they found 17 studies, and they found that chronic fatigue was improved with cocoa. And they found that chronic fatigue was improved by probiotics. And they found that chronic fatigue was improved by NADH with coenzyme Q10. So we’re going to get to that right now. In fact, we make a product. I made a product years ago where we mixed the active version of coenzyme Q10 with NADH, so let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about what that is. A great deal of what you do for your energy is converting sugar into energy. It enters something called the Krebs citric acid cycle, and it creates energy. And that’s basically all the energy in your body, the energy for your brain, the energy to hear, the energy to see, the energy to smell and taste, the energy to digest food, the energy to walk, the energy to go to the bathroom, the energy for your immune system. It all comes out of that. Pretty much all of it.† [00:10:09]
[00:10:11] So CoQ10 is at the core of that. CoQ10 was discovered about fin de siecle, 19th century, 20th century. And a lot of research came out of Texas in the, in the 1950s. So Texas is like a hotbed of CoQ10 research. So we actually get the active form of CoQ10 from Texas, from Kaneka, which is a Japanese company, but they make it in Texas. It’s called Ubiquinol. And I think for people with chronic fatigue, rather than getting CoQ10, that’s poorly absorbed and hard to convert into the active form, they probably should get Ubiquinol. So we made Ubiquinol with NADH. NADH is a form of Vitamin B3 that’s extremely active. It’s an antioxidant. It’s involved with energy production and slowing down the aging process. It does a lot of wonderful things, but NADH also recycles Ubiquinol. So this is a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled human clinical trial. So it’s a state of the art gold standard human clinical trial. It’s in the journal Nutrients. It’s researchers from different research institutions in Spain. Twelve weeks long, 207 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, and they split them into two groups. They received CoQ10 with NADH or matching placebo once daily. And you take that with food to absorb it. But once again, Ubiquinol is going to be superior because Ubiquinol is already active and typically people with these kind of syndromes, they don’t activate CoQ10 very effectively. So if we give the Ubiquinol, there’s a better chance it’s going to work for these people. But they used the regular CoQ10 in these people, but high quality CoQ10. They said there was a significant reduction in chronic fatigue overall, an improvement in their quality of life, the health-related quality of life. A real… And a real improvement also in sleep. They were sleeping better. They were sleeping longer. So the, the, the Ubiquinol or CoQ10 would really mean something.† [00:12:22]
[00:12:25] Now here’s another study. This is Antioxidant Redox Signaling. That’s a journal, and it’s Val de Hebron Research Institution and Val de Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona. And this is another eight week study, but this time it’s only 73 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. And once again, they found if you gave them CoQ10 with NADH, there was a real improvement in their fatigue versus placebo. So in the bigger study, they also looked at sleep and sleep improved.† [00:12:59]
[00:13:03] Now, this is the RIKEN center for Bio Systemic Dynamic Research, it’s in Japan and this is in the journal Brain and Nerve, and they’re using PET scans, Positron Emission Tomography, magnetoencephalograms and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, that’s MRIs, to look at the brains of people with chronic fatigue syndrome. And they found that in parts of the brain involved with logic and memory and energy, etc., the brain was lacking Alcar. I’ll explain that in a minute. And they also found that they had inflammation in their brain. So people with chronic fatigue, I do give something called Alcar with ALA. ALA is involved with creating the energy molecule. Alcar delivers it into the cell. And there’s a lot of research that Alcar with ALA is good for energy, just like the CoQ10 with NADH is good for energy, and there’s a lot of research that Alcar with ALA is great for the brain. So it’s reasonable to give people with chronic fatigue syndrome something that’s fantastic for the brain, fantastic for the heart, fantastic for your muscles, such as the Ubiquinol and the Alcar with ALA.† [00:14:22]
[00:14:24] Here’s a study in people with chronic fatigue syndrome using Panax ginseng. I would skip that because you had to use really high doses, so I would skip that. I wouldn’t do it. It did seem to help them, but not a lot of research. Very few patients, only 50 patients and they had to use too big a dosage. They had to use 3000 milligrams every day. Even though I think it’s safe, I wouldn’t use it. They also found that people with chronic fatigue syndrome… This is Molecular Neurobiology. That’s Tir Na Nog. That’s an old Gaelic word, Tir Na Nog. It’s in Wales, you know, Wales in the UK. And they found that people with, I mean, this is very predictable people with chronic fatigue syndrome, not only did they lack Alcar like they found in the other study, they lack glutathione. So what’s glutathione? Glutathione is a master antioxidant enzyme. It protects the brain. It protects the eyes. It protects the heart. It protects your immune cells. It protects your red blood cells. It protects your pancreas and your kidneys and your liver. I mean, it’s just all over the body. But the amount of glutathione can vary dramatically from person to person because glutathione would help protect you from pollution, cigarette smoke, alcohol all these different things, infections. So they are finding that people with chronic fatigue syndrome lack glutathione and glutathione in the body strongly reduces inflammation.†[00:15:51]
[00:15:52] So here’s what I would do if I had chronic fatigue. All of these would be safe for you to try, and if you hit one that really helps, it’s going to make a difference. I would try cocoa. I would definitely try cocoa. Don’t put it in milk. Milk seems to reduce its effectiveness in general. Put it in water. Cocoa tastes great already, just put in water. I would try a great probiotic like Lactobacillus ramnosis, Lactobacillus plantarum, bifidobacterium animalis subspecies lactis, strains like that. I would use Ubiquinol with NADH. Ubiquinol’s active CoQ10. I would definitely use it. I would try… I would definitely try Alcar with ALA. I would definitely try glutathione, but you have to take a lot of glutathione. Possibly a better way for glutathione for your brain and protection is to take a supplement called NAC. It’s a precursor to glutathione that works really well. I would take NAC 600 milligrams three times a day with food and see if that helps you. [00:16:49]
[00:16:51] Now they’ve looked into B-vitamins, and they didn’t help people with chronic fatigue syndrome. But I don’t think they looked at the active forms of B-vitamins, and I haven’t seen studies where they’ve investigated if people with chronic fatigue syndrome can activate B-vitamins, so let’s discuss that. There’s different B-vitamins like B12, but the regular B12 they give people is cyanocobalamin, a synthetic form. Not everybody can convert that into the active form, which is methylcobalamin, which is the real form of the human body. So maybe that’s part of the problem. Or folic acid, synthetic B9, Vitamin B9. Not everybody can convert that to methyltetrahydrafolate, the active form. Or B6, pyridoxine hydrochloride. Not everybody can convert that to the active form pyridoxal 5 phosphate. So maybe with chronic fatigue syndrome, they need to look at, can these people activate B-vitamins, not just giving them the regular B-vitamins that you get on on the shelf in a, in a chain store pharmacy, but the active forms. Like we have Methyl-B, maybe they need to try that. Maybe it’ll help. It’s certainly not going to hurt because those B-vitamins lower the risk of cancer. The… When they’re activated, they lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. They’re good for your bones. They’re good for your heart. They’re good for your muscles. They’re great for energy. So maybe that’s part of the problem. Maybe they’re not looking in the right direction. Maybe they have to look at activating nutrients into their active form because if it’s not activated, it’s not going to help you. That’s why I said don’t use regular CoQ10, use Ubiquinol, it’s the active form of CoQ10.† [00:18:28]
[00:18:30] Now, I wouldn’t doubt that bio-curcumin, an active form of curcumin, turmeric, but the complete plant, that’s well absorbed would be helpful because it’s been shown to help with depression. It’s been shown to help with memory and brain energy. And since they’re finding that there’s inflammation in the brain of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, I would give that a shot. So let’s just review that. I’m going to say them quickly. I would definitely do cocoa. I would definitely try probiotics. I would definitely try Ubiquinol with NADH. I would try activated B-vitamins. I would try a well-absorbed turmeric like Bio-Curcumin or Curcumin Complex. I would try Alcar with ALA. They’re not going to hurt. They might help a great deal.† [00:19:17]
[00:19:20] Now there are other conditions that seem to be related to chronic fatigue syndrome, like fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is the most common muscle pain syndrome. People with fibromyalgia, even a breeze can hurt their face, picking up a cup of tea can hurt their hand. They have this magnified sense of pressure on their nociceptors. Nociceptors are nerves that, that feel pain and their nociceptors are way overactive. Irritable bowel syndrome is related. That’s a chronic condition, that means long lasting, that affects your large intestine that can lead to cramps and diarrhea and leaky gut syndrome and constipation, mononucleosis, infectious mononucleosis. But Epstein-Barr virus. So they have to really look at all these things Lyme disease, you know that tick-borne disease by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorfi… Burgdorferi, I should say. MS, hypothyroidism, so… But we’ve done podcast episodes on many of these, like fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism.† [00:20:25]
[00:20:31] So I want to thank you for tuning into the InViteⓇ Health Podcast today, you can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or visit invitehealth.com/podcast. Please subscribe and leave us a review. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @invitehealth. And I hope to see you next time on another, on another episode of the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. I want to thank you for listening. Jerry Hickey signing off.† [00:20:31]
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