Mary
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As many (probably most) of you know, Sarah Myhill is a doctor in the UK with a great deal of knowledge and experience re CFS. She has an excellent website with tons of info and does mitochondrial testing.
Here's an article I received from her office yesterday, which is giving me great pause for thought:
http://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/CFS_-_Catastrophe_theorywhy_we_get_into_and_how_we_get_out_of_CFS
It was written by one of her patients.
I had mitochondrial testing done by Dr. Myhill close to 4 years ago (I'm in California - we did everything by FedEx). Results showed great abnormalities in ATP production and other values. She provided me with a suggested protocol to follow, which I did, except for magnesium injections. I talked to my doctor here in Thousand Oaks about mag. injections and he disparaged the idea (and he is very knowledgable about nutrition, supplements, etc.) He said taking oral magnesium was sufficient.
After reading the above article, I did some more reading on Dr. Myhill's website (see http://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Magnesium) about magnesium and she explains the difference between cellular and serum magnesium, and how the body will maintain serum magnesium at all costs to protect the heart, but adequate serum levels of magnesium are no indication of adequate magnesium levels inside the cell. and she believes that low intracellular magnesium is a cause of mitochondrial failure and the inability to convert ADP to ATP.
And she further believes that magnesium injections are the best way (and maybe the only way) to raise cellular magnesium levels sufficiently.
The author of the first article above had marked improvement after he injected a lot of magnesium (I don't know how much). Anyways, I'm going to get magnesium injections (to do myself) one way or another. The only downside is they are supposed to hurt (nothing's simple with this DD!) but I don't care. I've done horrible detoxing and survived - As I told my sister today, the only thing I haven't tried is painful injections - so why not give that a try!
Mary
Here's an article I received from her office yesterday, which is giving me great pause for thought:
http://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/CFS_-_Catastrophe_theorywhy_we_get_into_and_how_we_get_out_of_CFS
It was written by one of her patients.
I had mitochondrial testing done by Dr. Myhill close to 4 years ago (I'm in California - we did everything by FedEx). Results showed great abnormalities in ATP production and other values. She provided me with a suggested protocol to follow, which I did, except for magnesium injections. I talked to my doctor here in Thousand Oaks about mag. injections and he disparaged the idea (and he is very knowledgable about nutrition, supplements, etc.) He said taking oral magnesium was sufficient.
After reading the above article, I did some more reading on Dr. Myhill's website (see http://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Magnesium) about magnesium and she explains the difference between cellular and serum magnesium, and how the body will maintain serum magnesium at all costs to protect the heart, but adequate serum levels of magnesium are no indication of adequate magnesium levels inside the cell. and she believes that low intracellular magnesium is a cause of mitochondrial failure and the inability to convert ADP to ATP.
And she further believes that magnesium injections are the best way (and maybe the only way) to raise cellular magnesium levels sufficiently.
The author of the first article above had marked improvement after he injected a lot of magnesium (I don't know how much). Anyways, I'm going to get magnesium injections (to do myself) one way or another. The only downside is they are supposed to hurt (nothing's simple with this DD!) but I don't care. I've done horrible detoxing and survived - As I told my sister today, the only thing I haven't tried is painful injections - so why not give that a try!
Mary