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According to the American Chiropractic Society, an estimated 68 to 80 percent of the US population is deficient in the essential mineral magnesium. While our growing dependence on processed foods is partly responsible , the real reason is that ongoing soil erosion has significantly depleted the...
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Acetylcholine is the primary neurotransmitter in the brain with a major role in the ability to learn and remember. Many of the symptons of deficiency are typical of what we joke about as "senior moments" or better known here on PR as " brain fog ". There are many prescription drugs and OTC...
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I have an adorable little Shih Tzu named Toby. (Keep reading, this could affect you). He sleeps with me on top of the bedspread. Every night he scratches & scratches unless I give him Benadryl, which I hate doing! I've tried everything including enzymes and probiotics. Finally I got the idea of...
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This could explain many of the ME / CFS symptoms. Even a mild magnesium deficiency can cause : increased sensitivity to noise, nervousness , irritability, mental depression, confusion, twitching, trembling, apprehension, and insomnia. It will not show up on regular blood test . Magnesium...
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Hi Everyone, this is Sue, I just wanted to let you know Lisa had a " 10 Day Remission" during the Thanksgiving holiday !!! She was able to clean house, stuff her first turkey EVER and have the family over for dinner (with some help). And still had the energy to do errands and go toy shopping...
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Why Butter? It is bursting with nutrition. It is full of the fat soluble vitamins, A, which are more easily absorbed and utilized from butter than from any other sources, D, E, and K2 (a mineral activator), and another little known short chain fatty acid called Butyrate that is critical to the...
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This past weekend I was reminded of an old enemy I had forgotten about for some time, IBS, irritable bowel syndrome. I had been stressing over some things in my life and it hit ...... the discomfort, the bloating and the pain. This got me to thinking about probiotics. So, I did some research and...
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As many of you already know, my daughter, Lisa and I have been treating her for CFS for a few months now with some improvement. The first hint that she was being cured was after a combination of things,stopping the mega doses of vitamins she probably didn't need, starting her on the vitamins...
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Hello everyone, I'm Lisa, the daughter that Sue writes about in her blogs. I wanted to take a minute to share with you how things are going. I've gone from being so tired I could hardly function to being able to actually enjoy life some now. I was so tired and in a fog that even the simplest...
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Update to my last entry. My daughter is finally getting a good nights sleep. And feeling a little more rested in the morning. Although her work stress level is extremely high right now, she is doing relatively good. The stress wears her out but she seems to recover from it a little easier. We...
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My daughter was diagnosed 3 months ago although she has been suffering for more than 3 years. Her problems may have started 20 years ago when she had mononucleosis and more recently a tick bite that would not heal. The Lyme test was negative. After being tested for everything imaginable by her...

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