Wayne
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A new poster over on the ProHealth board just started an interesting thread entitled:
Potential remedy for CFS/Fibromyalgia
Potential remedy for CFS/Fibromyalgia
After 30 years, I have finally regained my energy. I have tried many things and everything helped somewhat but this was dramatic and almost immediate and a godsend. My office had moved last summer after 20 years; I work for FDA and now have a much longer commute and work in a huge complex where I have a to walk a 1/4 mile to my office and another to the cafeteria. I was having trouble and was looking to transfer even though I really liked my job.
My 85 yr. old mother called to say she could play tennis again. We played and the next day she told me it was the biotin which she had started taking for thining hair. She used to be breathless but now no longer had this problem. I googled biotin and found it was necessary for transfer of CO2 and production of ATP.
I figured it was cheap and non-toxic so I would give it a try. I had pretty immediate and dramatic results. All of a sudden I had tremendous energy, my chemical and food allergies improved dramatically and my hypglycemia was gone among other things. I had taken St Johns Wort for the past 20 years but no longer needed it. This releif has continued at 5 months and counting. I am very knowledgable in supplements, ayurveda, homeopathy, acupuncture which I do on myself, herbs, etc,, but had never heard of this.
My 2 friends with fibromyalgia for the past 30 years both had dramatic results with their energy after 4-6 month of treatment. All my other friends who have tried it have had significant increases in energy. I review clinical trial protocols and analyze the results for a living and understand the placebo effect and this is definitely not such an effect and don't care if it is. An added benefit: it is dirt cheap. Take 5000 mcg biotin a day (can be purchased anywhere but Vitacost sells a year supply for $12.)
Also I recommend that you make sure your Vit. D levels are adequate. Get them checked out by a doctor, but you could take about 2000 IU a day until you have them checked out. Most of the population is deficient in Vit. D and 1/4 of the pop is severely deficient. I was in the latter category. I was able to get my levels up before I started the Biotin and the increase in Vit. D did help my allergies somewhat. You should also probably take an adequate B complex (prbably B50 or B100).
It may take as much as 4-6 weeks to see effects.
I have been told that one practioner uses 20mg to treat candida and supposed to be effective against protozoan infections.
Caution: if you are on insulin you need to be careful because it lower blood sugar. Also supposedly effective for pre-diabetics.
From my googling, I only found 1 side effects: headaches. If this s a problem just try lowering the dose.
Good luck and hope everyone else has similar results.
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