Posted by bleauberry on June 21, 2010, at 20:15:03
My mother forwarded me a series of emails from a longtime friend of hers. The woman had been battling chronic fatigue, depression, and brain fog, for so long. Doctors and medicines didn't help much. A battery of tests for all kinds of viruses...Epstein Barr, Yuppie Flu, and a bunch of other stuff...all negative. Vitamin and mineral status looked fine. B12 was well within the normal range, a bit below that mid point.
Out of curiosity and desperation she decided to try a B12 patch she had bought a year earlier but never used. Her husband put the patch on her behind the ear lobe. 1000mg. Within 5 days she was the best she had been in years. Close to cured. It continues.
The doctors never figured that maybe some people need their B12 status at the top end of the range. Her best guess too. Improvement was profound.
Also of interest was that neither oral B12 or B12 shots did the trick. It had to be transdermal. The patch.
Anyway, just thought I would throw that out there. While you and me bang away at potent almost nuclear bomb strategies to beat our diseases back, sometimes the answer is in something ridiculously simple that everyone overlooked.
For any kind of testing...adrenals, thyroid, vitamins, minerals...I think the same holds true. That is, if chronic disease is present, being within the normal range is not good. It needs to be at the top of the range. Also important is the vehicle of delivery, which is only discovered by trial and error. As in this case, where neither megadoses of B12 or shots were of any help, but the transdermal patch was a near cure.
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