Posted by Larry Hoover on December 10, 2004, at 10:34:19
In reply to Re: larry, what do you think of ADHD, posted by linkadge on November 27, 2004, at 16:36:38
> I fully agree with you. I have driven myself mad trying to optimize my nutrition.
It is a crap shoot, what works and what doesn't, but you're the expert on you. You do the experiments, and you observe the outcomes.
> I take fish oil, olive oil, vitamin pill, blueberry extracts, curry powder, 5-htp, tyrosine, as well as drinking green tea,
> black tea, and exercising daily.
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> The only problem is that I'm really just shooting in the dark. Taking too much of certain vitamins can be as much detriment as taking too little.Too much of a lone vitamin can imbalance demand for another.
See: http://www.anyvitamins.com/vitamin-info.htm
> For instance, b6 worsens my mood, but folic acid doesn't.
Do you mean just taking B6? The B-vitamins work in interactive teams. That's why they're most commonly supplied as a B-complex. Taking too much of one directly and immediately causes a deficiency of others, unless those others are available in enhanced amounts at exactly the same time. Still, that doesn't invalidate you observation, but it may explain it.
> Too much fish oil makes me depressed.
Everyone has a tolerance.
> I know you're a magnesium proponent, but taking too much makes me feel really incapable. Whereas calcium makes me feel more *present*.
Why not make sure you take them both together? Ideally, the response to a supplement is not to make you feel drugged, but to make you feel like you don't need a drug.
> Basically what I'm getting at is that nutritional imballences can be as individual as a fingerprint.Absolutely true.
> That's not an excuse to let it slip.
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> LinkadgeYour response to B6 could also be explained by poor conversion to P-5-P, pyridoxal-5-phosphate. That could be a factor in your mood disorder. There is always another level to consider, in nutrition.
Most vitamins you get at the store are in the form of pro-vitamins. They still require conversion/activation before they become the real biochemical required to enhance our metabolisms. If your body lacks the enzymatic capacity to do those activation steps, you have a functional nutritional deficiency, despite adequate diet or even supplement intake.
If a particular nutrient seems to be indicated (i.e. your symptoms are addressed by supplementation of that nutrient), but taking it doesn't really help, the problem may be that you took it in the wrong form, and stressed an already stressed system (picture a traffic jam, and you add more cars).
There's always more to consider.
Lar
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