Posted by Larry Hoover on March 4, 2005, at 16:43:15
In reply to Re: question on fish oil and allergies. Please help., posted by MaryT on March 2, 2005, at 21:09:40
> Howdy! I would also be interested in reading a book that comes with a personal recommendation. There is so much out there to sort through, hard to know what is fact or theory. My neuromuscular specialist is a PHD immunology chemist who is doing research projects on the cellular level, and has diagnosed me with something called myodenylate deaminase deficiency, and we are waiting for the results of DNA testing to see if it is from a damaged chromosome.
Not to be too picky here, but you have to spell it right if you want to find some good information on it. You dropped an a in the first word; it's myoadenylate deficiency. It can be inborn (genetic error) or acquired.
Probably 1-2% of all people have this defect, and most do not show any symptoms. That said, it is discovered more often than that when unexplained fatigue or myalgia are being investigated. This suggests that a combination of factors, one of which is MAD, can combine to lead to symptomatic illness.
> One of the questions hanging in the air is how many of my problems are from 20 years of limited nutrition, or are my food allergies/intolerances part of a bigger picture of basic cellular malfunction at an elemental level. Unfortunately, this process takes a long time, and I won't get the results for several months. So I am now investigating supplements that I had never even heard of before.
If you have some specific questions, I'd be glad to help you with that.
> He said that Omega 3 (recommended by my neurologist as an energy booster) was something that he and many others in the profession actually "perscribe" as a mood stabilizer. Plus it will have all of the other obvious benefits that Omega 3's have, and should boost all of my systems. So now I am even more concerned about knowing how the fish oil will do in a body that can't metabolize any seafood at all.
I'm not sure what you mean by "can't metabolize any seafood at all". Fish oils do not tend to provoke sensitivity reactions, though that could happen, I suppose. It's generally the proteins found in seafood that are responsible for adverse reactions/intolerances. Protein is absent from fish oil.
> I hadn't known the part about the use as a mood stabilizer, but it can safely be taken with my celexa (and other anti-depressants). Thanks ahead of time for the name of the book, if you don't mind sharing it. Maybe it has an answer. I could just go buy a bottle of the things, but I have so many things that I couldn't take after 1 or 2 pills! Why don't pharamcuetical companies offer "trial size" products! (Duh, $$$$$ !). MaryT
A small bottle of fish oil from Walmart is only a few bucks.
Lar
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