Posted by tealady on March 3, 2006, at 3:28:10
In reply to How Much Is Too Much?, posted by honeybee on February 17, 2006, at 12:59:11
> Every morning I gulp down a passel of pills: Fish Oil; Vit-B Complex; SAM-e; Rhodiola; MCMH Calcium/Mag/VitD/other minerals formula; my eight pellets of Sheng Mai San. Mostly, I've figured out the dosing on my own, through researching on the internet and in various databases that I can get my hands on. Then, I repeat the process (with variations) at lunch. And then, again, when I go to dinner.
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> Three questions.
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> One: How does one figure out what the appropriate dosing time is for your vitamins and supplements?
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> Two: How do you figure out when you can take another herb and/or drop it? Having inhabited the world of prescription medication for so long, I'm wary of just stopping and starting medicines on a whim, but my pdoc and my regular doc don't seem very helpful.
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> Three: How much is too much? I had phased out Evening Primrose Oil (which I'd taken for years because of PMS fibrocystic stuff) but I apparently need to fold it back into my routine again. I'm worried about all these different meds interfering with one another, but I wonder if I'm being too paranoid, and I need to think of them as more like food and less like drugs. Or vice versa???
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> I know that everything we put in our bodies is important.
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> Thanks to whomever might have something to add--even if it's not related.
OK something to add .. but not how u meant:-)
Have u considered or ever tried adding selenium say, 50mcg a day to the above ?
If that doesn't work.. what kind of salt do you use.. if low iodine (and you don't have any autoimmune issues like antibodies).. maybe also consider some kelp(for a natural source of iodine) or even sea salt?
I got rid of my asthma and fibro stuff with thryoid meds.. but you can naturally increase your thyroid output(if it's too low and causing depression, fatigue, maybe asthma and fibro symptoms) with sufficient iodine or selenium or even zinc.. but only if you tend to be short on those things?
I'm interested in herbs too.. but I don't know much about them. I've just started to look at them.
I was looking at Crateva today for help with muscle tone. If you ever look at or try out this one let me know!I went back to uni to try to figure it out a bit too. I'd never done high school biology or chemistry..I've now done 1st yr uni Biology and Chem:-).
I did OK, but I still don't understand it all enough, LOL. Still access to the full text of research papers and the library is useful, as you say :-)Jan
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