Saved by supplements

You can see from the 2 charts below some of the positives effects of 2 of my favorite vitamins: Vitamin D and Vitamin K2: Cancer, Heart disease, Autoimmune disease, Osteoporosis. Both benefitted me very much.

REFERENCES:

1               Rees K, Guraewal S, Wong YL, et al. Is vitamin K consumption associated with cardio-metabolic disorders? A systematic review. Maturitas. 2010 Oct;67(2):121-8.

2               Geleijnse JM, Vermeer C, Grobbee DE, et al. Dietary intake of menaquinone is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease: the Rotterdam Study. J Nutr. 2004 Nov;134(11):3100-5.

3               Gast GC, de Roos NM, Sluijs I, et al. A high menaquinone intake reduces the incidence of coronary heart disease. Nutr. Metab. Cardiovasc. Dis. 19 (2009) 504-510.

4               Beulens JW, Bots ML, Atsma F, et al. High dietary menaquinone intake is associated with reduced coronary calcification. Nutr. Metab. Cardiovasc. Dis. 19 (2009) 504-510.

5               Vermeer C. Clinical trial on beneficial effects of long term menaquinone-7 (vitamin K2) intake by postmenopausal women. ClinicalTrials.Gov NCT00642551.

Kroon A. The effects of vitamin K2 supplementation on the progression of coronary artery calcification. ClinicalTrials.Gov NCT01002157.

Vitamin C and Magnesium are 2 other nutrients which hold a special place in my heart.. In March, 2013, after I had made a big recovery from Dec 2012 when the IV steroids backfired and I was so tired I was getting out of bed virtually only to eat and maybe 1 or 2 extra times per day. I’d lost 15 lbs also while on the steroids. In March, I was doing a lot better and even went to Key West on Spring break. I read something bad about a synthetic supplement and decided to stop all my synthetic supplements…which were b complex, vitamin c, coQ10, and ..something else. A few days after I got back from Key West, I was pretty tired and slept 10 hours that day. The next day 12 hours, then 14 hours. What is going on? My vitamin D is high enough, I was just outside in Florida every day for a week. I went tanning… yea that helped.. maybe… no, that was not it. Then laying there trying to figure this out for a couple days it seemed, just feeling fatigued and sickish…wondering what … the heck is this,  I thought HA!, I wonder if it’s one of the supplements I stopped. I thought to try the vitamin C first. Boom! Within seconds of chewing the tablet I got a fever and felt so much better. My body was trying to mount a fever and couldn’t even do it without the vitamin C. Amazing how high your demand for nutrients are when you have a severe illness.

I had a similar situation in Feb 2014 during a more severe illness, I was almost forgetting what I was doing at times. I was vibrating with anxiety/physical toxicness. I tried some magnesium tablets I had and all of a sudden I could hold a conversation with someone, tolerate driving, and function a good bit better.

Lastly, I was having cardiac symptoms in March 2014 and adrenal fatigue issues and feeling terrible as usual. Not thought of as a supplement, but it felt like it to me, I ate some seaweed. Oh my goodness. It was more relieving than the vitamin C instance in 2013, because of how severe my condition was in 2014. The relief was likely due to trace minerals in seaweed which are important. 

Magnesium:

341) Altura et al., “Comparative findings on serum IMG2+ of normal and diseased human subjects with the NOVA and KONE ISE’s for Mg2+”

Scand J Clin Lab Invest Suppl, vol. 217, pp. 77-81, 1994.

342) “Magnesium concentration in brains from multiple sclerosis patients”

Acta Neurol Scand, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 197-200, 1990.

343) Z. Stelmasiak, J. Solski, B. Jakubowsa, “Magnesium Concentration in plasma and erythrocytes in MS”                  Acta Neurol Scand, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 109-11, 1995.

Vitmain C:

344) B. Tavazzi, et al., Serum metabolic profile in multiple sclerosis: Mult Sclero Int, vol 11, article 167156, 2011.