Nutrition & Exercise Can Create A Positive State Of Mind

[Copper Stope]

I started a vitamin strategy less than a month ago: krill oil, multivitamin, protein power were recommended, but I also take other vitamins I'm definite in. I drink lots of fruit juice, water, and vegetable smoothies.

I googled to find what I need. It all started quite by accident when I googled to find which vitamin deficiency causes brittle nails: magnesium. But the most amazing discovery is that a magnesium deficiency is linked to PTSD. I learned many, many other vitamin deficiencies cause PTSD.

Since my mom left a pretty good supply of vitamins, I found what I could to help my condition. I've since purchased olive leaf extract, B Complex, garlic capsules, and CoQ10. I took a lot of magnesium until my nails started growing, now I take one a day.

Even tough I would get upset with my daughter, both of us could see a positive difference. I was more clear and I was actually setting boundaries; something I was clueless about until very recently. Today, for the first time in years, my daughter was kind and considerate. She was thoughtful and genuinely pleasant.

Juicing is good-fruit and vegetable. I make smoothies with protein power, fresh greens, fruit, and fruit juice. It actual tastes good. This has been a remarkable discovery for me and my family. My calmness and greatly lessened anxiety has been a blessing and I'm only getting started.

 

[James B.]

Good stuff Deb!

Me too. It's late right now, but tomorrow I'll share some stuff I've been trying, and what I'm finding. Thanks for starting this thread. :)

 

[Gamereign555]

Sublingual B-12 goes pretty well with B complex. I also take a 'one daily multivitamin. Right now I'm working on just eating more leafy greens, those are pretty good for you.

 

[Copper Stope]

Hi James. Thanks for the support. Looking forward to reading your post. Have a great night's rest.

 

[Copper Stope]

Gamereigh, B12sounds great. I don't know if my body is super sensitive to stress, but I have to take a truck load of vitamins to get desired results.

 

[Nicolette]

Can changing your eating habits create a similar result rather than taking "a truck load" of vitamins? As I understand it, vitamins are only of benefit if you are deficient in that area but diet (eating the food which contains the vitamin) is recommended as the preferred alternative.

 

[Gamereign555]

Yeah, I feel that could be because of how some vitamins and minerals absorb into the body, taking the pill isn't the greatest way for some of them. Nuts, fruits and vegetables contain the oils and other things you could be looking for. Some are foods that are pretty tasty and also contain large amounts of multiple nutrients, superfoods. Vitamins and supplements are great if theres nothing around to eat that contains anything useful.

Another thing to consider is that a lot of our manufactured food has vitamins and minerals injected into them literally. This is seen as a good thing for the most part but for those who take multivitamins or even expensive supplements, some should be aware that that bowl of cereal they just ate contains plenty of iron already.

Finding out how much of what should be taken would be a good idea, since excess of these things can be toxic to the body and counter to what is trying to be achieved. Because supplements are not regulated the same way medications are, it is up to you to figure out what to do with it.

I definetly want to get a juicer, I have always wanted one, just so I could mix up some of my fruits and veggies....hold the liver please :p I think my food processor can juice though, going to look into that in the morning I think.

 

[James B.]

I want to get a juicer too. Think this is the next step for me.

Well,, I started by taking a lot of supplements (including fish oil caps) then tapered down to mainly kelp (for iodine) and Spirulina. Then...I discovered Coconut oil.

Basically, the coconut oil (eaten by the spoonful) set up a distinct craving...and my brain started to "wake up" or feel refreshed. Alive again. You can web search "The Coconut Oil Miracle" for more: the stuff feeds the central nervous system like you can't believe (which is made up of oil). Great for cooking too, or as a topical for the skin, too.

That went on for a while with lots of fresh raw veggies (light fluffy salads, certain nuts and seeds etc) and then...I discovered "alkalizing" in the dietary and lifestyle sense. So...bring on the watermelon, etc. Mango...all the good ones. Alkalizing creates a chemical state so the mind/body can heal. It's just that simple.

Refined carbs (white sugar) meat, bread (gluten), dairy (lactose), alcohol etc. are all acid (they leave an acid ash after being burned) as is stress and high level physical effort. Good luck healing (or recovering) with an acidic state, IMHO. :D

OK, the next big step was using the Stanley Burroughs "Master Cleanse" lemonade recipe as a supplement, and to get me ready for a real cleansing. The recipe is simple: a lemon (or lime), grade b maple syrup with a dash a cayenne pepper. Sounds kinda odd but...try it. It normalizes. It is uncanny and really effective.

Leaving caffeine behind is becoming easier, the lemonade seems to have bumped up my metabolism and I'm feeling stronger. Theory: we collect toxins and crud in our system and the stuff we used to be able to get by with when younger doesn't work any more and, as creatures of habit, we slow down, get fatter, then sick and sicker. :eek:

Add in (or factor in) the stress of PTSD (massive) and you got another really good reason to alkalize, and get into dietary habits that can help your brain and body do it's thing and heal. :)

OK...end of post. LOL Having a good time exploring this stuff and it seems to be (along with EFT) really paying off...

for me. ;)

 

[jeeps for now]

Acidosis appears to be our worst over-all enemy, whether the issue is weight gain, attention-deficit, or PTSD.

I have had good overall results with juicing, particularly carrot juice. My only regret is not having started much earlier in my life. I have found the nutritive value of juiced, whole foods far exceeds that found in any store-bought supplement.

 

[Copper Stope]

Hi. A juicer would be nice. I have blender that is not a juicer that does things required in a recipe I found online. Yes, I am making healthy choices at the grocery; all except the major one-organic food. It's expensive and I'm needing to invest $$$ into a house for survival reasons. If the isn't organic it's hard to know how nutrious it really is. It also contains toxins from pesticides. Going organic is the direction I am headed and you made me realize I could buy one or two organic items; my budget can manage that. My stress level is high-many things going on, changes in my focus which has always been on my children. Both are adults who have PTSD and IKm wanting to help them, but I'm also wanting to move to L.A. to be near the movie industry which means focusing on my career. It's very important that I heal from PTSD and move in the right direction with my career because if I can pull this off, anybody can. My kids need to see a change that blows their socks off because they are afraid and lack trust. They saw what malpractice did to me. EFT & EMDR helped barely, etc., etc. I need a win. Vitamins give me energy, I'm loosing weight, and olive leaf extract is helping to cleanse my body. But getting back to my last post, my body has an insatiable appetite for nutrients, I believe because I have both physical and emotional needs.

 

[Robert Charles Powell]

It's the magnesium that does the most. I've been recommending this to patients with PTSD for years. Generally I say start with 1 tablet at supper for a week -- the exact variety of magnesium [gluconate, oxide, malate, etc] is not super important -- then increase to 1 tablet twice a day for a week -- then increase to 1 tablet three times per day thereafter. Reduce the dose slightly if any looseness of bowels develops; four tablets per day is not an unusual dose -- depending of course, on what variety of magnesium tablet is being used. [Magnesium tablets generally are double-labeled -- eg, XX mg of elemental magnesium but XXX mg of the magnesium compound -- so don't get hung up on milligrams; just proceed methodically until you find the best daily dose.] High magnesium foods include apples, beans [except green], broccoli, spinach, rye bread, nuts, peanut butter, cocoa powder, avocado. In my experience [10+ years], just about everyone responds. IF you get a slight worsening of symptoms after the first dose it just means that the dose actually helped but you are having withdrawal from the positive effects -- usually about 4-8 hours after the first dose; the remedy is to take a pinch of magnesium 3 or 4 times per day, and then build up your dose as noted above. While I said that it's the magnesium that helps the most, I'd also recommend taking 30-50mg [NOT more] of zinc [high in oysters -- eg, canned], and up to 200mg [NOT more] of B6 [high in fish] would not be a bad idea. Give it a try!

[The only, generally superfluous, caveat is, do not give a lot of magnesium tablets to someone who is comatose, severely brain-damaged, retarded, or otherwise not able to recognize that he or she is grossly constipated and unable to move the magnesium out of the gastrointestinal tract. This is a somewhat unusual circumstance, but it is a known caveat in the medical literature.]

 

[Copper Stope]

I very much like your thinking Robert. What's so exciting is that my daughter loves to cook, she definitely would have fun in the kitchen with those ingredients especially the oysters. We could build healthy new habits by 'playing' in the kitchen. I definitely need to get my career back so that I can afford this new hobby/lifestyle. Feeling good, (happy) about the food we eat is important. My EFT therapist told me to never eat when I'm stressed because that could cause a food allergy. Thank you Robert for the food for thought.