Nancy - I have responded to your question by email.... I'm working on a awareness or clarification report on forms of magnesium .. should be posting it soon. Important info about labeling that we all need to know. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
John - I'm very sorry about your stroke and hope you continue to improve. It's good to see you communicating during your recovery and we don't care about typing and spelling. We are here to lend support and perhaps guide you to facts that may assist your healing process. To be inundated with advertisements for 'miracle vitamin cures' is certainly tempting... one thby Jackie - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Iatrogenia - yes, be cautious. Your long-term use of fluoride-containing Paxil undoubtedly has some long-term residual effects on intracellular electrolytes balance.....also iodine stores as fluoride replaces the iodine and yet is recognized by the body as iodine. However, the iodine function is not actually there to function as such. It would be difficult to sort it all out quickly or easilby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
George - thanks for posting your recap. It’s good to see you have once again normalized and emphasizes once again the importance of maintaining the optimal IC magnesium levels as one of the important Mg roles as nature’s calcium channel blocker. The significant depleting action by stress on magnesium stores, coupled with increased calcium can certainly upset the delicate balance…especially iby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Tish - thanks for posting this as I'm always very interested in personal testimonials and success stories. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
If you rely on supplements for managing AF or for other health reasons... it's important to make your voice heard with your legislators... From Mercola Today A Vote to Do Away with Your Supplements Is Coming in Days... With a flash from the past, this bill is back from the dead, threatening to kill the supplement industry and ruin your health. With regulations that'd exceed thoby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mike from your Tom B response, you said: Jackie, many thanks for the input here - much appreciated. Has it ever been your understanding that long term Flec (or, for that matter, and other AAD - such as prop, dys etc.) means more adverse issues ablation outcome-wise?? Surely nearly everyone who's had an ablation this last few years has tried and failed one or more AADs first. Please let meby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
You don't need recipes to benefit from eating whole, fresh (raw) foods rich in potassium. In fact, cooking can lose the nutrient... with the exception of baking a potato and eating the skin. Be aware that many foods..including potatoes, bananas, oranges and more ..have a high glycemic load and should be avoided by those with hypoglycemia or glucose handling issues since the during thby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Conversely, potassium citrate supplements are known to prevent formation of kidney stones. It's often prescribed for just that reason. Potassium supplementation to dietary intake in people with healthy, normal kidney function is not known to cause problems. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Why not drink them separately just to be sure that one doesn't interfere with the other. With your highly sensitive system, I'd just be cautious. Glad you like the WW. I love it and wouldn't be without it. Ever. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Ron - Also, probiotics help with balancing out the gut flora. Those who flirt with food sensitivities find that it's very useful to use a high dose probiotic with multiple strains to balance out and maintain the natural bowel flora that keeps the intestinal cells healthy and happy. The probiotics most effective are live cultures and best purchased locally (refrigerated) so they remain viabby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Iatrogenia... The Essential Trio ...being... 1. Magnesium chelated bis-glycinate as well as that from the WW 2. Potassium (according to the sodium-potassium intake ratio) 3. Taurine as the facilitator to direct electrolytes in and out of cells as needed. Note that the magnesium taurate as mentioned in the previous post is not found to be a fully chelated mineral so it's not asby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mike - I took 300 mg flecainide daily for 6 years prior to my ablation and was actually able to lower that to 50 mg prior to ablation; resumed flecainide for the requisite time... back then, it was shorter duration than what they do now... and it.. I found nothing to indicate that long-term use of flecanide affected my ablation success... especially because my heart was calm and very stable for aby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Iatrogenia - I am holding the very best positive thoughts and energy for you on Thursday. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nancy - I'd be strongly suspect of your added calcium supplement...at least so early in your corrective approach to optimizing minerals and the critical electrolytes. Most doctors practicing functional or integrative cardiology caution not to add calcium to arrhythmia patients because of the tendency for calcium to overwhelm magnsium. Calcium always wants to dominate inside cells.. and tby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Lisa - Thanks for asking ... I had a bout of nasty AF due to aggressive Lyme treatment in the late summer/early Fall, but that seems to be over and my heart is calm and I'm off all drugs again, which is wonderful. I'm glad you are using the NK. I find it works wonders for peace of mind....and I had some very turbulent events so even doubled up on the NK combined with Serrapeptase andby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Tom - I'm sorry to read this post. Keep in mind that over the years various people have reported their heart remained somewhat unstable even going into 9 months after ablation... but also... think about your statement on hard exercise and all that entails... More often than not.. that means dehydration, loss of electrolytes, and overall stress of physical hard exercise stress depletingby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nancy - Yes! Always take all of the CoQ in the morning with a meal that contains fat or with Omega 3 fish oil as CoQ transports well on fat. It takes 6 hours to get inside the cell where it works...and if you take it later in the day, it will impact your sleeping. As for the potassium giving energy-- of course... so again, dosing during the earlier part of the day is better, although, I takby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nancy - I'll respond more later but need to ask.. .do I recall you recently had the Exatest? As for your potassium levels... serum measurements are just a snapshot at that moment in time. Levels fluctuate throughout the day. 4.6 is right about where you should be but it will be influenced by various food intake and the sodium content. The CardyMeter is certainly useful. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Mike - My recent experiences with AF that converted after PIP to flutter left me in a very comfortable heart rate. The official number in the ER was 107 and while it was flutter, no one in the ER or the supervising (on call EP) recognized it as flutter and discharged me. I was glad to go, of course, but knew it was flutter.... and the next day, it was confirmed as flutter by a 'realby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Lisa! How are you? Nearly 10 yeas ago when I had my ablation, there was talk about 'silent afib' and a concern that ablatees should be placed on life-time warfarin....however it was never suggested by Dr. Natale.... just in the casual literature. Since the reason I had the ablation was to avoid the use of that drug, that thought wasn't a welcome one. I decided thatby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
For concerns about CoQ10.... The leading CoQ researcher in the US is William V. Judy, PhD who lectures world-wide on the topic spoke in a webinar on the properties of CoQ10 the notes from which were posted here in 2007. On the warfarin/Coumadin issue... he said there was no interference seen with CoQ and warfarin. Here's the comment from that 2007 post and concerning coumadin.. iby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nancy - Dr. Braverman acknowledges that "taurine may elevate stomach acid and increase risk of ulcers, but only in individuals with a tendency toward increased stomach acid".. Taking taurine with food, milk or milk of magnesia will alleviate this problem." Taurine should never be taken with aspirin. p. 141 (Using the WW or magnesium bicarbonate water would be appropriate wby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Here's another segment with plenty of links to past Taurine reports. What Taurine Can Do for the Heart ? taurine revisited post September 08 Taurine calms adrenaline and is useful for seizures or arrhythmias.(1) FromThe Healing Nutrients Within (2) by Eric Braverman, MD It known that both taurine and magnesium are depleted in arrhythmia and may be useful in treating somby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quite a number of years ago, there were numerous posts on The Essential Trio as a core nutrient group for starting out with supplements to reverse Afib. I'll bring that forward in a separate post connected to this thread. What I want to mention now is the importance of including Taurine if you aren't already doing so. I was reviewing a webinar with a physician talking about the Neby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Ron - Good for you.. That's the way it works. Heal the gut; heal the patient. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Dr. John should spend some time learning about the functional successes and value of CoQ10 from the experts who have many years of hands-on experience treating patients with CoQ and how it has reversed congestive heart failure and so on. (not to mention the published studies.) His smug 'tone' in this commentary is more than a bit annoying…. especially about something so fundamentaby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Louise ... It's not harmful unless you have a touchy stomach. The chloride version of potassium typically what's prescribed by physicians.. ie, K-Lor and K-Clor liquid and tablets. It's well known that for some, potassium chloride can cause stomach upset and it's recommended you mix with plenty of water to help avoid the problem. For that reason, most of us use the powdereby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Iatrogenia - the use of d-ribose for heart energy production is important and useful. I've pasted in the The Ribose segment from The Strategy Report. You should be aware that there is a precautionery observation that while d-ribose does not elevate blood glucose, it can lower it and with your touchy system, if you use it at all, I'd be sure you add it only with meals....not addby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Marg - What are you doing to ensure that your electrolytes...especially magnesium and potassium are optimized? If you were using them previously, then you should continue. As I just responded to AFhound in another post, I've had excellent success in weaning down and off drugs by optimizing the essential nutrients the heart needs to facilitate electrical signal transmissions... When yoby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM