Re: CLO/Beta Carotene question

[Guest guest]

Nobody converts beta carotene at the high level that autistic children

need vitamin A at. And many of these children are impaired so that

they don't convert beta carotene even at normal levels - about 3/4 of

autistics not taking supplements test low for vitamin A when checked.

Andy . . . . . . . . . . . .

> I was just thinking about the beta-carotene conversion thing today.

Where

> does the notion that mercury toxic and/or autistic children cannot

make the

> conversion originate? Is it Megson or somewhere else?

>

> Marti

>

>

> In a message dated 8/5/03 6:50:37 pm, val@t... writes:

>

>

> > > > 1,000 IU of vitamin A per pound of kid per day.  Start with a

loading

> > > > dose of 10,000 IU of vitamin A the first day.

> > >

> > > Can I use Beta Carotene for all of it?

> >

> > Beta carotene is not indicated for mercury toxic people. It

appears that a

> > lot of

> > people cannot make the conversion to vit.A. I believe any other

form of

> > vit.A

> > should be ok.

> >

> >

> > Valentina

> >

> >

> >

> > =======================================================

> >

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 5/9/2003 12:39:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

AndyCutler@... writes:

> Nobody converts beta carotene at the high level that autistic children

> need vitamin A at. And many of these children are impaired so that

> they don't convert beta carotene even at normal levels - about 3/4 of

> autistics not taking supplements test low for vitamin A when checked.

>

>

Ok, so without using vit A palmitate, which I have been told is not good ,

what is the best vitamin A to use with CLO?

[Guest guest]

The palmitate is actually fine.

If you wish to avoid palmitate rather than investigating enough to

realize that this is a superstition, you can easily do so by using

Twinlabs " allergy A " capsules, which have the acetate.

Andy .. .. . . . . . . . . . ..

> Ok, so without using vit A palmitate, which I have been told is not

good ,

> what is the best vitamin A to use with CLO?

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been remov

[Guest guest]

> > However, I am just wondering

> > whether or not beta-carotene would in any way be harmful i

It is harmful to chemically sensitive people.

Andy . . . . . . . . . .

[Guest guest]

> Yes, I understand that it would be unwise to rely on beta-carotene

conversion

> if you wanted to supplement with a lot of A. However, I am just

wondering

> whether or not beta-carotene would in any way be harmful if you weren't

> making the conversion. I don't know much about Vitamin A and am just

> getting a feel for it.

>

> marti

Hi Marti,

I think that Andy made some comment about people who are

chem sensitive. Okay. My (tiny) experience here is with

hearing people talk about drinking ***large*** amounts

of carrot juice (which is sort of a " thing " people do at

times). I've heard the comment several times that occassionally

someone with have palms and soles of feet get orangy-colored

(from the beta carotene I think), but that this is not

harmful. Don't know to what dosage this would apply, but

it is more than average intake.

best,

Moria