mito cocktail, Dr. Schoffner's list of about 15 ???

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Hi RH and others

Regarding this " " mito cocktail " of about 15 on Dr. Shoffner's list, I found

this wonderful review article:

Mitochondrial Medicine - Molecular Pathology of Defective Oxidative

Phosphorylation

by Egil Fosslien

Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at

Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

at http://www.annclinlabsci.org/cgi/content/full/31/1/25 .

Two questions:

1) The " therapy " suggestions in the above article lists Melatonin. I've

taken same (3 mg.) at night to help me sleep (I have foot pains that keep me

awake whenever I lie down, and I also have VERY delayed sleep onset, i.e.

" night owl " ) and it's worked wonders. Within an hour I'm REALLY ready to

sleep. I've recently discontinued it, as part of a series of supplement

self-experimentations. But now I'm intrigued. Anybody use this for mito, or

have any other comments?

2) I found the above article searching Yahoo for " schoffner mitochondrial "

(note the " c " in the name, which appears correct) but never did find this

list of Dr. Schoffner's. I thik I can guess SOME entries on the list.

Nonetheless, can anybody point me to this particular list?

Peace,

Steve D.

[54-year-old male, late-onset mito]

> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:26:28 -0000

>

> Subject: Re: 2nd muscle bx: to be read at Columbia-Presbyterian, NYC

>

> [...]

> I was told that whether or not I have MELAS exactly, I would be

> treated the same way, based on my symptoms and what the lab tests

> showed. The basic thought is:

> 1) Check out systems with problems (for me, eyes, muscles,

> digestive).

> 2) Get a baseline for systems without problems yet (for me, heart,

> ears)

> 3) Treat by going down the list of the " mito cocktail " . Starts with

> CoQ10, and there are about 15 on Dr. Shoffner's list.

> [...]

>

> Take care,

> RH