Re: Re: ALA dosage increase/ Dana please

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Feeling faint when standing up is a sign of adrenal problems. Chills

also......This stands to reason as your body tries to maintain

homeostasis during stress and sometimes your adrenals can get

overstretched. Are you taking Vitamin C to help the adrenals?? I have

spent sometime on the subject of oxidative stress and realize now how

integral the good functioning of adrenal glands are to keeping all

systems running smoothly. After some research, I have some concerns

about calcium ascorbate as this apparently has some knock-on affect on

calcium . Pure ascorbic acid is acidifying...I think maybe taking

mineral ascorbates (a combo of zinc ascorbate, manganese ascorbate etc)

is the way to go. Check out www.metabolics.com for mineral ascorbates.

For more info on adrenal fatigue, check out www.adrenalfatigue.org and

'The Cortisol Connection' by Talbott

lvtoeat2 schrieb:

>

> I tried upping the dosage for my 4 yr old 35 lbs son as well. Went

> from 12.5 mg to 25 mg ALA, while I went from 25 mg to 50 mgs every 3

> hours. It was awful! Good thing I was chelating myself with him as

> he

> is non-verbal and couldn't tell me what he was feeling.

>

> At the higher dose, after one day, I felt faint if I had to stand up

> and had a massive headache. Also suffered from hot flashes and

> alternating cold chills (wore 2 sweaters with the heat turned up to

> 78

> degrees in California!) and still was shivering from how cold I felt.

> My son was very whiny and laid on the sofa most of the day, so I

> figured he must have felt as awful as I did. It's just so sad that

> he

> has no way of expressing it. I weigh 125 lbs so if my dose was only

> 50

> mg, proportionally by weight, his dose was much too high. This was

> just our experience, so it might not be the same for everyone.

>

> We're back down to 12.5mg of DMSA/ALA each now. We haven't seen many

> gains but it might be the plateau period that we're going through.

> Supposedly, this is normal, where you get gains in the beginning, and

> then plateau for 6-9 months, while still important to continue, and

> then gains will continue again. You can research the message

> archives. There was quite a bit of talk about that several months

> ago

> when we were going through this lag. I hope this is the case for us.

>

> Good luck!

>

>

> >

> > I'm considering increasing ALA dosage for my 4 yo 36 lb son. For

> one

> > month he was on 12.5 mg of DMSA/ALA and we would like to go up with

> > ALA. I remember Dana was saying 5 rounds with no gains and then

> > increase in dosage. My son is doing better all the time, I think

> ALA

> > plays part in that, but we also doing couple other things.

> > My question is if we go up, can we double it to 25 mg? We are

> doing

> > every 3/4 hours for 3 days.

> > Thank you to Dana and all who can help

> > Natalia

> >

>

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