Serendipity
Jun. 18th, 2008 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgI'm very fond of Bananas in Pajamas, but B1's cousin Thiamine has some talking to do.
A few days ago I looked at some nutrition tables and thought I was probably a bit underdone in the B1 department, so took a supplement. I briefly entertained the idea of cutting it in half to make the dose more sensible, but sadly got lazy. Later I found out that this "take one daily" supplement was in fact about 100x the RDI.
Later still--this morning, in fact--I awoke partially paralysed, numb and twitching violently. I was awake, but lacked voluntary muscular control. This used to happen a lot, and it's one of the big bad symptoms of the past for which I am deeply grateful to the beige. Poor Husband had to resort to the hand-slapping "CAN YOU HEAR ME?" routine. Fortunately I was able to flop in a meaningful fashion. This is me, about 5 hours later. Stiff, sore and a bit puffy, but remarkably functional.
What makes this of scientific interest is that I've been quite strict on the beige in the last few days (with the exception of the one coffee, which in isolation is a sanctioned exception). The only thing that was different was a pure dose of B1, which apparently has something to do with glucose management and nervous system support, both of which went decidedly pear-shaped this morning.
It occurs to me to wonder if part of the advantage of the good old beige diet is that it is lower in B1 than "normal", because I'm no longer eating fortified foods like bread and commercial cereals? It's well known that fibro and failsafe (beige) people are intolerant to concentrated supplements--and I discovered long ago that mega-multi vitamin hits merely make me ill--but this was a rare case of a specific substance.
Hmmmm.
EDIT: A bit of googling later... ack, nutrition is damn complicated.
ETA mid afternoon: Of clinical interest but damn inconvenient, my co-ordination is shot to hell and my hands are shaking. Time to take up recreational brain surgery! Any takers?
A few days ago I looked at some nutrition tables and thought I was probably a bit underdone in the B1 department, so took a supplement. I briefly entertained the idea of cutting it in half to make the dose more sensible, but sadly got lazy. Later I found out that this "take one daily" supplement was in fact about 100x the RDI.
Later still--this morning, in fact--I awoke partially paralysed, numb and twitching violently. I was awake, but lacked voluntary muscular control. This used to happen a lot, and it's one of the big bad symptoms of the past for which I am deeply grateful to the beige. Poor Husband had to resort to the hand-slapping "CAN YOU HEAR ME?" routine. Fortunately I was able to flop in a meaningful fashion. This is me, about 5 hours later. Stiff, sore and a bit puffy, but remarkably functional.
What makes this of scientific interest is that I've been quite strict on the beige in the last few days (with the exception of the one coffee, which in isolation is a sanctioned exception). The only thing that was different was a pure dose of B1, which apparently has something to do with glucose management and nervous system support, both of which went decidedly pear-shaped this morning.
It occurs to me to wonder if part of the advantage of the good old beige diet is that it is lower in B1 than "normal", because I'm no longer eating fortified foods like bread and commercial cereals? It's well known that fibro and failsafe (beige) people are intolerant to concentrated supplements--and I discovered long ago that mega-multi vitamin hits merely make me ill--but this was a rare case of a specific substance.
Hmmmm.
EDIT: A bit of googling later... ack, nutrition is damn complicated.
ETA mid afternoon: Of clinical interest but damn inconvenient, my co-ordination is shot to hell and my hands are shaking. Time to take up recreational brain surgery! Any takers?
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Date: 2008-06-18 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-18 03:47 am (UTC)Talk about swings and roundabouts!
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Date: 2008-06-18 10:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-18 10:59 am (UTC)On the bright side, I've learned something today, and the next area for research is B-group uptake and balance.
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Date: 2008-06-22 01:07 am (UTC)Where did you get the idea from - what set you off down this particular path? Fascinating stuff!
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Date: 2008-06-22 04:05 am (UTC)http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/
http://www.cs.nsw.gov.au/rpa/allergy/
And the book Friendly Food from the RPA.