Sorry you feel so picked on Aloha. I'm just trying to point out that we shouldn't depend on old misproven wives tales whether they have vinegar, lime juice or not. If we're going to make claims they should be accurate or someone could get hurt.
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he Bone Broth Myth.
I didn't say picked on, I said poked at. Something that you, as a moderator, should be above doing. And, someone is going to get hurt if they drink bone broth? Really?
The "study" you are quoting above traces back to one guy, who just happens to run a company that sells supplements, who is a "reader of Alive magazine" and so sent in his own "data" complete with a link to his company in an "article". And it turns out he made the bone broth in the pressure cooker to speed it up. You can't rush this process. So he tells people bone broth has minimal nutrients in a magazine for health conscious people and hands them his website link to buy some supplements at the same time. That is not science. That is marketing.
That doesn't even take into consideration the studies that found bone broth made from organic chickens is shown to have lead in it.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23375414
All that says is that animals concentrate whatever is in their environment in their bones. All the more reason to get your animals from a lead free environment. And "organic" does not mean free range. Who know what lead was in the pipes or the paint where those chickens were confined.
Besides, if you'd read the BC health files you'd see that there are so many more food with much higher levels of calcium that it'd be silly to use bone broth.
Did I ever say bone broth was the only and/or best source of calcium? And, bone health is not all about calcium.
I know you like to tell me how I"m going off topic when you're contradicted but you brought up the topic of bone broth for Calcium,(which has nothing to do with Jens question) not me. Please stop going off topic & blaming others for it.
Oh Eric, give it a rest. I was talking about nutrients in general which was relevant to Jen's question until she stated she had no such problems. At which point I dropped it. You kept at me about bone broth with dubious references that prove nothing. Was it really to "keep someone from getting hurt" or was it to have poke at me?
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And the same for those who don't take any AEDs. For some, thyroid problems are hereditary. Both my sisters, my mother and my daughter all suffer from hypothyroidism and we all take Synthroid, but I'm the only one with E.
I never said AEDs were the only thing that leads to thyroid problems.
If a person with epilepsy develops depression, they need to see an experienced neuropsychiatrist!! Depression DOES go hand in hand with E, depending on where in the brain the seizures originate. And SSRIs don't always work for those of us suffering from depression AND E!
I agree with everything you said. AEDs can also create and/or worsen issues such as depression and suicidal ideation. The package insert says so, not just me.
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NO! This is not THE PROBLEM! Maybe the drugs are some of the problem, but not THE problem. There are numerous problems;
1)where the seizures originate from
2)types of seizure(s)
3)hormonal factors
4)other health problems that can make the AEDs fluctuate (like diabetes, another hormonal issue)
For the record, I never once said that AEDS are the one and only culprit. Please don't put words in my mouth.
To Jen,
All I said that I hoped might be of help to you was that "less is more" could very well be the case with regard to your medication because of side effects such as nutrient malabsorption which I don't think anyone is denying is a real issue with many AEDs.
All the rest of this is noise. I wish you well in finding the optimal solution for you.
