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More than just Vitamin D: New Specifics On Vit D3

by Dr Charles Parker on April 27, 2008 · 2 comments

Vitamin D3 is more than just Vitamin D and Sunshine

Vit D3 For Psych

Many are recognizing the relevance of Vitamin D3 testing for multiple brain and body applications, but there are some important caveats found in this recent paper:

JJ Cannell†, BW Hollis, M Zasloff & RP Heaney, “Diagnosis and treatment of Vitamin D deficiency,” Expert Opin. Pharmacother. (2008) 9(1):1-12

D3 is not D2, and most of the large doses written for the convenience of infrequent dosing – is D2, and less effective
Pay attention to the dosing based upon the levels found in testing,
Notice the specific test that is recommended: 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25[OH]D),
Review the multiple applications for D3 levels in a variety of conditions from osteopenia, to fibromyalgia, to depression
Relevance in pregnancy and breast feeding documented
105 solid references with treatment specifics

We’ve been interested in D3 for some time now, and recommend following Dr Cannell’s work at the Vitamin D Council site and through his newsletter there.

And here is an interesting article on Vitamin D and Mental Illness.

Take a look, see what you think and feel free to comment below-
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Over 65s should take high dose vitamin D to prevent falls, say researchers (scienceblog.com)
6 reviews of Vitamin D (rateitall.com)
The A-to-Z of Vitamin D: Why It’s Today’s Hottest Lab Test (tissuepathology.typepad.com)
Do Low Vitamin D Levels Help Cancer Develop? (health.yahoo.com)

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Tagged as: ADD and ADHD, ADD/ADHD medications, autism, Brain health, breast feeding, Cholecalciferol, Depression, Dr Charles Parker, Fibromyalgia, Health, hormone dysfunction, metabolism, Neuroscience, nutrition, physiology, pregnancy, Psychiatric Medications, Vitamin D, Vitamin D treatment, Vitamins and Minerals

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Recipe for Brain Function: Measuring Transit Time

by Dr Charles Parker on October 21, 2007 · 4 comments

Transit time

No, this transit time isn’t the time for the train to travel from Boston to the North Shore station at Beverly Farms. Nor is it the time for the Metro to swing from Downtown DC to Reagan Airport. This transit is far more important to healthy brain function.
Brace yourself for this piece of digestive detail – you may wish, as many do, to keep it to yourself:

Brain Function, brain health, brain recovery and brain treatment all depend upon an essential, yet often overlooked bowel transit time measurement: From your mouth in the North to ultimate passage through the deep South. This round-the-world GI transit time is measurable. It is fixable. In so many chronic brain-chronic illnesses it is broken.

This transit time thing will be news to many. – And, if it is not identified and treated, all of our best interventions, be they pharmacologic, functional, nutritional, diet, or exercise won’t work – because one of the main biotransformation systems is broken or rusty. The bowel sorta works, but isn’t working efficiently because transit time is too long or too short.

Any bowel inefficiency directly effects brain and metabolic health. It has something to do with every brain issue from autism and ADD, to brain injury and depression, to hormone balance and preventing Alzheimer’s. Your brain can’t grow and heal itself without proper nutrition. Neurotransmitters and their precursors arrive at your brain and elsewhere through effective bowel function.

For an interesting and arcane reference to transit time regarding physics and atomic particles, take a peek at this link which discusses sojourn time and its relationship to transit time. Physicists and mathematicians are very interested in this same topic. The passage of particles relevant to time is measured on many deep levels!

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Tagged as: Acid base balance, activated charcoal, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, autism, biotransformation, bowel function, brain function, Brain health, Celiac Disease, Conditions and Diseases, Depression, elisa, Gluten sensitivity, Glycemic index, moods, Russell Jaffe MD, transit time

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Celiac Notes: Opiate Withdrawal from Gluten and Casein?

August 24, 2007 Brain/Body Evidence

You might want to warn gluten sensitive, celiac and casein sensitive patients about this very odd and painful clinical phenomenon: Withdrawal after stopping can be painful, exhausting, and depressing, with weakness, anger, and brain fog.

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Autism and Leaky Gut: Often Together

June 24, 2007 Autism Spectrum

Constipation or diarrhea, it doesn’t matter, that bowel, the first line sewage treatment plant, is rusty if not broken.

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Metabolic Moments: 101 Nutrition and Neuroscience at CorePsychPodcast

June 21, 2007 Autism Spectrum

At CorePsych we often find in the first visit that clients have had years of trying different meds and “nothing seems to work right.”
Three basic reasons that happens:

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ADD/ADHD Non-Med Treatment: Neurofeedback

March 26, 2007 Beyond ADHD

ADD/ADHD: So what do you do if you don’t want to use meds?
Yes, the meds work fast, and often well, if you work them correctly.
I have discussed ADD: The Media, The Meds, and The Madness at CorePsychPodcast with four episodes on diagnosis, meds, wrong meds and metabolic challenges that often go overlooked. Also posted [...]

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Power Breakfast Recipe 1: Eat Protein

February 25, 2007 Beyond ADHD

The brain, nutrition and breakfast: almost too basic. Herein resides a solution.
Protein…are you kidding me? I don’t eat breakfast, period!
Everyday I have this response from someone, actually from many someones. Amazing how little time we all have in the morning, from kids to adults. Lemme see…do they serve breakfast on the school bus? Could I [...]

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