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Vitamin C Neuropathic Pain Relief
I came across a very interesting article today talking about using Vitamin C to help the neuropathic pain condition, postherpetic neuralgia. Postherpetic neuralgia is also known as shingles. Shingles is caused by the herpes zoster virus attacking the nerves causing pain usually in the intercostal nerves of the chest. What I found interesting was in the recent study by Chen et al. was that they helped to reduce the patients pain significantly using the anti-oxidant, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). They found that a sign of poor nutrition is testing to see if you have low plasma levels of Vitamin C in your blood. But why Vitamin C? Well I had a look further into the role of nutrition particularly vitamin c in helping trapped nerve pain Continue reading Vitamin C Neuropathic Pain Relief
Sportron UK
Sportron is a wellness company making nutrition and supplements products using FoodState™ technology. Having vitamins and minerals supplements in a more natural food-like state increases the bodies ability to absorb and use them better. Sportron has a wide product range to which they apply the FoodState™ technology to improve absorption.
Nutrition and Back Ache
Back and joint ache is looked at from not only a mechanical viewpoint by your chiropractor, but also nutritionally. Poor nutrition can increase pain and severity of conditions of your body like osteo-arthritis, gout, high blood pressure and more. Chiropractors may recommend you consider improving your diet to improve your spinal health and if you Continue reading Sportron UK
Chronic Back Ache & Vit D
Vitamin D has been linked in a recent article¹ to playing an important role in contributing to people suffering pain from chronic lower back pain. What is vitamin D and why is it so important for keeping our spines healthy? Lets look into the role Vit D plays in keeping our spines healthy.
How to Get Vitamin D
Vitamin D is the most freely vitamin available from a sky near you, no jokes. It is the cheapest vitamin to produce in the world since we can get our daily recommended allowance directly from the sun. Managed exposure to direct sunlight for about 5-15min per day should be enough for our skin to create vitamin D. Remember not to burn, so more sensitive skins may need gradual build up to sunlight Continue reading Chronic Back Ache & Vit D