Sleep, nutrition and exercise first, then consider supplements. getting to bed early enough, reducing then eliminating artificial food colors and flavors, especially msg, yeast extract and hydrolyzed proteins that raise glutamate, increase brain inflammation and lower gaba. Eat more zinc based foods like pumpkin seeds, cashews, pine nuts. Fish oil or omega 3 supplements,Tyrosine supplement as the precursor for dopamine, 5htp as the precursor for serotonin, calming herbs (lemon balm, melissa, l-theanine, chamomile) as aids to make Gaba and supplements with choline to increase acetylcholine, SamE to support norepinephrine. Designs for Health (DFH) has Neurolink, which has dopamine, serotonin, gaba support all in one supplement. Brain Vitale also by DFH would be support for acetylcholine. We ran genetics and had two different people interpret the same test. One person was much more helpful by a long shot. He is hard to get into but Dr. Bob Miller with FGA is phenomenal. I wish we had used him earlier. He is commonly thought to have the best genetic test but he will interpret 23 and me or Ancestry’s data also, they just test many fewer snps. He recommended 3 supplements for my son and the first one I used on him relieved his moderate anxiety by 70% at least, within a week. Maybe he was moderate to severe but he never took a medication for it. He recommended 5 things for my daughter and I have done 3 and I can’t tell a difference yet. She is dyslexic, and is just more emotionally sensitive than I think she should be.

There is also a group called Healing ALS. They have collected stories of many reversals of ALS. I don’t know much about them but they give out quite a bit of free information. They have identified 47 contributing factors to ALS that can be addressed (I doubt any one has all of them) similar to Dale Bredesen’s 36 contributing factors to Alzheimer’s. They sell their recent conference lectures. I bought them and haven’t had the time to listen to them. I noticed that you can access the lectures for free also at certain times.

Now brand Iron Complex is the inexpensive effective one that is $12. It is a tablet and my office manager recently informed me that she isn’t taking it because she doesn’t like how it tastes so I got her one in capsule form so she wouldn’t have to taste it. The capsule form one was $20. I don’t think the tablet one tastes bad.

Natural Calm is magnesium citrate. Citrate is a good kind. It is absorbable. It has the most laxative effect. If a person doesn’t need the laxative effect they often can’t take enough to relieve their magnesium deficiency before it causes loose stools. I usually have people take magnesium malate and if they don't notice an improvement I have them increase it to 3 pills. Magnesium should always be taken with food or it is less well absorbed. Iron bisglycinate is the best type of iron supplement but I agree eating liver works too. I hate liver but I like liverwurst and I talk a lot of people into eating it. Magnesium is available in the glycinate form and that is a good type too. There just aren’t as many milligrams per pill as malate and it always takes multiple pills of magnesium so adding more pills reduces compliance.

Do you know what type of magnesium? The most readily available type is magnesium oxide, which is very poorly absorbed and rarely helps anyone. Just like ferrous sulfate, the most widely prescribed iron, is extremely poorly tolerated, when iron bisglycinate is a total breeze to take. As a prescription, it is the bisglycinate form is $400 per month. The regular otc type I use is $12. I have never known a medical doctor who knows this. They know a lot more about drugs than I do though. I appreciate you sharing. I have treated so many people with rls symptoms and have never had anyone not respond. Perhaps rls is much more common than your situation. I may have a skewed population because they are almost all coming in with musculoskeletal problems. While 80% of the population is magnesium deficient, probably 98% of my patients are low in it. My best friend has Parkinson’s and she has responded very well to magnesium, so neurological conditions are helped by it too. It has helped her constipation and muscle spasms. I have a patient with Parkinson’s who has not responded to magnesium too.

Thank you for clarifying. Does this mean your symptoms are not relieved by magnesium?

Periodic limb movement disorder? I am so sorry. It sounds like restless legs, which is usually magnesium deficiency, got renamed to a disorder.

There is a supplement called Neurolink by Designs for Health that can be very helpful for adhd. It has various ingredients that Dan Amen and Eric Braverman recommend for adhd. As supplements go, it is a lot more pills to swallow than drugs. I have patients who don’t want to put their kids on meds who have found it helpful for them. I had one, more severe patient, that it didn’t seem to help enough.

You might consider a mini trampoline. The joint compression it offers can be very regulating, very quickly. I think I heard a pediatric PT or OT say something like, “If there were a cure-all, and there isn’t, joint compression would be it.” I’m not sure if there could also be the types of problems Wendyroo just warned us about when using a mini trampoline.

I wouldn’t even know if exercising will make it worse or not by doing an exam. If you were getting an exam by me you would also be getting an adjustment and most people can exercise again after 1-2 adjustments with that complaint. Everyone is different though. Yes, you are just pinching the nerve more (temporarily) when you do those things that make you hurt temporarily.

Those symptoms describe a pinched nerve. It doesn’t mean there is disc problem. It is coming from your thoracic spine. The radiating pain may or may not be disc related. That sort of pain usually goes away quickly with adjustments. If there is a disc problem, it takes more adjustments. Asking around for recommendations for a good chiro is a good idea. I have seen people ask on the Next Door app if you don’t know a lot of people to ask. We have a lot of good chiros in our area and I’ve seen people ask there and pretty much everyone loves their chiropractor. In my first practice I only stayed a year and so many people cried when I told them I was leaving. I was so unprepared for that. Evan a bad chiropractor isn’t dangerous. I pay $39 a month for 3 million malpractice insurance. That is based upon all chiros, not just good ones. I would never have that much coverage if it were not required to be a provider on health insurance. We recommend magnesium as a muscle relaxer. It is safer and most people are low in it. 400-800mg with food. It can have a laxative effect. We have people work up slowly. Do not take magnesium oxide. It is very poorly absorbed. Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate. Most people don’t use enough. 4 cups in a regular sized bathtub.

That is our local Walmart. I haven’t gone there for years. It has been sketchy for quite a while. It is odd that it is so sketchy because our town is pretty nice. Even all the things surrounding it are nice. Dollar Tree has just put millions of dollars into a very nice, large development surrounding their headquarters quite close to that Walmart. Wait a minute, I did go there once a year ago. I got hit up with a sob story for money in the parking lot. 15 years ago, one of my patients was a victim of an attempted kidnapping in that Walmart’s parking lot. Some guy tried to pull her into his van that was parked next to her. He was not successful.

For some reason I used to worry as a child that I would never have an original thought. Regarding the topic at hand, I like to say, “They sent a man to the moon before it occurred to anyone to add wheels to luggage.” I have never heard anyone else ever mention this, so there, my one original thought.

OK, I figured it out. It wasn’t intuitive so I feel less stupid.

We only had one working laptop at the time and I wanted them to take it together, not sequentially. They didn’t take that long to do it so I just had them do it sequentially. Now I know for next year, but I will probably have them go to the local site. I signed up too late for it this year. Now I have to figure out how to get their results. I went online to my account and couldn’t see anything.