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Beamer (Brissy, Queensland) on 10/16/2024
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I am writing this to give hope to others. I had a neck injury in 1994. Fast forward to 2008 (14 years) and a chiropractor showed me the x-ray of the bone spurs on my neck. The said this size was large but to be expected seeing the injury was 14 years ago. Fast forward to today (October 2024) 30 years from injury - x-ray results have come back showing osteoarthritis in the base of my neck, but NO MENTION OF BONE SPURS at all. They were taken to investigate some numbness and tingling in both hands, so if they were seen, it would have been mentioned.

This is from multiple factors. I found a facebook group about orthomolecular medicine and vitamin C - in 2014 I started high dosing Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Then I started taking many other vitamins, minerals, supplements of various kinds. I have used borax/boron, raw red wine vinegar with mother (I am intolerant to apples), alkalising drinks, fulvic/humic acid, I take supplements to help my body digest food including high dose bromelain with each meal, vitamin D3 and K2, grapeseed extract and resveratrol, alphalipoic acid, ginkgo biloba, omega 3 oil, borage seed oil, theanine. I regularly use castor oil mixed 50/50 with essential oils for joint pain. I found 40% rosemary EO, 40% peppermint EO and 20% clove bud EO helped the most. This EO blend diluted with castor oil was used on my hips and lower back where I had the most issues since 2006.

The only thing I can tell you for sure is to (1) take your supplements in a form that is best for your body (each vitamin will have different forms so folinic acid can be used by everyone, but folic acid needs to be converted a few times before your body uses it and about a quarter of the population can't do this, zinc citrate is easily absorbed by the body where zinc picolinate isn't, liquid supplements are usually absorbed better than tablets - put tablets you take in a glass of water overnight to see if they dissolve as some don't, so I will bite my gel caps and squeeze the contents out of it as those don't dissolve in a glass of water) and (2) in a high enough dose. Research doses in Ayurveda - it is often one heaping teaspoon, 3 times a day. If you are talking 00 capsule size, one heaping teaspoon is 4 to 8 capsules. I read a herbalist saying the dosages on the bottles of capsules of herbs weren't even close to the dose she would prescribe. We have the RDA on a bottle of vitamins, but this is the minimum needed to prevent your teeth falling out from scurvy, etc. In my case, for me to become healthier, I needed much more than the RDA. So I didn't regularly get x-rays, but I am here to say that our body is truly amazing and will heal itself given the right things.

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Replied By Beamer (Brissy, Queensland) on 10/22/2024

Come back to add that I was getting chiropractic adjustments. The most useful alternative therapy I stuck with was a lady who was talented and practiced Bowen therapy and Dorn therapy which aligns your skeleton without 'cracking'. I also saw a talented chiropractor who used Network Spinal Analysis (no 'cracking') - The NSA was her touching specific points on your body and your muscles would just relax like a spring unwinding. I had to sit for a good 20 minutes so my eyes could focus again afterwards. Don't know how but that is what happened. I also learned how to stretch and align my back using exercises and moves from yoga. One that aligned my back was sitting and bending my knees in front and holding under my knees and curving my back so I am like an egg. I would throw myself back and rock back and forth on my back a number of times still holding my knees to my chest - I can hear my back moving back into place. I hope this helps.
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