{"id":1552,"date":"2011-06-17T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2011-08-09T02:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T06:16:59","slug":"headaches-and-insomnia-the-vitamin-c-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/06\/17\/headaches-and-insomnia-the-vitamin-c-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Headaches and Insomnia- The Vitamin C Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am always intrigued to read up on studies that discuss nutrient
\ndeficiencies as this is one area that is such a great controversy, especially
\nas it relates to supplementation.<\/p>\n

It is generally known and accepted that many conditions
\naffecting poor health can be prevented and\/or treated by simply increasing the
\namount of a vitamin or mineral that might be lacking.<\/p>\n

But what if we go the other way and cause problems because
\nof over-supplementing?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We hear from people all the time who have found themselves
\nas having \u201chit a wall\u201d with their health. They do everything they think they
\nare supposed to do and no matter how much running, yoga, meditating and veggies
\nthey include in their lives, they still have a few conditions that they can\u2019t
\nshake.<\/p>\n

A lot of times, the answer lies in the journaling of what is
\nactually being consumed. I was going over the food and supplement records of a
\nfriend of mine recently who was complaining that despite many natural
\ninterventions, his headache and sleep problem was just getting worse.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, on every page there was one entry every day for
\nVitamin C, among a dozen or so other supplements.<\/p>\n

Some of the other supplements he was taking included in
\ntheir proprietary formulas added Vitamin C as well.<\/p>\n

If a little does a little good, a lot should do a lot of
\ngood, right?<\/p>\n

Actually, this is dangerous thinking and was at the heart of
\nthe problems he was having with his headaches and sleep.<\/p>\n

He was also complaining about low back pain on one side, and
\nthought he might need to visit the doctor about possible carpal tunnel syndrome
\nproblems (he had read one of the Blue Heron posts <\/a>recently about CPS and
\nArthritis).<\/p>\n

I sat and listened to the laundry list of what had been
\ngoing wrong lately with his health and he was ready to break down and start
\ntaking prescription pain medicine for the pain he had in various parts of the
\nbody.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, he was supplementing with over 5,000 mg
\nevery day of Vitamin C.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The USDA recommends that the minimum amount to prevent
\nscurvy should be about 95 mg daily.\u00a0 Diet
\ngenerally covers this.<\/p>\n

Studies have also shown that a higher intake, closer to
\nabout 800-1000 mg has been shown to boost immunity, strengthen blood vessels,
\nand promote optimum cholesterol health. So just think of the conditions you can
\neliminate when you take 5 times more than the highest recommended intake.<\/p>\n

At some point, however, mega doses should be only considered
\nwith a licensed medical professional\u2019s advice and never entered into on one\u2019s
\nown.<\/p>\n

The body can process and use only so much Vitamin C before
\nthe abundance winds up in areas that don\u2019t need it in such high amounts; namely,
\nthe brain, intestines, kidneys, adrenal glands, and uterus.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of Vitamin C overdose range from very mild with
\ntingling in the hands and fingers to moderate with headache and diarrhea, and
\neven to severe with kidney stones and miscarriage.<\/p>\n

My friend had several kidney stones (thus the back pain),
\nmigraines, and insomnia.\u00a0 The flushing of
\nthe skin and the tingling thumbs were not carpal tunnel syndrome\u2026they were
\nsymptoms of Vitamin C overdose.<\/p>\n

The other piece that complicates the issue is that if one
\nover-supplements chronically with Vitamin C and suddenly stops taking it,
\nwithdrawal symptoms can be really bad and include even worse migraine pain
\nalong with chest pain, muscle problems, and other bad effects.<\/p>\n

My friend and his doctor are getting him started with a plan
\nto wean off the mega-doses of the Vitamin C and hopefully he can see the
\ninsomnia disappear \u00a0almost as soon as
\nsoon as the headache problem did- the headaches were gone almost immediately.<\/p>\n

The kidney stones, unfortunately, will require a more
\nintrusive level of intervention, but now he knows how to prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n

I am all about treating methods naturally, as you know, but I am also all about reinforcing everything in moderation. Overdoing anything isn\u2019t good, and many times avoiding prescription medication is just a matter of scaling back on something you do too much of\u2026even if it is too much of a good thing.<\/p>\n

For more ways to naturally treat headache pain and insomnia<\/a>,
\nsee my guides today.<\/p>\n

Warm regards,<\/p>\n

Christian Goodman<\/p>\n

El331005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am always intrigued to read up on studies that discuss nutrient deficiencies as this is one area that is such a great controversy, especially as it relates to supplementation. It is generally known and accepted that many conditions affecting poor health can be prevented and\/or treated by simply increasing the amount of a vitamin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-insomnia","category-sleep","category-vitamins-and-minerals"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}