Magnesium, HCl deficiency, Leaky gut syndrome
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Listed below are the treatments I found helpful for the symptoms of vertigo, nausea and cold feet (The cold feet are technically known as Raynaud's syndrome).
1. Eating more more magnesium rich foods helped. Many health and nutrition books note that vertigo can be a symptom of a magnesium deficiency. I believe this was likely to have been my problem, too. Prior to my vertigo onset my family had all been sick with the flu. I had been busy taking care of them and wasn't eating as healthy as I normally did or exercising very much. I was also eating a lot of yogurt to load on on beneficial bacteria, a food I normally don't eat that often, so I wouldn't get sick like the rest of my family. As a dairy product, yogurt is very high in calcium, a magnesium antagonist.
Other symptoms of magnesium deficiency may be anxiety, heart palpitations, heart arrhythmias, mtiral valve prolapse, migraines, sensitive hearing and tight muscles, and fibromyalgia (See my page on magnesium for a more extensive list of symptoms.)
Foods high in magnesium generally include nuts, seeds, beans and leafy green vegetables.
A Relapse After a couple of years of being vertigo free, I had a recent relapse. This time I traced it to the opening of a frozen yogurt snack shop at the local shopping center, which I was evidently stopping at way too often. So once again too much yogurt and having an overly acidic body seemed to be the cause of my vertigo, headaches, numbness in my arm and hand, nausea and dizziness. And once again, stretching, mineral water, Izze sodas made with mineral water, and eating lots of alkalinizing, magnesium rich vegetables was the cure.
2. Eating more alkaline forming foods was also important. I think my nausea was caused by an over acid stomach, which can also be linked to magnesium deficiencies. Magnesium is very alkaline, and is one of the minerals the body releases to keep its acid-alkaline balance in check. Researchers from Germany have found that an acid load in the body may be a factor in human magnesium deficiencies.
When I got home from seeing the doctor for my vertigo and nausea, my husband made me some chicken broth. Drinking this made me even worse and I vomited it up. I then tested my pH levels and found that my body was extremely acidic.
Chicken broth is very acidic so it made me think to try to eat something very alkaline next instead. Next I drank a banana smoothie with coconut milk, an easily absorbable and highly alkaline food. After I had the smoothie my nausea started going away. Next I had a baked potato and then, not only was I no longer suffering from nausea, but interestingly my feet also warmed up.
I think my feet were cold along with the vertigo because a lack of magnesium had been constricting my blood vessels and slowing down my circulation. While I had the vertigo episodes and for a few days before the onset, my feet had been really cold. I could pile ten blankets on them and it didn't help to warm them up at all. But drinking the banana smoothie and eating the potato made my feet become warm.
Interesting article from Reader's Digest - "The mineral magnesium has many beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system. One of these -- its ability to relax constricted blood vessels -- makes it useful for Raynaud's."@ http://www.uha.org.uk/the%20acid-alkaline%20balance.html
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Why is leaky gut syndrome important? The leaky gut syndrome is almost always associated with autoimmune disease and reversing autoimmune disease depends on healing the lining of the gastrointestinal tract. Any other treatment is just symptom suppression. An autoimmune disease is defined as one in which the immune system makes antibodies against its own tissues. Diseases in this category include lupus, alopecia, rheumatoid arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia,, chronic fatigue syndrome, Sjogren's Syndrome, vitiligo, thyroiditis, vasculitis, Crohn's Disease, ulcerative colitis, urticaria; hives, diabetes and Raynaud's disease.
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