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Phar Percheron's avatar

Jennifer have you written about peripheral neuropathy? I'm already using red lights whenever possible, grounding, think I have my diet and supplements sorted out pretty well, taking Benfotiamine, I'm not diabetic ... usually it seems to be improving, but then something goes wrong and slam it's all worse again... I guess it could just be a byproduct of poor circulation. I used to take saccharomyces boulardii , I guess I will start that again since problems with yeast are reocurring 😝.

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The MOCO enzymes are coenzymes for nitrates, sulphites, acetylaldehydes and other metabolic enzymes. Making sure to get adequate Molybdenum that is bioavailable helps with sulphites and nitrites. I take about 160% of the daily requirement split between AM and PM and it helps me to metabolize these things. I do have some genetic snps that limit the amount of this enzyme, but supplementing a little twice a day makes it so I don't get deficient. I also take a little copper with these to make sure I don't have problems.

I still cannot overload on sulfites and nitrates, but I have way less issues. Molybdenum is found in higher concentrations in certain foods, but some people like me cannot break it out of these foods well because I can't break apart certain veggies. Sometimes because of a distant ancestor you can't metabolize things the same way others do. In my case, on my paternal side, I have one point seven percent inuit genes. I cannot eat totally like an eskimo but I need some of the diet. In males, three percent of far northern european males have this genetics. Can't metabolize sucrose or mannose well, and need more fish than most people in my diet...which might be why I and my father and uncles on my dad's side loved eating fish. I seem to metabolize organic grassfed organic beef and venesin pretty well, but commercial meats not so well. Also, I make amylase in my mouth, but not much in my organs, so I have to drink a coke every so often to disolve bezoars because I like veggies. I am not really fond of the tast of coke, but to me it is medicine and medicine usually does not taste good.

So maybe boosting molybdenum in your diet or taking a multivitamin containing about one hundred percent or more of it might help some but not all people with issues. Ammonium molybate works best for me, but sodium molybdate works all right. I can't find a reasonable priced multimineral pill with the ammonium molybdate in it so I get the sodium or other forms of it most times. My genetics cause mild Wilson's disease symptoms. Since I have been taking the molybdenum...eighteen years now, I have had way less headaches from aldehydes, nitrates, and sulpher foods. Since it is a cofactor deficiency it means many food types are effected, aldehydes form from alcohol motabolism, so they effect how much sulphur foods you can eat too. too much sulphites can give you intolerances to nitrates too. So this issue can cause some diverse allergy symptoms.

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