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Jodi Bassett -HFME/Health, Healing & Hummingbirds

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Hello everyone. I'm a huge fan of treating the causes of diseases rather than just masking symptoms. I'm also a huge iHerb fan! I'm writing all my reviews here as someone that has read as much information on vitamin C, detoxification, diet, health and nutrition as I can and that is very slowly improving month by month from a very severe neurological disease (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) - thanks in part to wonderful books by various orthomolecular and holistic medicine experts - that has left me housebound and almost entirely bedbound for many years. Since I was just 19. I wish so much I had had this information early on in my disease, rather than coming to it more than 10 years in. Healing is so much easier the earlier you start it. But even if you're long-term very ill like me, there is real cause for hope with the right info + care. Real healing takes time, but is not impossible. It's the boring stuff that works; vitamins etc. Not the 'sexy' new and exotic stuff!

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Tastes nice

Posted on Mar 05, 2011

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But got very stuck in my teeth. For slightly gapped tooth people only maybe!

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Great for M.E.

Posted on Jan 09, 2009

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This product is just vital for anyone with seious neurological or cadiac problems. If you have an illness like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which involves BOTH, it is really essential. I can't recommand it highly enough for ME patients. This 200mg one is great value! I have severe M.E. This product, at 300mg daily, has taken me from a level of 5% functioning, up to 8%. That is a lot when you are so ill and housebound and 99% bedbound! Has also changed my sleep patterns massively.

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Great mix of ingredients at a great price

Posted on Oct 02, 2009

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If you have an illness like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis a high quality mixed antioxidant is really essential. I can't recommend this product highly enough for M.E. patients. It has so many good ingredients, and is a great price too. If you have almost no money to spend on supplements, this is a good one to buy. It covers so many bases for you. I would like to take two a day as recommended, but can only afford one a day, as I take many differnet supplements.

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Good product but not for me

Posted on Jun 25, 2010

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I started taking ribose early 2012 as part of Dr Stephen Sinatra's 'awesome foursome of cardiovascular health' (along with magnesium, carnitine and CoQ10) and because it was recommended by Dr Sherry Rogers for those with poor mitochondrial function. When I take CoQ10 (especially the reduced ubiquinol form), carnitine and magnesium it makes me feel more well. Less ill and like my body is struggling less with basic functions. I sleep better and longer, and my heartbeat feels stronger and less flutterly and weak, it takes more to bring me to a point of overexertion and if I do still seriously overexert, these things very much stop the relapse from being as severe and scary. (I have severe cardiac problems and neurological problems partly caused by poor mitochondrial function.) Even at higher doses of these things (plus B complex and vitamin C), they never feel anything like taking a stimulant would and never keep me awake or make me agitated. But I have found ribose to be quite different. I started ribose at a dose of 1 - 2 grams a day for about 2 weeks. I didn't feel much at this dose so I went slowly up to a 5 gram a day dose. After a few days I began to feel strange and a bit unrestful and anxious, but I wasn't sure if it was the ribose causing it so I kept going. The next day or two I knew something was really off and wrong. I couldn't sleep until 5 in the morning, found it really hard to get in a restful state of mind and spent hours so physcially tense that I was a hairs bredth away from gringing my teeth - something I have never done before or since. The pressure in my jaw just huge. No amount of mediation helped with the sleeping or the jaw tensing either. It was obviously a physical effect form the ribose that I had to wait to wear off. It felt like I had taken a huge dose of slow-release caffeine (or an illegal stimulant), but one which had a cumulative effect and built day by day. Took 3 days to wear off. 4 times I tried it, same thing happened.

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Great product great price

Posted on Jun 25, 2010

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This is the best form of carnitine according to Dr Sinatra. I take this for Myalgic Enephalomyelitis and it really helps my heart problems. Improved the time I can stay upright hugely; from 10 minutes a day to 20 or so. Ubiquinol gave me another 10 too. Dr Sinatra explains that ubiquinol/CoQ10 works synergistically with carnitine, as does ribose and magnesium. He calls them the 'awesome foursome' of cardiac health.

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Essential if you have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Posted on Jan 08, 2009

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If you have M.E., you need Hawthorne and this one has the right parts of the plant in it to be the most effective (it isn't just made up of the weaker berries of the plant, but instead the flowers etc.).

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Too low dose by far

Posted on Jun 16, 2008

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That 'natural C' is completely differnet to ascorbic acid is just complete guff. They act the same way in the body, except buying 'natural C' like this costs you hundreds of times more and make it very unlikely you'll ever take a dose big enough to do anything much for you at all. Ditch this and take 10 or more grams of the vitamin C the vitamin C experts and pioneers all use - ascorbic acid. This is the form of vitamin C that animals make in their livers and kidneys and that humans used to make in their livers and kidneys. Our bodies are primed to use this form of vitamin C! This product is fine to take alongside ascorbic acid..extra bioflavs are always good, but it is not enough by itself as the dose is far too low.

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Gave me a surprising boost

Posted on Jul 03, 2010

4 people found the following review helpful

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I was taking quite a decent amount of oral B complex, so i was quite surprised by how much of a voost this product gave me wthin just a week of starting it. I suppose that means my body wasn't converting at least one of the B vitamins very well. I'd recommend anyone seriously ill try this product for a few weeks to see if you're absorbinb the standard B vitamins as well as you could be. The taste is quite nice too, though to make it a perfect product it would also contain activated folate (Metafolin). I may now try the B1 as s atand alone coenzymated sublingual, thank SN and iHerb!

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Thick but very good

Posted on Apr 23, 2010

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This oil contains the form of vitamin E that is best absorbed into skin. The Vitamin E factor book says that alpha tocopherol ACETATE or SUCCINATE should be avoided with oils and creams as the body can't use them properly.

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Excellent brand and product

Posted on Jan 09, 2009

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I agree, iHerb and DHL a great team! This product is just vital for anyone with seious neurological or cadiac problems. If you have an illness like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which involves BOTH, it is really essential. I can't recommand it highly enough for ME patients. I have severe M.E. This product, at 300mg daily, has taken me from a level of 5% functioning, up to 8%. That is a lot when you are so ill and housebound and 99% bedbound! Has also changed my sleep patterns massively.

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An excellent poduct for M.E.

Posted on Jan 08, 2009

4 people found the following review helpful

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This product is just vital for anyone with serious neurological or cardiac problems. If you have an illness like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which involves BOTH, it is really essential. I can't recommend it highly enough for ME patients.

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A fantastic multi

Posted on Jan 08, 2009

1 person found the following review helpful

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If you have an illness like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis a high quality and potency mutivitamin and mineral is really essential. I can't recommend this product highly enough for M.E. patients. It has so many good ingredients, and is a great price too. If you have almost no money to spend on supplements, this is a good one to buy. It covers so many bases for you. I take 3 a day.

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