Frank Will asked: Asthma and supplements, could there possibly be a link with vitamins or nutrients that could actually help with asthma as it is now considered an epidemic?
Asthma of course can be controlled, depending on the kind that you may have, but it can also be fatal if severe enough, and you have to fully understand which of the six types of asthma you may have.
Asthma is the fastest growing chronic condition in America, estimated to currently affect over 15 million Americans with an estimate to possibly double that number in the next 10 to 12 years. In fact, a child born 10 years from now is expected to be twice as much at risk at getting asthma than a child in 2009. Worldwide numbers simulate these numbers.
As many asthma suffers know; there is no known cure, there is no real known cause, and there is no real treatment program that works effectively for the majority of asthma patients all of the time.
Do you not have to ask yourself than, is there anything else that could be done for this condition?
Asthma, by definition, is a chronic, long term disease that inflames and narrows the airways, making it very difficult to breathe when an attack happens. The airways are the tubular like structures that carry the air we breathe in and out of our lungs.
Inflammation of the airways causes them to tighten, which narrows them, and as a result, less air flows into your lungs. The inflammation also causes swelling and makes these air ways very sensitive, which often causes the cells of the airways to produce more mucus than normal.
In our respiratory systems, mucus actually aids in protecting our lungs as it traps foreign particles that may enter, especially through the nose. Too much mucus being produced, however, is what triggers most of the Asthma attacks.
For the huge number of the asthma stricken population, you might want to step back and ask if Asthma and vitamin supplements have anything in common.
History and research clearly shows that it took the medical and the scientific community just slightly over 200 years to finally realize that thiamine could actually help beri beri. so why would Asthma and nutritional supplements be any different?
There are differing opinions on how many different types of asthmatic conditions there actually are, but the consensus among most experts is that there are six different types and are grouped by what may, and that is the cogitative term, be causing the condition.
The list of six types of asthma include; allergic asthma, non allergic, exercise induced, nocturnal, asthma in pregnancy and occupational asthma.
Allergic asthma is obviously triggered by an allergic reaction to something such as pets and pollen, especially seasonal types of pollen, while non allergic forms are considered to be caused by irritants in the air such as second hand smoke, room deodorizers, fresh paint, perfumes, and very cold temperatures, just to name a few.
Exercise induced asthma seems to be set off by exercise or physical activity, while nocturnal forms of this condition can occur with any type of asthma and seems to happen most frequently after 3 to 4 hours of sleep. The possible reasons for this are that adrenaline and corticosteroids levels produced by the body to fight off asthma are lower the longer you sleep.
Asthma in pregnancy is a condition where a woman already has asthma, but may have different affects of asthma because of pregnancy ranging from the condition almost abating entirely to getting much worse. Occupational forms are obviously caused by something you are exposed to at work such as chemicals, dust, and other like substances.
Asthma victims all know very well the medicines used to “control” this condition such as bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory medications, but what about nutrients that are used to treat different asthmatic conditions.
And would it not be logical that if these nutrients are used to help treat asthmatic conditions, that regular intake of the same nutrients might in the long run help to reduce or even eliminate asthmatic conditions?
Magnesium is a mineral that is needed in every cell in your body and is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions within the body. But what is extremely interesting about magnesium, is what it does for asthma.
A deficiency of magnesium was found in a study at the University of Nottingham’s Division of Respiratory Medicine to be a major cause of asthma and an intravenous shot of magnesium can immediately stop even the most acute attacks of asthma.
Backed by the Journal of Medicine, this same study of 2,633 asthmatics increased lung functions, airway responsiveness, and wheezing conditions when magnesium levels were raised to normal levels. Magnesium also helps to control muscle spasms and is able to smooth bronchial muscles so they don’t contract and close off air.
The same study found it very ironic that several of the prescribed medications for asthma can cause magnesium depletion and recommended 200-600 mg of magnesium supplements a day.
Further studies documented in the Natural Healing Encyclopedia and than backed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture biochemist found that with injections of Vitamin B12, 80% of asthmatic children responding immediately and continued frequent injections virtually eliminated all asthmatic conditions.
The B class of vitamins in general is severely depleted in your body by stress, and it is difficult to think of anything more stressful than not being able to breath.
Vitamin B12 is different from all other vitamins in that its chemical structure is much more complex and it is the only vitamin to contain an inorganic element, the mineral cobalt. Only microorganisms and bacteria can make this vitamin, as plants and animals can not.
Vitamin B 6 has also been shown to have several beneficial affects on asthma as well, as asthmatics seem to have an exaggerated need for B6, not from a deficiency, but from an error in metabolism.
The largest role of Vitamin B6 is in the repair and optimal function of the nervous system which controls the functions of all systems and organs in the body, but especially important for breathing. It is also is extremely interactive with Vitamin B12 in the body.
There is no cure for asthma and no one knows the exact cause, but what is known is that these three supplements are extremely effective in controlling asthma and reducing the affects.
So if they work so effectively to treat asthma after an attack and than to reduce those attacks, would they not be very beneficial in preventing attacks or at least greatly reducing the severity simply by taking them on an everyday basis?
As a father of two daughters that both have asthma, there is little doubt of what the answer is.
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