Good advice, Dave. Pantothenic Acid has always been a good stress reducer. I've been taking a minimum of 100 - 200 mg daily for 35 years.
John On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Dan Nave <bhangcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Medical researchers studying vitamin B 5 or pantothenic acid noticed > that it could, in what seemed to be megadoses (compared to the minimum > daily requirement) largely reverse certain degenerative effects of > aging. These researchers were measuring endurance in rats as it > decreased through the aging process. How they made this measurement > may appear to some readers to be heartless, but the best way to gauge > the endurance of a rat is to toss it into a five gallon bucket of cold > water and see how long it swims before it drowns. Under these > conditions, the researcher can be absolutely confident that the rat > does its very best to stay alive. > > "Young healthy rats can swim for 45 minutes in 50° Fahrenheit water > before drowning. Old rats can only last about 15 minutes. And old rats > swim differently, less efficiently, with their lower bodies more or > less vertical, sort of dog paddling. But when old rats were fed > pantothenic acid at a very high dose for a few weeks before the test, > they swam 45 minutes too. And swam more efficiently, like the young > rats did. More interestingly, their coats changed color (the gray went > away) and improved in texture; they began to appear like young rats. > And the rats on megadoses of B 5 lived lot longer–25 to 33 percent > longer than rats not on large doses of B 5. Does that mean "megadoses" > of B 5 have an unknown drug-like effect? Or does that mean the real > nutritional requirement for B 5 is a lot higher than most people > think? I believe the second choice is correct. To give you an idea of > how much B 5 the old rats were given in human terms, the FDA says the > minimum daily requirement for B 5 is about 10 milligrams but if humans > took as much B 5 as the rats, they would take about 750 milligrams per > day. > > "Incidentally, I figure I am as worthy as any lab rat and take over > 500 milligrams daily." > > > How and When to Be Your Own Doctor > by Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon > > http://starthealthylife.com/page263.htm > > Read on-line or have the free e-book e-mailed to you from that site. > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > > >
