Hey, Hesper. Wishing you best of luck with your research and supplement purchase and experimentation for your varicose vein. Hopefully you'll be able to avoid surgery with good results from fulvic acid, DMSO, and/or Horse Chestnut. And thanks, Odyssey, for this thread.
Odyssey, do you still take Fulvic Acid supplements? What's your experience with it -- benefits or detriments if any? The reason I ask is because I just checked Swanson Vitamins (one of two places I order supplements that delivers here) and they have three different supplements with Fulvic Acid, one that's part of a heavy metal chelation blend developed by a Hungarian Doctor, "Dr. Laszlo Meszaros' Metal Shield," [includes Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid) 100 mg; Chlorella (Chlorella pyrenoidosa) (broken cell) (whole algae) 100 mg; Cilantro Leaf (Coriandrum sativum) 100 mg; Spanish Black Radish Root (Raphanus sativus niger) 100 mg; features trademarked Humifulvate® (mixture of humic, fulvic and phenolic-type acids in a humate/ polyphenolic complex) 75 mg; L-Cysteine 75 mg]. The two others are Ayurvedic herbal formulas: Swanson Superior Herbs Shilajit Extract [A foundational substance in the Ayurvedic tradition, Shilajit (shee-la-jeet) is a concentrated source of trace minerals and fulvic acid derived from mineral pitch. Shilajit is used as a systemic rejuvenator and adaptogen, often in combination with other Ayurvedic formulas. Swanson Superior Herbs Shilajit Extract features a classic preparation purified with the historic Ayurvedic herbal combination Triphala, which includes the herbs Amla, Harada and Baharda in equal proportions. Standardized to 5% fulvic acid. *Shilajit Extract (Asphaltum) (mineral pitch) (standardized to 5% fulvic acid) 400 mg; and Source Naturals Wellness ImmuNow [A dietary supplement that is designed to support your immune system when you need it most. It is composed of humic acid, an organic substance derived from natural compounds found in humus soil. The biomolecules are purified using a proprietary process. Humic acid is biochemically active and has been shown to support immune function and overall health. Humic acid has been used for thousands of years as part of Ayurvedic tradition in India, where it is known as Shilajit. Calcium 166 mg; Humic Acid 500 mg].
It seems like a good all around supplement with so many health benefits and uses from the original post (and has some scientific studies and even identified mechanisms for the benefits). The reason I'm asking about it is for my mother, whose had some varicose veins in the past and also more recently, as well as having high blood pressure, occasional fatigue, and very recent hemorrhoids for the first time in her life because of periodic constipation and excess straining (and some others over the years on that long list claimed to be benefited by Fulvic Acid).
I'm also a bit concerned about the post by LQB in the Life Without Bread thread http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,22916.msg302248.html#msg302248 to which I replied because we've been eating a lot of pork burgers and pork chops and she's taken blood thinning drugs in the past (but stopped more than 5 years ago) because of her irregular heartbeat/arrhythmias/fibrilation which started about 11 years ago as a precaution for the danger of blood coagulation and blood clotting.
So starting today I'm marinating all fresh pork with fresh squeezed lemon juice as an acid medium instead of vinegar because of uncertainty about detrimental effects of vinegar and it's pretty much always in plastic containers here instead of glass. I don't know how concerned I should be about the blood changes in that study from un-marinated cooking of fresh pork, but it did get my attention enough to take the precaution of marinating in lemon juice. Because my mother is feeling up and down all the time, she'll have her blood pressure going up really high, bad irregular and fast heart beat, fatigue and dizzyness, etc. and then it'll go away. Also, she's very sensitive to environmental disturbances e.g. seismic activity, magnetic phenomena, pressure and weather changes, etc. have major effects on her.
She's had a sonogram done recently and there were many improvements from a year to year and a half earlier with liver enlargement and some benign cysts, etc. that had shrunk. The doctors asked what she'd done and the only thing is that she went gluten and casein free and then the low carb and high fat paleo diet (although she did the lowering of carbs and increasing of good fats kind of haphazardly despite my warnings to go slow and have a steady, consistent approach). She's supposed to get an appointment for an eccogram and cardiogram soon to check the condition of her heart.
She takes daily average 3000 mg Vit C, 4000 mg fish oil with natural mixed tocopherols (Vitamin E), NAC, Acetyl-L-Carnitine, Milk Thistle, high quality multivitamin-multimineral.
I also found a bunch of Horse Chestnut supplements at Swanson's website which seems to be a strong vascular tonic and good for vascular insufficiency and general vascular health. I haven't been able to get DMSO anywhere that will ship to me so far.
If anyone else has any feedback and/or experiences, I would highly appreciate it.
