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so recently I had someone that wanted to

know what is causing her paresthesia

okay first of all what is paresthesia a

paresthesia is a problem with the

nervous system you have some abnormal

sensation coming from the sensory nerves

there’s two types branches of nerves

one is motor which controls movement the

other one is sensory which is perception

and there’s many different fibers that

control different sensations okay so if

the sensory nerve is damaged in any way

you can have any lack of feeling and

that’s called numbness you can have

tingling you can have pins and needles

you can even have the sensation of cold

or even burning pain you can have the

feeling of ants crawling on your your

skin that that’s a nerve problem you can

actually have the part of your body feel

heavy and that’s a problem with the

sensory nerve you can actually have a

hypersensitivity feeling to pain in the

part of your body or a lack of that so

you can have any combination of these

right here so when people have carpal

tunnel syndrome which is an obstruction

to the nerve in your wrist they can also

have these symptoms too so what’s

happening is that you either have damage

directly to the nerve like the the

coating around the nerve is becoming

lost okay or there’s compression to the

nerve itself you can also have a

situation where you wake up in the

middle of night with the pain okay and

that can be very irritating so I want to

talk about the different causes and then

the number one cause okay all right the

first one is chemo chemotherapy that has

a side effect of causing something

called peripheral neuropathies or nerve

damage also chemicals in general being

exposed to chemicals destroy the nerves

as well

statins okay why would statins have a

side effect of nerve damage

well because statins block the

production of cholesterol and

cholesterol is needed within the nervous

system because most the nerve is fat so

if you’re blocking cholesterol you can

actually block the production of a

normal nervous system and the membranes

around the cells going on a low-fat diet

can also cause this as well let’s say

you’re a vegan or vegetarian

because even the retina into the eye

which is all neurological is affected by

DHA and EPA so DHEA comes from animal

products unless you’re getting it from

algae but you’re gonna get most the DNA

from fish so again if you have let’s say

you’re on a low-fat diet and you have

these symptoms you might want to start

consuming healthy wild-caught fish or

some good cod liver oil or even salmon

oil make sure it’s while caught to start

building that up so the DHA is very very

important in Neurology and preventing

these problems toxic levels of something

called homocysteine so this compound is

built up when you have a deficiency of

certain B vitamins in the diet and the B

vitamins are like so important in

maintaining nerve function especially

not only one if you’re a deficient in

b12 are gonna have no Rytas you can have

all sorts of nerve issues b6 is very

important

b12 is essential so again a B vitamin

deficiency anything that creates a B

vitamin deficiency can create problems

with this okay all right if you’re on

metformin because you’re a diabetic one

of the side effects is it depletes

vitamin b12 which is needed for nerve

function seizure medications will

decrease folate that can actually affect

it’s one of side effects is paresthesia

drinking alcohol depletes your B

vitamins if you’re an alcoholic if you

drink too much that can actually create

this a problem but this one right here

is the most common one and it’s a high

carbohydrate diet i’m i’m talking about

refined carbohydrates in the form of

sugar and pasta and breads and crackers

and things like that because doing that

will pull out all sorts of nutrients

primarily the B vitamins okay and you

start pulling those out and this is why

a diabetic who’s usually always on a

high carb diet has problems with

peripheral neuropathies and nerve damage

and paresthesia because of the loss of B

vitamins so if a diabetic had high

levels of B vitamins in their diet okay

even though their sugar was high they

would get less symptoms

so the B vitamins especially b1 is

protective against nerve damage so if

you have this problem and you’re doing

high carbs go on a low carb diet I put a

link down below okay of how to do that

but also at the same time start taking B

vitamins the best source would be

nutritional yeast but you can also take

some been though to mean with it so

benfotiamine let me let me spell that

for you then vote to me okay spelling is

my worst subject but I think I got this

right here been vote to mean you can get

this it’s a fat soluble B 1 that will

help the nervous system to actually help

undo this condition too and it also is

good for advanced nerve problems like

peripheral neuropathies and things like

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