[tri-med] Re: Hearing Loss

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From: <SHAMOND73
> wow, karen !  you always have so much great information. how do i get 
> these
> Omega oils for Jason, do you know what product it is in in the  states??

Simply go to a pharmacy or health food store and buy them :-) Michelle W 
uses an all plant version, Jude uses fish and plant from memory. Sorry can't 
share the brands as they are US and there are sooooo many these days. I just 
stick with what we have used for the last 8 years :-)

Prognosis? There is none. Its not uncommon and so long as he continues to 
myelinate he "should" eventually catch up. There is a condition where there 
is a reqal shortage of myelin in the brain but thats not what they have 
said - they have just said its delayed - so its happening just not as fast 
as it should be happening.

Myelination however continues until you are 20 or so. So supplementation 
should be a lifelong thing in my book - they arent cheap (I pay about $30 a 
month for the supplement) and its easy to think that they arent necessary 
after a while but don't be fooled into complacency - its the one supplement 
I wont stop - OK that and lutein.

Most of the myelination is done in the first 5 years, less in the next 5 - 8 
years but it does continue into the 20's - thereafter we start to slow done 
and eventually lose some (thats where I am at I think - I dont think as fast 
as I used to!! - thats my excuse anyway, but I have started to splurge on 
EFA's for myself!!)

So the earlier you start the better. When you think myelination think 
Multiple Sclerosis - thats where you lose myelin. Myelin is the "conductor" 
that surrounds nerves. The better the myelin coating the faster the nerve is 
able to conduct messages.

Of course its a lot more complex than that but thats the simplified version. 
No myelin and the nerve can't get a message through - poor myelin and the 
message takes longer and can get lost, good myelin and the message gets 
there faster and more efficiently.

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                                            -- Josh Billings

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