What kind of foods are required for nerve repair?

[mo2march]

As nerves sheath namely myelin lipids are composed of f high amounts of cholesterol and enriched in glycolipid, in a ratio of 40%:40%:20% (cholesterol, phospholipid, and glycolipid, respectively) so foods rich in cholesterol and glycolipid are required to take in our daily food list. Like fish, squash and some healthy fats like olive oil and nuts oil. But how much of these should be taken in food everyday.

[Nackapan]

I've read similar I have high cholesterol and tried last yrsr to stop eating as many saturated fats to lower it .

I ended up with s lower total count but the ratio was higher.

I understand the ratio is thr most important ?

also got a very dry irritated scalp and lost too much weight

It's finding g a way to get enough 'good' fats .

But to keep your 'lipids' in range.

HDL in my case too high .

I also read almonds yoghurt is good for the brain.

I have 'milled' nuts suggested on here every day.

Fish oils are good but I have always not liked it in any form.

I do not know actual quantities.

Im still a work in progress .

A little bit of everything;

[Narwhal10]

Hi mo2march,

I’m sorry I don’t know the answer to your question (but would like to). It maybe worth posting on gluten free guerillas here.

There’s some very knowledgeable people there. Some of us get nerve pain from eating the different types of sugar.

Also, people have to self-diagnose whether it’s wheat, gluten sensitivity etc. Therefore, we aren’t hung up on official diagnosis. So, I feel that popping on for nutritional advice wouldn’t be problematic. At the end of the day we just want to be well.

Best wishes

[deniseinmilden]

Thank you for your interesting and informative question.

As we are all individuals with different starting points as well as rates of absorption and metabolism, it's not really possible to say specifically, other than do what you think looks and feels right and then monitor this and adjust things as required. As damaged is repaired your needs are likely to decrease slightly too so it's a bit of a moving target, even for yourself.

Potassium and sodium are the main minerals used to carry the electrical impulses over the nerve synapses so these are fundamental in your recovery. Most diets have plenty (an excess) of sodium but not always enough potassium - which leads to cramp if you are clinically deficient.

Magnesium is required for muscle contraction/function (one of the main reasons for nerve impulses) so this is required at optimum levels too.

Iron is needed for oxygen transport, etc, to enable all cells to work and repair themselves, with other minerals and vitamins playing their parts.

A broad spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement can be helpful at providing a background level of all vital nutrients, with a varied diet being the key to optimum absorption through a good microbiome.

Balance is the key as some things that seem less directly important facilitate the uptake of other nutrients that are more obviously needed.

[WiscGuy]

The most important aspect of nerve repair for people with B12 deficiency is injecting sufficient B12. Without sufficient B12, what a person consumes will have minimal impact. My understanding is that, unfortunately, no one knows the sufficient level of B12 because it has never been researched. (Please correct me if I am in error.) Since there is no risk of harm from injecting too much B12, or from injecting B12 too often, my outlook is that the most prudent course of action is to inject as much B12 as you can, as often as you can. (I too want to repair nerves, and regenerate nerves, and repair and regenerate myelin sheaths, so I inject 1000 mcg cyanocobalamin daily, and, hoping for passive absorption, consume 10,000 mcg methylcobalamin daily.) If your requests to your doctor are met with blowback, follow the steps laid out by Sleepybunny, or purchase B12 from Germany for self-injection, or both. I have no medical training, and that's my outlook.

[Libuse in reply to WiscGuy]

I am very interested in your reply. I was diagnosed with dietary B12 deficiency a year ago. Given usual loading doses and then every 3 months. Didn’t stop tingling, numb and cold hands and feet so now I self inject once a week but still little improvement, although mood lifted, more energy etc. etc. I know I can’t overdose; it’s the fleeting anxiety of the needle that prevents me but maybe I should give it a go…… I know you are not a medic but it helps so much to read about the experience of others. Thank you

[WiscGuy in reply to Libuse]

I was quite apprehensive about self-injection. The first time I was fumbling around trying to operate the syringe, which seemed to take two hands, while holding the vial of B12, which took another hand. Finally I pinched a roll of abdominal fat, touched the needle to the skin, and pushed a little bit, and the needle slid right through the skin. It turned out that the actual injection was the easiest part of the whole process. However, sometimes even now the needle doesn't want to pierce the skin. I don't know whether some spots of skin are tougher, or some needles aren't as sharp, or maybe a little of each. I have administered more than 200 self injections, and just today the needle didn't want to pierce the skin. Just as I was about to try a different spot, the needle slid in. So after a while the whole thing has become old hat and it's relatively easy to cope with the occasional odd happening. Now I sometimes think the hardest part can be remembering to do it at all. So it's like so many things in life that initially seem much more difficult than they turn out to be. So the very hardest part can be getting past the first few instances.

[Hamayeshguy in reply to WiscGuy]

I'm doing the same but my symptoms are so bad and many. I inject every day Hydroxocobalamin and sometimes cyanocobalamin since Hydroxocobalamin is hard to source from Germany. I take 15000 mcg slow release methylcobalamine daily. But after ten months injection my symptom developing just stopped and it's reverse is do slow. In September 2020 after assuming megaloblastic aneamia (which officially couldn't find out due to not have MCV test before my injection and probably low range feritin - but I had all of it's symptoms) I started to take seven months of pills. Mix of slow release and sublingual but it wasn't enough then I switched to cyanocobalamin injection but I couldn't raise frequency due to intolerance and then added high dose slow release and bought Hydroxocobalamin almost two months and half and raised my frequency one month ago to everyday. And now I feel my symptoms are going to get reversed. I take on and off iron pills and active b complex with low B6 and d3k2 Omega 3. My hand tingling getting improved but still have bad muscle weakness along with double vision and blurry eyesight but it's getting improved. My symptoms developed so fast after I was diagnosed with low B12 in 2014 but since other doctors refused to give monthly jab then I ended in megaloblastic aneamia. I was so physicals active during deficiency before assuming megaloblastic aneamia and I think my muscles severe weakness are due to that. I hope it's not permanent damage yet. In doctor's Chandy book say since every one is different so window of reverse is not the same for everyone. I wish I could go back in time and start treatment on time. But it's not possible.

[Narwhal10]

Hi mo2march,

I spoke to someone who had a Traumatic Brain Injury and from their experience is studying Physiotherapy. I asked whether they knew of certain foods that helped with nerve repair and they said they ate radishes daily (as do I) because of research.

It’s because of Sulforaphane. Also found in broccoli, Brussel sprouts.

I’ve got medical literature but it’s rather technical and laborious.

Best wishes