Hi, I've just joined this forum so excuse me if I'm posting in the wrong place.
For over 10 years I also have been a sufferer of RSL. I am convinced that the cause is an acid imbalance in the body. Also an imbalance of electrolytes. It would take too much time now to explain my reasons but hopefully very soon I will do a video with a professional nutritionist who understands the problem. If I get it done I will post the link info on here. Meanwhile I strongly advise any sufferers to do the following:-
Each morning 1/2 an hour before food take 1/2 a lemon in warm water. This helps clear the acid in your stomach. If you eat meat and other acid foods like cakes etc, take Alka Clear drink which has natural alkalinity. Hope it helps you.
A lot of work has been done on health and alkalinity but I've yet to see it in reference to RLS. I found a marked improvement in my symptoms following a plant based diet.
I don't understand how adding lemon(an acid) to ones stomach, clears the stomach of acid.???? Would seem to me ,to be adding to the acidity , if anything. 🤗
Lemons although they are acid turn leave an alkaline ash when digested. I agree that having lemon juice in the morning before eating is a wonderful way to cleanse and alkalise the system.
I would’ve guessed that Madlegs would be right if the lemon was just eaten by itself. My guess was that the acidity of the lemon is lessened by the water. Since my guess still doesn’t explain the irony of combating acid with more acid, though, I like your explanation better (plus, who can argue with facts?)
a lot of bother? I hardly think trying the route if drinking lemon water is a “bother” in the potential face of being on a lifetime of medications?? I used this method…and it worked. I share that info with others, not to bother them, but because they medical field sometimes doesn’t know what it doesn’t know (this has happened to be countless times in life, I recall an ER doctor telling me Effexor wasn’t causing my brain spasms because “it’s not in the literature” and my reply to him was to go on ahead and write it into the literature, years later my real life experience and the experiences of others I’d connected to on forums such as this bore out that I was 100% correct and the doctor didn’t know what he didn’t know).
Anyway, if a method such as alkalizing the body works for a person, why would they go read an article telling them it doesn’t work, and then…go sign up for 50 years or reliance on prescribed medication, in defiance of what their own body and mind are so clearly and obviously telling them.
So yes—to everyone that thinks drinking lemon water a couple times a day would be a travesty and would prefer to visit a doctor and take prescribed medication for the rest of their lives instead—by all means, go ahead.
But at least don’t prevent others from trying it. And if you went the route I’d never trying it yourself? The best way you can help others is by not speaking about something you have no personal knowledge—that is the purpose of these groups after all
Mad legs is right. First, the whole alkaline diet thing is a hoax, promoted mainly by companies selling alkaline water. The the food you eat (including lemons) has virtually no effect on the acidity or alkalinity of your system. That's because our blood pH level is tightly controlled by the body, since our cells need the pH to be within a tight near-neutral range in order to function properly. This article explains it:
Second, there is no published scientific evidence I am aware of that links the alkalinity of the foods we eat (or their byproducts) with RLS. If you know of any such evidence, please provide it.
Have you actually tested this out on yourself? Try eliminating your morning lemon water for 2 weeks, and see if your RLS symptoms are worse. Then report back to us.
hahah you think the alkalize water industry is a hoax but not big pharma (who profits on every medication they need and loses money for everyone treating themselves with lemon water)?
Evidence needs to be gathered and the research funded for there to be scientific published information. The reason forums such as this exist is to help people before that information is available. I have helped myself in forums such as this for 15 years and every time the info I got, some of it at least helped me more than doctors—and none of it had been published yet. That’s the reason for these groups. We all know how to Google an article from the past
Hi Rsl-16 - Actually, no offense, but RLS has different causes for different people and mostly they are all different. I am a firm believer that no one has the answer, in it's entirety, to something as complex and widespread as RLS.
I have followed an Alkaline diet for the last 10 years, and measure my pH every morning. It doesn't matter if I am a 6 or a 9 - the RLS can still show up.
So, I would agree with a statement that says "One of the causes may, or can, be an acid system." and I would agree with that totally. Good luck with your video, but please don't posit that an alkaline system is "the answer" for RLS.. Thanks
The other point I want to make is that we have acid in our stomachs for a reason - It is the preparation of the food we eat for the intestines. If you keep the stomach alkaline all of the time, it can interfere with your ability to get the most nutrients from your food... (I was thinking of your statement to drink Alka Clear when you eat something acidic...)
Wait a minute, all those nights pacing the floor and all I needed to do was eat half a lemon in warm water and I would be cured? All the money I have spent on drugs and Dr visits and all the tears I have shed for what this disease has done to my life and all I need to do is eat 1/2 a lemon that costs $0.25 cents at the grocery store and I’m cured? God I wish it was this easy! I’m sorry if I seem negative but this is the kind of stuff that people tell me to try. Give me a break! If it was really this easy don’t you think this message board would not exist! UGH. I’m so frustrated with people trying to treat this as some simple fix. It’s a major problem and a lemon is NOT going to fix it!
Can't say anything about the lemon but there is research supporting increased alkalinity:
AND @ Diz17 you don't need lemon, its soap - ask Madlegs1 about it
5 years ago I told my Doctor that anti depressants were causing RLS and Oxycodone was fixing it. He thoughts I was nuts. Now its common knowledge. I searched for this topic because I had the same thoughts. I eat an orange at night and it helps a lot. So it got me thinking about PH levels. If you research the common things that helps RLS you will also notice they are the same things that raise your PH levels and also the things that hurt your RLS are the same things that lower it. It was said before that not everyone is the same.
Please don't respond the BLA BLA BLA I really don't care, I know what helps me. Give a orange a try it is Acidic but makes your body more Alkaline.
I am curious to check my PH levels at night since my RLS only shows up at night when trying to sleep (figures) I will go buy a PH tester and see. Like everyone else on this board I will try anything. Again, keep all your negativity to yourself, I don't have time for your Drama ( as seen on this post) this person was just trying to help.
I would just really like to get in touch with the Author.
Hi, good to hear that you find a bedtime orange helpful. Their Vit C will certainly help with iron absorption and they will supply potassium too.
Please don’t mistake science for negativity but it’s almost impossible for food to change the pH (acid/alkaline) level of blood...it has to stay in a very narrow band or our whole system goes wrong. If you’re measuring urine pH that can change quite a lot with different foods but that’s because our kidneys do their job of regulating our blood pH in that narrow band. Urine pH is not an indicator of overall pH.
Long may it continue to help, I love oranges, they’re very pleasant “medication”!
At first I was on the Vitamin C theory as well but believe it or not Orange juice didn't help. Or at least trying to front load the body. Neither did taking it in pill form. But again this was daytime thinking and It only happens to me at night. Our bodies change a lot from day to night.
Thanks for your input but please don't mistake what you might think as science for the truth. I am an engineer by trait and get really bored with people with titles telling me how they are experts. Doctors have failed me plenty of times "they just read what the Drug folks want them to read" and it was little hidden post like this that have helped me in the past. I didn't stumble onto this chain I purposely searched for it so please if you have a different opinion save your breath, I am only looking for more information on the subject.
A little fact, "again I am an engineer and only believe in them" to prove or disprove this thought I just mixed some baking soda in with water when the twitching was unstoppable" stopped it cold. now this isn't a long term fix but does say my body was out of whack. Yes the body has to be in a certain zone, Da and if not bad things can happed and it's different for different people. I presume you would also tell me Pain meds are a depressant, and for most and in some ways for me yes. BUT I could stay up for days on them. Not sleepy just the opposite. I learned a ling time ago to do my own research and ignore other people trying to dismiss it. that is logic.
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