Mum's back is getting better! She's showing no signs of taking it easy though so I hope it doesn't go again.

This morning Susan went over my OAT with me. She taught me all about the oxidative stress/glutathione/b6 pattern. I will have to look over my notes and try to decipher it another time, right now I am too tired to wrap my brain around it..not to mention I am dumping pretty hard right now. 

I have to take reduced glutathione, B6 in the forms pyridoxine and P5P to a total of about 580mg a day (10mg per kg of body weight) in order to 'get out' of oxidative stress, allithiamine (Vit B1- to assist in the proper metabolism of a higher meat diet and prevent protein/meat(?) from being converted to oxalate, a lot of biotin (probably around 20mg a day), enzyme CoQ10 and maybe some msm sulfur but I am a bit scared of that one just yet. 

I have no idea how I am going to increase to that amount of B6. Right now..I'm taking 50mg and dumping with minor rashes, GI distress, insomnia, ravenous hunger, mood swings, depression etc.. I have a feeling though, that I am not getting myself out of oxidative stress enough. What I think might be happening is that the B6 is helping me to dump some but I am continuing to make endogenous oxalate, so I have oxalate production coupled with oxalate dumping and it's making me feel even more lousy. 

Although, when I stop making endogenous oxalate I know I will dump a tonne of stored stuff from all this time in oxidative stress. And that in itself is going to put me in more oxidative stress and will be counterproductive. Step in biotin. This is meant to be the lifesaver..along with all the other antioxidants that will be helping me reduce the oxidative stress caused by dumping. Phew!

In other news, I LOVE yoga. I've have done 20 mins of hatha every day for about a week and my body is feeling so much stronger now that I am doing it regularly instead of once a week (which I've been doing for about a year). Why didn't I do this sooner? I also go for 20 minute brisk walks every 2nd day or so. I won't brisk walk if I don't feel up to it, which has been lately with the dumping...I'll just go for a steady 15 minute walk.