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Re: Inositol on empty stomach?From: Sallie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:32:39 -0500 (CDT)
At Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Debbie wrote: > >I have been taking Inositol for about a year now. I did a lot of >research before I started taking it just because I like to know what I'm >putting in my body (I've become somewhat of a health freak) and I was >wondering where everyone read that you are supposed to take Inositol on >an empty stomach? I have looked and looked and I have found no >information about that. If someone could let me know, I would >appreciate it! >Thanks, >Debbie Debbie, I have been giving my daughters inositol (1500mg)on an empty stomach in the morning since the beginning of November. My oldest daughter used to never have periods. She would have one or two periods a year and they were only a couple of days of spotting. On Nov 1 I started giving my oldest inositol and on Nov 27 she had a period and has had a period every month since.(5 months in a row) It has been amazing and they are real 6-7day periods. Her cycles have been 31,35,33, and 28 days on the last one) I began giving my other two inositol after that. They have PCOS also and don't ovulate but their periods were 12 day cycles. They would have a period every other week. Their periods have gone from 12 to 25-28 day cycles. I started giving them inositol this way because I had talked to woman who was in a research study using just plain inositol this way. This is what they gave her, actually it was 1200mg in the study but I can only find 500mg capsules that are not timed release. At first I thought the woman must be mistaken and called the clinic where the study had taken place and they confirmed what she had said. There was another study about to open on d chiro inositol but they said the one before had been on just plain inositol. The woman told me that her blood work showed that her progesterone levels had risen considerablely and she was having a period every month. She said she normally only had one period a year if she was lucky. After the study was over they told her she could get inositol at the health food store and they told her not to get a timed release form or one in combination with other supplements. Taking the inositol on empty stomach prevents the inositol from being changed by insulin or digestive enzymes so that it can complete its cascading pathway. Everyone probably gets inositol in their diet and your body can make it out of glucose but apparently it doesn't do it right in PCOS or diabetes. I too have researched inositol and d chiro inositol extensively. I think that in PCOS and diabetes that inositol is just not used right or maybe there is a deficiency created. I also think that it might be a genetic trait to have inositol blocked or changed by insulin. When too much carbohydrate or sugar is eaten then a deficiency state of inositol is created, maybe. Who knows for sure? All I know is - my daughters have sure benefited from taking it. I have been determined that I was not going to give my daughtes BCP and I feel that I can relax some now that I wasn't doing "what the doctor ordered". I just knew that if I did ever put them on BCP that I would not be able to tell whether changing our diet to low carb(which we did for a year with no periods occurring),vitamins or herbs were helping. I still need to have hormone levels done to see exactly where they are. I am sure something has changed and I wanted to wait long enough to give the inostiol time to balance things out, if that is what it is doing. After all I think it would take time for something to completely get turned around - like the ovaries to heal and cysts to calm down or something.
-- Sallie
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