Common Problems Of The Nervous System

When the nervous system is affected through irritation, damage, or disease, it can result in either partial or complete paralysis. This can be flaccid paralysis, perhaps the result of a severed nerve, which leaves the muscles floppy and without sensation, or spastic weakness of paralysis, when the muscles become rigid due to nerve damage in the brain or spinal cord, perhaps following a stroke. Paralysis can be either temporary or permanent. In diseases such as Parkinson's or MS, there may be weakness without paralysis.

Neuritis
Numbness, tingling, pain, or muscle weakness due to the degeneration of nerve tissue, neuritis is caused by inflammation, disease, or damage. Symptoms vary according to whether it is the sensory nerve fibers or motor nerve fibers that are affected. Alcoholism may exacerbate the condition.

Treatment
This depends on the underlying cause and severity of the damage. Specific causes include diabetes, which can be treated by rebalancing the body's sugar metabolism.

Naturopathy Treatment will be aimed at addressing dietary deficiencies, boosting vitamin intake and energy levels. Excessive alcohol consumption can also be treated with naturopathy to regulate diet.

Diet and Nutrition Restoring the body's natural chemical dehydroepaindrosterone (DHEA) may also help Optimum levels are 750-1250ng/dL for men, 550-980ng/dL for women. Supplements of 50-100mg per for men, and 20-75mg for women may be recommended.

Recommended Daily Allowance Of Potassium

There is no recommended daily allowance (RDA) for potassium, but it is advised to get between 2,000-3,000 mg per day. The range of intake for children is 780 to 1,600 mg per day.

This is not difficult, and most people meet this requirement on their own through a normal diet. In general, nutritionists recommend reducing salt intake and ensuring adequate supply by increasing the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables in the diet.

If one is into bodybuilding, he must increase the potassium intake, since potassium is needed to maintain muscles in good form, and also because potassium is lost from excessive sweating and urine.

Symptoms of high intake of potassium:
Excessive potassium can be toxic and will affect the heart. This is a problem especially when one is suffering from some problem such as kidney failure. Irregular heart beat and muscle fatigue is sign of toxic potassium levels. In healthy people, the kidneys in the urine excrete excess potassium.

Who requires extra potassium?
People who require potassium supplements include:

• women on oral contraceptives,
• chronic alcoholics or drug abusers,
• smokers
• people undergoing stress
• athletes
• people doing strenuous exertion,
• anyone suffering from any degree of mal-absorption syndrome
• people with eating disorders, especially bulimia and anorexia..