R Alpha Lipoic - Get Benefits from Health Store

[spinninghead]

A health food store is where to get it -- and ask for the R version. It is the most biologically compatible form and much, much more effective than the regular ALA which I have been taking for years. Regular ALA has not seemed to help me with BFS. Once I started taking the R version, I seem to notice a lessening of symptoms.

For R version that can be purchased online, just enter R Alpha Lipoic Acid in the search window and it will bring up several places where you can get it. It needs to be pharmaceutical grade, 99% pure.

Check out these websites:






This link will take you right to the one offered at The Vitamin Shoppe:


Vitacost is a good source for all of the supplements I buy:

 

[mrjacksmith]

I am going to go out tomorrow and buy some ALA and give it a try..
I've been using only Magnesium/Calcium and it's been getting less effective over the past month or so.

 

[akuAizen]

Don't go overboard. ALA appears to have prooxidant as well as antioxdant properties and apparently we don't know all there is to know about what predominates in what circumstances and systems. Some researchers have expressed concern about its popularity about the observed prooxidant effects esp in mitochondria.

To see some of the articles search with "lipoic prooxidant" in pubmed.

 

[sza]

Bill, I just came across this relatively old ALA thread, and wondered if you're still using it, and if it is still helping?

To everyone else, thank so much for all the info and resources you shared on ALA! I'm looking forward to reading more.

 

[bluestarman]

I take 200 mg of the inexpensive ALA found at Wal Mart. I don't notice any benefit to twitching, but take it because of its antioxidant properties.

-Dave

 

[jsageurge]

I think there was no correlation, and I've stopped taking it. My twitching has come and gone many times since then, and the decrease here just happened to coincide with my trying ALA.