OT: - Vitamin B15 -- Pangamic Acid ????

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Its Goran from Macedonia writting...

Just to inform you that we are on SCD day 45 and we are doing OK with food,

eating etc...

I was interesting for Vit B15, reg the news that helps much with autistic

children and improve the speach in these children...

So, any of you, do you have any experience with Vit B15???

The following is some info reg the Vit B15:

This is still a fairly controversial " vitamin. " The quotation marks suggest

that we are not sure whether it is a vitamin. It has not yet been shown to be

essential in the diet (vitamins must be supplied from external sources), and no

symptoms or deficiency diseases are clearly revealed when consumption is

restricted. The FDA has been concerned about the wide range of medical

conditions treated with it, primarily in other countries, and therefore pangamic

acid is not readily available to the U.S. consumer. Because most of the

information about pangamic acid is dated and is mainly from European and former

Soviet Union research, I discuss this substance here mainly for completeness.

The former Soviet Union had been the most enthusiastic about pangamic acid,

feeling that it is a very important nutrient with physiological actions that can

treat a multitude of symptoms and diseases. Soviet scientists had shown that

pangamic acid supplementation can reduce the buildup of lactic acid in athletes

and thereby lessen muscle fatigue and increase endurance. It had been used

regularly and commonly in the Soviet Union for many problems, including

alcoholism and drug addiction; mental problems such as those of aging and

senility, minimal brain damage in children, autism, and schizophrenia; heart

disease and high blood pressure; diabetes; skin diseases; liver disease; and

chemical poisonings.

Best regards

Goran

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[Guest guest]

Hi, Goran,

I don't know much about this, but apparently pangamic acid (B15) is a

component of the supplement DMG which many of our kids take. On

another list, someone said: In Shaw's book " Biomedical

Intervention for Autism and PDD " he discusses the use

of DMG (Dimethylglycine) specifically to enhance

speech abilities in ASD kids (see pp. 38-42).

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04