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Diagram of how various deficiencies can egg each other on
Soon after I discovered that typical guidelines about iodine are outdated and wrong (1), I came across information about vitamin K that made me realize the amounts I had been experimenting with were...
View ArticleWebsites I’ve found helpful in my nutritional therapy research
Updated January 6, 2013. Also check out the Resources and references page. Acu-cell (also mentioned on the About Dosages page) Ronald Roth’s site has an extensive amount of information about nutrients...
View ArticleNutrient interaction symptom to watch out for: eating your young
As I’ve said elsewhere, what most people call supplement side effects are in fact the symptoms of an interaction with another nutrient. You might get headaches from taking vitamin D after a while, not...
View ArticleDon’t take folic acid and methylfolate at the same time
Someone on a B12 deficiency discussion group mentioned that he’d found that if he took folic acid (the synthetic version of the naturally-occurring folate) at the same time as methylfolate (a much more...
View ArticleOn “developing a tolerance” to a supplement
I occasionally encounter people who use the expression “developed a tolerance” to describe that annoying phenomenon in which a supplement works for a while to treat whatever symptoms you’re complaining...
View ArticleList of my supplement reactions caused by induced deficiencies
As I’ve mentioned in more than a few posts, reactions to supplements are most often NOT caused by poisoning or developing a so-called “tolerance.” Rather, it’s simply that you’ve lowered one of that...
View ArticleVitamin C antagonists can raise histamine levels ????
Update 11/17/14: I am no longer sure about this. I don’t know enough about how these nutrients interact re: histamine. Like many people with a tendency towards high histamine, I’ve discovered that...
View ArticleIf iron interferes with your thyroid function or thyroid meds, you might need...
After I started taking Armour thyroid to treat hypothyroid symptoms — including that lovely one where your hair feels like there’s an electric current going through it — I quickly realized that the 50...
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I tried to detox lead and all I got was this stupid vertigo
I developed vertigo after my second dose of DMSA treatment for lead chelation. For the next four weeks I had trouble moving quickly, standing up, going down stairs, etc., with no signs of it abating....
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