Three strange and unexpected effects of correcting a vitamin or mineral...
1. Vivid dreams. This effect of vitamin B6 is fairly well-known. Some members of Yahoo’s pyroluria group (pyroluria is a condition in which vitamin B6 is chronically deficient) say that you’re at the...
View ArticleThe inadvertent ending to my hypoglycemia
I had this for years without knowing what it was. At its worst, I had to eat every 45 minutes or my brain would do that revving/screaming/wheels spinning thing (silently, I mean; I’m pretty sure no one...
View ArticleConstant and mysterious leg pain, solved
Before my gluten-freedom I became aware of a constant, aching bone pain in my legs (not a tissue or a muscle or a joint thing) that was most noticeable when doing the dishes or standing in line at the...
View ArticleRepairing the unspeakably lousy digestion of the celiac
Updated February 17, 2013 For years, in order to survive a job interview or a conference or a plane trip, I’d have to stop eating 36 hours beforehand. Any food I ate back then would either roar...
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Niagarrhagia
Update December 24, 2013: See also the post on methionine. My ob/gyn has only two treatment suggestions for menorrhagia, or heavy menstrual bleeding. Or, as I call it, Niagarrhagia. The first treatment...
View ArticleHair loss and hair thinning: a few causes and solutions
Long before I figured out the whole gluten-ruining-my-health thing, I noticed that I felt better the less I ate. This was because like most Americans I ate wheat (gluten) at almost every meal. This...
View ArticleA list of supplements that don’t work very well in the versions sold in the US
This past year I’ve learned that some of the nutrient supplements on the shelves in the US don’t work very well, either because a significant part of the population can’t process them, or because the...
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My experience with the Perfect Health Diet’s supplement plan
by guest blogger Steph Steph is maharani at Midlife Makeover Year, where she’s exploring new approaches to her health, diet, attitude, family life, and shoes, among other things. She is also one of my...
View ArticleAnother weird deficiency symptom: oversensitive hearing
Over the past 10 years I’ve discovered that when my magnesium gets really low I develop an annoying sensitivity to noise. It took me a few years to put it together after the first time it happened. In...
View ArticleTMJ: a total PIA
I have never been officially diagnosed with TMJ. I’m just assuming that the term applies to the condition I experience every few years or so wherein sitting in one place longer than 20 minutes makes...
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