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24 Nutrient Deficiencies And The Symptoms To Watch For

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This is a fascinating subject that I've only just started to get to grips with. I never would have believed how important all these Vitamins and Minerals are. Neither do doctors, unfortunately!

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Hypo mom has some good stuff, a nice clear list... thanks GG

here's another thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatm...

farmers knew about vital minerals in the 1930s - yet it still surprises folk, esp doctors!

as one of the posters wrote below "how do you get your doc to test for 24? mine won't even test one!"

we're mostly told to eat a healthy diet - but everyone thinks their diet is healthy! yet the food is much less nutritious now as the soil is depleted by chemicals, things are rarely grown commercially in 'soil' anymore!

Nainy quote :- 'variety is the spice of life' J :D

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Oh and "why has autoimmunity sky-rocketed over the last few decades"?

Steven Geanopulos

hypothyroidmom.com/90-of-pe...

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Jazzw in reply to Spareribs

That's a good one, Sparerib - thanks for posting :)

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Spareribs in reply to Jazzw

Is it only me making the connection 'tho?

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Jazzw in reply to Spareribs

It does feel sometimes like everyone else is on a different planet. I'm sure there are loads of factors, but the decrease in the nutritional value of our food has to be a key one. Some people never eat "real" food - everything comes out of a packet and has been processed so much it has to have vitamins added back in. That ought to tell us something!

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Yes, take cornflakes.... please do... (made to fatten piggies!)

the actual packaging would be more nutritious if they didn't fortify

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So many breakfast cereals full of sugar and no fibre. I really despair! Of course it's mostly children having this awful start to the day.

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unfortunately it's better kids have something rather than nothing for breakfast, at least they'll usually have some milk too. J :D

That's really interesting, it's a shame food sources weren't added.

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I don't understand why doctors seem unable to get to grips with vitamin and mineral deficiencies. We learnt about vitamins at school (I still have my school project!) - yet my GP dismissed everything.

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greygoose in reply to BeansMummy

Yes! I learnt a bit about vitamins at school, but not enough. I know you get scurvy if you don't get enough vit C, but that's about it! lol Would seem that most doctors didn't even learn that!

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BeansMummy in reply to greygoose

Well that's about the level that I learnt too. I remember vivid stories about all the sailors with scurvy!

I think that it is seen as impossible that anyone in a non-third world country could possibly be vitamin/mineral-deficient.

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greygoose in reply to BeansMummy

Yes, the problem is multi-fold :

a) doctors don't know the importance.

b) food is no-longer nutritious.

c) we have low stomach acid so can't absorb much in the way of nutrients.

d) doctors don't know - or don't believe! - that hypos have low stomach acid.

e) so many people take so many médications (thyroid hormone replacement included) that rob them of nutrients, or stop the absorbtion.

f) doctors don't blieve that médications do that.

All comes back to doctors in the end! lol

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BeansMummy in reply to greygoose

No hope then!

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greygoose in reply to BeansMummy

Of course there's hope! Take responsibility into your own hands and stop relying on doctors. You can treat yourself with vitamins and minerals without your doctor's say-so. You can treat your own low stomach acid. And the fact that you are doing it for yourself will make you feel that much more powerful and in control, which will have a positive effect on your health.

Read all you can about everything. Your doctors apathy should not rub off on you. Ignorance isn't contageous! Take back the control!

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Oh, I have definitely taken control, that's for sure :)

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Good! Then you have hope. :)

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Ladylee in reply to greygoose

How to you defeat low stomach acid. Or should you want too

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£

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