Amusing effects of correcting nutritional deficiencies
(Updated April 2023.) I’ve found that repleting certain vitamins and minerals can have weird effects on your mind and body.
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Scary leg pain resolved with calcium
(Updated April 2023.) Before my gluten-freedom (which commenced April 4, 1998) I became aware of a constant, aching bone pain in my legs that didn’t seem to be a tissue or a muscle or a joint thing. It was most noticeable when doing the dishes or standing in line at the airport.
Another early nutritional therapy success: hypoglycemia
(Updated April 2023.) 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 else could hear it).
My very first nutritional therapy success: carpal tunnel syndrome
(Updated April 2023.) One of my first experiments in nutritional therapy, and one of the most straightforward, was directed at that bane of the data entry worker, carpal tunnel syndrome.
Successes and failures treating chemical sensitivities
(Updated July 2022.) I first noticed that I was reacting to some chemical substances around 2002, when I developed splitting headaches from paint used in my apartment, even the low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) stuff.
Fun with lymph cleansers
(Updated April 2023.) Except for a few half-hearted liver flushes, I did not bother with detox treatments in any of my health self-experiments until I suddenly switched my entire focus to mold avoidance.
Revisiting the gluten thing
(Updated April 2023.) I’ve been gluten-free since April of 1998, when I discovered that my decades-long crushing depression lifted considerably 12 hours after I stopped it.
I tried to detox lead and all I got was this stupid vertigo
(Updated April 2023.) (See also this post on iron-induced 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.
The summer of my frozen shoulder *
(Updated April 2023.) In 2014 I stumbled on a staircase, reached out to balance myself against the wall, and was rewarded with a breathtaking pain in my left shoulder that I tried to ignore for a year.
Operation Electrosmog Reduction, Part 2
(Updated April 2023. See also part 1 of my electrosmog reduction experiment.) For the past five years, since reading Zapped by Ann Louise Gittleman, I have tried to control my exposure to electromagnetic fields aka EMF as much as I can without going batty.
