18Aug 2011 by Marjorie 12 Comments

Seven fomenters of brain fog

nutritional therapy, symptoms and conditions, treatments
Several factors combined together to cause me years of spaciness and difficulty concentrating. Highlights of this period included giving the wrong last name when called on in class and almost getting my head wedged between two floors of a department store while riding the escalator. Most of the causes were ferreted out after I went gluten-free, and now I can face a big project and a tight deadline without sweating it too much, given enough Pepsi. The problem is that metabolizing an acre's worth of high-fructose corn syrup when you're 25 is one thing; now it's quite another. I'm still looking for the final pieces to this puzzle. The main causes were: 1. and 2. High histamine, caused at least in part by low iodine I discovered this by accident…
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25May 2011 by Marjorie 7 Comments

The heartbreak of stupid fingernails

symptoms and conditions, treatments
February 7, 2013: I later had some success with vitamin D3. Updated February 6, 2012 Growing up I'd watch movies set in the heyday of the manicure, the 1930s to the 1950s, and then I'd look down at my own bendy, shallow, round nails and I'd think, whyyyyy? When I got my first full-time job I splurged on French-manicured, squoval artificial nails and enjoyed them thoroughly despite being laughed at by the guy giving me riding lessons. Eventually the cost of filling them every three weeks got to be too much, so I abandoned the habit. I'd bet those nail salon chemicals are still in my system, plotting their oncological revenge. Going gluten-free brought me no nail improvement. Over the years I did notice some of the classic nutritional correlations:…
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