This is a personal experience with the following combinations of diet
and drugs. I am in now way insisting that this will happen to anyone
other than me, but please read it.
There's been some more health issues with me. About 6 months ago I
started noticing that I was having trouble breathing. I talked to my
doctor about it and she agreed that I was having symptoms consistent
with asthma. She offered to put me on an inhaler but I'm allergic to
epinephrine so she put me on Singulair instead. it took about 10 days
to get enough into my body that I was finally having a much easier
time breathing, in the mean time I read up on it and adults do get the
onset of asthma, mostly women because it's hormone related.
well then my urine changed color and I kept thinking that it would go
away. It didn't. Then my hair started falling out. Not drastic but
enough that I cut my hair, it just hits my shoulders now. Then I
called my doctor and asked her if these symptoms were a problem, she
told me to stop the singulair right away.
well my urine never changed back after a month so I had her run some
tests, the blood work came back with a dangerously high level of iron
in my blood, so she ran a ferretine test. In the mean time I started
reading about iron overload. Which is dangerous. The most interesting
thing I found out was what causes iron deficiency, and how they treat
it.
When someone is anemic they are instructed to take massive doses of
vitamin C (not a treatement for everybody) because vitamin C causes
you to absorb iron at a very high rate. Oh s**t! I take a one-a-day
and supplement it with extra vitamin C. It turns out that I was
causing my body to overload iron. Guess what two of the symptoms of
iron overload is.... hair loss and asthma.
my internist told me that this low carb diet has all the vitamin C I
need because there is vitamin C in most foods and the more this diet
allows of red meat and so forth, the more vitamin C I'm getting from
sources most people don't know exist. i.e. steak, chicken, nuts,
spinach etc. so supplementing vitamin C in the presence of high iron
intake was dangerous. She told me to follow my diet without any
supplements and she'll draw my blood once a month for the next few
months and she believes all will be well.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that low carb is a balanced
diet. By the way... my cholesterol, triglycerides and blood glucose
levels are still outstanding. and my iron levels have returned to
normal. I'm still having trouble breathing, but I am starting to have
hormone changes, and I think the hair loss has slowed to normal.
We put our beagles on the BARF diet and the fat one has lost 2 pounds
in 6 weeks. Woo-Hoo! We have a BARF distributor here but we buy the
raw food from the regular store, it's gross sometimes but it's not so
hard to do it. Molly's breath is wonderful and her teeth have never
looked this white. Maggie has stopped scratching and her teeth are
very white now. They eat twice a day and get a pork neck bone, or pig
foot every other day. It took 9 weeks to change them over to raw food,
as an abrupt change causes nausea.
That's all for now
Patti
reached my goal in april. Size 3