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[Mynona]

I have had anorexia for many years (up and down too near death, too many times), borrelioses (Lyme disease) and adrenal fatigue (which I have slightly yet). Also low ferritin and low hb was discovered along with very subclinical hypothyreos tests.

I took VERY many supplements for a while, but am weaning off, going for even better diet, greens powders and whole food multis.

What I take now:
- Iron 75-100 mg, the usual one from the doctor (2+?), since I couldn't go up in ferritin by "better forms". Taking an orange, lemon or something at the same time. NO stomach problems! Will start eating blood, and lower the dose.

- Greens powder and nettle powder (will alternate different brands if they seems good).

- Thorne or Innate B vitamin complex (goes a lot when adrenal fatigue and stressed)

- Extra B5 and biotin which I will stop when they are all eaten. (for adrenals, B5, and hair, biotin).

- Ate l-cystine and L-lysine, but have stopped. Eat a lot of green gram/moong dal sprouts, which contains L-lysine.

- Calcium-magnesium citramate from Thorne (for adrenals and stress)

- Zink that I will stop when bottle is empty (CRON-o-meter told me why). Ate due to hair loss.

- Selenium that I also will stop due to what CRON-o-meter said (ate because of my subclinical hypothyreos)

- D3-vitamin that I will continue, especially dur to CRON-o-meter...

- GLA from argh, can't the word for it, "gurkört" an oil (borage?). This made my PMS disappear, menstruational pain disappear, PCO disappear and made my menstrual cycle exactly 28 days for the first time in my life. Also got better skin.

- NO fish oil. I eat wild catched salmon and mackerell 2-3 times a week. Ate fish oil before. From a sort that is proven stable and not concentrated. I give it to my children and husband

- E-vitamin, blended tokoferols and tokotrinols. Will continue, due to CRON-o-meter.

- MSM that I think I will stop when bottle is empty, if anyone doesn't give me a very good reason to continue. Started due to hair loss and to make "skin keep youngish". Should I continue???

- Antioxidant from VERY MANY different berries (dried and put in capsule). I also eat 1 dl of real berries per day. Should I stop this supplement???

Ok. I eat, or ATE a LOT!!! I have noticed increased hair loss during autumns. I lose 15-25 hairs per day half year, and 80 during fall. That's a big difference that is not the usual. I also can see some hair is slightly miniaturized. I got panic and started a lot of supplements, which I have stopped, or that I'm weaning off.

Feel free to give me tips

[Mynona]

Forgot this info:

Besides the health issues I mentioned, I should tell age and gender: female, 40 years old.

[Mind]

The general idea of eating more of your nutrients (real food) instead of taking of a lot supplements is a good one. If you are using the Cron-o-Meter and making sure you have a varied diet that covers all the essentials, that is a good start. Sometimes it takes a while for your body to repair some of the damage from the past.

Edited by Mind, 26 March 2012 - 12:01 PM.

[Mynona]

An interesting thing, is that when I stopped taking methylcobalamin, and halfed my "B-50" (vitamin B complex), my homocystein went from 6 to 4. And kobalamin in blood, is high still (I know it is not a very good test to use,especially since my B-complex includes some B12).

Maybe it is due to my more than ever carefully selected diet.

CRON-o-meter showed low in iron, even though I eat red meat (150 grams portions). I eat no bread or beans though (just 30 grams dry weight per day). But iron from such, isn't very easy for body to uptake from what I understand. But I will buy some beef blood tomorrow, and make the Finnish dish "blood pancake" with buck wheat instead of wheat. Hope it is eatable ^_^ Blood will give me LOADS or iron without LOADS of vitamin A and such like liver gives.

I would love to skip the 2+ iron AND not be forced to spend LOADS of money to buy iron bisglycinate and such.

[niner]

Cheers on the blood pancake. A lot of Americans would be afraid to eat blood. My father used to talk about blood sausage from his youth. I had some once in a very old restaurant in Madrid. Since you're in Sweden, have you had a 25-hydroxy vitamin D level? It's best to determine the amount you supplement by checking the blood level, because people respond differently to supplements. Oil-based formulations have better bioavailability than dry formulations. Your hair loss might not be as bad as you think- normal hair loss is said to be on the order of 100 hairs per day. I agree with Mind on the general principle that it's better to get your nutrition from food, and it sounds like you now have a pretty good diet. Anorexia is a terrible disease; it sounds like you are over it now, which must feel good. Do you still have any urges to not eat? The human body is capable of repair and regeneration, particularly at your young age. It can take a lot of time though; you will probably find yourself slowly getting healthier for many years.

[Mynona]

Hi! =)

No, my doc refuse to take the D-vitamin test. She said "everybody lacks in that anyway" and other doctors have said I have to show signs of deficit first. One can't pay oneself and just get the tests... Free health care is good, but this is the back side.

Hair loss is normal up to 100 per day. Average is 40 for younger women, 60 for a bit older. The 100 may be during "fall fall" or similar. I was at a long hair forum before (I cut my very long hair since) and no one lost 100 per day. The one who lost most without being ill, lost 60. I relate my hair loss to my own normal hair sheds, and then it is tripled. Normal "fall fall" should be 10-20 % more I read at one site. Well, I had some medications that cold be one reason to the loss, and I got very fixated with all of it. Hair loss + woman = NO GOOD for mental health X@

Anyway, my hair looks very thick, and is thicker than average. But I can see that hairs on top, is starting to get shorter and smaller. This happens to almost everybody in my age, but one can never know how it will end. And now I have gotten fixated with it anyway X(

I think I am over anorexia. But it is a balancing, eating CRON diet and have a history of anorexia. My motivation is to NOT get ill again, and I am driven to eat healthy in a real way. And even though I have a very low weight now, I do not have any starvation feelings (no freezing, no dizziness, no tiredness, not very hungry, do not cut down on fat proportions). That tells me it is ok for now. I also have contacts that will react if I go wrong.

I have a check list in my Android phone, with posts of things to eat during the day. I check them off, and see to that I am eating what I was supposed to. I can modify it, but not "cut down in an improper way".

I recently ordered D-vitamin drops from iherb. I think it was Thorne - or was it Innate... do not remember (a looong shipping time to Sweden). Maybe it is in oil then.

I would like to check my blood for D-vitamin, but do not know how to get a doctor to take the test.