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windchymes -> RE: The *NEW and IMPROVED* CM Biggest Loser/Health and Fitness Thread! :D (5/25/2011 9:28:07 AM)
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ORIGINAL: FelineFae
i was kidding.[:D]
i am perscribed a lot of suppliments at levels that a dr. has to sign off on because i can't get them out of food.
That's how i came by the nick-name "living dead girl", i had a standard blood panel done, and most of the results came in so low the redid the test, only to find that my body was somehow functioning with a lot less of these things than it should have had. That's where the " you can live without it, i do " has become a running joke for me.[&:] After one blood panel, i was called on my girl-friend's cell phone while we were grocery shopping, and ordered to report to the ER because my potassium had dropped to a critical level. The nurse kept gawking at me, trying to figure out how i not only was alive, but how my heart wasn't doing somethine bad, and how i had enough vitality to be annoyed about melting frozen pizzas. There are just days that i wish i wasn't a freak.
Anyone want to play "Dr.House" and figure out why no matter vitamin rich a food i eat, i can't get the vitamins and minerals out of it ? Especially potassium ? Lol, you'd save my doctors a lot of work.
Do you know a vit D suppliment thats pretty good for most people ?
Ok, sorry for the lecture, I did misunderstand your comment :) Low vitamin D levels are actually very common, probably 80% of the population has what is considered a below normal level, and probably half of those have levels that are practically nuthin', though in general, levels are on the rise, due to increasing public awareness. I know this because it's what I do for a living.....we do roughly 150,000 Vitamin D tests each month in my department.
Any over-the-counter supplement should be okay, you can pick up a bottle of D-3's at Walmart for $4, take 2 or 3 a day then get checked, see how that does? Other than that, no more medical advice :)
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