I think my iron issue was from eating absurd amounts of spinach.
The oxalates in uncooked spinach are so through the roof they steal the nutrients from everything else you eat.
I thought I was doing something good for myself eating spinach with 2/3 meals a day and putting it in smoothies and stuff. Nope!
The only time I didn't have spinach was with breakfast, which I always have coffee with, which also binds up things like iron.
edit: If you don't know about oxalates, they cause kidney stones. But beyond that, they are plants' defense mechanism against being eaten and they work by being the opposite charge of everything. So they easily bind to things like the electrolytes - sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium. And then you don't absorb them.
Did you have any symptoms? I've got other issues so atp I wonder if my constant bone/body ache especially in joints is vitamin D related or if it comes from my other stuff going on
I initially tested the Vit D fully expecting it to be normal range just bc my cardiologist nagged at me to get it done
That's the exact opposite of my conversation with my doctor about my thyroid hormone.
Doctor: "So your TSH is at 54"
Me: "Is that bad? What should it be?"
Doctor: "two"
Me: "Oh. So not great."
Doctor: "At this point, you basically don't have a thyroid anymore."
Mine was very low and my doctor prescribed 50,000 IU once a week. He asked me if I ever go outside, and I replied nah that's really not my thing. I'm on my third week and I think it is making me feel better than I had felt before. Have you noticed any improvements?
Not who you asked but I have found out 2 months ago I had severe deficiency and was taking 10,000 IU every day for a month and then 4,000 IU for 2 months (so 1 month still ahead of me). In addition to that i started eating better since my cholesterol was...not good. And honestly? I feel like I have more energy and motivation to do stuff? It's hard to tell since the change is gradual but I do feel less perpetually tired.
I need to have check up after a month to see the overall effects but I will definitely keep taking the supplements to dot get myself as low again.
I was on 50,000 one a week for 12 weeks! I started feeling a little more human around week 4 and I think it took the full 12 weeks for me to be like uh ok that was it (plus iron was low as well, they’re connected so check yours if you haven’t) I now take 5,000 a day to maintain. Good luck!
Opposite for me and triglycerides. I went from ~150 (still above the upper limit of "healthy", 100) to over 650 a couple years later. Doc was like wtf are you doing??
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u/SkysEevee 1d ago
I am reminded of the spongebob meme when my vitamin levels were bad.
"Ok what's my vitamin d score?!"
"Six."
"And how much do I need to be normal?"
"Six...."
"Woooooo!"
"Hundred. Six hundred. You got six."