And, a poll for those using Flintstones
I would LOVE to know how your labs are. I'm really interested in your vitamin A and selenium, and many docs don't order those unless you ask for them specifically, which you might wanna do since you've been taking Flintstones for a year. I'd be thrilled if you had those checked and let me know what they were.
Kelly
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My doctor officer recommended the flintstones or any vitamin that has 22 ingredients. They want me to take iron and those have iron. I noticed that many vitamins geared for over 55 adults do not have iron. My doctor wants me to take it even though it isn't great for the liver.
I just do what I am told however I take a great vitamin I love on puritan's pride and now that I can swallow I am going on those instead. As to the iron...I must listen to the doctor and take it even though every instinct tells me not to.
Kelly
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Too much selenium - and in the wrong form - may be harmful for a person.
The selenium found in supplements - are actually is most likely the wrong selenium salt. That one may cause more harm than good. Too much selenium - the wrong type - may cause more bad than good.
Because food - specially meat and dairy and eggs - are source of good - organic selenium - deficiencies are rare... even in RNY people - unless they do not consume the foods that have that.
Selenium is a HEAVY METAL.. and as such - may carry risks or heavy metal poisoning., Google that.
BTW: eating 2-3 Brazil nuts (in our case 4-5) a day will provide the body with more than enough selenium. Not even mentioning the area of the country that have soil rich in selenium - (south west) People living there and eating that food - will have more - or even too much selenium in their body.
Are Selenium Levels Linked to Diabetes?
A new study finds that diabetics had higher levels of selenium, a mineral found in U.S. soil but also some dietary supplements
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=selenium-li nked-to-diabetes
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
and we do accumulate that in our bodies.. and our pets.. there is a lot of data...
Both sodium selenite and selenate are classified as dangerous and toxic to the environment. They can be carcinogenic and genotoxic, and may contribute to reproductive and developmental problems in animals and humans. Nonetheless, they are the primary forms of the mineral sold on the mass market today.
Most mass-market vitamins actually contain chemicals that the EPA has banned from public drinking water at levels above 50 parts per billion. That's the equivalent of a tablespoon of water in an Olympic-size swimming pool.
According to Green Med Info:
"... [T]his is not the first time in American history that such a hoax has been perpetuated on the public. The FDA-approved use of fluoride in our drinking water and the use of radioactive cobalt-60 culled from nuclear reactors for the IRRADIATION OF conventional food illustrates how industrial waste products with known toxicity are eventually converted into commodities or technologies 'beneficial to health.' Whereas initially these substances have very high disposal costs for the industries that excrete them into our environment, the liability is converted -- through the right combination of lobbying, miseducation and "checkbook science" -- back into a commodity".
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/2 2/is-your-multivitamin-toxic.aspx?e_cid=20110822_DNL_art_1
http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/articles/is-selenium-toxicity-a-concern-for-our-pets.html
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
And no, I don't take flinstones vit. I did for the first month, but as soon as I was cleared to swallow my pills instead of chewing, I started taking centrum adults.
Height:5'1.5 RNY:11/30/11 HW:307 SW:234 CW:136 GW:140 (LOST 73 Lbs. PRE-OP)
You can google the tests to learn more about them. You can ask your doctor to explain them. Or you can post it here and see if anyone here can tell you about them (of course anything people tell you here should not be considered medical advice).
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I think the creatinine and glomerular filtration rate tell you something about your kidneys. Yours are within the reference range listed on your lab report, so that's fine.
Glucose if blood sugar, yours is fine.
Your potatssium, sodium, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium are all fine. Those are different minerals.
Your BUN is slightly low and I think that might also have something to do with kidney function but I'm not sure. Someone else might know here, or you can call your doc and ask.
Albumin has to do with protein and yours is fine.
The red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and all that stuff has to do with the different types of blood cells, and yours all look fine.
Ferritin is like your iron storage and yours is good. Your iron is low, though. I'd take more iron.
Your B12 is good.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
