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Why yes, I am a very pale woman who avoids sunlight because I burn so darn fast. I even work indoors all day. Why yes, I throw up when I eat fish and seafood. Why yes, I am mildly lactose-intolerant and do not drink a lot of milk.
I am now on 5000 IU of vitamin D per day, and after a couple of weeks, I'll want to maintain at 3000 IU/day.
Guess what vitamin D deficiency can cause. Guess. Remember all the agony I was going through with dietary sodium? Vitamin D deficiency can cause high blood pressure! Heh.
So now that's five little pills for D and one annoying injection of B12. There's hope that I can stop the B12 in a month or so... unless my feet spontaneously heal, in which case, bring on the needles.
I am now on 5000 IU of vitamin D per day, and after a couple of weeks, I'll want to maintain at 3000 IU/day.
Guess what vitamin D deficiency can cause. Guess. Remember all the agony I was going through with dietary sodium? Vitamin D deficiency can cause high blood pressure! Heh.
So now that's five little pills for D and one annoying injection of B12. There's hope that I can stop the B12 in a month or so... unless my feet spontaneously heal, in which case, bring on the needles.
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According to my doc, the effect of a low carb diet on blood pressure works particularly well for people with metabolic syndrome, of which I have only two signs rather than the three my doctor requires for diagnosis. (My waist to hip ratio is laughably small, my HDL is fantabulous, and I have no glucose tolerance impairment... yet. My blood pressure is still only borderline for this, ditto my triglycerides.) However, if my blood pressure stays highish while on the D, my doc may call me one of those cases anyway. If he does, I'll have specific medical reason to be South Beaching it. Take THAT, carb zealots! :-)