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Iron
Description:
Between 3 and 4 grams of iron are in a healthy adult body. Approximately 67% of this is bound up in the hemoglobin content of the blood. The remainder is divided among the muscles as myoglobin, in various cell components called cytochromes (respiratory enzymes, and in several storage sites, the major one being the liver).
Food Sources:
Meats
Vegetables
Flour
Cereals
Bread
Deficiency Symptoms:
• INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE because the brain is not getting the oxygen it needs.
• THE RED FLARE IS MISSING spreading from the half moons on your fingernails.
• THE NORMALLY HEALTHY PINK MEMBRANE OF YOUR EYELIDS BE COMES PALE AND COLORLESS
• LOW MYOGLOBIN resulting in the muscles tiring easily and becoming flaccid.
• LOWER RESISTANCE TO DISEASE due to enzymes like myeloperoxidase without which not enough white blood cells are produced to fight unwelcome invaders.
• GENERALIZED PRURITUS (ITCHING), particularly around the arms, genitals, legs and abdomen.
• TINGLING AND "PINS AND NEEDLES" IN THE FINGERS AND TOES
• TIREDNESS
• FATIGUE
• LACK OF STAMINA
• BREATHLESSNESS
• GIDDINESS
• DIM VISION
• HEADACHES
• INSOMNIA
• PALPITATION
• FAST PULSE RATE
• HEART MURMURS
• LOSS OF APPETITE
• INDIGESTION