Everyone, I think, (I Hope),  is familiar with Vitamin D's Benefits and deficiency symptoms, but what about all the other nutrients?  March is National Nutrition Month. This Week,  I wanted to give an overview of the major nutrients and deficiency symptoms, best food sources and how prevalent these nutrient deficiency symptoms are…

The following chart, gives a wonderful Overview:

One Important Caveat:

Please do not self diagnose and treat however.  Many of the signs and symptoms presented here have other causes as well.  Supplementation is also a very tricky business.  Think of it as a chemistry set that needs to stay in balance at all times.  If you supplement with one nutrient you throw off everything else if you are not careful or extremely knowledgeable.  Plus most nutrients are toxic beyond a point.  One interesting notation is that toxicity signs and deficiency symptoms are almost always the SAME!

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Many Clients and most gastrointestinal and skin disordered and ACNE patients I see are deficient in several nutrients specific to their bodies.  Unless really pronounced, my preference is to resolve the faulty gut and immune functioning  first and then and only then test for deficiencies.

In naturopathic medical theory, the human body will heal with what is available but how quickly and how thoroughly is largely dictated by nutrition status.  Due to the huge problems with food quality in this country as well as stress, supplementation is called for for almost everyone. But how to assess one's status?

As mentioned a few weeks ago in the HPV article, Spectrocell provides a high quality panel that tests for over 40 nutrients and is very reasonably priced at $395.   I tested myself a short time ago and while was in the optimal range for every single nutrient, I was slightly short in L-Glutamine.  I would never have suspected such a thing so the test was very valuable to me.  Similar findings have surfaced with my clients and been very helpful in their healing  journeys.

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Best of Health!

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Taryn DeCicco, ND, LAc, LDN

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