Part Two: The Missing Mineral in my Diet
So how did I realize what was doubtless at very least one major contributor to the intense, bone-wracking episodic pain in my upper shoulders/nape of neck that has periodically afflicted me in most recent, but thankfully not in the most recent, winter/s, here in my hometown of Dunedin?
By (haphazard) 'trial and error', however cliche-ridden that might sound...
Having, post-diagnosis with coeliac disease back in mid-2009, to pretty well immediately focus upon a nutrient-rich, vitamin-and mineral boosting to my ordinary dietary regime - especially by the use of supplementation, which, in this instance, was not, as per usual, frowned upon - there was one especial trace mineral that intrigued me; normally being associated with an acid one would assume was not especially healthful: hold on, all will shortly be revealed...
Realizing that these incidents of periodic neuralgia usually only tended to occur in the depths of bone-chilling midwinter - although one such memorable incident admittedly did occur, early January I believe, during the height of one of our most recent very unseasonably warm summers - I was able to somehow or other place this fact alongside my attention and due diligence to minerals which assisted my bones (and teeth), especially, naturally enough, in the backwash of my diagnosis with osteopenia, a variety of osteomalacia, not long after my diagnosis with coeliac's disease...
Though I cannot at this point in time recall precisely the name of the woman - a retired New York Professor of some description, I don't believe in the health field itself - who has been running an 'osteopenia' website, and has been sending me (via the web) e-newsletters ever since - who got me really thinking in earnest about this condition, post- my diagnosis with the same in late 2009, or early 2010,
I combined this with the very useful guff Adelle Davis had long provided c/o such classics as Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit, on the well-established importance of and interrelationships between calcium, phosphorous and magnesium especially...alongside those of potassium and sodium...
and then, though I'd intermittently been using (in special supplementation) the particular mysterious mineral I've been alluding to, due to both cost and my lack of 'convincement' of its efficacy - that it was really 'doing the trick' - my interest and use thereof had/has periodically waxed and waned, lapsed and then suddenly been renewed...
The clincher for me came when I mentally combined the periodic bouts of neuralgia with my realization that during those 'seasons' (of my life) - usually wintry outbreaks - I seldom used grape juice; concentrating instead during the colder months - in Dunedin usually the last week-and-a-half in May through September - upon various (true fruit, not merely fruit-flavoured sugar water) juices: such as orange, tomato, pineapple...
Recalling the words of another great nutritionist, like Ms Davis streets and streaks and light years, even aeons, ahead of so many others - the redoubtable Ellen Gould White who left this earthly sojourn a good 103-104 years ago - vis-a-vis the 'efficacy' of both eggs and grape juice...their each containing certain substances (naturally enough significantly different in each instance) which were highly beneficial to human life and limb...
One day, finally stumbling upon a long-neglected but ever-tantalizing tome amidst my vast horde of books, which was about 'Foods Found in the Bible', I read about the long-known benefits of grape juice, considered to have this particular highly useful trace mineral...
...which I'll inform you about in my final Part Three to shortly follow...
So how did I realize what was doubtless at very least one major contributor to the intense, bone-wracking episodic pain in my upper shoulders/nape of neck that has periodically afflicted me in most recent, but thankfully not in the most recent, winter/s, here in my hometown of Dunedin?
By (haphazard) 'trial and error', however cliche-ridden that might sound...
Having, post-diagnosis with coeliac disease back in mid-2009, to pretty well immediately focus upon a nutrient-rich, vitamin-and mineral boosting to my ordinary dietary regime - especially by the use of supplementation, which, in this instance, was not, as per usual, frowned upon - there was one especial trace mineral that intrigued me; normally being associated with an acid one would assume was not especially healthful: hold on, all will shortly be revealed...
Realizing that these incidents of periodic neuralgia usually only tended to occur in the depths of bone-chilling midwinter - although one such memorable incident admittedly did occur, early January I believe, during the height of one of our most recent very unseasonably warm summers - I was able to somehow or other place this fact alongside my attention and due diligence to minerals which assisted my bones (and teeth), especially, naturally enough, in the backwash of my diagnosis with osteopenia, a variety of osteomalacia, not long after my diagnosis with coeliac's disease...
Though I cannot at this point in time recall precisely the name of the woman - a retired New York Professor of some description, I don't believe in the health field itself - who has been running an 'osteopenia' website, and has been sending me (via the web) e-newsletters ever since - who got me really thinking in earnest about this condition, post- my diagnosis with the same in late 2009, or early 2010,
I combined this with the very useful guff Adelle Davis had long provided c/o such classics as Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit, on the well-established importance of and interrelationships between calcium, phosphorous and magnesium especially...alongside those of potassium and sodium...
and then, though I'd intermittently been using (in special supplementation) the particular mysterious mineral I've been alluding to, due to both cost and my lack of 'convincement' of its efficacy - that it was really 'doing the trick' - my interest and use thereof had/has periodically waxed and waned, lapsed and then suddenly been renewed...
The clincher for me came when I mentally combined the periodic bouts of neuralgia with my realization that during those 'seasons' (of my life) - usually wintry outbreaks - I seldom used grape juice; concentrating instead during the colder months - in Dunedin usually the last week-and-a-half in May through September - upon various (true fruit, not merely fruit-flavoured sugar water) juices: such as orange, tomato, pineapple...
Recalling the words of another great nutritionist, like Ms Davis streets and streaks and light years, even aeons, ahead of so many others - the redoubtable Ellen Gould White who left this earthly sojourn a good 103-104 years ago - vis-a-vis the 'efficacy' of both eggs and grape juice...their each containing certain substances (naturally enough significantly different in each instance) which were highly beneficial to human life and limb...
One day, finally stumbling upon a long-neglected but ever-tantalizing tome amidst my vast horde of books, which was about 'Foods Found in the Bible', I read about the long-known benefits of grape juice, considered to have this particular highly useful trace mineral...
...which I'll inform you about in my final Part Three to shortly follow...
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