Ok - got it - now, if I also eat dairy and eggs I a a vegetarian and not vegan, correct, or no?

I take every day now, 500 to 600 mgs magnesium - one multiple B in addition to individual B's by themselves - started high doses of vitaminc C - l-tryptophan (have insomnia now) - melatonin - chromium picolinate - 5htp - 1,000 vitamin D (mine just came back very low outside the range on blood tests) dhea, iron (low hemoglobin and iron),,,,,,,

Also, I recently bought a water ozonator and ozonate about 8 cups of water in the evening and also have been "zapping" for the last three our four weeks every night.

Anything else? Am I doing OK? Oh, forgot the b12 sublingual and weekly shots of B12 which I inject myself. Will incorporate the additional items you recommended.

Thanks.....

Dear Nordskoven:

I appreciate your help and info - I will do as you suggest.

Happy and Very Healthy New Year to you.

To the vegan suffering from problems and having to take all those supplements..

I'm coming late to this but I have to say if you are vegan which I was for 2 years until the diet almost killed me...
You have to ask yourself what is your goal as far as this diet is concerned?
what it is exactly you are trying to achieve or accomplish with this diet?
You must ask yourself these question.
I know many people become vegan for ethical reasons and I totally understand that... I was vegan for ethical reasons and also because I wanted to live a very long and healthy life...
More specifically I wanted to live to be 100 years old...
Well studies have shown that the centenarians not only in this country but all over the world are not vegan... not one person who's over 100 years old in America is vegan...
so that was eye opening... I had to get back in touch with my goal as far as my health was concerned...
As far as the ethical reasons... I realize eating animals was not unethical for me when my life basically depends on it... this is how we've evolved.
Eating grass fed animals who are not pumped with hormones and anti-biotics and are not fed unnatural grain diets... is not unethical... eating animals who roam free grazing on pasture is not unethical for me...
You will have to ask yourself that question also...
Yes... i wish no animal would die so that I may live but the answer my body has given me so far is in conflict with that wish.
I was somewhat active in the raw vegan commnunity here in California, I experimented with the raw vegan diet as well then one day... I looked into the faces of the people around me and saw nothing but deterioration... not health and at 28 I was on my way...
Also a diet that requires so many supplements is basically unnatural...
I don't want to get into a heated debate about this, I know it's a sensitive subject... I know it's very personal...and I was the most fanatical overzealous vegan... my goal was to turn 100 friends vegan and many of them did because of me... but as a former vegan I have to add my two cents without worrying about making you uncomfortable...
It took many people who made me uncomfortable to get down to the truth...

Start eating foods.... real foods to get your body back to health...
Start with #1 raw organic goat milk kefir... all of the supplements you may or may not be taking cannot compare to this superfood...
I went from completely vegan to eating this food with 0 discomfort... that is how pure and amazing it is...
Or try raw organic colostrum Kephir
Remember... your very first meal was not a vegan meal...
it was and should have been colostrum which comes from the human animal.
colostrum is what mammals pass to their offsprings... it contains a myriad of health promoting benefits including the ability to kill viruses and pathogens in your body...
Please drink raw goat milk kephir to get your body back to health...
colostrum kills candida so does kephir... the most natural way to get candida killers in your colon!!!!!!
I wish you a speedy recovery and sending you positive vibrations.

It is very, very hard to be a vegetarian and be healthy - which is why many vegetarians are among the most unhealthy people on the planet.

Those much more knowledgeable and experienced than I, ex-vegetarians all, say it best:


http://beyondveg.com/

Almost everything we eat eventually turns to Sugar -- or more specifically -- glycogen -- in the body. White bread isn't an ideal food at all, but if one were to eat it with a high fat food, and some protein, that would completely negate the glycemic index of plain white bread.

A great book on the subject is "The Glucose Revolution" -- it dispells some of the myths or misunderstandings about the glycemic index.