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New presentation from Dr. Garrett Smith
Garrett has posted a new video highlighting the connections between infertility, sexual dysfunction and vA toxicity.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through and I just want to cry.
Dr Garrett talked about uterine hemorrhaging in this video and it brought to mind the heavy periods I always had. He doesn't mention this idea, but I wouldn't be surprised if heavy periods could eventually be relieved by lowering your VA load.
On the other hand, I was always extremely fertile. My ovulation was painful, LOL, as were all aspects of fertility for me, but it was strong and regular. Hubs and I had zero problems conceiving. It almost seems like I had to cut back on my VA toxicity to STOP mensing. My idea about this is: ovulation is an inflammatory process. A cyst has to grow and burst. I'm thinking my heightened inflammatory state was keeping those ovules busting! ? Perhaps this could also explain why older women have multiples.
And I do believe I spent most of my life VA toxic, with symptoms worsening at menarche. I would guess that the hormones of puberty bring underlying VA problems to the surface or the symptoms are just expressed differently. Perhaps the body is trying harder to detox in order to remain ready for reproduction.
I think that some of the issues like painful intercourse (for women) and ED (for men), that are sometimes mentioned on this list and are listed in the video...are probably about capillary inflammation and brittleness of tissues. Probably similar to why I get Raynauds on my feet...and how many of us here have spider veins in the rosacea zones, cracking finger tips etc. The blood ain't flowin properly. I would guess this isn't a quick fix but that the body will work on it over time. Lowered serum VA levels probably helps a LOT.
I would also like to comment that Garrett Smith talks about midline problems in utero. He doesn't mention crooked teeth outright, but of course my mind goes there. I believe that this is one of the things that Weston Price was seeing increase in the 1930's. This is a big clue for us, IMO, and I've posted about it before. This is a dentist realizing things have changed, and when they changed.
I can see in friends and family that the crooked teeth issue often become worse with every child born--as Garret Smith suggests... because VA toxicity is cumulative over time. Wapfers would say that is because the mother becomes depleted with each pregnancy. But my great grandmother had 12 children on a very limited depression diet. My grandmother was the 10th and did not have crooked teeth. The diet was low in VA, very low, especially, in colored veggies.
Another track that my mind went down was about the percentages of cadaver liver biopsies that came out VA toxic.
So one thing that occurs to me is, if VA is toxic, and we are all eating at the same table, why are we NOT ALL va toxic?
The mystery of VA toxicity would have been much easier to solve if so.
Sometimes I wonder if I would actually not come out VA toxic in the liver. My liver doesn't seem to be my problem. I feel like I store it all around the body kind of evenly. For good and for bad.