But which sources are you reading? Probably not NaturalNews.com right? loldroid wrote:Hey Winston I really disagree with starchild on this one. I've been reading on this, thanks to this thread, and found i had some of the symptoms of copper overload, which is actually a Zinc deficiency, which contradictorily manifests as as a copper deficiency too.
I've been taking a zinc supplement for a couple of weeks now and eating more meat and i think it's making a positive difference, i will make a longer post about this later on.
Watch out with the advice here since you are a vegetarian, you have to keep an eye on your Zinc intake and make sure you are getting enough from other sources. Not saying i have a definitive word on this but it's worth looking at it.
What do you think about his notion that vitamins are all a scam? I think that's too much of a blanket statement to make.
But I do find it questionable whether vitamins really help that much.
Logic would also say that if vitamins didn't have some benefit, then people wouldn't be buying them.
I don't buy the notion that "everyone must be wrong" if they don't claim something you don't agree with or believe in. Or that "it must be a placebo effect" only if you don't believe it works. That's a copout and an attempt to label and deny something you don't want to accept. It's a way to filter out data or evidence that doesn't fit into your views.
So for example, if many people claim that vitamins or copper or hydrogen peroxide or oxygen therapy helped them, then you cannot dismiss it all as "wrong" or "placebo" or believe that they all MUST be wrong, just because it doesn't fit into your world view. I don't buy that kind of logic. It's a total copout and it's intellectually lazy too. Anyone can dismiss or deny. Doesn't take any smarts to do that.