Superfoods and Potassium Toxicity, Are They Connected

A typical western meal includes vegetables as part of the menu. They make you healthy and keep you alive longer. So when the so-called Super Foods arrived most embraced them with enthusiasm. So it was with me and, being a gardener my vegetable patch sports most of them. Bok Choy, Kale, Spinach, and so forth.

In recent weeks something started within my body over which there was no control. Muscle soreness, tiredness, and dizziness with nausea were the main symptoms. Following a health problem last year it is essential to keep gym classes going but they became so hard to do that a break of over two months was required.

My doctor told me the dizziness came from loose stones in the ears. She prescribed leaning backwards over the edge of the bed and turning my head until it starts and then lifting it up and twisting it to the side.

That didn't work! A Naturopath said the dizziness was coming from a shoulder injury while a Chiropractor, who is also a doctor, told me the same thing. So the symptoms went on and nothing improved.

One day after a little exercise in the garden my right arm seized with such pain I could barely move it. That was diagnosed as a frozen muscle and it took over 2 weeks to get better. The doctor prescribed Valium for relaxation at night as the pain kept me awake. Being allergic to drugs that advice was not followed.