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Dr. Garrett Smith, the foremost expert on the worldwide epidemics of Vitamin A toxicity and cholestasis, offers the most up-to-date nutrition information available so you can make the best choices for you and your family, so you can live a longer, happier and healthier life.
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Garrett Smith, the foremost expert on the worldwide epidemics of Vitamin A toxicity and cholestasis, offers the most up-to-date nutrition information available so you can make the best choices for you and your family, so you can live a longer, happier and healthier life.
Jun 18, 2024 · Dr. Garrett Smith, the "Nutrition Detective," presents evidence that chronic vitamin A toxicity is a modern epidemic. The presentation covers warnings from 80 years ago, liver biopsy as the gold standard test for vitamin A toxicity, and evidence from multiple countries over multiple decades.
- What Is The Vitamin A Detox Diet
- Why We Stopped The Vad Diet
- Does A Low Vitamin A Diet Cause Deficiencies?
- Does Vitamin A Impact Thyroid Health?
- Is Vitamin A Essential For Kids?
- Why Salt Is Important For Health
- Why Healing Diets Fail
- Life After The Vad Diet
- The Emotional Component of Healing Diets
- Is Vitamin A Toxicity Real?
In November of 2018 I embarked on the Vitamin A Detox Diet, spear-headed by Grant Generux and Dr. Garrett Smith. The theory is that Vitamin A is not actually a vitamin, instead it is a toxin. I wrote about it in detail in my post answering the question “Is Vitamin A Really a Vitamin?”It was my first post on Vitamin A – published exactly one year ag...
Our journey started out great. I cut out high Vitamin A foods. I did HTMA to assess my body’s needs. I faithfully took my supplements. Even when the recommendations seemed to change on a daily basis. Add this. Wait, no, that will make you worse. Try this. Oh, wait, that’s not good at all (if only I could have all of the money back that I wasted on ...
I intentionally worked with a naturopathic doctor when embarking on the VAD Diet to avoid problems. As I mentioned, I was breastfeeding and of course run down from lack of sleep. I didn’t want to make things worse. But even with multiple HTMAs, my increasing deficiencies were not addressed. I had to figure that out on my own. The biggest deficienci...
I briefly want to address thyroid health. I was diagnosed with hypothyriodism in 2006. I’ve been on medication to control it ever since. Ultimately my goal is to heal enough to get off of medication and control things with diet and lifestyle. But so far I’m not there. And I suspect I won’t get there until I am done breastfeeding and have some time ...
So far I’ve mostly talked about my own health. But I do want to address my kids as well. They were all on the diet. Though I never had my oldest three on full restriction. And in hindsight I’m so glad! They were able to transition off the diet pretty easily and have been making strides ever since. Thankfully they still ate some eggs and pork to hel...
When starting the VAD Diet and working with my ND, I was told to stop eating unrefined sea salt – that it contained toxins. So I switched the family to basic salt – sodium chloride. At first I also added potassium chloride to it to get a balance of minerals. But the potassium gave me horrible anxiety. So I quit that. Back to just plain salt. But it...
Last year I tried a new diet that made big promises. And it failed us. In quite a few ways as you can see. But it’s not the only one. Ultimately most healing diets fail. That may sound extreme. I mean, they all have some merit and of course success stories. But they also have potential problems. All healing diets have their own spin on what food/nu...
So, now what? How are we eating and how are we feeling? That is what most people ask me. First, I don’t have any rules about how we eat.Just real, whole foods that sound good and that we tolerate. That’s it. My girls drink raw milk. My boys don’t tolerate it. The oldest three eat eggs. My youngest doesn’t tolerate them. We all eat homemade sourdoug...
I also wanted to mention the emotional, mental and social impact of a highly restrictive diet. We are used to having food restrictions. We’ve been dealing with food allergies for six years. And before I even had kids I was playing around with diet. But limiting our food choices to such an extreme takes a toll on the family.My husband was frustrated...
That’s a tough question to answer. I do think that you can become toxic from just about anything in large enough amounts. And there are numerous case studies of patients with hypervitaminosis A. So I do think it’s a real condition (my opinion). But is Vitamin A a toxin in and of itself? I don’t think so (again, my opinion).I’ll leave it at that. Do...
Jun 23, 2019 · It would be great for you to tap into either Dr. Smith’s forum or Grant Genereux’s Discussion. They are the ones leading this investigation and researching the specific mechanisms at work in the body and which foods and supplements interfere and why with vitamin A detoxing efficiently.
My name is Dr. Garrett Smith, a licensed Naturopathic Doctor from Tucson, Arizona. For over a decade, I’ve dedicated my work to helping my patients get better by focusing on what the “experts” continually get wrong… Modern nutrition.
Grant Genereux of https://ggenereux.blog , the trailblazer in exposing the Vitamin A toxicity epidemic, joins Nutrition Detective Dr. Garrett Smith, creator of the "Love Your Liver" Course at...
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