On Mar 08, 2007, at 2:57 pm, Robert Kesterson wrote:

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>>> "Zinc deficiency can result in ...
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>> Another symptom is inability to piss like a horse in public.
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> Personally, I try to avoid doing such things in public anyway.  :-)

Well so do I but this is an interesting comment!

William - I'm not sure exactly what your situation was.  You make it  
sound like horse-like pissing was possible in private, as if the zinc  
knew when someone was watching!

Not long after I started eating paleo, when I was just starting to  
notice the things that weren't quite right with my body, I started to  
suspect that my mouse-like pissing every 45 minutes was probably not  
normal, especially bearing in mind I'm 24 now, and this is only a few  
years back.  (It's funny how things that attack you slowly can get so  
bad before you suspect anything.)

After some meetings with a idiot consultant at the hospital and some  
unpleasant side-effect laden drugs (you don't want to know what), I  
gave up on modern medicine and eventually found about pygeum  
africanum and saw palmetto.  Both of these extracts reduce prostate  
swelling.  Due to the fact they restored my urination to a, let's  
say, dog-like level (we're not quite up to horse status yet), I  
figure that means I did indeed have a swollen prostate.  I always  
assumed this was a symptom of damaged adrenals (I've got a fantastic  
book on thyroid disease that explains all the hormones involved), but  
according to google it can also be caused by zinc deficiency.

What confuses the issue, though, is that I read about someone else  
who had a milk intolerance and similar problem, and his symptoms  
cleared up immediately after cutting all dairy products.  I suspect  
mine might have, if I'd caught it sooner.

After learning that intolerance can cause long-term malabsorption, I  
wonder if I'll ever sort through this mess and work at (a) what  
exactly went wrong with my body and (b) how I can improve and maybe  
cure it.

Ashley

PS, William - what is it about my posts that make you think I'm not  
drinking fluoridated water?  I'm puzzled by that one...