<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> > also called "autoimmune" TP. This is a condition of decreased blood > platelets, by non-creation or by destruction by the autoimmune system. In an > attempt to avoid a splenectomy, I am looking to find a bottom line food I have a page .. "The Suppressed Record of Vitamin E" in which the doctor states that vitamin E can be used to avoid a splenectomy. In the disease known as iron overload.. the bodies immune system.. locks up the iron in order for the invader NOT.. to be able to use it in its 'dastardly deeds'. This system is so good.. that the iron is locked up.. and the red blood cells cannot be created. This is the 'anemia' which doctors point to and say "greatest deficiency of the developed countries!" NOT.. a .. 'true anemia' but a false anemia created by the bodies immune system itself in its pathetic attempt to protect us from the iron we take in by eating 'meat'. In meat.. iron is bound to heme.. which allows the body to store much more iron than it would 'normally' allow. This 'heme' allows the iron to circumvent the bodies own built in process which disallows the absorption and 'storage' of any more than 100 mcg/l of blood.. iron. This is the stores in the tissues.. NOT.. blood. > We show asthma, > hay fever, excema, diabetes, Raynaud's syndrome, Marfan's syndrome over the > years, and a sister recently diagnosed with Parkinson's. Diabetes.. has been directly connected to iron overload and is treated 'successfully' with vitamin E. Parkinsons.. at the moment is being treated with 'chelators' which bind 'iron' disallowing its use. High success rate. Very new developement. Marfan's syndrome which has 'symptoms' of 'elongation of extremities' and cancer.. shares with iron overload.. hypogonadism:elongation of extremities and cancer/tumor/cysts.. one of the first manifestions of iron overload. Cancer has 4 times more iron present than surrounding tissue. Cancer cell in vitro will grow in the presence of iron.. and die without it. Chelator drugs.. iron 'sequestering' drugs are now being used to 'regress' cancer. Virus/bacteria/cancer are ALL.. iron 'dependent'. Raynauds.. is a fibrositis type of disease of the connective tissue and is also connected to Arthritis. Both of these 'fibromyalgia' and arthritis.. have been connected to 'iron overload' or 'oxidative stress'. Iron oxidizes destroying the antioxidants as we take them in our food. Depriving us of their benefits. THIS.. is WHY.. 'antioxidants' seem to be the 'men of the hour'.