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Hello again Bev,

Don't worry about spelling. I'm the world's worst. Hope you had a good holiday on the Queen's birthday!!!

Thank you sooo very much for this information. I'm going to check into it further. Upon reading at the website of the link you sent it could WELL be one of my problems. A light went on when it mentioned affecting thyroid too and since I'm the first generation with thyroid problems I always thought there must be some sort of other genetic connection. I've always known about iron overload and yet, like you never had a problem, because I had heavy flow periods. Now in menopause, I understand donating blood is a wise thing to do to alleviate the iron buildup. But since they won't take my blood (because of having thyroid disease) I always INSIST they take an extra vial or two of blood when I have blood work done and just throw away any extra. They look at me as if I have 2 heads but do it anyway.

Last CBC I had my alt. med doc kept telling me to stay away from beef because of my iron levels��.well, not iron levels but some other reading that indicated that (as explained on your web site), yet I told him I don't eat red meat and only eat basically what is on this IBS diet. I'm going to explore further this testing for iron overload to see if it is the actual culprit. It may well explain why my all Irish father dropped dead from a heart attack at age 46!.........and why I became wheat allergic at a young age.

Fascinating about those fighters, the Celts��.aren't we supposed to make love not war???....darn this heredity anyway!!!

If this is the missing link with me, I'm coming to Brisbane!!! I need to buy you a fancy dinner out!!

Kandee

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