How many women here have mild to moderate anemia?

[SofaGeorge]

Is this common?

 

[NubianBeauty]

I have it

 

[Citruscide]

I smell a Careo thread!!

C-ditty

 

[SofaGeorge]

SG...is this the stuff you PMd me about? Did you ever send the links?

I'm not iron deficient at all...but curious.

I sent the links a long time ago. I was wondering why you neer responded. Something must have happened in the transmission. I'll post the better links below.

Carao was first developed to be a treatment for anemia. I stumbled on its other attributes mostly by accident and have found it to be a fascinating substance, but one we no very little about. I am not involved with the company and will not be; however, I am very aware of the work Lloyd (the carao guy) is doing with his children's anemia program so I very much support furthering the research into carao. (Anemia is a killer of children in the poorer parts of the world. Lloyd is using his profits from bodybuilder sales to fund his children's program - see I LOVE THE CARAO GUY thread.)

I am trying to get more factual information on carao particularly it's effects on women and women with anemia (carao's effects on women's sexual response is looked at in the Musclezine thread.)

There is a very small amount of carao left, but the carao guy is very wisely willing to donate bottles to get the product tested in different ways. I would be very interested to find out if there are women here with anemia who would be willing to accept a free bottle adn report back on whether or not it helped their anemia (w/blood tests hopefully.)

If anyone is interested in this please contact me or post below. And, please, be honest and ethical about this. The caroa guy is not rich and it is very honest and ethical of him to offer to make these donations to further research. If you would like to take part in evaluating carao and accept free bottles... please do so responsibly.

I would also be very interested in seeing what effect carao has on serious women lifters like Spatts. Again, if you would like to test it out the bottles will be free but please be responsible about this.

(First carao thread)
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=170550&highlight=carao

(carao - noticing cosmetic changes)
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=181744&highlight=carao

(I love the carao guy)
(carao and female sexual response)

http://www.musclezine.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3068

 

[SteelWeaver]

I'm not anemic, (I don't think), but I am a vegetarian ... I take iron supps.

Whatever - hey - I'll try the stuff - no problem. I'm not as strong as spatts (who is?), but I am a serious lifter. I never miss workouts and my diet is clean and stable right now.

 

[velvett]

SG

I have your package and I'm going to wait til January, after a blood work up.

I'll email you additional details.







THANKS

 

[velvett]

Oh I also wanted to mention that I found that there is a connection for some people with migraine and iron deficiency anemia.

I suffer from both - the migraines averaging 4-10 days per month.

That said, it would be interesting to see if there is an effect on my migraines as well.

 

[SofaGeorge]

Oh I also wanted to mention that I found that there is a connection for some people with migraine and iron deficiency anemia.

I suffer from both - the migraines averaging 4-10 days per month.

That said, it would be interesting to see if there is an effect on my migraines as well.

You might also want to try this... take a multiple magnesium supplement (not one singlular kind... multiple forms of magnesium in one cap. I can direct you to a site if you can't find one.) Some of the more interesting research I read on migraines looked at the magnesium absorbtion of migraine sufferers... and how they could be limited in absorbtion of certain type of magnesium.

It's helped serveral of the migraine sufferers I know.

You will know VERY quickly if it is helping.

 

[SofaGeorge]

I'm not anemic, (I don't think), but I am a vegetarian ... I take iron supps.

Whatever - hey - I'll try the stuff - no problem. I'm not as strong as spatts (who is?), but I am a serious lifter. I never miss workouts and my diet is clean and stable right now.

SteelWeaver, please do a SEARCH and read through the carao threads... including...

http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=186556&highlight=carao

(This is the I LOVE THE CARAO GUY thread that talks about the children's anemia program.)

If after reading the threads you decide you want to help test carao, please PM me your shipping information. Lloyd is setting aside a couple gallons to be given away. This is free, no strings attached. But please be responsible and report your results... good or bad afterwards.

 

[Puddles]

Oh I also wanted to mention that I found that there is a connection for some people with migraine and iron deficiency anemia.

I suffer from both - the migraines averaging 4-10 days per month.

That said, it would be interesting to see if there is an effect on my migraines as well.

Interesting. I was anemic during pregnancy and for a few years after that that was also when I experienced the worst migraines of my life. I was taking prescript iron, then I switched to o/c. I changed docs and forgot about the problem so I haven't been checked for years. I was put on b.p. meds, the bp was initially elevated during pregnancy (bedrest for the last 3 months) and it never went down without meds. The b.p. med, Propanolol LA, is also used as a migraine preventitive and the migraines went down considerably. Now I usually just get the migraines right around when my period starts so I figured they were hormonal, but could it be an anemic thing? Would my levels change due to getting my period? My father is anemic, and my daughter needed iron sups when she was an infant but she is fine now...she loves her spinach.

Anyway, hubby ordered a bottle for me tonight. I'm going for my annual in Jan. and will have bloodwork done then. Afterwards I'll start the carao and see what happens.