When and why they show falsely normal

Genetic conditions, such as Pyrrole syndrome, can cause life-long nutrional deficiencies which go undetected, in part because the symptoms would be spread among many specialties, and could be caused by other conditions. Since no single doctor would hear a sufficient number of symptoms to be able to pinpoint the cause, they have to rely on lab tests.

Multiple studies on various different nutrients, specifically zinc, magnesium, and iron, show the primary lab test in use are not always accurate, showing within normal limits when they are not.

What could cause this?

Two issues so far.

First, over a span of time, the body will create new epigenes to be more efficient when possible, but when not possible to become more efficient, the body will at least make sure that it is giving the brain, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, and other organs the best nutrition possible, and sequester excesses or shortages in lesser used tissues, or wherever the body is best able to store an excess.

This is one reason why psychiatric medications cause sexual dysfunctions. We don't use our sexual and regenerative organs as often as we use our major organs and even our muscles.

An initial shortage or excess will show in the blood because the body has not adapted yet. But once it makes a coping mechanism, the tests are liable to not show correctly. The zinc and magnesium studies on the pages be on this one show that exercise can bring these deficiencies or insufficiencies to light in a normal lab test. The body which has chosen to put the insufficiency or deficiency in the muscle cells will before start to put it back in the blood when the muscles are used sufficiently to require nutrients and a change in epigenetic choices.

A second method that the body has for causing misleading blood test results has to do with adrenaline and cortisol.

When stress causes an increase in Adrenaline, which then increases cortisol, the cortisol causes demineralization of amino acids to optimize the blood. The body chooses to be as effective as possible under stress, assuming that we are expected to fight a Cave Bear, or something on that line. Survival requires being at our best, no matter if it causes damage to the body in the process. Something similar goes on with vitamins, again optimizing the blood for survival.

This is part of the reason why under extreme stress people have been known to do feats of strength which they could not do under normal circumstances. Lifting a car off of a love with one is the classic example. Adrenaline makes the body able to do what it could not otherwise, and cannot do without damage. But it is usually a short. Of time in the body recovers when it is over.

This is the reason why people break down after stress. Once the adrenaline is out of their systems, their bodies demand that can nutritional debt get paid. This is why good news can cause people to collapse or break into tears after severe stress. The body has been putting a lot of nutrition into the muscles from stress, and into the neurotransmitters, especially the catecholamine family of neurotransmitters, which uses and unusually high amount of copper and iron, among other things. This has been taken from the amino acids, but once the cortisol drops, that ceases, and the body is suddenly low.

This relates to the condition known as adrenal exhaustion. It is well known that it is not adrenal insufficiency, and therefore some doctors treated as if it is not real. In fact, adrenal exhaustion is when the use of adrenaline has used nutrients up to the point that other neurotransmitters and body chemistry are shorted of what they need, but the adrenaline production is not. It is the adrenaline exhausting the body rather than being exhausted itself.

In contrast, when a person is hysterical, highly stressed, hypomanic, has allergies two chemicals found in a laboratory, or has a fear of needles or of seeing blood, that stress will cause their blood to optimize for the duration of the lab test or of the stress, and cause their blood to lie to the doctor.

Having read an anecdotal account of copper toxicity requiring mindfulness and meditation for the chelation to be able to access the copper to be able to remove it from the body, I tried meditation during copper labs when the first two showed normal, despite my being aware that I had been poisoned with copper. The lab test I paid for, not wanting to ask my health plan for a third test, and wanting more control of the stresses involved, cause my blood to hemolyze significantly. They would not accept the blood and I had to have it drawn again, under higher stress, but meditating a second time still cause the blood to hemolyze and to show a high copper, if not as high as it might have on the first test.

In 2017, having been told that a 2016 blood draw of folic acid had been normal when in fact it had been 23.5 with a range of 3.0 to 17.0, and being aware since 2009 that folic acid and zinc were co-factors, I took 1/2 zinc pill and had three conditions resolved within two hours, including carpal tunnel syndrome. Nevertheless, the lab showed only at the bottom of normal. As I continue to take zinc, a total of 50 symptoms improved, some of them then changing as other nutrients became short, the body suddenly having a higher requirement as the zinc became available.

It was the year 2020 when I found study showing that zinc does not always present correctly in serum testing.

As I continue to meditate during lab tests, I was found to have low magnesium, high B6, and low iron after contracting fibromyalgia, mentioned elsewhere on this site, by taking Omeprazole during the copper toxicity, creating the Cu2(OM) molecule, which disrupts the copper homeostasis, and thereby also the iron homeostasis, and disregulating zinc and sulfur, and possibly being the cause of the magnesium deficiency as well. (Since I hadn't been meditating during Labs previously, it is possible that the magnesium deficiency had predated the fibromyalgia.)

Depakote causes an iron deficiency, which had presented as anemia, either low hematocrit or low hemoglobin, for well over a decade without any doctor suggesting that I should take an iron supplement, so my body had plenty of time to create both efficient epigenes for iron, and also coping mechanisms to protect the brain and other organs from the iron deficiency. Nevertheless, with fibromyalgia, even when not meditating, the labs drawn showed iron deficiency, but not anemia, due to the severity of the condition in combination with over a decade's worth of coping mechanisms and new epigenes.

An overdose of lithium that must have been going on for the better part of a decade never showed in the lab tests, but was diagnosed by symptom. Depakote reduced my hypomania as a result of iron deficiency preventing the neurotransmitter transition from norepinephrine to adrenaline, as proven with rats, causing over the years a lack of need  for lithium, requiring me to drink more and more water, something that the doctors had not mentioned that I should be concerned about.

When I was drinking 6 to 9 gallons a day of water to clear the complete dose of lithium out of my system, I became unable to function, and was diagnosed by symptoms since I could not make it to the laboratory, I was off of lithium for a full year until I started taking L-Carnitine, at which point the L carnitine deficiency (ICD Code E71 .43, iatrogenic carnitine deficiency from hemodialysis and valproic acid) from which I was suffering was resolved, and I became hypomanic again, and was able to return to 900 mg of lithium.

Not a single lithium lab showed abnormal, despite the fact that they were drawn monthly, and despite the fact that at the clinic where the labs were drawn, I was not able to drink as much water, and had Labs drawn after seeing the doctor, so I had been without water for usually three or four hours. It should be remembered that lithium is a mineral, and therefore a nutrient.

This may relate to why in continuing education classes for psychiatrists, they warned that in elderly patients, the blood-brain barrier may change, allowing more lithium to be in the brain and then in the blood, and that you have to treat the patient and not the number; "all bets are off."

Seeing as iron not showing correctly if elevated in lab tests has been described in studies as early as 1978, this concept should not be new news. But like  nutritional deficiencies induced by medications, it seems to be under discussed, and subsequently underdiagnosed and undertreated. (A quote from the U. S. Pharmacist website.)

If more doctors were both aware and treating patients with this awareness, then possibly patients described as malingering, hysterics, attention seekers, and hypochondriac might be treated and require less of a doctor's time and attention, and improve not only quality of care but reduce the expenses of Medical Care.