Genetic Nutritional Deficiencies - Journal of Research and Experiential Medicine

While medications cause nutritional deficiencies, there are natural genetic causes, which predispose people with certain body types for both mental and physical illnesses via nutritional or chemical excesses (including subnormal excretion) which are dealt with sometimes via increased removal or via overuse, either of which can lead to nutritional deficiencies, as well as direct nutritional deficiencies, via inability to absorb, or to turn into the correct chemical format, among other ways.

These are usually treated via medications, some of which completely treat the problem, more of which treat only one aspect, leaving other ways the body is dealing with it untouched, and sometimes undiagnosed, as the body deals with the problem the best way it can, not waiting for diagnosis and treatment - unfortunately, concealing the root cause in the process.

All the doctors could see symptomatically for some of these is the results of the various coping mechanisms the body uses to deal with the problem, the same way an iron or zinc deficiency may cause dips or down-turned tips of finger- and toenails, in and of themselves not dangerous, but to those who understand, a clue of a deeper problem usually causing other issues, but easily treatable with supplementation . . . which then may need to be chased down to the cause of the deficiency, as well.

People with these conditions can have emotional and physical symptoms from the excess or depletion, and be partly treated with medication, which may improve part of the problem, but may create new ones.

The Walsh Institute

https://www.walshinstitute.org/biochemical-individuality--nutrition.html

This page lists a number of health issues, including a few of the newly recognized common genetic issues which cause nutritional imbalances just starting to be treated more directly at their nutritional causes. These treatments, although sometimes slower, are safer and more direct, and in the long term more effective ways of treating the various symptoms, caused not by the excesses or deficiencies themselves, but from the body's multiple possible ways of dealing with the root problem: physical coping mechanisms.

Some genetic excesses and deficiencies lead to combinations of medical, mental and mood disorders which, treated separately rather than at the hidden root cause, lead to taking medications which, while beneficial, can cause other nutrient depletions, which leads sufferers on a new cycle of a merry-go-round of bad health.

These secondary symptoms are usually treated with medications, some of which completely treat one secondary health issue, rarely treating more than one aspect. Such treatments either leave other methods the body uses to deal with it untouched and sometimes undiagnosed, or treated with other medications.

The problem is that the body deals with the major issue the best way it can, not waiting for diagnosis and treatment - unfortunately, concealing the root cause in the process. Some symptoms are benign or tolerable without requiring treatment; others are not.

For this type of condition, all the doctors are able to see symptomatically up until recently is the results of the various coping mechanisms the body uses to deal with the problem, which has handicapped them for dealing with the root cause.

An example is the way an iron or zinc deficiency may cause dips or down-turned tips of finger- and toenails, in and of themselves not dangerous, but to those who understand, a clue of a deeper problem usually causing other issues - anemia, even mental illness - but easily treatable with supplementation. The cause of the deficiency then needs to be chased down as well, such as poor diet, medications such as Depakote, or a potentially fatal cancer from a polyp in the intestinal tract. Fix the root problem, and the problems downstream of it also go away.

People with the conditions listed on tge Walsh Institute website can have emotional and physical symptoms from the excess or depletion, symptoms which until recently gave doctors no clues as to the root causes.

Example: fatty lipomas and anxiety or mania can result from copper overload. If the body did not overuse or bleed off the excess, the condition would present, be diagnosable and then treatable as if it was Wilson's disease, a more severe genetic copper storage condition which has a correlation with fatty lipomas and is diagnosed as psychosis or mania both approximately one third of the time. Because the body diverts and uses enough of the extra copper, lab test show it as normal, the root cause is hidden and goes untreated.

Other conditions like this, listed with some correlations and some basic directions to look for treatment on the Walsh Institute website are Pyrrole syndrome, undermethylation and over methylation. All these conditions include correlating mental illnesses and mood disorders, different from one person to the next. The reason they are different is partly from differing genes available, or choice of genes expressed or chosen for use (which is the reason why correlations for Wilson's disease is at one third instead of one hundred percent - different bodies use different coping strategies), which are most beneficial at the least cost to the body due to diet and environment, and "comorbidities" - concurrent other conditions, such as a person with both copper overload and undermethylation, which is more confusing to diagnose, and trickier to treat.

Some Walsh protocol graduates are able to take major insurances now, proving legitimacy for the rest of the medical community. And while some people may prefer to keep at least partly on traditional psychiatric medications (type 2 diabetics have neuroprotection from Alzheimer's from a subclinical dose of lithium; a diabetic with mania may allow enough mania for a higher dose), knowing and filling in safely the nutritional deficiencies caused by the remaining medications can turn a lose-lose-lose into a win-win: treatment at the root cause, and medications for thos conditions not repairable made safer and negative side effect free by filling in their own nutrient depletions.

When using Walsh treatment protocols, all known conditions under medication will need close monitoring, because improvements in unexpected areas may result, leading to potentially dangerous uvermedication if not reduced at the same rate.

Some atypical antipsychotics treat methylation issues. If side effects such as diabetes result from taking them, other condititions such as copper overload should be tested for, as well.

Gathering a list of seeming unrelated and even unimportant or benign differences from the norm might yield which directions are worth looking at first. If there isn't one yet, a database of such trivial symptoms (dips or down pointing tips of finger- and toenails, white rings in vision when blinking in the dark, fatty limpomas, thin skin with red blotches, excellent or poor tanning, etc.) could improve diagnosis drastically, once linked to the conditions or condition combinations which cause them. A list of ten or fifteen symptoms from a patient might make pin-pointing multiple diagnoses much easier, with testing or "shotgunning" (testing by adjusting supplements or diet slightly, and confirming correct or not through results), to get to treatment faster, especially for patients who are on medications which may change the normally used major symptoms.