Most people can handle carotenoids. Baby carrots are for those who NEED retinol. Otherwise, the carotenoids in mature carrots are fine and dandy. The same goes for baby peas and baby bok choy. If your iris has orange pigments, your metabolism can’t efficiently utilize and eliminate carotenoids. If you turn yellow-orange (xanthoderma) after drinking moderate…

Iodine won’t help the extensive damage caused by fluoridated water. It increases the damage. Fluorine is the dangerous part of uranium hexafluoride (1 atom of uranium, 6 atoms of fluorine). People don’t grasp the qualitative versus quantitative aspects of nutrients. How does it help to pour 20 gallons of gas in a 10 gallon tank?…

Iron deficiency anemia does exist, contrary to some “experts.” However, there are VARIOUS other types of anemia too, most of them associated with the Fourth Period of the Periodic Table of the Elements. Is calcium in red blood cells? Yes. Is titanium in red blood cells? Yes. Is vanadium in red blood cells? Yes. Is…

Re: What do we need copper for, Atom? It would take an encyclopedia to answer that question. As a partial answer, here’s an abridged and edited version of an entry in Butterflies Need No Taxidermist … copper — (chemical symbol Cu), atomic element number 29 of the Periodic Table, one of the “56 trace elements”…

Hydrogenated cottonseed oil is 94% saturated fat after hydrogenation, invented in 1910 or so, and marketed as Crisco® in 1911, but liquid David Wesson polyunsaturated cottonseed oil was already being sold legally in 1899 and illegally as early as 1857. Armour and Company — the same company that gave us Armour® Thyroid — “fortified” their…