It Takes Time

This morning, my alarm woke up at 8.30am but I was still feeling very sleepy and decided to continue to sleep. The more I slept, the sleepier I became and finally decided to wake up at about 11am. The reason why I woke up late was because I slept late. I did try to sleep earlier, but I was not sleepy. Also everytime, I lie down to sleep, my legs would feel "floating". Then I would have to massage and exercise the legs.

At the moment, most of the action is around my chest area. Like this morning, my phlegm is stained with blood. Besides having lung congestion, there are some pain here and there. Luckily there was no cough.

Iron In Diet
I did further reading about lack of Iron and for more serious cases, restless legs is also one of the symptoms.

A fact of life is the inorganic iron in the diet. It is found on the label of many or most prepared foods, generally as reduced iron, indicating the reduced, or ferrous, state as opposed to the oxidized, or ferric state. In many multinutritional supplements, and is routinely prescribed for patients who test, or appear anemic, presumably to counter the so-called iron-deficient anemia. It is know that the various ferrous salts - namely, the sulfate, gluconate, fumarate, succinate and also others, acts against iron-deficiency anemia but it's toxic effects are also acknowledged. It should be emphasized that that iron-deficiency anemia is different from vitamin b-12 and folic-acid-deficient anemia or pernicious anemia.

The Physicians' Desk Reference classifies inorganic ferrous sulfate as being toxic, but it is the iron source most commonly added to dietary supplements. Further, it is doubtful if inorganic iron actually corrects iron-deficiency anemia, and its poisonous nature ensures diarrhea as the body tries to rid itself of the toxin. The ubiquitous use of ferrous sulfate and other ferrous salts in multivitamins and enriched flour remains unfathomable, except maybe that this is an easy and profitable way to get rid of the stuff, a by-product from, say, sulfuric acid manufactured based on iron sulfide.

Many iron supplements given to cancer patients are inorganic form. Accordingly, if a patient is ever able to overcome the anemia, it will be in other ways, for example, from natural foods containing organic iron, a little bit at a time.

References: Cancer And The Search For Selective Biochemnical Inhibitors, E.J. Hoffman.