So I go to the grocery store to stock up on spinach and vitamins and the cashier tells me about farina (100% daily intake of iron)and Blackstrap molasses (20% daily intake of iron)... well this must have been God inspired. In addition, I purchased the liquid vitamins with iron and had farina along with a Tablespoon of Blackstrap... AND I felt like I use to feel four years ago before all of this moving to California... when I lived in Texas four years ago I was not anemic... Wow, wow, wow!!!... being iron deficient made me feeellll sooooo lathargic for an entire year I did not have the energy to mop the kitchen floor... I thought that I was having a depressive episode but after the Blackstrap, I swept and mopped the kitchen floor, opened the 40 letters on my desk, cleared off my desk , washed the kitchen patio window sliding door (wow), swept and mopped the front hall ... I did not feel hypomanic (for those of you who are familiar with Bipolar manic depression and know what you feel like when you are manic/hypomanic)... this feeling of energy was not erratic or too fast it was just a relief... and all of the cleaning that I generally would have done, I now had a desire to do (WOW) and this was just from the iron!!! And when I got tired the Lord put his Super on my natural... AWESOME.... so some who think that they are having a depressive episode may just be deficient in a particular vitamin or mineral and this is what throws them entirely off... AMAZING... Now I understand why my sister would just sit around the house most of the time... we thought that she was depressed but she has been anemic all her life.
I hope this helps someone. Having any type of vitamin or mineral deficiency is presumably easy to detect with blood work by your physician. I highly recommend it... along with good nutrition to replace these naturally (using food that is high in that which you are lacking)
