Pup, I thought that was great info you posted in another thread recently.

Here's something I've been thinking of mentioning to you. I don't know if you'll even be interested but it still wouldn't be OK with me if I skipped over telling you about it just because I thought you might not want to hear it:

When I was your age and a bit older I assumed that unless I was living in a desert or a dungeon or something, I'd be sure to end up eating enough of all the nutrients I really needed. I had plenty to eat and none of the kids around me were getting scurvy or pellagra or anything, so why should I have any problems either?

Eventually I happened to catch a horrendous case of flu that kept me in bed for two weeks. Afterwards, just to reassure myself that there was nothing to worry about, I decided to look up what I'd actually been consuming by way of vitamins in a typical day. I wasn't reassured; it turned out that I was clearly coming up short on a couple of important ones even by conventional standards, and I came across a couple of books by Adelle Davis that pointed out that conventional standards were likely to underestimate what we really needed and overestimate how much of it we were getting.

In particular, Davis pointed out that stress of any kind greatly increases our need for B vitamins especially; that not all the nutrients we need have been fully identified yet; and that taking supplements of only some vitamins may actually increase our need for others.

I'd love to see you and your health advisers rule out the possibility that the boosters that you've mentioned could've stressed you into a nutritional deficiency. I do hope you'll look into this even while you're trying other things.

Anyway, best of luck to you!