Thank You for Changing My Life

Hi Dr. McLeod,

Before I ask my question I would like to thank you for changing my life.  I have struggled with life for the last 6 years. My emotional challenges cost me a fiance and nearly my life last winter.  It was blind luck that I was searching through the web and happened upon your book, Liftting Your Depression. I started supplementing Chromium in May and have not felt weepy, confused, depressed, or isolated as I had on and off for years.  Read more

How Might Chromium Help Memory and Concentration?

Dr. McLeod,

I have followed your research and that of others that links chromium deficiency with impairment of memory and concentration.  I tried chromium, and like George in your book (Lifting Your Depression), it helped me focus and think clearly.  How does chromium help memory and concentration?

J.B.  

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Does Chromium Cause Headaches and Muzziness?

Every time I take Chromax (Solgar brand) I develop a headache/muzziness. Now headaches are not something I normally suffer from.Have you come across this reaction before, and can you offer any advice? Is it something, for example, that would disappear in time?

Warm regards,

S.

ANSWER:

I’m not aware that chromium picolinate causes headaches. Headaches are so common and have so many different causes that I doubt chromium is causing your headaches and muzziness. But I’ll continue to mull over your questions and if I hear more, I’ll certainly post it here.

 

Allergy to Chromium Formulation?

Dear Dr. McLeod,

I want to thank you for your informative book. There are too many promotional books out, touting the use of this or that supplement, using as \”support\” piles of exaggerated anecdotes or citing questionable research (which seems always to have been done in an obscure Eastern European country by a researcher who has no publications available in peer reviewed or accessible journals). Your book is a refreshing difference. I enjoyed your tale of your small single blind study and its remarkably robust results.

I hope you don\’t mind a small \”correction.\” In the Q&A in which you responded to the question about \”muzziness,\” I think you misunderstood this colloquialism. Muzziness usually means a feeling of clouded mind, a dopey feeling, \”fuzzy\” minded, thick-headedness, fogginess, rather than dizziness. This type of feeling and the headaches might indicate a mild allergic reaction to something in the formula the person is taking. Just a thought.

Thanks again for your fine work,
L L., MD

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