“When the covid-19 lockdown first started in March, one of the early suggestions going around in nutritional circles was to up your intake of vitamin C and Zinc especially the liposomal vitamin C, highly absorbable. So I did that starting in the beginning of April…by the mid to end of April I had become increasingly jaundiced and exhausted all the time and I could not keep food down, so my doctor ran tests and found it.

I was Triple National gold medalist in competitive swimming and I’m looking forward to feeling like being much more active very soon.”

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Diagnosed with hereditary hemochromatosis around 12 or 13 years old.

“I still get very tired, and I experience a lot of anxiety and heart flutters. My biggest symptom now is hair loss.

I am a 20 year old Auckland girl who loves working, exercising and having a good laugh!”

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Found out she had hemochromatosis because: My grandpa died from it and my dad was diagnosed (after years of searching for answers to his pains).

Phlebotomy treatments: I had phlebotomies every week for 48 weeks. I then took a 6 week break because I was just so weak and ill. I had another 6 treatments. I now have a phlebotomy about once every 6 months.

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Started feeling symptoms at age 51.

Most affected by: shortness of breath

Treatment plan: no alcohol, no supplements, vegetarian diet, walking, yoga, meditation, no caffeine (to improve poor sleep patterns)

“I am finally understanding what and why I have have struggled so badly with my health since menopause and cessation of periods.”

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