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Vitamins People Are Most Frequently Deficient In - Part 3

The last couple of blogs have covered nutrients that are commonly marked as deficient after blood work is done. With the self health check up package that you can order from Selfie Healthie, you can receive  the information that you need to make actual life changing decisions for your health. In the last couple of posts we’ve driven focus to the different vitamins that people are commonly deficient in. This will be the last post of our series and will touch on the last couple of nutrients that we really want to stress. Potassium This nutritious ingredient aids in kidney and heart health, a well as a variety of other organs. The older that we get the more difficult that...

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Vitamins People Are Most Frequently Deficient In - Part 2

In our last blog post we touched on the importance of our at home blood tests and their ability to provide you with the information that you need to make note of which vitamins you are deficient in. While those two vitamins in particular are extremely common for deficiencies, they aren’t the only vitamins that we see people are lacking. Today, and for the next couple of posts, we are going to cover more vitamins that you can stay on top of to ensure that a deficiency does not happen. Vitamin B12 This isn’t a vitamin that used to be common when it comes to deficiencies, but it is one that has recently been noted as a vitamin that most...

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Vitamins People Are Most Frequently Deficient In

While our bodies are all different, there are certain vitamins that we all feed off of. As a whole, we all hear about vitamins that we ought to increase intake of, but there are particular ones that a majority of society is lacking. At Selfie Healthie, we want to provide you with quick and efficient tools to determine if your health is in a good place. Below are the nutrients that people are most commonly deficient in and ways that you can notice the signs before it spirals out of control. Vitamin D Considering that vitamin D comes from the sun, you’d think there would be less people deficient, but it’s actually the opposite. Vitamin D is a crucial factor...

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Understanding Your CBC Blood Results

Understanding the different characteristics of each blood cell in your body is important, yet not many people know what each cell does. If you’re an individual who requires regular home blood tests, it’s vital to understand the meaning behind each type of cell, including mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), red cell distribution width (RDW), platelet count and mean platelet volume (MPV). To recap from our last post, we gave readers the info they needed to better understand the importance of their CBC, also known as a Complete Blood Count. Additional types of cells found in a CBC: White blood cell or leukocyte count (WBC). WBC differential count. Hematocrit (Hct). Hemoglobin (Hbg). Red blood cell or erythrocyte count (RBC). Mean corpuscular...

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