7-Subclinical B-vitamin deficiency anemia – If your bone marrow lacks sufficient B6, folate and B12, to make adequate new red blood cells, your circulating RBCs get bigger to compensate. This is the best way to identify deficiencies of these essential B vitamins, the effect of which also constantly strains your heart and deprives cells throughout your body of sufficient oxygen.

8-Vascular inflammation – Have you had an ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) test? This measures blood viscosity, which is increased by inflammation from many types of illness and stress.

9-Vitamin D deficiency – Your immune system can never function at its peak without sufficient vitamin D. Many other systems, organs and tissues throughout your body become impaired if you lack healthy levels (50 to 90 ng/ml) ...