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April 11, 2006
Vitamin Z
The symptoms are familiar, but it took me a long time to learn how to recognize them. Second guessing myself, feeling like I'm not quite good enough, bending easily to the influence of others. Before long, I diagnose the problem. I've had a Vitamin Z deficiency.
Some people can make their own Vitamin Z, but some of us do a lot better if we get a daily dosage from an external source. It's found everywhere in nature, but rarely in the kind of concentration that meets the human female's recommended daily allowence. Some forms of Vitamin Z are more bioavailable than others, and I strongly suggest that once you find a good source, you cultivate the suppliler and make sure you can get all you need. It's dangerous to run low on the stuff. People have been known to do everything from get married to the wrong person to stay in a dead end job, all due to a lack of Vitamin Z.
Vitamin Z is the voice within each of us that tells us to believe in ourselves, trust our instincts, tell our critics to *&^% off, and leave the well-beaten path far behind. It demands that we indulge our senses, revel in our pleasures, selfishly grab onto life and squeeze it until it gasps for breath.
If taken in too large amounts, Vitamin Z can make us mean, critical, tactless and angry. But one is usually only tempted to overdose when one has been too deficient for too long. If you keep up a steady stream of Vitamin Z at the right dosage, you're unlikely to experience negative side effects. If you're exhibiting symptoms of Vitamin Z overdose, ask yourself if you'd been showing the signs of deficiency recently. Do you boil over in a fit of rage after a week of holding your tongue in the face of unreasonable demands at work? Vitamin Z OD. Don't think you can skip your daily Vitamin Z without risking horrible consequences. Just a little Vitamin Z every day will keep you true to yourself without making you cruel to others.
I envy those people who can make their own Vitamin Z. My old co-worker and close friend VLC makes her own. She's totally independent, doesn't care what other people think, does her own thing, but loves and cares for others and is a ton of fun to raid a vegetable tray with. MR makes his own Vitamin Z -- you really have to in order to live the way he does -- and it turns his skin slightly orange.
I make some of my own, but I do best when I get a little bit of external Vitamin Z. Sometimes I need to be reminded to fight for myself, value my own comfort, and speak my mind even when I'm not politically correct. I'm a very strong person, but my need for approval and love sometimes gets the better of my strong personality. That's when I need an IV infusion of Vitamin Z.
And I know who to call. My dealer isn't always pleasant, and sometimes she's downright wrong. But it's my responsiblity to decide what to ingest and what to leave locked up in the bottle. MR keeps me young and strong and healthy in body and keeps my heart awash in love, but my Vitamin Z dealer makes sure that I never run out of that nutrient that makes tough women tough. You can't find it in oysters, you can't drizzle it on your salad. But you can't live without it, and I don't suggest you try.
I have it on good authority that in some places, the olives are filled with Vitamin Z. I'm not sure though... could be a Greek myth.
Posted by april at April 11, 2006 7:56 PM
Comments
Wow, I have a severe vitamin Z deficiency and I didn't even know it!! I think attending the CR conference has activated biochemical pathways that had long gone dormant. Long live the dominant primordial beast!
Posted by: Alex J at April 11, 2006 7:14 PM
Hu hum, Vitamine Z is endemic in some turkish intellectuals i presume? :-). Maybe watching theater and writing books helps in maintaining adequat serum levels?
Posted by: Curious at April 12, 2006 1:52 AM
Vitamin Z dealer needs a self induced dose every day to function. It can be poisonous when taken in large doses but it's very good for an uplift if taken on the right dosage.
People taking vitamin Z have reported occasional craziness, punk behavior, an inability to conform with society's standards as side effects. They all reported to be liking those side effects.
Posted by: zeynep at April 13, 2006 5:13 PM