Deficiency Quotes

“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. ( " Homeless down in the corner")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When scarcity and deficiency are constant companions of homeless souls, a fluent relationship with the world is often stingingly missing. The environment becomes bleak and barren and ceases to be a fostering space. ("Homeless, down in the corner")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“By navigating between excess and deficiency in our desires, we can find the means to discover the ideals of our fulfillment. Patience is a steady guide
and reassures us that we can traverse our emotional landscapes without getting lost in them, offering a comforting presence in the often-turbulent journey of love and emotions. (“Crépuscule du désir “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean.”
― Aristotle , The Nicomachean Ethics

“It was my experience with the medical profession that had years of experience treating me and knew that I was displaying symptoms that matched B12 deficiency, that they were unable to make that diagnosis.”
― Steven Magee

“Iron imbalance is a feature of COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“Now this peasant came to petition him a ninth time; he said: “O high steward, my lord! The tongue is men’s stand-balance. It is the balance that detects deficiency. Punish him who should be punished, and none shall equal your rectitude. When falsehood walks it goes astray.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“A strange skin tag grew on right side of my belly in my early forties. My doctors did not pay any attention to it and it was only years later that I discovered through experimentation with supplements that I had a DHEA hormone deficiency.”
― Steven Magee

“I was trained by senior managers to instruct high altitude workers to discharge large amounts of industrial gas into the indoor environment without respiratory protection and without oxygen deficiency monitors.”
― Steven Magee

“You would not want to be in hormone deficiency during a COVID-19 infection.”
― Steven Magee

“Natural light deficiency is a biological hazard when countries lock down their populations.”
― Steven Magee

“Pernicious Anemia translates into fatal blood deficiency, as a century ago it killed many of the people that developed it. It was a horrible and prolonged death process. It was later discovered that feeding raw liver to the patients would treat it. Today the condition is treated with vitamin B12 and iron supplements.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“You’ll never walk alone with an invisible friend.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Ultraviolet folate deficiency is a known hazard of high altitude work.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Iron deficiency anemia is a global pandemic!”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Magnesium cured my bruxism.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Pernicious anemia killed many people before the development of B12 supplements!”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Vitamin C prevented scurvy in sailors.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Iron deficiency is the most common of the nutritional metal deficiencies in humans.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“I was researching light deficiency for the book Toxic Light. I closed all my window blinds and kept the home interior relatively dark for several months. It made me super sick, then I started to feel better than before I started and then I became sensitive to sunlight. After my gradual return to sunlight I felt better than before I started.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Light

“After researching light deficiency in my body, I was severely vitamin D deficient at just 9 ng/mL when I got tested later that year. I started sunbathing to try and fix it and when that did not work, I took high dosing vitamin D supplements for several months and that fixed it.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Light

“Folic acid deficiency is associated with viral infection vulnerability.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“B12 deficiency may cause the COVID-19 disease to become severe.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“If you do not have a deficiency or toxicity that a supplement is correcting then there will be no health effects from taking the supplement.”
― Steven Magee

“Death by nutritional deficiencies!”
― Steven Magee

“Our flaws either follow us into the world, or wait for us to be born.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Light deficiency appears prevalent in prisoners.”
― Steven Magee

“A bad economy is not enough reason for one to resort to crime. If the economy of a country is not working, at least every sane individual in that country owns a brain that works.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions