I wonder which countries have the highest rates of preclamsia....would be interesting to know.
Excellent suggestion. That might provide a clue as to which mineral-deficient areas might correlate. Unfortunately, nutrition studies are still so very much in their infancy that the researchers don't even think in terms of vitamin/mineral/amino acid/enzyme synergy yet.
According to Ashmead in this book and elsewhere, even rates of vitamin absorption, let alone utilization, are dependent upon MINERAL levels in the body FIRST -- and even with mineral supplements, first mineral absorption and THEN mineral bio-availability are highly variable and dependent upon many factors, some of which are controllable.