For 10 months I’d been occasionally trying to increase doses of Fungus Fighter (HerbPharm /iherb) but with no success. I really wondered what I had to do to get over this hump on the road. I was advised to ramp up gut healing nutraceuticals and take loads of probiotics but when I took these I seemed to worsen. Being ‘anti-supplements’ in general I came up with a plan to hack this part of the program. It’s seems to have been successful.
I went totally alkaline for 6 weeks – high ph water, salads, cooked veges, seeds, tofu etc. I checked the alkalinity of my saliva and urine a couple of times a day. It took 4 weeks for my morning saliva to go from an acidic 6 to a more normal looking 7. Urine stayed about 7.2; I don’t understand why this is, I was hoping it would drop to around 5.8 or 6 to signal that I was draining acids successfully but maybe I was and all the alkaline food was masking the acid coming out.
I was pleasantly surprised I could ramp up Fungus Fighter with no issues. 3 or 4 squirts (150 drops) a day – this was unheard of. I even added a Bioray product called Liverlife and got away with taking 50 drops a day of that. Years ago 1 drop would have been my limit. Liverlife gets Phase 1 and 2 functioning in the liver. I think it was too early to take this as it started processing heavy metals and/or other toxins and this was too much for my body while on alkaline. Without taking a proper binder I probably wasn’t excreting as much as I was mobilizing. After 6 weeks I started to get run down I stopped the diet, the Liverlife and added animal protein in my diet again. I’m 25% meats, 75% mainly cooked veges. It’s early days and I’m still on max dose Fungus Fighter so it’s all been a success at this stage and should pave the way for a much easier experience with final detox/chelation. Perhaps it wasn’t necessary to go full alkaline, a diet with mostly alkaline foods may have done the job, albeit more slowly.
I also found some Bioray NDF Plus and dabbled with that but the headaches were too severe so I will put that back in the cupboard. I will avoid any Cilantro and Alpha Lipoic Acid products for the time being. Once again, mobilizing toxins is the easy part, it’s excreting them that is the more important and trickier part. Yes I could have taken way less NDF as advised but I just wanted to see what would happen. I have been guilty of just hoping and wanting a product to work even if I know it will probably make me feel worse. I spoken to others about this and it’s common because we all just want to feel better and some of our decisions are irrational.
Just a word on Thyroid. In hindsight I should have just got a test done but I phased the natural thyroid product out 100% and then got tested. ( Another ‘mercury brain’ decision ) My TSH had improved, down from 4.5 to 3.5, so it’s going the right way. I may restart the extract again to get TSH down to around the apparently ideal 1.5 area.
I sometimes respect the destructive power of underlying toxicity. It’s such a powerful negative force and we can be trying so hard in so many areas of healing and unless you start to remove it, it just keeps applying pressure and doing it’s best to weaken us. I’m glad we have solutions, not quick and easy, but there are ways to recover.
By the time I post again I should be well into final detox/chelation. I’m not totally sure what products I will use. I was thinking good old DMSA to begin with might but there are other options. For example, a friend was advised to take these products for final detox: Zeobind, Zeolites, EDTA ARG Lipophos, EDTA Rectal suppositories, then Quicksilver Vit C and R-LA, then Wheatgrass and Cilantro, then Liposomal Melatonin. Note that this person has done many months of groundwork and preparation getting to this stage – gut, liver, thyroid, diet etc. There are some seriously strong products here that could do a lot of damage to someone who doesn’t understand what they are designed for. The last few products detox your brain cells – you need to know exactly what you are doing and be under the guidance of a professional.
I look forward to the new year and continuing to make progress; all the best with your own challenges. It’s summer here in New Zealand so I’m off to get some sun and salt water on the body.
Hello! Thanks as always for your posts/updates. Without rereading anything from your site, I thought I would mention the product that I sometimes take for binding: Pectasol-c. I first heard about it through Wendy Meyers’s site; she recommends taking Biosil to mobilize and Pectasol-c to bind (and a few other things). I don’t always love her site (I feel like the main goal of the site now is to sell things/make money, which I understand, but it makes me trust the recommendations a bit less). Anyway, I haven’t had the money, time or energy to do any sort of proper evaluation of the efficacy, and I haven’t had any actual tests done to confirm my issues, but I know I need to detox heavy metals (etc.) and I think this protocol really helped. The Pectasol-C seems kind of amazing–if I took a mobilizer and then got a headache or ache in my joints and then took the Pectasol-C, the symptom would disappear within about 30 mins. I was shocked at first! But then I started overdoing it and got a bit dehydrated (and probably needed to do some cal/mag/d3 supplementation, too)… but for binding, I have a feeling it really works. I am not sure exactly how it works, but I had some skin issues around areas that were vulnerable for me. (For example, my clavicle is a bit out of whack, and after taking a few regular high doses of the Pectasol-C, I got a small bit of what looked like eczema right in the area that always bothers me.) If I used a more gentle dose (less than what is recommended), the skin issues seemed to dissipate. It’s a bit pricey, especially when used daily, so I haven’t kept up with it very well, but I thought I would throw it out there just in case. (And the biosil, which is silica and supposedly mobilizes, seems to have a great effect on my skin if I use it regularly–but again, if I use too much, it can cause a headache.)
I also try to practice hot (Bikram) yoga when I can. I have a toddler and the classes are long, so I don’t always make it, but I do recommend a good sweat to accompany detox (which you might already have been doing). I’ve gone to saunas when I’ve been able, but of course just standard ones that probably have all the chemicals in the wood, etc… the effect of the sweating in the sauna is not as good as when coupled with the movements in yoga, but it definitely helps.
Also, I have been considering getting my hair (and my daughter’s hair) tested for glyphosate exposure. I’ve eaten mostly organic for about 10 years, but our landlords sprayed a huge amount of glyphosate in our back yard this summer, and I think my body is reacting to that. I didn’t know until recently that glyphosate is water soluable–I always thought it sort of sunk into the ground and did all the awful stuff it does and then nature sort of processed it out. I am guessing that happens to an extent, but I also now have the impression that it gets into the water and then air and then cycles through continuously… I can’t remember if you’ve had experience with glyphosate testing, but I wonder if you live in an area where there is any glyphosate used? (I think probably not if you are in NZ?) I really don’t know enough about any of this stuff at all, but I have a feeling that the glyphosate exacerbates heavy metal toxicity issues somehow; maybe through messing with the lymph system or liver. I also can’t remember if you’ve had genetic testing done, and I haven’t, but I am pretty sure that I am an overmethylator, and that is also impacting my body’s (in)ability to detox without a considerable amount of support.
I know you didn’t ask about any of this, but I appreciate so much reading your posts that I thought I would ramble through a bit of what I have been thinking lately. And I hope it goes without saying, but I am not affiliated to any companies (like Pectasol-c) or health sites, etc. Just a regular person trying to figure things out!
All the best, and happy 2019 to you!
Hi Sarah, thanks so much for sharing some of your experiences. I didn’t have a lot of luck with the Pectasol C but my timing might have been off; perhaps I was a little too toxic at the time. NZ has more than it’s fair share of glyphosate; we might be perceived as all clean and green but we aren’t. I hope you’re progressing well – best of luck.