Finally some real progress has been made. For years I’ve being trying to remove the mercury directly with either synthetic chelators like DMSA, high dose Vitamins and strict diets but the key, at least for me, and i suspect any long term chronic/severe cases, is that the gut and core systems have to be repaired and functioning to some degree before any real progress can be made.

I would have done over 100 rounds of chelation over many years with very little progress. This has been soul crushing. Chelation is very difficult when unwell, particulary when it doesn’t help. High dose vitamins did calm me down and sdtart naturakly detoxing but i was on the for years; it just seemed too complex and hit and miss. And expensive

I have been working with Connie Fox who was healed by Dr klinghardt. They are adamant that any moderate to severe patient must strengthen and heal the gut and microbiome/immune system to lay the foundation for getting the remaining metals out.

But even Connie’s protocol can be very difficult and overwheming. If you were to folow her program there are a ton of supplements. The medication she uses for gut repair made me worse, it’s an anti histamine and I’m low histamine anyway so i think it just lowered it even more causing quite severe mental issues. It was brutal.

So i began to try her alternative gut protocol which is intensive and there are many supplements. I wasn’t a good student. I don’t know why but i didn’t have total faith in it, i felt there had to be more to it. And this is common, we get so fixated on the end result, getting the mercury or lead out, how can working on the gut help so much.

Well, over the years my gut microbiome took an absolute beating from stress, alcohol, detox attempts, chronic infections appearing, and only God knows what else. So to then expect something like DMSA, which is a toxic chemical in it’s own right, to simply grab the mercury and take it out without an y side effects, is a big ask.

I’m at the point now where i agree with Connie, that no chemical (DMSA/DMPS/OSR) chelators are nescessary to heal from even severe metals toxoicites. They are helfful and work in some cases, no doubt. Time will tell for me, but i will be doing my best not to use them. Has chelation worked for some people, yes, for sure. The Andy Cutler group are a pretty staunch lot, their heart is in the right place, they want people to heal, but I feel they should be somewhat open to alternative therapies. They claim that if someone gets well from using any other method, they got lucky; that’s flat out wrong.

So back to my situation. I was looking for a more natural form of healing and detox after poor results from chelation. It was quite simply too hard and unrewarding, i wasn’t getting anywhere.  I’d read alot of books by the likes of Dr Morse and old books by Arnold Ehret who were adamant fruit and getting to an alkaline state was key. It made sense, but moderate to severe metals toxcity cases are a bit different. It’s a very delicate situation where one wrong move and one can end up in alot of pain. I was at a point where if I ate an apple, I’d be in bad shape for the next day. I put it down to the fruit sugars feeding the bad bugs that go hand in hand with the metals.

Connie also doesn’t recommend fruit early on. In Arnold Ehret’s book, mucusless Diet Healing System, he said after healing thousands of people (not just mercury) at his santarium in Swizerland last century, that mercury cases were different and required a very long non fruit alkaline raw food diet first. Unfortunately he didn’t elaborate on what excatly to do but i assume he slowly introduced fruit as tolerated. This is what i wanted to try. I understood that yes, the fruit sugar fed bad/unhelpful bugs to some degree, but they also started to dissolve and cleanse any unwanted entities like infections, mucus, toxins, medications etc. So if i was having side effects from eating apples, i wonder what percentage of symptoms was from feeding the bugs versus disolving toxicities. The problem is that a compromised body cannot properly excrete any toxins that are stirred up efficiently as it should be able to. We get stuck.

What i can now say after over 6 months of slowly introducing fruit is that i have solved a huge part of the puzzle. Once i understood that the fruit was stirring up what i needed to bel removed, then it was a case of making sure whatever was stirred up up, didn’t get reabsorbed back into me while it was on it’s way out. My kidney’s weren’t filtering well, my morning wee was clear, so i had to rely on the gut for excretion. Saunas took too much out of me, too severe eraly on. I made sure i was regular, keeping thungs on the move with herbs. As an example I used Natures Sunshine Lower Bowel Support just to keep things moving. Some use Senna tea or really anything else that just does the job. If the fruit is stiring things up, being regular is the key, it has to get out quickly. Sometimes herbs and a very clean diet wasn’t enough. Enemas were absolutely crucial. It’s can get tiresome but sometimes you literally need to just dump whatever is in there, and the enema does it without fail. Coffee, lemon juice, plain water, whatever works, do your homework and customise it to your needs.

I introduced Cistus tea enemas also which break down biofilms. The first few of these were quite mentally disturbing. I was quite alarmed at the fallout for a day or two after, very severe reaction. I assume it broke down the biofilms and whatever toxin was inside started circulating. Stick to plan, the right foods, stimulating herbs, more enemas – just get rid of it. I had faith that whatever i was doing was slowly removing the cause of my issues. The tide would turn eventually, and it did, after many months. I now can do a cistus tea enema with very little to no side effects.

So I would repeat this cycle where i would get on the fruit, stop when symtoms got rough or untolerable, then worked on getting rid of what i stirred up with this ‘removal technique’. Because so many bodily symtoms weren’t working well, it can take a long time to make progress. Natures’ gears grind slow but sure. I needed help with herbs and enemas because my body couldn’t manage the detox naturally. I was stuck, my wheels were spinning, i was locked in a whirlpool of suffering. But it lifted. I’ve got more work to do but i feel like i’m on the right path.

Different fruits would produce different cleansing reactions, due to their astringency. For example, blueberries were for the most part okay, blackberries were brutal. I steered clear of any refined sugar or bread, pasta, wheat etc. Bascially experimented with salads, some raw and cooked meat, generally whole foods that i felt like. No booze, sugar, choclate, dairy etc, the usual suspects. For vegans, i think it might be possible to do itwithout meats. Connie and Dr Klinghardt believe meats are crucial for recovery but i think raw foodists and vegans etc could do it with a wide range of foods to ensure all necessary foods were covered. I also occasionally used gut supps/foods like Slippery Elm and Marshmellow root. I don’t think this was make or break using these, it wasn’t like i used them as much as Connie’s protocol wanted me too, no where near. So i broke ranks on the protocol really; i found a way to make fruit work.

I did dabble with common supplements recommended for metal detox – zinc, vit c, magnesium. Andy Cutler’s rcommended supplements are probably fine here. And some copper if tolerated. This isn’t recommended for metals detox but i thought it was worth a try for soem reason. I can’t say how much this helped me, i really don’t know. Not high dose vitamins. I would say relaxation strategies and a very nutritious diet is way more improtant.

Recently I’ve turned my attention to the bugs section of the protocol. So i‘m loosely following her protocol but doing it my way, what seems right to me. It’s working so far.

Over the last decade, whenever i tried to kill the bad bugs with something like wormwood or black walnut hull, my goodness, I’d get absolutely smashed by them, even small amounts. A parasite cleanse, forget about it. I couldn’t work my way around them, I’d hit a wall every time. It was so demoralising, i even went months on an alkline diet of just salads, green juice; and while that made me feel better, when i returned to the meat and veggies diet, symptoms would return. It seemed no underlying hard core cleansing had occurred. And those diets are hard in cold climates, it can be stressful on those strict regimes.

Fast forward to now and I’m quite happily taking 2 teaspoons!! of these bug killers. This was a great surprise. I feel it, but it’s tolerable, not a knock out scary reaction. There is no doubt the fruit and gut repair / cleansing regime has cleared and fixed enough to be able to handle this stuff. This is incredible because to me it’s just a matter of carefully going through he levels of healing – get bad bugs under control, work on normalising minerals and vitamin levels, and only then consider how to remove any remaining metals. The metals part should be easy as Connie says. One should be feeling much improved, to the point where a lot of the toxins will come out naturally with out any chelators.

So that’s where I’m at, i hope I’ve explained what is working for me in this very important gut and bugs stage of recovery.

Now that I’m making some progress i will update regulary. I can’t recall what I’ve written in my book download, but whatever is there probably won’t help anyone too much. I will update it at some stage.

All the best to anyone else on this journey; keep going