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Good Progress – May 2023

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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

Stopped Chelation – Nov 22 Update

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Well a lot has happened this year. I’ll keep it brief and to the point. I was following Andy Cutler protocol and making some progress but also felt i was getting depleted. Even on the vitamins i felt i was wilting away. I can’t be sure that it was the DMSA or the high dose vitamins causing imbalances. Perhaps it was both.

It all came to a crashing halt when i got covid (i never got the vax) for a few weeks in May 22; my vitamin regime turned on me and i had to stop. So that put an end to chelation as i couldn’t take any supporting vitamins. My overall health crashed quite bad for months, i was really run down and it just didn’t make sense to restart chelation. I haven’t taken any DMSA or chelators since then.

I thought i would have made more progress, it all seemed too difficult and too draining for my body. I had no choice but to give it a break and change course.

I decided to take a more natural approach and follow my own program based on Connie Fox’s protocol. Gut first, then bad bugs, then consider chelation. She is adamant no one needs to do chelation with DMSA DMPS and/or ALA. She says chelation, or getting mercury out, is the easy part after all the hard work has been done repairing gut, restoring imbalances as much as possible, and generally getting much stronger before even thing about dealing directly with the mercury.

So i’m right back at rebuilding gut and mineral/vitamins, dealing with chronic infections/viral load without even thing about stiring up any mercury

Obviously diet is crucial, i’m also trying BPC157 to help heal the gut, vitc, copper, zinc, quercitin are a few basics. But i’m taking way more and won’t post untill something has worked well for me because it’s all experimental.

In hindsight, perhaps the DMSA did pull out some metals but it was too much of a struggle overall. I have taken months to improve after stopping, perhaps some imbalances have normalised after 10 tough months of chelation. There are just so many unknowns. it’s all very frustrating at times. Overall i feel slightly better so something has worked to some degree. It really is so different for everyone unfortunately experimentation is the only way. And the first goal is to not make yourself any worse

I hope to post much sooner next time with some better gains. All the best

July 2021 – Chelation Begins Again

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Some improvement – jeez, it took me over a year to tolerate the vitamins which allow me to tolerate the DMSA Chelation.

Note – i was aiming to do bugs first but since i am tolerating DMSA i will see how i go. You have one side saying you have to get rid of the bugs first, to make chelation easier, which makes sense. But then others say the bugs won’t go until you remove the metals, which also makes sense, so it’s really up to the individual doing some trial and error.

I’m anti-vitamins; I wouldn’t be taking them otherwise. I have discussed them in earlier posts. They are customised for me, and they work. If you want to take vitamins and just want the basics then I’d advise what Dr Cutler advises. If you’d rather take none then just start with small doses of DMSA or DMPS or ALA. Some people are on 1mg! This might be me if I wasn’t on the supporting vitamins.

My current “rounds” are 6.5 mg of DMSA, every 3.5 to 4 hours, for 3 to 4 days. It is knocking me around a bit but it’s tolerable so this is fine. Diet has been crucial – nothing sugary or too carby. Sometimes I have a good round, the first two were quite tough but doable. I try to go into them feeling as strong as possible (relatively strong, like a weak strong, not a weak weak, because you can just get a lot worse.) If you are constantly weak, you might just have to start and stop the round when feeling crappy. Wait a few days to a week, then try again. It should get easier.

The good old coffee enemas have also been very handy on day 3 and 4 if I’m struggling. I’m a little over doing these but they are effective, and cheap, and i don’t have to go anywhere. These aren’t everyone’s cup of tea (excuse the pun), some use Epsom Salts Baths, skin brushing, hot showers, gentle excercise, staying occupied. Sometimes just staying on the move works as sitting or lying down can make things worse.

I keep referring to the great chelation book – “The Mercury Detoxification Manual”. It’s a real science getting chelation right

All the best for everyone else out there doing chelation – just keep knocking out those rounds.

July 2020 Update – Chugging Along

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**A Sept update is below the post. Not much progress I’m afraid.

So I’m bouncing between treatments here but I feel I’m on the path –

  • Repeated rounds of DMSA alone, 3 days on, about a week off.
  • Sometimes do a round of Boyd Haley’s OSR in between DMSA rounds depending on strength.
  • Take Thyroid support which does help. Whole/Natural Thyroid Extract (can be a game changer for those feeling totally wasted)
  • Take a custom vitamin support but add extra to ensure I’m getting all Andy Cutler’s vitamin recommendations – Magnesium, Zinc, Vit C, Vit E etc – Support from Rebecca Rust Lee at maybeitsmercury.com
  • As much time outside and sun on skin as possible – Dr Jack Kruse Lifestyle
  • Diet – meat and vege in winter, occasional greens cleanse in summer. Try thiol free diet if mercury is suspected.
  • Minimal fake blue light – computers, TV, especially at night as you need all the melatonin you can as that cleanses the brain at night.
  • Avoid stress like the plaque, or shall i say ‘covid’ 🙂
  • Very careful with excercise – light walks and some light weights with stretching. As soon as i feel good, I stop as it’s most likely I’m then running on adrenaline and will pay for it the next day or two.
  • Occasional coffee enema which still produces soft stones.

I found the Medical Medium / Anthony William info interesting. It seems the foods like gluten and dairy feed virus and pathogens and can make us feel shitty. We have to remove these unwelcome invaders but killing them directly when you have severe heavy metal poisoning can really cause problems. So it seems the only way to heal is to carefully remove the metals while starving the pathogens. How you do this depends on so many factors, but it’s definitely possible. The main point is to not make yourself any worse which is very easy to do.

All the best with your own recovery; keep up the good work and don’t give up.

Update – whoops, the DMSA rounds were tough going to the point where i had to stop for the time being. I will continue to do OSR when feeling up to it. And i think the Thyroid extract didn’t agree with me. It was a different one from the extract I used  a year ago with some success. So I will leave that out for the time being. It’s also possible that less metals in my system have improved thyroid function and I no longer need it.

Gut and liver function have improved as i can tolerate more foods. So there has been some improvement over time. It’s just incredibly slow. I know i could be on a faster track and will keep trying to find this.

 

 

 

OSR, Emeramide, Irminex, NBMI – Heavy Metal Chelator

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These are all names for the same product.

It is developed by Dr Boyd Haley as a safe heavy metal chelator. Officially it is currently available for compassionate use only while it gets FDA approval. Dr Haley’s website:

www.emeramed.com

There are also unofficial forums like on facebook that are obtaining it (one only has to google the product to find who else sells it). Boyd does not recommend buying it from these medical companies but people are, and getting results. All sorts of claims are being made, both good and bad, but this what I have learned about it:

  • because anyone has access to it (if they are willing to spend approx $400 to $700+ a month at full dose) people take too little or too much and also some are not heavy metal toxic, so you can imagine all the comments when really no one can prove if and how badly they are toxic and what is the correct dose for them. This puts the potentially effective product at risk of never making to to mainstream use. So please do your homework and be very careful both discussing and consuming it.
  • For sulphur sensitive people who have been severely toxic for many years, a normal dose (100mgs x 3 per day, so 300mgs) can make you feel much much worse. A much lower starting dose and a molybdenum supplement should help with this. Some people are using micro scales and starting at 1mg per day and building up.
  • OSR is lipophilic meaning it can cross the blood brain barrier and basically get everywhere and anywhere metals are hiding. Metals are bound very tightly and then excreted over time via the bowel.
  • My assumption is that because OSR also increases glutathione inside the cell, it causes toxins to be pushed out of the cell. This is good but if there isn’t enough OSR to bind to the metals then we can fell very shitty. This is my take on it I could be wrong.
  • OSR has a supposed half life of 24 hours so taking it once a day should be fine. BUT, some people seem to get what feel like redistribution symptoms after say 18 hours so find taking it more often is better. This all still very experimental so a careful approach is needed.
  • I also think that for the chronic cases, when OSR does bind and remove a metal it does disrupt the balance of that cell and it can take a while for us to recover. So there most likely will be side effects that should be able to be managed with supplements, low dosing to start, a very nutritious diet and enough rest.
  • 2 weeks cycles are recommended but once again this can be personalized. Some do a 3 day round Andy Cutler style, and also take the core four supplements – Vitamin C, magnesium, Zinc and Vitamin E. There is no standard protocol as yet. Dr Boyd Haley has taken over 100mgs every day for years but someone else may not tolerate a single dose at 5mg.

I dearly hope that this product does what it says it does and therefore will help so many people who are suffering. It is SO much easier than doing the old school chelation with DMSA, DMPS and ALA, particularly for the more severe cases. It’s just going to take some time and experimentation to work out some protocols.

Links:

1: A molybdenum option, a decent dose at 1mg per day:

https://www.thorne.com/products/dp/molybdenum-glycinate

2: OSR Forum  – search on Facebook

3: Boyd Haley’s video – more on Youtube and elsewhere.

 

 

 

 

Anti-Microbial Program Breakthrough

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

A Chelation Success Story – Not Your Typical Protocol

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Occasionally people contact me via my website and share their experience.

I want to let readers know that this is not a protocol I would recommend. I doubt many practitioners would advise doing this method. I suspect they would recommend way more supporting supplements, even if they weren’t necessary.

This particular chap form Australia was severely toxic and after many years was wondering whether he would ever recover.

He had major gut issues and struggled to tolerate anything other than a few food groups. He was desperate and actually didn’t care at the time what the outcome was.

He took a punt and with some notes from the Australian Autism websites put together his protocol:

  • DMSA suppositories every 4 hours for 3 days (starting with very small dose, 1 to 3 mgs, slowly ramping up until he found a maximum tolerable dose)
  • minimum 11 days off between rounds
  • no Alpha Lipoic Acid at any time
  • no extra supplements – he did not believe in adding vitamins
  • extremely nutritious diet as his gut was able to tolerate more.

Within 3 months he knew he’d hit pay-dirt and after 1 year he said he was in good health was training for a marathon. He did take a few weeks off after 6 months of chelation. If he felt run-down or weak he waited longer in between rounds.

This seems to be good to be true I have no reason to not believe him. Although inserting something up your bum at 11pm, 3am and 7am isn’t something I would look forward to. If DMPS was just as effective then 8 hours gaps would make life much easier.

No ALA surprises me. Perhaps he had very little intracellular toxicity or his cells pushed more toxicity out into the bloodstream as the blood levels came down. I don’t understand this so I’m not going to pretend I do. Andy Cutler says ALA has to be used at some point because it crosses the blood brain barrier and gets into the cells but people have got better without it.

Comparing this to the Andy Cutler protocol and recommended supplements you’ll find a big gap. Many thanks to Living Network in South Africa for providing this information:

Click on the main title below to see the extended / recommended full protocol

Oral Chelation for Mercury: The Andy Cutler protocol

Anyone who suspects they have a toxicity issue and are considering chelation therapy needs to do their own research and work along side an experienced practitioner before considering any protocol.

I hope you found this valuable and all the best with your own detox journey

Alpha Lipoic Acid Backfire – A Slight Setback

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After warning people for years about taking too much Alpha Lipoic Acid too soon, I go and take too much.

I had done a few rounds of DMSA (15mg average) and had got too confident. I added 3mg ALA to the last 2 rounds and this seemed to go okay. What I hadn’t realized was it was well past it’s use-by date. So when I made the slight increase to 5mg ALA of fresh stuff it hit me hard. After 2 days I was starting to fade badly so stopped the ALA. To make matters worse, 5 days later I did another round of just DMSA thinking I would be mopping up the metals I had stirred up. This only made matters worse as the damage had been done. In theory, our minerals and glutathione levels need to recover before doing another round. I wasn’t waiting long enough in between rounds.

Then the suffering started. It was a awful 2 weeks of:

  • racing heart – I could not lie down during the day or else I would get too agitated. I had to keep busy just to keep my mind off the symptoms.
  • head/scalp tension – my God, this was something else, I’ve heard people describe a ‘head burn’, well this probably wasn’t far off.
  • burning lower arms
  • anxiety and fearfulness, awful thoughts

It’s safe to say it has been a forgettable few weeks and is only starting to resolve. A lesson learned. I was having up to 3 hot showers a day for pain relief.

I found some relief with coffee enemas, clay/charcoal binders, saunas (sometimes made me weaker), cold swims/showers, staying occupied outside the house, dry brushing skin, alkaline foods. If or when I restart DMSA rounds I will wait 11 days in between for the body to recover.

This episode also made me realize I needed to ramp up my anti-microbial program to make chelation much easier. I started Milk Kefir again, I ordered some more kefir grains online and found a local store bought milk that was suitable. Otherwise it’s all too hard. To be able to pop down to the nearest store is key, and put fresh batch on every day or 2.

Update 1 week later – had to stop Kefir as I think all the yeasts and other bacteria made me worse. Perhaps it was because it’s dairy. I’m not sure but it just didn’t suit me. I will find probitics without yeasts, sugar and lactose. 5lac has yeasts so that may also have to go.

I also make my own sauerkraut which is very simple, i seem to tolerate this in moderation. I dabble with 5Lac and Vivomixx probiotics also. (not sold on these) So the battle is on for the gut terrain. I’m ramping up the Fungus Fighter (struggling with this) and getting that up to full dose (4 droppers/day) is my immediate aim. The occasional coffee “bomb” to clear everything out, I had a really good gall bladder purge the other day with a few big soft stones coming out. Some others use the Hulda Clark liver purge but I haven’t tried this in years as I was too weak.

Cold swims in the ocean and cold (or whatever I could handle) showers seemed to be very effective. Painful to start but always seem better afterwards, as long as it doesn’t weaken you.

I have been taking up to 3 spoonfuls per day, 3 separate occasions of Dr Schultz’s charcoal and clay mix which seems to be helping. After many timing experiments I actually take it first before a meal. Big glass of warm water with the powder, wait 5 minutes, then food. An hour away from any other supplements.

In terms of what I can manage these days, I went for my first scuba dive for a decade which I seemed to handle well. I still have inflammation in the inner ear so equalizing was painful so it’ll be  while before I’m back down there but it’s a good start. Still a lot of work ahead.

Until next time, all the best with your own recovery. Hang in there and be consistent.

Forging on with Chelation and Anti-Microbials

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The long drawn out process of detoxing metals continues. Some words that sum up the last few months are: discipline, consistency, focus, it’s a marathon, be careful and eat the right foods – consistently,  There’s no doubt about it that I find it difficult at times; the relentless effort required to get the job done can be tiresome in it’s own right. The roller-coaster of symptoms and trying to work out what did what seems never ending. I have had some glimpses of good health though, so I do feel I’m progressing.

Improvements I’ve noticed:

  • calmer, better mood, able to converse with people more naturally, sense of humor returning, dreadful thoughts disappearing, more energy and stamina, better appetite, enjoying food more, can stand up quickly, wanting to listen to music, more upbeat about the future, tolerate screens better and welcomed weight gain.

These might sound strange to a healthy person but the toxic people out there are all too familiar with weird symptoms that your average doctor would diagnose as “psychosomatic”.

I’ll admit I’m not exactly following the plan. I’ve obviously got some bad bug issues because every time I ramp up the bug killing products I feel rough. I lost patience and tried a round of DMSA which surprisingly didn’t knock me around too much, so I kept going. I’ve done 4 ’rounds’ of 20mg DMSA and 5mg Alpha Lipoic Acid. I’m pleased to be tolerating this dose. I’m fully aware I may not be able to tolerate it for what ever reason but it’s going well so far. I make sure I have a good break of about a week and load up on zinc and magnesium. I follow the Andy Cutler style of chelation. So I’m following  a combination of programs.

This is interesting because years ago I did over 40 rounds with 5mg DMPS but couldn’t tolerate a bigger dose. Adding ALA, even 1mg was a disaster. So what’s changed? Got thyroid TSH down, re-built gut and liver/kidney support basically. I have also used Mensah medical supplements (B12, Folate, Zinc, mag etc…) but it’s hard to say what role they’ve played. Also Dr Shultz #2 clay/charcoal mix up to 3 times per day 1/2 hour before meals. And coffee enemas as needed.

I don’t know of any two people that have had exactly the same program for getting well. We all seem to settle into whatever works through careful experimentation. There is no choice a lot of the time as many mainstream doctors will advise against chelation and thyroid support but also not come up with any other solutions – it’s usually too risky for them. In the mean time for many of us it’s a ‘do-it-yourself’ job.

So Thyroid is steady, supplements are good, I’m still experimenting with probiotics and I use milk thistle and kidney liquid formulas from Herbpharm plus some other bits and pieces. Getting the foundation right BEFORE chelation was key for me. Less chronic cases might be resilient enough to handle it straight.

  • bad bugs develop and multiply in a toxic and acidic environment
  • they always will unless we decrease the underlying toxic burden
  • pathogen load will decrease as you detoxify metals, and vice versa
  • they put a huge strain on our guts – 1000’s of billions of probiotics daily are sometimes required to get on top of the bad bug issue. Good bugs help eat the bad bugs. It’s war.
  • pathogens cause much cellular damage to organs, brain and glands.
  • these microbes produce toxic waste our liver has to deal with constantly
  • they lower or disrupt our energy frequency, we lose our vitality.
  • with pathogens decreasing, our immune system will then get a chance to catch up and strengthen. Particularly when we rebuild the gut as 90% of our immune system resides there. Strong gut = strong immune system
  • metals are excreted when bugs are killed – this is  a crucial stage and must be taken seriously and slow, particularly for severe cases. A lot is going on with this stage. Having to quit and start again can be very disappointing. Don’t just continue when feeling awful.
  • severe toxic cases require a very different protocol from mild cases. You really have to know what you’re doing.

I’m starting to understand how these unfriendly microbes associated with heavy metals really do cause us a heap of issues. Someone like Connie Fox says chelation is the final easy part and we should be feeling almost symptom free by the time we get to that stage. And Dr Klinghardt says “metals and bugs are great friends”. It’s not so much the metals directly causing us pain and weird symptoms but the associated bad bugs that seem to go hand in hand with chronic toxicity. It’s all the downstream issues that toxicity causes that give us grief. Maybe our immune systems are constantly over-whelmed trying to get on top of these chronic infections / bad bugs. That’s certainly how it feels sometimes.

All the best with your own recovery.

 

 

 

 

Setback After Not Tolerating Anti-Microbial Stage

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As someone with suspected moderate to severe toxicity, I had been warned that if hadn’t done enough foundation work on my gut and liver then I would struggle with the anti-microbial stage. When these bugs die they put a strain on the gut, liver and kidneys.

Looking back, the main reason I gave up on the gut work was because I didn’t have any success with the mast cell stabiliser ‘Ketotifen’ which had apparently helped so many others. A friend with obvious and severe gut issues was having success with it so it’s pot luck. I had big expectations but it made me way worse so the next option was to use probiotics, gut friendly nutraceuticals  and foods like milk kefir.  Good probiotics are expensive and making kefir is time consuming so along with some other excuses I skipped it. Bad decision.

Before I go on, if there is some ongoing stress in your life that you can do something about, then this can be a huge help. The gut wants blood around it, this can’t happen when you’re stressed out all the time in flight-or-flight mode. And I realise the illness itself causes stress that we can only do so much about (but usually more then we think) so this issue is different for everyone. Too much fake light from devices is not good for the gut, I’ve minimised my usage particularly at nights and it has definitely helped, particularly with sleeping. It’s takes constant experimenting.

Back to the gut program – I also thought I was strong enough at that point to start the anti-microbial program which included products such as Artemesia, Fungus Fighter, Vermez (a NZ product, similar to Para-Shield). An anti-microbial program has bug killing ingredients such as Walnut Hull, Clove, Oregano Leaf, Pau d’Arco, Wormwood, Olive Leaf Extract, Garlic etc. Some also take Niacin the blood thinner so the ingredients can get into all the nooks and crannies.

Initially I started well but as the weeks progressed I got weaker. My will power to get better kept me going but it got to a point where was rapidly fading away and had no choice but to stop. I didn’t follow instructions properly either – I started taking small doses of everything instead of ramping up one product at a time to full dose and then moving on.

After a demoralising day or 2 I when back to the drawing board and made a plan for the gut and liver work. I’m currently tolerating well the Milk thistle for liver and a kidney support (both HerbPharm products from iherb).

For gut i take Slippery Elm (mucosal lining healer) and should really make some magic gut tea to sip away on all day which includes slippery elm, marsh-mellow root and licorice.

Probiotics include sporadic batches of kefir, ramping up FiveLac powder and looking to add something like Vivomixx. This all seems to be working because every time I increase dosage I get headaches and fatigue but it clears relatively quickly. I take a binder in the mornings and sometimes at night away from anything else consumed. (Dr Shultz Intestinal binder). And Dr Shultz #1 to get things moving; very effective.

I will wait until I can tolerate maximum dose of the gut and probiotic products and only then will have another attempt at the bug killing stage. And then comes the extraction of toxins from inside the cell which will most likely involve Alpha Lipoic acid and some form of chelator/binder such as DMSA to escort it pout of the body.  I did an “Andy Cutler” round of DMSA (extra-cellular detox / outside the cell) a few weeks ago and that went well but I tried ALA alone and that was a disaster so be very careful with this as it crosses the blood brain barrier and allows toxins to travel in and out. It is VERY easy to shift toxins from relatively safe locations to not so safe locations and make yourself MUCH worse. Which method I use will be decided in the future with consultation with professionals matched with what I think i can handle.

As desperate as we are to get these toxins out of our bodies we have to be patient. Big mistakes will only delay recovery.

My recovery program is currently based on:

  • Connie Fox detox program – thyroid, gut, heavy metal detox. – Dr Klinghardt.
  • Dr Jack Kruse circadian rhythm guidelines
  • Root Cause protocol – importance of magnesium and diet
  • Paleo Diet – nothing that can feed the unwanted bacteria associated with toxicity – sugar, booze, bread – most high glycemic carbs.

Next update will be when I attempt the bug killing stage again. I hope this post has helped and given you some clues as to what to do next or possible root causes.