Category Archives: General

Good Progress – May 2023

Leave a reply

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

Leave a reply

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

April 2022 – 30 DMSA Rounds Done

Leave a reply

After 9 months and 30 rounds I can report some good progress. The first 10 rounds gave me the most improvement, now any changes are imperceptible, but they are there. It’s incredibly slow though, i can now see how this can take 3 to 4 years. If you are starting out, that can seem daunting but remember that you will be getting better and the last couple of years should be easy going. It seems that the worst is over for me but i’m still in bad shape overall. It’s just that i was in really bad shape before.

If anything, i notice small changes to my personality, I’m way better in social situations. I still have to watch what I eat and not overdoing things physically. I’m more resilent for sure. I don’t have any days when i’m physically wiped out now. That builds confidence.

I’m always fine tuning diet. After reading ‘We Want To Live’ about the primal raw diet, i have made some changes. It’s similar to Weston Price, – but raw dairy, raw meat, raw eggs, unheated honey and some fruit. But this has to be adjusted if you are mercury toxic and sulphur sensitive, the raw eggs are going to stir things up. It reminds me of Connie Fox’s mercury diet, very high nutrient, high fat.

If you are interested in reading the Raw Primal – Aajonus Vonderplanitz books then here they are:

We-Want-to-Live

the_recipe_for_living_without_disease

All the best , John

 

July 2021 – Chelation Begins Again

Leave a reply

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.

March 2021 Update – Making Headway

Leave a reply

Note that this is written for moderate to severe toxicity cases. Mild cases can skip a lot of stages but still need to be careful because you can easily stir metals up and turn a mild case into a moderate or severe case.

I haven’t posted in so long because I was making zero progress. It didn’t matter what diet or supplements or meds I took, I was just stuck. I’m certain it was because I had taken on more responsibilities than I could manage. I had been warned to limit or avoid any psychological stress, this is crucial for moderate to severe toxicity cases. In an effort to ‘get back into life’ or ‘stay busy’ I was in fact just becoming more and more overwhelmed. Toxicity can lock us into a flight or fight response – we hardly ever, or never go into ‘rest and digest’ mode. We really do have to master how to take extremely good care of ourselves.

So I ditched a couple of projects I was always thinking about, and started saying no to a few outings that really didn’t help me. And less social media which is huge downer for me. And only then did I start to make a little more progress. So lifestyle issues are a huge factor – projects, work, relationships, hobbies, excercise regimes etc that only worsen symptoms. What can help a healthy person can hinder a toxic person.

So what am doing right now?

I am still loosely adhering to Dr Klinghart/Connie Fox/Rhoda Kingston detox protocol involving:

GUT / THYROID / PATHOGENS / METALS, or the full list from Connie’s website:

Now, Connie’s usual gut protocol did not work for me. Ketotifen is an anti-histamine and I’m low histamine so I assume this only made my histamine levels lower. Histamine is a neurotransmitter – I felt so terrible and had to stop. Connie does have a natural backup but I must admit the amount of supplements involved and trying to get them to New Zealand was difficult and frustrating. In the end it was strict diet, sunlight, no blue light/devices, coffee enemas, relaxation techniques to give my gut a chance to heal to a degree. Spending time with friends and family where i could forget my issues and just have a good time (as much as possible) was the best medicine but this was fleeting. I wanted everyone to stay on holiday for 6 months but this isn’t reality.

What I have been working on is getting back to full dose of the compounded supplements/vitamins. This goes way back to my trip to the States where I saw Dr Mensah. They do various tests and work out what nutrients you need for optimal brain function. I was skeptical; I’m not a fan of vitamins. But at full dose, these worked. The nutrients can correct Kryptopyroles, Copper toxicity, methylation and other neurological issues. These vitamins are powerful!. The first time I ramped up taking them 2 years ago, it took me 4 months to tolerate the full dose. If you have some excess copper, the zinc will start pushing/detoxing this out and you will feel neurotic and depressed. It can be brutal so must be taken slowly.

This time around (why did I stop last time? because i couldn’t find a local supplier and Mensa Medical wouldn’t prescribe me; nightmare situation) I had 2 weeks of nasty side effects as my biochemistry corrected. Every time I increased dose, i had side effects until I was near full dose. There are many of these practitioners around the world and most do remote work. But shop around, some are useless, others like Mensah are brilliant. More docs here:

www.biobalance.org.au

Thyroid update – without testing, I started on thyroid hormone and it didn’t go as well as it did last time i tried. My goodness, it felt like someone injected some adrenaline, i was totally wired on a tiny dose, manic. Connie later explained to me that although my TSH was relatively low, it wasn’t low enough to warrant treatment with whole thyroid extract. My Free T4 was in the mid range (good) and my Free T3 was also good. TSH was 3.8 mIU/L, a bit high but this would come down naturally with the mercury detox protocol. I needed a pro to explain this; the extract i was taking was overdosing me. I will monitor this every 3 to 4 months; luckily i can just walk in off the street anytime to get this test done. Less visits to Doc the better.

So I’m building the foundation for a successful outcome. Diet and low stress lifestyle makes a huge difference. I aim for an alkaline diet which includes animal proteins. Not easy. Finding an alkaline mineral water, 7 or 8ph can help a lot. Sugar – booze  – carbs are still troublesome. But also over excercise exhausting the adrenals is equally important. My day is based on adrenal management – keeping occupied but not pushing it. If I’m doing something quite physical and actually feel good, i stop, it’s adrenaline I’m running on and will pay for it over the next few days. I’ve been taught that lesson hundreds of times.

Now that I’m on the vitamins, I feel like my body is slowly improving and the ‘flight or fight’ response is reduced. Life is better, but it’s a false sense of health, I’m still toxic. Next is tackling the unhelpful pathogens and parasites. Testing usually isn’t necessary, but the Autonomic Response Testing I did with Rhoda Kingston was impressive. She was able to pin point what “bad bugs” or chronic infections I had. So they can targeted more easily. My test came back with fungi/candida issues, retroviruses, lungworm, liver fluke, Ehrlicha. The targeted treatment for those include calendula, amebex, mimosa pudica, myrrh and more. So it’s going to be interesting to see how this stage goes. It cannot be rushed as these bugs have become a part of us so you can;t just go in and ‘kill them’ because it might feel like you’re killing yourself. I’ve been there, it’s nasty. I’m not going to waste all the work I’ve done with getting to this point. If a big mistake is made, it can set you back months or years, and is spiritually crushing. So be careful.

You don’t have to do this testing. Diet and broad spectrum bug killers will get rid of most of the critters, then you can remove the metals and then the bugs should go or be easier to treat.

After these bugs are under control, then it’s finally time to get the last of the metals out. I’m very wary of DMSA and even more so of ALA. It works for sure but only if we are strong enough. Hopefully i won’t need these chelators but if I do use them i will be extremely careful, even if it takes years to come out.

When people that are suffering hear it might take years, it can be very daunting. But that’s only because you’re hurting now. By the the time you get to the chelation stage, you won’t be suffering or hurting. But if you make a mistake, you can be back in pain very quickly.

Treating yourself is a balancing act – there’s diet, supplements, lifestyle, relationships, financial issues, the spiritual wear and tear over time. But there’s no option but to keep going and doing everything you can to get well. Not only that, there’s a holy war of sorts going on in the world at the moment, as if we didn’t need any more obstacles. Forge on with grace.

The next update I’ll be hopefully well into the bug stage so will report on that. All the best with your own healing journey.

Feb2020 Update – Dr Klinghardt ART Test results

2 Replies

Hi all, So the long path back to full health continues for me. There has been some progress but more work has to be done. According to this latest test from a Klinghardt trained practitioner, I seemed to have done a good job of lowering my toxic metals burden but there is still congestion and chronic infections. I assumed once the metals were gone then everything else would normalize but not so. I suspect metals are still an issue which raises some concerns about this ART testing. More confusion…!!

The test is Autonomic Response Testing, which means i have to send some hair (with follicle attached) to the practitioner. This can be done remotely. I’m in NZ and she’s in Ireland so that saved me a long trip.

If the heavy metals have mostly gone (which i suspect they haven’t) then I will assume it was because of a few things. Saunas, OSR, DMSA/DMPS and possibly the customised vitamin therapy. But i may have done this back to front. Perhaps it’s a better idea to work at the gut, infections and viral load before the metals as this may be the easier path. I’ll forge on and get it done one way or another. I’ll follow Rhoda’s program; this will be a great test whether Klinghardt’s ART system does work. (July 2020 update, not following the program, see latest blog post)

I have attached my results below. Depending on how accurate these results are, this would have to be the best diagnostic tool I’ve seen (hmmm, not so sure) And re-testing every couple of months is a great way to monitor progress. We’ll see.

JH_Dec2019

When we spoke on the phone she also stressed the importance of solving any lifestyle issues that are a constant stress. Relationships, high EMF areas, work, loneliness etc. One of the worst habits for me is lying on the couch for too long staring at a phone or tablet. So the lesson is find what is bad for you and work at changing it. Harder said than done sometimes but your health is the number one priority.

All the best with your own health journey and I hope you learnt something from my blog

John

June 2019 – More Changes

Leave a reply

UPDATE Sept 19: A fruit only diet was too harsh and must have pulled too many toxins out. After 4 months of trying different approaches I had no choice but to stop incorporating fruit. I feel the fruit sugars feed the bad bugs associated with heavy metals and the astringent fruits pull out more toxins than the body can handle. The ideal food plan for me at this stage is mainly alkaline greens. Back to the salads over the summer for me.

Original post:

After stopping the customized vitamins from Mensa Medical I went downhill (after a couple of months) which was disappointing. This meant only small gains had been made over the previous year and the supps were mostly propping me up much like an anti-depressant would. Good if you don’t want to take an anti-depressant but no so good if you want a complete fix with out needing any supplements. So it was back to the drawing board for me to work out where more gains could be made.

Chelation with DMSA and ALA was also proving problematic; it was just too slow, difficult and painful. I needed another approach.

I reasoned that being acidic and then doing chelation was just making me more acidic. More acidity meant more pain and fatigue. I knew being toxic caused acidity but I hadn’t been able to get on top of it for any length of time. I came across some Dr Morse videos on you-tube and after 20 or 30 videos I decided to give his method a go. I’d forget about the metals and just work on clearing out as much of my lymphatic system as possible and then reassess things. An iridoligy eye photo showed cloudy upper eyes which meant lymphatic issues in my brain. I was skeptical about iridoligy but I admit I found this interesting and it certainly matched up with my symptoms. Only time will tell how successful this all is with follow up eye checks.

More info: https://www.drmorsesherbalhealthclub.com/ 

I ended up seeing Rosanne Calabrese who operates  a clinic in Florida. Skype sessions and sending eye photos made things easy. These Morse practitioners genuinely want to help and most have been through life threatening health issues that have been solved with the Morse protocol.

So i’m a few months in on the herbs and diet, and so far it’s going better than I expected. It has been very difficult at times. I took 2 to 3 times as long as directed to tolerate the herbs as they slowly cleansed my lymphatic blockages. It’s a vegetarian diet too so I took a while to get into routines with that. This will be interesting as I’ve been told time and time again by others that meat and eggs is must for mercury/lead etc detoxing – so we will see. I’m not missing those heavy foods yet.

Fruit is a big part of the diet but I’m am really struggling with this. Fruit will naturally cleanse the lymphatics and feed the cells the vital sugars but I suspect it’s stirring up some heavy metals which are struggling to be excreted. Also, adrenals also need to be functioning well to tolerate fruit. The herbal program is big on getting the kidneys and adrenals functioning well again.

So everything has to be managed carefully and increased as tolerated. It all ties in. I’m currently ramping up the nervous system and brain lymphatic drainage so this should produce some results. So far, across the board, symptoms have been decreasing in intensity and life overall has been improving. So some improvement has happened but i’m a fair way from getting the results I want.

It may also be due to a new chelator I’m trialing which I will explain in my next post.

So overall – no supplements anymore and Dr Morse herb and diet protocol started. Also trialing a less harsh and apparently more effective chelator.

 

 

 

 

 

Feb 2018 – Switched to Distilled Water

2 Replies

My first few weeks on distilled water have been quite a surprise as I underestimated the cleansing side effects. I’m guessing it will take a few months to really get a gauge on how much of a difference it makes.

The theory with distilled water is that it has no inorganic minerals (calcium, magnesium etc) attached to it so it acts like more a solvent throughout our bodies. It actually starts attracting unwanted inorganic particulates and therefore gradually cleanses us. We get our organic minerals from whole foods. The best ‘mineral water’ would actually be from squeezed veges and fruits, so for me not tolerating fruits then I would go for the greens. If not squeezing then at least have a good chew on my own veges from the garden. For those without a garden then a small pot or planter box in your kitchen would be a start.

We don’t need inorganic minerals. This why machinery needs distilled water because a mineral water would calcify and clog it. I recall while living in London my kettle would get calcified but I would still drink the water thinking my body would process it all. Maybe it didn’t process all of it and this sludge starts to build up inside us.

It makes a lot of sense. If anyone wants to learn more then there are some great videos around by Andrew Norton Webber. He goes as far as to say urine is actually the greatest distilled water and some people have done successful 30 to 40 days urine fasts. I understand that one would have to be free of any medication and have done a lot of prep work with distilled water and clean diet for months before attempting anything like this. I’m still researching.

Dr Robert Cassar who runs a health retreat on Big Island Hawaii also promotes distilled water with sauna therapy and clean eating. He has great abs too which you will no doubt see 😉  He has made some very informative videos, his site is eartheracademy.com

I’m currently buying my distilled water in plastic bottles from the supermarket but in a few weeks time I will decide about a bench top unit from a company like Steampure or Aquanui. Or there are cheaper cylindrical units that go for about $300. No plastic and cheaper in the long run.

Only time will tell whether this ‘dry’ water really has some magic to it; i hope it does. If anyone else has had some success with switching to distilled water then I’d like to hear from you.

Other news:

I’m using my tiny but effective infrared sauna (homemade, $250) every couple of days at the moment but don’t seem to notice too much a of a difference. At this point i just have faith in that it’s doing it’s job. I’m going by ‘feel’ more than anything else; just doing one when it feels right. Coffee enemas not so much at the moment.

After limited results I stopped the vitamins I was on. If they hadn’t had a marked effect on me after 18 months then I guessed they weren’t ever going to. Perhaps they were clogging me up even more. I do make sure eat very clean – about 30/70 meat/eggs to vege ratio and no processed food. Very low starch and very little sugar. That’s what works for me. A vegetarian diet at this point in time doesn’t work for me.

I stopped the Natural Thyroid extract. It worked well a year or so ago but it seemed to turn on me and it felt like my mind was going a million miles an hour. I was burning out. My TSH is at about 3 so it has come down which is good. I will use a transdermal Iodine next and see how that goes. I rub some transdermal Magnesium on too.

I’m chewing my food to a liquid. Swallowing chunks of unchewed food is wasting all the nutrition. The stomach won’t do your chewing for you – just think of that corn you swallowed whole – it comes out the other end exactly how it went in. Digestion happens mainly in the mouth.

To everyone out there struggling at times with their own journeys – hang in there and don’t give up. We’ve been lied to for a long time about health but all this good information is starting to come to the surface again. Be patient and keep safely trying things.

 

A Chelation Success Story – Not Your Typical Protocol

Leave a reply

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

Leave a reply

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.