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March 2021 Update – Making Headway

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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.

Dr Bruce Jones – Melbourne – Detox Doctor

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Dr Jones is in Melbourne, Australia. All the testing I did can be seen 2 or 3 posts ago, last month. Too many perhaps, but fascinating all the same. The stool test from Germany was very informative. But finding solutions is the tricky part.

The products he recommends are Cilantro, R-Lipoic Acid, EDTA, BioSil and Pecta-Sol C. Unfortunately not for me as far too aggressive.

Effective for mild cases of chronic toxicity but not mild to severe as I have found out.

Anyone who has a severe reaction to agents such as Cilantro, DMSA and R-Lipoic Acid should not continue with them as it’s very easy to do WAY MORE damage. The old adage ‘no pain no gain’ doesn’t work in this instance. Any pain actually means you’re going backwards and most likely damaging yourself.

Before doing any testing, I was advised to start on 240mg Super R-Lipoic Acid. Holy shit, NO WAY I thought at the time after previous disasters with Alpha Lipoic Acid. Since I was also taking the Ecoeugenics PectaSol-C binder I was advised that this will bind any toxins and I should be okay.

This was reckless advice. I compromised and started on about 10mg, so 1/25 of what I was advised. And boom, within days I was verging on being admitted to a mental hospital. 240mg might well have been a hospital dose because I may not have been conscious. For someone else it might be fine but we are all so different it’s not a ‘one size fits all’ situation. It’s potentially very dangerous.

It just shows that anyone has to be so careful with taking anything that mobilises toxins. No doctor or test will EVER know or show exactly what toxin levels, in what locations, are really inside you. Mobilising toxins is the easiest thing to do and it also causes the most damage. Getting the toxins OUT OF YOUR BODY is the most important thing. If they just keep recirculating around and around they can make you feel horrendous.

PectaSol-C is a great general detox product to be taken daily but in my opinion it’s not really a top notch and hard core binder. The charcoal and clay products I think do a better job. Something like Dr Shultz’s Intestinal Absorber #2 will definitely soak up some nasties. For sensitive people, these binders alone can actually have some mild side effects. One product at a time.

I hope Dr Jones can adapt his protocols for those of us who aren’t ready for the powerful detoxing agents. I am more than happy to help as I progress. The detox game is high risk for doctors so I do appreciate those who actually try to help those i need. It’s all pretty new so we just have to be careful and take things slowly.

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Does the The ‘Lightning Process’ Work? – Not for me.

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I gave the Lightning Process everything I had but unfortunately it didn’t work for me.

Because I signed a contract saying I would not disclose the process to anyone else, I cannot go into too much detail here. The Lightning Process is a simple ‘procedure’ that one completes every time they don’t feel ‘well’. So you might be walking down the street and you feel unwanted symptoms, so you stop and do the procedure. This is basically designed to snap you out of whatever unhelpful habit you had unconsciously perfected. The Process re-trains your mind to stop going down that negative path. It has similarities to Neuro Linguistic Programming.

I had read various success stories and really believed that this could be the solution for me. My trainer was Ian Cleary from Australia. He was always very helpful when I was struggling to make any headway and I couldn’t have asked for a better trainer.

Part of the theory is that constant negative thoughts and poor decision making over-stimulate the adrenal glands and eventually creates chronic symptoms. This made sense to me at the time and I’m recovering now (4 years later) because I’ve learnt how to not react to situations I used to react to. It’s basically a behavioral change that I didn’t even know I needed. Or I did realise I had to change but didn’t know how. And it’s very easy once you know how. So a completely different method is working for me and I would say 100% of people would get some benefit from this knowledge.

Back to the LP. When you decide to start doing the process, you have to commit to doing it every time you don’t feel well, so I had to do it all day which was pretty full on. I was continually doing it for most of the day, perhaps a hundred times and this is not unheard of. I gave it 100% but I actually started to get even more mentally exhausted to the point where I was starting to really suffer and deteriorate. The intense concentration was mentally breaking me down so I felt I had no other option but to stop.

This was very disappointing so after a week or two off and chatting to Ian about where I could be going wrong, I decided to give it another go but the same thing happened. After a third time a few weeks later I decided that it probably wasn’t going to work for me at this stage.

It amazed me that some people that were in wheel chairs did the process and then could go travelling around the world or do whatever else they wanted to do. I wondered why I couldn’t make any progress and came to the conclusion that I was too exhausted for my engine to get ‘jump started’. I was ‘four lows’ according to the metabolic hair tests which meant my tissue mineral levels were extremely low. I understood that these levels usually took months to increase so any other program that was known as a relative ‘quick fix’, probably wasn’t going to be that effective. I also think that the initial virus I got, damaged my nervous system or brain because my mental ability and stamina decreased. The concentration required was too much.

So for me, I had to do it the long and difficult way. The upside is that I am learning a lot about myself. There is no way I would have become much wiser and self-aware if the Lightning Process had worked for me. For whatever reasons, I feel that I needed to do what I am currently doing. I’m glad it turned out like this. The two programs could not be more opposite.

I would like to hear from anyone else who had experience with the Lightening Process.

Dr Jacques Imbeau

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Dr Imbeau is a dentist but also has an alternative medicine practice. He uses quality supplements which include homeopathics. Dr Imbeau uses a form of Biofeedback, called Autonomic Response Testing. The results from this machine are interpreted by Dr Imbeau and a program is produced.

He provides a metabolic programme based on naturopathic and homeopathic principles. Supplements make up the majority of this program. Some minor diet changes may also be part of it.

His assistant Suzanne is also his wife and they are both very friendly, knowledgeable and encouraging. Emails were always answered promptly throughout my treatment and it was always good to have a chat at each appointment. In hindsight, it was those visits that actually kept me motivated to continue, because progress was so limited. I was advised of the cost of treatment and that recovery takes approximately as many months as the numbers of years I had been ill. That made it 15 months which I decided was fine and affordable.

The initial consultation involved being tested via a biofeedback method. A piece of metal was placed near my collar bone and he proceeded to test a number of different vials through the system. I understand that the vial is added to the circuit, which includes me, and a result is produced. For example, if I had a gut infection and a vial containing that infection was added, then the machine would let the operator know and he or she could then decide what course of action to take.

I found this fascinating but I didn’t see any results or find out which infections or imbalances I had. I did inquire but I understood that these results could only be interpreted by Dr Imbeau so I trusted him with this. This initial test showed that my overall body condition was around 60%, which I agreed with. He explained ‘what was causing what’ and it all made sense to me. I was desperate for some solutions and I didn’t have any other options on the table at that point. Any supplements provided were directly from the results of the test.

Over the years I had bought a lot of supplements so I was quite surprised when I saw the list I now needed. Spending $200 -$300 per week on supplements is definitely on the high side. This did fluctuate over time.

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I took a couple of days to decide what to do as I felt like there were just too many supplements. And it wasn’t just a cost issue; I just thought it was too many supplements for a sick body. But I was committed to getting well and felt that this was my best option at the time.

I was desperate and vulnerable, but it was obviously my decision to go ahead.The first 6 weeks were tough going and I considered pulling out but Suzanne encouraged me to keep going and I’m glad that she did.

A month later I was tested again and according to Dr Imbeau, there had been some improvements. We had been concentrating on getting my gut working again and this involved killing some unhelpful bacteria. According to Dr Imbeau, I was doing well and working my way through these issues. I knew that getting better was always going to take  a long time but over the following months I felt I could have been doing more in other aspects of my life, such as a stricter diet, saunas, and perhaps some form of meditation or lifestyle changes. I kept searching for these.

The supplements and testing seemed to be going well but I also understood that what happened in between monthly visits was also very important. To rely solely on supplements and minor diet changes was in my opinion, not a complete recovery program, and I felt I was missing a few pieces of the puzzle.

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I persisted for nearly a year and it was a lot of hard work for very little gain. Each appointment I turned up quite demoralized but after being tested again, receiving good results and talking to both Dr Imbeau and Suzanne, I felt encouraged to continue. By this time I had spent around $7500 on consultation and supplements and was beginning to realise that this couldn’t go on for too much longer as I hadn’t been well for over a decade and had very little income and had spent a lot already on trying to get well. If I was to recover in ’15 months’ then I needed a miracle to happen over the next 3 months. At the rate I was going, there was just no way this was going to happen. There were no black and white results to see what improvements I had made and what else had to be done. That’s why I am now very supportive of properly interpreted Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.

Dr Imbeau’s interpretation was telling us that I was physically about 90% well, but I certainly didn’t feel it. I was still down at 60-65%. I had definitely got rid of some niggling symptoms but generally I was still in really bad shape. I felt like I had improved about 5% but I couldn’t even be sure of that at times.

At this rate I was going to be here for another couple of years and potentially spend over $20000 which I just didn’t have. If I had been making good progress and feeling like I was really getting somewhere and still had complete confidence in the program, then I probably would have continued. But I couldn’t see any light at the end of the tunnel and after much thought and discussion, I decided to finish treatment.

Dr Imbeau was open to any other ideas that I had and we discussed adding other treatment options. The problem was that the primary program was not working that well for me and trying to find and incorporate other modes of treatment was beyond me.

I needed more measurable results and control over my own health. Too much of it relied on Dr Imbeau and the machine. The biofeedback method was a mystery and something just didn’t feel right about the overall program. Too much depended on the testing procedure and these cryptic results that only Dr Imbeau could interpret.

We did achieve a small amount and I learnt a few things but it was obvious I needed a more holistic and thorough program with multiple and complimentary modes of treatment that I had responsibility and control over. I learnt not to give that much responsibility and control to one person. I don’t think it’s healthy to have a ‘healing God’ if that’s the right way to put it. It’s asking for disappointment down the road.

If I keep seeing good results with what I am doing now then I think Dr Imbeau’s program could be adapted and would then stand a much better chance of helping people get well. In terms of support, they were great; but it’s the results that really matter. Apparently he has had a lot of success but I am yet to see any genuine testimonials online or talk to anyone who suffered from similar issues. A big factor for me was that it was just too expensive in the end. The cost/benefit ratio was not good in my experience. Paying this much isn’t necessary.

As I did not undergo any serious dental work, I cannot comment on this area of the business. Due to Dr Imbeau’s very professional attitude and setup, I suspect he would have many happy customers.

I will edit this Dr Jacques Imbeau Review if I have anymore beneficial information to add.  JH – May 23, 2014.