Yes, it does seem to specifically be anti-viral herbs/spices i react to. I have been on selenium, a,c,e - for yrs - this does help hugely. The parasite cleansing mix i was taking had clove in it. I had severe pain from the 1st dose - i NOW know that the eyelid twitching while on those herbs was likely epstein barr - which can infect the eyes. I’ve been looking at anti-viral diets - high lysine/low arginine - seems to be CRUCIAL to inhibiting viral function aswell as bacteria and parasites - so i’ve got lysine on order and am giving up chocolate, peanut butter etc....all those na ...
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Well how interesting! I just got stool results back from Viome. My history shows my adrenal/hormone/health ’hell’ i’ve been through all these years so i won’t repeat and bore with those details. But very much like you the symptoms of brain fog, lethargy, moods disorders, were the start for me before more tests confirmed AI, non functioning ovaries, thyroid etc. All i have done to help me function is take a plethora of supplements over these years - ive found ive had to keep with this protocol to help me just function, get out of bed. Without them, i nose dive healthwise and ca ...
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Well done for having the new year motivation to do the flushes and to be seeing the end of the tunnel! About the tongue - i was reading the other day about tongue issues and colours indicating disease-states - and the ’consensus’ from the med sites was that having a thin white coating on the tongue is considered normal - i’m not sure about that - i can see that would make sense if we consider that we have enzymes and helpful bacteria for digestion in our mouths also (mainly coming from saliva - and that those microbes could cause a thin white coating on the tongue...? Oftentimes people ...
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Gut dysbiosis is one of the major root causes of all diseases. You are young and have a large family and work full time - i don’t know how you cope with that to be honest, as that alone means you’ve got many demands on you, and thus lots of stress - whether it’s good stress or bad stress - just having too much ’stimulation’ does wear the body down - it requires a LOT of nutrients to feed the body when we lead super-busy lives. This is why many people are getting so worn down and have symptoms as you describe. Brain fog, anxiety, fatigue of the brain, in my opinion NOW, are due to ...
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Thanks for the Tudca recommendation - i’ve been reading about that recently. Often i take Milk Thistle which i find helpful - also digestive enzymes...which help with avoiding constipation. I think flukes can possibly affect the pancreas? It’s definitely an issue i’m battling - having occassional pain after eating in the pancreas/liver. The reason i’m considering rounds of meds is because i did a herbal cleanse before - and felt lots of herx reactions, eye twitches, severe gut pains, sweating, anxiety...these all got worse until day 13 with constant eye twitches (parasites in the eyes ...
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Thanks for the info Novelclean - it’s really useful to know that persistent treatment is key to eradicating the beasties! it’s so heartening to know that rounds of hitting them DOES and CAN work at clearing the burden. How often do you think you would do a ’maintenance program’ after getting rid of the initial burden? I did a parasite herbal cleanse a while ago and that revealed tomato skins aswell as other strange looking things - but i got a lot of detox symptoms which meant i had to halt the program. I was very weak back then to be doing any intensive cleansing to be honest. I’ ...
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I had restless legs at night in bed for 2 yrs - alongside other medical issues. I managed to get rid of it but not sure *exactly* but i started a new supplement protocol. I started off with vit C powder (sodium ascorbate - i have low BP so could tolerate the extra sodium) - about 5 grams a day. I also included B complex (B-Right jarrow - best form of biologically absorbable B vits with real folate!) Then i included ACES - Vit A, C, E, Selenium. Copper!! If you have low blood Iron, it’s not necessarily iron that’s needed - copper helps iron to be absorbed...so low copper can lead ...
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The studies make sense to me - although when you consider the positive applications of DE for external infestations, lice, chicken coups, farming applications, the uses OUTSIDE OF A WET ENVIRONMENT for critter control, it works wonders. I’ve used it for that. When i got the powder on my hands - i had the worst skin drying-out experience of my life! Despite washing hands after using it - i didn’t scrub deep enough to get out every molecule of DE, so it dried and cut the outer dermis of my hands and encouraged a very sore and quick exfoliation of my hands. But when i’ve mixed it wit ...
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Hiya JG :-) Indeed, the oxidation angle is certainly a possibility, but considering the broad-range beneficial effects of EFA’s - even if some are being oxidised by HM’s - some would get used for other vital functions. I’m not prepared to give up repairing mitochondria and cell membranes which hugely helps the hormone receptors within the membrane work better, for the downside of oxidation that generally will occur in everyone to some degree with whatever lipids are ingested (whether supplemental or dietary fats). Obviously if a person has awful symptoms upon starting a lipid ther ...
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I forgot to add something really vital to understand - the NERVOUS SYSTEM requires 6 TIMES as much lipids as all other functions in the body. So all of us with CNS and Sympathetic Nervous System signalling going haywire which is common with AF - if we use up the essential lipids we will experience high adrenaline, insomnia, fast thoughts, anxiety, excess sweating, tingling peripherals, etc etc.... A worthwhile link to explore..:-)   [End]
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Wonderful info!! Really it is - wow - i love it when stuff comes full circle and makes more sense than ever before. I’m not saying that ALL cases of AF/AI (primary or secondary) are caused by listeria - but certainly what seems universal is the ’delipidisation’ of the glands!! Which is remarkable - i was going to do a separate post on it, which is why i’m here after many months away trying new protocols....and the ONE major nutrient that has healed me the MOST - are the EFA’s!! Essential fatty acids. Dr Lam glosses over them - but by gosh - are they important. Just last nigh ...
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It would be interesting to know what your cortisol tests results are, do post them when you get them back - they can help hugely. Frequent urination is something i too experience, and it’s caused by a few things. High Potassium diet, low sodium - do you salt your food to compensate for low sodium foods? I try to get an even balance of both in my diet - not that it’s changed the frequent urination. One test that you can also do, which will help to pin point whether it’s aldosterone dysregulation or antidiuretic hormone dysregulation is an ’Adrenal fatigue’ Urine Test by Osumex . ...
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”Here is the most important fact on this page: since vitamin D is required for humans to absorb calcium in their intestines, a low vitamin D cannot ever be the cause of high blood calcium. This fact is not debatable. Thus, if you have a low vitamin D and your calcium is above 10.0, then the high calcium in your blood must have come from somewhere else other than your diet (it came from your bones). Thus, if you have a low vitamin D, and a calcium level above 10.1, then you are almost guaranteed to have primary hyperparathyroidism and need surgery to remove the parathyroid tumor. A low vit ...
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Jo gave realy great info for you to check out, so rather than add loads to that and add confusion and MORE research i wanted to just say that what stuck out in your test results, except for the obvious that you’ve got some obvious imbalances and underfunctioning hormone system, is that your calcium level was right at the tip of high in the range...so almost out of range. When looking at ranges it’s best to be conservative...being in range does not mean everything is fine. WHERE in the range you are gives a better indication...and being outside the range obviously means there’s a serious ...
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From my understanding when looking at genes and hormones, cholesterol is manufactured in the body all by itself - we do not need it in the diet in order to synthesise hormones. What type of cholesterol the body makes itself, whether HDL or LDL i’m not sure on that. This info came as a surprise to me as i thought we needed to obtain it in the diet in order to make hormones. Of course, how well a person makes their own cholesterol for hormone production i would imagine varies greatly - depending on genetics and various other factors.   [End]
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I’ll add more later, as i’m pushed for time right now, but just wanted to say that oral P in comparison to cream P topical absorption are completely different mechanisms for how the body gets P. Oral P usually is high dose anyway - as the liver has to process it - which diminishes the dose by up to 90%. Also the oral P on the market tends to be synthetic progesterone, which is believed to behave on a receptor level differently to bio-identical P. I would imagine also that the oral P does store more, than the topical cream because of the liver metabolism route it has to go through. Wi ...
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I’ve spent so long trying to understand the relationship between progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone and their associated symptoms that show up when they are imbalanced. I haven’t figured it out by any means, yet have come a long way in my understanding! There is one thing worth considering about libido. It’s commonly thought that Testosterone (T) is THE hormone for libido. This is only PARTLY true. What had me curious about this is because there have been men on this forum and others,(including myself but i’m female!) who have had tests to show sky HIGH T levels - yet have ...
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Bowel cleansing is very worthwhile...at any point in life or illness! Here: http://www.curezone.org/cleanse/bowel/ This outlines some practices. You’ll find many different herbs and ways on cleansing. As you are in NEED NOW - and from what you’ve said in previous posts about white coating on bowel movements...which i would imagine would be mucous, suggests inflammation. I have had the same in the past - sometimes quite severe with 7 days of no bowel movements and a steadily increasing belly getting very uncomfortable. When very desperate i have used a warm enema - just wat ...
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I’m sorry the endo appointment wasn’t helpful. It’s so frustrating for those who’s job it is to help, don’t offer any help! I’ve balled my eyes out at a doctor before now too - due to sheer frustration of them not giving a toss. If you can figure out why you have high prolactin you’ll be most of the way there. All i’ve ever read about high prolactin is mainly caused by a pituitary tumour. All info online automatically assumes it’s a pituitary prolactinoma. I’ve just been looking and the other thing mentioned which can raise prolactin (lets call it P) levels is excitotoxin damage ...
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I know you said you had a pituitary MRI - i assume to check for a prolactinoma? ..and the scan was clear then...yet due to the consistently high prolactin - i’m wondering if you do have a prolactinoma but it’s very small millimetre in size - which potentially won’t show up on an MRI in some cases. Even in cases of women with ovarian masses - an MRI can miss small ones which are causing hormonal problems - yet the blood tests continue to show irregularities. A wise endo would take ALL the results into account and not just rely on scans showing clear when other diagnostics show there cle ...
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How much Vit C are you taking? That can lower cortisol. Google about that relationship...it’s interesting. Dr Lam suggests Vit C for High cortisol AF - the beginning stage of AF - it can help bring cortisol levels down. If you’re megadosing Vit C - that *could* be a potential cause of your very low cortisol levels..?   [End]
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You said you were assaulted and have scars to the face - i am wondering if you received a head injury which has damaged you pituitary stalk/ or functioning of the gland. Your cortisol levels are very low - even by extreme AF standards. Was the assault a head injury impact - like a punch? You don’t have to answer and say any details as i just wanted to let you know that many folk who have had a head injury - even from years back - can have dysfunctional pituitary function due to the injury. Endocrinologists now recognise head injuries make up a larger percentage of hypopituitary t ...
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Yes Joe...cholesterol is essential for hormone sythesis! When i looked deeper into these functions i found out that the human body should manufacture its own cholesterol for hormone production - none was needed from the diet. That of course is what SHOULD happen in a healthy body! I did research on cholesterol deficiency causes - and at the time was also researching genetics relating to cholesterol synthesis. My conclusion from my own research i’ve come to is that some people can easily genetically under-produce and over-produce cholesterol. It helped to shed light (for me) ...
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Low estrogen can give feelings of anxiousness, panic, and insomnia - many women hitting menopause experience these things as estrogen synthesis slows. On preg.and prog. sounds overkill - but i guess without testing what the preg. is turning into you won’t know and IF it is turning into more prog. you’ll definitely be feeling the effects of low estrogen ratio to prog. I assumed, before getting tests, that alot of my symptoms were due to high or low cortisol - some were, but the anxiety, insomnia, panic, and sweats were always more intense the 2 weeks around menstruation when my low estr ...
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It’s interesting you say both your parent suffered from anxiety too. I’m not alone in the realisation that these conditions which have no obvious psychological cause, that there is a biochemical imbalance as the root cause. Finding out which imabalances are occurring is the health journey. You could try to locate in your area an ’Orthomolecular’ practitioner - they have awareness of many commonly considered social ’mental’ imbalances that have a biochemical root cause - oftentimes pyroluria, EFA severe deficiency, other mineral/vitamin deficiencies - can all cause, in their extreme, ...
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It is worth taking your blood pressure and body temperature (under tongue) when you have these shivering episodes. I have had similar symptoms, and can relate to the tremors in the body - sometimes i wouldn’t be able to stand, during these episodes i would have a low BP of around 70/50. Do you ever experience intense sweating, nausea, then vomiting before the shivers, tremors and stomach feelings? That would be very similar to an adrenal crisis and normally collapse follows yet you say your cortisol tests show low-normal and high night. Maybe you have highs and dips in your cortiso ...
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I had acne since age 12-28, i did cleanses, changed diet over and over and over, eliminated this, that and the other - i targeted all areas of what i was putting IN and ON my body. It didn’t make much difference to the acne - except like you, one cleanse would clear it up a bit, but then the next cleanse there would be no change. Fast forward 10+ years and having a better, deeper understanding of the endocrine system i now firmly believe acne is a hormonal imbalance, in MOST people. The reason why it clears on the first parasite cleanse is because it is a ’stress’ to the body to c ...
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Alcohol can cause quite a severe acetaldehyde build-up in some people, the same by-product of candida infection. You mention healthy diet yet quite heavy on breads - so perhaps you already had candida and the increased drinking maxed-out your acetaldehyde detoxing capabilities... It’s just a thought... Worth looking into effects of excess acetaldehyde, it’s toxicity etc...to see if it fits your symptoms. Many chinese people are genetically pre-disposed to not being able to break-down acetaldehyde, so when they drink only a little bit they develop a bright red face tone...one of t ...
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Hey Jo, I’m female and have/had a lot of your symptoms so can relate. As Shark says, the symptoms align with liver congestion and i also feel soooo tired after a high fat meal. Not long ago i had a whole avocado - needed a quick snack , was feeling very weak, 5 minutes later i felt extremely nauseous and suddenly so tired i could hardly sit at the table. Other fats like nuts doesn’t do this to me. Magnesium chloride baths make me feel extremely tired the next day. But i do think i have liver congestion - yet i’m not persuaded that this is the *root* cause of my decline in hea ...
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Normally working-out raises cortisol in people - yet if you have low cortisol you could be addicted to the gym to try to ’force’ your adrenals to produce cortisol thus making you feel better. I thought i had high cortisol and had symptoms as you describe...then i stopped all the stimulating things in my life, caffeine, alcohol, sugar etc, and stopped working the physically taxing 14 hour days only to then end-up bed-bound and not being able to function at all. I was using all the stimulants and my work to ’force’ my adrenals to keep going when really they were fried. I became addicte ...
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To add to the other great replies, having all the hormones tested really gives a bigger picture of your endocrine health and where imbalances are. Also do consider that the adrenals, thyroid and ovaries/testes function together, so if one gland is underfunctioning or overfunctioning it can throw the production of hormones out in the other glands. If you know your levels you are able to then understand which symptoms are caused by your hormone results. I had this real deep angst, aggitation...like i could turn into Hulk at any moment, my skintone changed from porcelain to red for 2 ...
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Thanks for posting that Feo :-) That specific study you link is the one i remember that demonstrates the differences between people and their CBG (bound coritsol) levels. By simply using blood analysis alone and using a standard formula to try to figure out the ’free’ available cortisol levels, as this study shows, is not at all accurate in determining levels. ” Thus, an advantage of measuring salivary cortisol rather than total serum cortisol is that it eliminates the need to account for within-subject changes or between-subject differences in CBG.”   [End]
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Pubmed website was where i sourced the majority of studies - it’s worth looking at as it gives further links to similar studies on the right hand side of the page. The studies i saved are in the longest internet faves list known to man that are currently unsorted so would take me an evening to wade through, unfortunately i don’t have the time at the mo to do this. I’ll make a more comprehensive post with links at some point on this subject as it keeps coming up over and over.   [End]
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Saliva cortisol results and their validity has been a subject that comes up over and over. I asked on this forum a long while back which tests to take for realistic values and no-one seemed to really know. In other health arenas you have practitioners citing saliva as being more accurate and doctors saying blood testing is more accurate. Such a divide of opinion is frustrating. So i spent weeks researching the validity of saliva testing for hormones verses blood testing like an autistic kid on speed! The conclusion i drew from all the MANY studies that have been done on this ...
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If you give the reference ranges for the lab you used it’ll help us better see where your results fall in their given ranges. Unfortunately, labs have different reference ranges and units of measuring hormones. All doctors will diagnose PCOS in ANY woman with high testosterone - yet it’s not the only etiology that presents with high T levels so keep an open-mind on that diagnosis. Most women with PCOS have high T and E2 levels - aswell as a plethora of other symptoms, menstrual oddities too - so if you elaborate on your cycle symptoms that’ll help with indicating PCOS as a true ca ...
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Agreed - i tried ’sun-gazing’ at the safe times of first hour of sunrise and last hour of sunset and saw a big yellow blob for hours afterwards!   [End]
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One thing to consider is your mineral balance. We read so much about needing this and that vitamin for this and that symptom/condition yet so many of these vitamins need minerals to work well. I’ve been reading info lately from an amazing holistic vet who has found that mineral balance is paramount to vitamin balance in animals - and many conditions resolve once mineral balance is addressed. She also likens this rationale to humans too. Very rarely did she have to treat with vitamins, as they became more in balance and better used by the body once minerals were balanced. I’m not a ...
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lol i always wondered about this too. Surely though, if hormones and minerals which you are not absorbing well thus eliminated in huge amounts in the urine - how does then drinking the urine help to try to absorb a second time around if it failed the first time? Surely the hormones and minerals will end up being excreted again?   [End]
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Perhaps the fasting was the trigger for the acne and not the sunscreen - as fasting will release toxins and if they cannot be eliminated fast enough through the liver and bowels the skin will show conditions as it’s the largest elimination organ of the body. The sunscreen then probably prevented toxins from ’venting’ from your skin, essentially trapping toxins under the surface to then develop into the really large spots you describe. (I’ve had those in the past - they don’t develop a head sometimes and remain a large, painful red lump for weeks). Then taking the antibiotics for acn ...
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Hey M - I have the SP recipe book that you can have. I bought that book by mistake as i really wanted the book explaining in detail the principles of this author’s diet plan...somehow ended up with the recipe book. The book is in rough condition...secondhand from amazon, but it’s still in good enough condition to use! Send me a pm with addy to post it to and it’s yours. (Was going to be putting it on ebay soon). I just thought - it might be the SP recipe book for vegetarians. Can’t fully remember now - i’ll pm you about it when i dig it out of storage. Low carb didn’t work out for me ...
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Not that i am advocating using albendazole for parasites but if i wanted to go down the pharma route for worming products i would buy horse wormers. All types of popular worming chemicals which we pay stupid money for are available very cheaply in horse worming products as a paste. You need to know how many mg per kg you should safely take as a human. It’s different for a horse so don’t follow the instructions on the packet! You would get several doses from just one tube of horse wormer that costs around 15 euro. I assume they are available in every country easily. Do research on th ...
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I have the issue with motion sickness too - it’s awful as i can no longer drive as it was something i loved. The motion is like people describe as being sea-sick. My bladder tends to immediately weaken on me too! I don’t know whether to puke or pee! It’s horrendous. I rarely go in cars now unless very necessary - it really changes life to not travel well. I’m more of a hermit now. Luckily my surroundings are wild, natural and occupy/stimulate me. I’ve wondered if the motion sickness is to do with blood pressure. I’ve got very low BP despite salt loading - it’s been consistently low f ...
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Lam’s site is very informative - he describes the symptomatic journey of adrenal/hormonal imbalances. He’s not anti-supplements - as like you say he sells them himself. In his book he details it better to say that depending on your adrenal health depends on what supplements are best to use. Generally if it’s mild ’AF’ then a person can handle supplements well - and he states those with more severe/complex endocrine imbalances can experience adverse and/or paradoxical reactions to supplements. If you have the funds you could go through a consult with him - it could turn out to be qu ...
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I have found chamomile flowers just steeped in hot water to make me very drowsy within the hour. I also had 6 weeks of insomnia - not the wired kind or pounding heartbeat - just wasn’t tired - mainly the mind wasn’t. My brain and body was. Those 6 weeks were stressful for me - i had a major problem i needed to resolve and couldn’t find a solution. It was to make a decision that would be life-altering and put more stress in my life. I was in flux! The result of it was such intense insomnia - never before had i experienced insomnia - i’ve always had a problem of sleeping too much, always ...
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Ahha! So SOD gene mutations would be contributable to premature ageing of skin/greying of hair. Also if this gene enzyme is mutated it would lead to excess copper in the body as it’s not being synthesised at full capacity by the mutated SOD enzyme.   [End]
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Agreed - copper is needed for hair colour - it’s recommended to try copper if premature greying is a problem. Perhaps you are pulling too much copper from your system if you’ve noticed a drastic increase in grey hair in just a few weeks. Ann Wigmore claimed that wheatgrass juice consumption turned her grey hair back to her natural youthful colour. I presume wheatgrass juice has quite a bit of copper content?   [End]
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I totally agree Omo - i have found i take in and breath out a big sigh every now and again - usually after a ’stress’ moment. It happened this morning when my crazy horse in heat crashed through the electric fence and went galloping off! That event crashed me for the entire day really but all day i have been ’sighing’ quite a lot to ’release’ the shock. I often thought it would be wonderful if we could shake from nose to bum like dogs do after a stress situation! Maybe the sighing is the human equivalent of that?...it would be quite a sight to see a human do a dog shake! lol   [End]
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Maybe tapering from the steroids, as your blood work suggest being low-normal cortisol, your system is struggling to meet the demands of cortisol production so as a compensatory mechanism for this lowered function your BP is spiking perhaps due to excess adrenaline? (low cortisol and excess adrenaline symptoms cross over so much it’s hard to know without diagnostics what is causing the symptoms really) The initial stages of ’AF’ start with high cortisol and high BP, which really is the definition of ’stress’ response (excess adrenaline)...and then it’s believed over time this function ...
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I’ve read that happening to quite a few people with methylation issues. It happened to me too. I think, if you’re a slow methylator that taking the active folate really gets things going again within all the methylation cycles (nitric oxide cycle, neurotransmitters cycle etc). So that’s why you feel great initially. Then there’s the about-turn of symptoms as you describe which could be then the release of years worth of accumulated toxins, and just the general balancing of these cycles once more after being so imbalanced and operating ’wonky’ for years. It’s just like with cleans ...
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IF you have low cortisol, high dose vit C will lower it further... That’s why Lam mega-doses vit C with people in stages 1,2 AF who usually have high cortisol to help bring it down, get adrenal balance etc.. So jumping from 2 - 6g if you have low cortisol could make you feel even more fatigue, nausea etc. I went from 1g to 3g and couldn’t walk straight, had no balance, and fatigue was even worse than before. See how you do but i would not jump from 2 - 6g - i would slowly taper up.   [End]
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You mention about having hormone tests - yet i find it incredible your doctor has you on HC and DHEA without doing any tests for levels! They just hand this stuff out like candy and for others who HAVE had tests and are deficient they have to fight to get HC etc! So ironic! IF you got tests for your hormone levels, it’s best you stop the HC and DHEA for at least a month before testing. Taking both of those things now won’t give you accurate major hormone levels, you really should have done an endocrine panel before going on hormones. The only way to get back to ’base-line’ hormone sta ...
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I agree Leogon, The type of carb affects each person differently. Fruit carbs for me personally, with very low cortisol and other metabolic issues, made my health slide very quickly. I had to hold onto walls to walk a few paces, i lost balance, appetite, and many other reactions i won’t go into. I literally nose-dived. Coincidentally, my boyfriend who does not have endocrine and metabolic health issues, also switched to 80/10/10 raw fruit the same time as me. He was fine! Went through a bit of herxing initially, but he stopped it due to needing to eat tonnes of it a day to feel the ...
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I have to agree with you Wired that the 80/10/10 fruitarian/greens diet is especially drastic and will compromise many people...especially if chronically ill. I tried fruitarian 80/10/10 for a while and my health nose-dived. I had been raw vegan before that so it wasn’t like i went from a SAD diet and jumped to 80/10/10 RFV. I have a close friend on it for 5+yrs who now has type 2 diabetes through it. He started developing symptoms of high blood sugar - which i am familiar with due to having 2 family members having type 1 and 2 diabetes. I suggested he monitor his blood so he did a ...
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”When you are constantly in that “fight or flight” mode because of stress, your adrenal glands will produce additional cortisol and adrenaline. This is a normal bio-chemical process. The problem is that in order to make cortisol, your adrenal glands need progesterone. This causes your progesterone to be used in making your stress hormones, as opposed to what it is designed to do —support your pregnancy. The adrenal glands cannot make cortisol without progesterone. Often referred to as the ‘progesterone steal,’ your body will steal however much progesterone it needs to make cortisol. ” ...
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Crikey that’s the deal of the century. The place 3 hours from me - the most local - wants hundreds per filling, not including replacement! Like you, i’m afraid of sinking so much money into not feeling much different afterwards. Although i’d rather have something safer in my mouth than mercury and plan to change them just for that reason. Please email me the dentist details so that i can inquire if i visit the UK this year.   [End]
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It takes some kinda switch to be flicked to come down from the hyper state. For everyone that seems to be a different switch. I’m still not sure what it was for me even! Lam’s lipo coma is hilarious! :-) I’ve been told i’m a cross breed of jerry hall and meryl streep with the body of Madonna. What they mean is i am a cross between a horse and a man! hahaaa ;-) Face changes are interesting. I’ve noticed mine changing completely over 2 yrs, since being ill. Seems it shows in the face and eyes. I have the book on Facial Diagnosis of Cell Salt Deficiencies which is really intriguing, ...
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Excellent work and diligence Feo, great to hear the improvements. Those graphs over a 2 yr period really do show the slow elimination that takes place. In some ways, compared to the chelation route, i think if we can eliminate excess metals slowly symptom-wise it’s an easier journey. Experiences other have had with DMPS etc have put me off using that standard chelation route. What was your magnesium level on your tests during the times of stress you mention when metal elimination slowed? I had super high magnesium levels (off the ARL chart)on my test with a depression of metals exce ...
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No...i know the rocket has it’s let downs. I used to get morning anxiety so bad. I got so fed up with that state i would get up and just shout and stomp about the place trying to disperse it! Often i would punch the hell out of my pillow! Waking up feeling terrified is just awful. I don’t know how i switched from rocket to slumber - i slept an awful lot, really just turned off life. I then introduced physical things which i loved to do. Being mindful to not overdo it. That then caused me to be up late feeling wide awake...and feeling crappy tired when waking up. Finding the middle-sta ...
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing and reminding me about the teeth/eye link - i’d forgotten completely. My teeth are something i’m in denial about to be honest because i know i need 6K to get them to a state of being non-toxic fillings...eek! I don’t have any overt infections causing pain but think i’ll try to swill with potions to kill off any germs lurking.   [End]
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lol! I could do with a rocket! My hair test showed hypothy. too over a year ago, but for me the bloospot TSH was low with also low T3 and T4. Yet again, being hypothy. could easily indicate the thyroid had down regulated function in line with hypo adrenals or pituitary. When there’s multiple Hypo glands it’s so hard without good medical diagnosis to find which gland is the culprit...and then figure out why THAT gland has ’stopped working’. I found the thyro and adrenal protocols to not touch the sides of my symptoms - if anything it made some worse. When we consider the axis all the ...
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I was wondering if thyroid is the cause too. My blood panel was more suggestive of hypopituitary causing the thyroid and adrenal issues. I’m still looking into this angle. The morning thing for me im sure is related to the really low cortisol which the panels i’ve done have shown. Morning reading was the worse out of the 4 lows. I have no problem getting out of bed, it’s the waking up part i struggle with - i feel like i’m still sleeping/dreaming and its only after 4 hours of being up i start to feel ’energy’ coming up. When i first wake i find my eyes won’t open...they’re very heavy. ...
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Maybe it is something environmental Feo...i’m exposed to wood dust, i have woodburner central heating. It hasn’t effected me in the past. Definitely something to wonder if it’s a type of allergy reaction..i do have random sneezing fits. Thanks for the suggestion :-)   [End]
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I got Mercola’s junkmail...it’s pure scaremongering! I used to read them with interest - but then i used to dread them appearing in my inbox. Most of the content is to induce fear about illness and comfort offered by the pushing of his products to ’save you’ from the fear! About 5% would be informative info. But the package selling technique he has puts me off completely. I agree Vit C from lemons are better than supp. vit C. I would also juice the skins - the juice doesn’t keep as long but it’s certainly a punchier taste!   [End]
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Hey folks.. I wrote about this symptom a few months back as it was something i got a few times per week, but now it’s more severe and daily. I’m trying to figure out if this has anything to do with adrenal or endocrine system in general or if it’s indicative of something else. My eye lids are puffy like i’ve been crying for hours. It used to be just one eye - now it’s both and worse when i wake up (waking up is when i feel like death, it’s my worst time of the day). Also the top part of skin below the eyebrow droops over my eyelid. Again, this was just one eye for over a year, ...
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