What must be done

If you suffer with chronic illness, by definition you’re stuck in a vicious cycle. Some imbalance is causing a disruption which further worsens the imbalance that triggered the disruption. And you go around in circles. For example, let’s say you’re low in magnesium or calcium which causes insomnia which triggers a cascade of other insults […]

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It’s the iron, stupid

If you research either vitamin D or copper enough, you’re bound to come across Morley Robbins contrarian views eventually. I tend to listen to people who seem to have deep knowledge in tightly confined areas especially when they say everyone else is wrong. So about a year ago, I stopped trying to take vitamin D […]

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Hitting the wall

[W]hen chelation began to feel overwhelming early this year I reduced my doses and timing drastically, cutting from  my high of 75 mg  every two hours, to 25 mg  every three hours.  That felt a lot better, but even in between rounds,  I started to feel more fatigue and less endurance.  Something didn’t feel right […]

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Lessons learned

These are the sticky notes on my bathroom mirror… Only start a new supplement or round when you are feeling relatively rested. This is tricky because fatigue is my old friend, but there are degrees. I found the hard way that if I start a round without a couple nights of relatively better sleep under […]

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Guns blazing again

[I]n December I was like the walking dead but I’m back in the land of the living after increasing my hydrocortisone and taking a 3 1/2 week break from chelation. I read a lot of war books because when I read about the atrocities happening to innocent 18-year-old kids, I feel lucky to be alive, […]

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