[I] did my first liver flush yesterday starting at 6 AM and feel like someone should give me a medal or ribbon or something. In some ways it was easier than I expected – I stayed active and productive all day, but in other ways it was a little harder – the runs were pretty […]
Author: Eric
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 […]
Before and after one year of chelation – toxic and essential elements
[Y]esterday, I received the results of my second hair test by email (first test here) and was bowled over by the HUGE signs of progress which should probably be read together with my one year update. This feels like an extremely useful set of data. While I still meet counting rules three and four, I […]
Mercury Poisoning: the Undiagnosed Epidemic
[R]eading David Hammond’s Mercury Poisoning: the Undiagnosed Epidemic was very good for me. I learned some important things about my situation that have changed the way I think about my illness and I’ve begun some new experiments. I highlighted about 30 to 40 passages and want to share a couple of these insights with you. First, […]
Draining my toxic swamp with methylation supplements
I’ve been following the Fred protocol for more than a year now at the same time that I pursue frequent dose chelation. I am a strong believer in Fred’s ‘startup reaction’ concept and am still titrating up my methylation supplements. Currently I take 4 mg folate, 4 mg adb12 and just bumped up to 6 […]
You’re kidding me
[T]his is one post I don’t feel like writing. I had high expectations for my first DMPS trial but it ended miserably. I started with 25 mg every six hours and the first day was easy. Second day I got a migraine and cut back to 12.5 mg every eight hours. On the fourth day, […]
1 year update – progress, disappointment and hope
[I]’ve completed a year of chelation now with 23 rounds and 97 chelation days under my belt and it’s time to review my progress. Because I have been following Fred’s methylation protocol and taking iodine during most of this year, I can only lump together everything in this update. First the good news – I […]
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 […]
Meet author David Hammond, recovering from industrial lead and mercury poisoning
Please meet David Hammond, author of the remarkable new book Mercury Poisoning: the Undiagnosed Epidemic. I’m still reading the Kindle version but already after reading a quarter of the book have learned some things that have transformed my understanding of the illness I’m suffering from (will post about those insights later). For now, let me […]
My bottomless methylation pit
[M]y last redistribution day was really interesting – the round had been too difficult and I gave up early. I was expecting a really terrible redistribution day, so I took two additional capsules of Mercola’s liposomal vitamin C (which contains lecithin) and some extra magnesium. Out of laziness, I took an additional 600 mg sunflower […]
“This can’t happen to us”
[I] may have started round 22 with guns blazing, but the enemy was more powerful than expected and after four and a half days, I made a tactical withdrawal. Having intended to chelate for six nights, I was forced to give up early, saving myself for another try at the 75 mg bar in March […]
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, […]
Walloped by folate
[I] got my ass kicked yesterday by folate. Every Friday for the last few weeks I’ve increased folate by (my standard) one quarter tablet which amounts to 200 mcg. Normally, I feel a little fatigued until evening when I get some serious muggy headedness. But yesterday, it hit me early around 10 AM and lasted […]
Mechanisms by which mercury causes over 30 chronic health conditions
This research paper can be found in numerous places online, but I wanted to clean up the formatting and share it here in a more readable way. It’s very long so you might consider doing a keyword search on it for any of your symptoms – the information contained is astonishing: Mercury Exposure Levels from […]
My failed hydrocortisone taper
[W]anting to start the new year off on a good foot, I took my kids ice-skating yesterday after lunch and skated with them for an hour and a half which did make them deliriously happy. The actual skating went very well considering I had not been in 6 to 9 months. I did not have […]