I was astonished when I plugged my latest hair test numbers into the spreadsheet I use to analyze result. But I was more than surprised, I was overjoyed-and tears began to stream down my face. That’s because I’ve been working on normalizing my mineral balance for nearly 4 years and consistently falling into the most […]
Category: chelation
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 […]
Fighting copper with copper
I’ve been fighting copper toxicity for about three years now and as a result of blogging about it, I’ve heard from a number of others in the same boat. It’s always very motivational to hear from those who fought the battle and won. But sometimes it’s much more than motivational because hearing their stories brings […]
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 […]
Infrared sauna for copper and heavy metal detox
I’ve had sauna on my radar for years. My dad recovered from his chronic toxicity illness decades ago and attributes much of his recovery to sauna. A little over three years ago I built an infrared sauna in my bathroom but it was very uncomfortable and I only used it a handful of times. After […]
Still copper toxic two years later?
[I] quit chelating around seven months ago to do liver and colon cleansing and just recently did my third annual hair test. When the results arrived, I was very upset to see my copper has gone back up. It went from 560 to 170 to 280 (whereas the reference range is 11 – 30). First […]
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, […]
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 […]
“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, […]
Final round of 2013 – year in review
[T]onight at dinner, I tried to thank my family for their patience and understanding for the last 10 months during the times I was too messed up to do anything but sit on the couch. I had trouble getting the words out and broke down crying so many times I started laughing and crying at […]