The Role of Detoxification in Healing: Dr. Lee Cowden, M.D.

[Guest guest]

http://www.lyme-disease-research-database.com/index.html

W. LEE COWDEN, M.D., University of Texas Medical School, is board certified in

internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and clinical nutrition. Dr. Cowden

is currently teaching seminars to help medical practitioners treat their

patients with Lyme disease. He is collecting data and information from patients

using his protocol with the aim of publishing so that more doctors can learn

that there is a less toxic and more effective treatment for Lyme disease.

I spoke with Dr. Cowden in August, 2006.

I'm

talking today with Dr. Lee Cowden, and we're very excited to have you as a

guest here. We would love to know about your protocol for Lyme disease.

Currently, what is the protocol that you are using with patients?

Yes. Thanks for having me on your program, first of all. I would say that since

we did the Lyme pilot study back in 2003, we've learned a lot of new important

things about Lyme disease that weren't obvious from the study. I guess the most

important thing we've learned is that if you don't continue to work on getting

the physical toxins out of the body, the few remaining microbes that can

survive the aggressive therapy with herbals or pharmaceuticals, or whatever is

used, those surviving microbes will usually regrow and form a completely new

population of Lyme-related microbes in the body because of the toxins

stimulating their regrowth.

So, it's so critically important, in my opinion, to work as hard on getting the

toxins out of the body as on working on getting the microbes out of the body.

When you say toxins, could you say what you mean by that?

Yes, I will. The worst culprits usually are the heavy metals, it takes the

longest amount of time to get the heavy metals out of the body. The most common

source for heavy metals that I see usually is mercury from the silver

mercury amalgam fillings in people's teeth. And usually, if they continue to

have the silver mercury amalgams in their teeth then you can't make any good

progress on getting the mercury out of the body, because every time you chew

you release more mercury back into the body. And mercury does stimulates the

growth of Borrelia and several other microbes. And it also blocks the release

of other toxins, including other metals and other pesticides and solvents,

herbicides and so on.

So, it's so important, in my opinion, to find and find a dentist that's

knowledgeable in the proper technique to get the mercury amalgam fillings

out of the teeth, and to go through that process in a very cautious and

methodical way. And then once the mercury's out of the teeth, to then gear up

the detoxification for mercury, so that the mercury can be removed from the

body over time.

That detoxification varies from patient to patient. For children, usually if

they have mercury fillings it is not as strong a treatment as the treatment for

adults who've had it in their teeth for forty or fifty or sixty years. We'll

sometimes use a peptide chlathrating agent for children, it's a clear spray

that you spray in the mouth. You do that daily for several months to try to get

the mercury out.

Back in 2001, I co-developed a technique to get the toxins out using the

principle of complex homeopathy and laser, ecolaser therapy, and that's been a

great advent in getting the toxins out of the body, and the doctors I've taught

how to do that are very impressed about the results that they can get.

Unfortunately, there are so few doctors in the country that are trained in that

protocol, that there are more people wanting it than doctors who can deliver

it. I'm now in the process of giving seminars to doctors to learn how to do

that, so that we can have faster detoxification. We have a seminar coming up in

November in sdale, Arizona, to teach doctors that technique.

Anyway, the mercury is one major issue that blocks the ability to clear

Borrelia from the body in the first place, and other Lyme-related bugs. And it

also makes it easier to get the Lyme-related bugs back.

Mercury is just one part of the challenge. Some people are loaded with other

man-made toxins, other metals, for example, aluminum, from underarm deodorants

and antiperspirants, and from eating food out of aluminum pots and aluminum

dishes, or from even their toothpaste. A lot of the toothpastes in the United States

are made from boxite, and boxite is primarily aluminum oxide salt. So you have

to be aware of those things, and change to different types of tooth care so you

don't continue to load your body up with more and more aluminum. Once you stop

putting the aluminum in you can start getting the aluminum out, with chelators

and with the laser detox technique and so on.

The pesticides are an issue. A lot of people have switched over to eating

organic vegetables and fruits, but they continue to eat conventionally-produced

meats, failing to realize that there are five to twenty times as much

pesticides in non-organic meats as there are in the non-organic fruits. So

they're not spending their money in the right place, they need to change where

they spend their money. Buy the organic meats first, then if there's money left

over, then buy the organic fruits and vegetables.

I see.

All those are detoxification issues. Don't use pesticides inside your house,

there are natural things that can be done to get rid of pests inside your house

where you don't have to poison yourself and your family. Just have awareness

about things that we put in our body and on our body.

So many patients I see are loaded down with petroleum by-products that are

poisoning their system and predisposing them to microbial growth. And a very

common source for that is skin care products, chapstick, other types of lip

balms, lipsticks have a petrolatum base, petrolatum by-product base. Creams and

lotions and stuff like that have a lot of that petroleum stuff in it from some

companies.

Some companies don't have that. So you seek out the companies that don't have

petroleum base, and you stop loading your body up. Once you get a lot of that

toxic load out, then it becomes easy to get rid of the microbes.

What we found on getting rid of the microbes is that if a person has an acute

Lyme disease infection, like in the first three to six weeks after exposure,

that antibiotics do seem to work fairly well in a lot of patients. But, if they've

had the illness for longer than six weeks, the chance of antibiotics getting

rid of the infection, in my experience, is pretty unlikely, pretty remote. So,

they're basically just guaranteeing that they'll stay on antibiotics for the

rest of their life.

The problem with staying on the standard pharmaceutical antibiotics longterm is

that you kill off the friendly bacteria in your gut, and you cause an

overgrowth of fungus in your gut, so then you trade one problem for another.

Fungal overgrowth can be just as bad a problem as Lyme disease in the first

place. A lot of the treatment that we've been using to get rid of the bugs in

patients with chronic Lyme disease, don't tend to cause that problem because

they kill the funguses as much as they kill the Lyme disease and the

Lyme-related bacteria and protozoa and whatnot, without, in many cases, killing

the friendly bacteria in the gut. So it's more of a fine-tuned antimicrobial

approach.

In the study we did the Samento, quite a bit, and we still use that some. But

we've found that there are some other herbal therapies that have been brought

from Peru

by Nutramedix that work just as well or better than Samento.

Cumanda is an extremely powerful anti-Lyme treatment, as well as an excellent

anti-fungal. And also is a pretty good antiviral, and anti-parasitic. So you

eliminate a lot of different bugs with one therapy. It's a different philosophy

than the philosophy used by conventional medicine, which is one bug, one drug.

So if you have six bugs, you have six drugs.

I don't like that approach because it destroys a lot of the friendly microbes

in the gut. Then people end up with other problems, the inability to absorb and

many allergies because of leaky gut, created by the funguses poking holes in

their gut wall.

The other thing we've learned since the study, is that the enzymes that we were

using in the study are critically important in breaking up the fibrin that

covers over the bugs and hides them from the immune system. The fibrin is a

protein produced by the body in response to infectious illnesses. And those

bugs can hide very well if the fibrin is coating them over, but if you give a

proteolytic enzyme about thirty minutes before food with water only, a couple

of times a day, enough of that enzyme gets absorbed and breaks down the fibrin

coating on the surface of the bug so that the immune system can find them and

get rid of them.

In addition to that, the fibrin that is being produced gets plastered up

against the capillary walls, the blood vessel walls and restricts the movement

of oxygen into the tissues. So the tissues become oxygen starved, and start

producing lactic acid and go into anaerobic metabolism and create all kinds of

other trouble from that. So the proteolytic enzymes have been very helpful to

resolve that.

I use now, bromelain, as a proteolytic enzyme, bromelain is derived from

pineapple. And also use carnivora, which is derived from Venus Flytrap. These

two seem to be fairly well-tolerated and not likely contaminated and not very

allergenic. A lot of the other enzymes that are on the market are either

contaminated or allergenic. But those two work really well.

I usually rotate those, I'll give even days one of those products, and odd days

of the month, the other type of product, so that the person's less likely to

develop an allergic reaction.

One other important thing we discovered about antimicrobials, besides Cumanda

we have Banderol, which is a very powerful herbal antimicrobial from Peru also

through Nutramedix company, and Quina, which has been used in Peru for

many centuries for treatment for malaria, but is also an excellent anti-Lyme

treatment as well as a pretty good anti-fungal and anti-parisitic.

We've found that if you rotate remedies, that you're less likely for the

microbes to develop a sensitivity or resistance to the treatment, and less

likely for the patient to develop an allergy or sensitivity to it.

So what we're doing now is we're giving one of those remedies for twelve and a

half days and then we stay off for a day and half, and then go back on a second

one for another twelve and half days, and then come off. And we might even go

onto a third one, for another twelve and half days, and we just keep that

rotation going. The bug can never really figure out what's hitting them because

you're changing so often.

The day and a half off during a two week period is just as important as the

twelve and half days on because during the day and a half off, the microbes

think that the coast is clear, so they start transforming from the granule

forms, 4-form, L-form, cyst-form, or other hiding forms and come back into the

spirochetal form and start trying to invade cells. When they do that, that's

when you hit them again with another round of a different antimicrobial, so you

knock out a whole bunch of additional microbes that previously were hiding.

Very nice.

So pretty soon there's no more hiding forms left. They've all been hatched, if

you will, and killed off in the adult form.

How long does that type of treatment go on for?

It varies from patient to patient. We've had a few patients who were treated

four as little as four or five months, and then came off those antimicrobials

and never had a relapse. But during that time we were aggressively detoxifying

them and giving them the enzymes, giving them plenty of detox support with

Burbur. Burbur's been a great advent since the study because during the study

we were using five different substances to try to assist the detoxification of

the carcasses of the dying microbes in the patients. But the Burbur was able to

replace all five of those.

So this

is in an effort to keep the detox from creating such an uncomfortable

situation?

Yes, it's to avoid the Herxheimer reaction. What we do on the Burbur in the

beginning when they're first starting out at a low dose on the antimicrobial

and building up, if they start feeling a Herxheimer reaction they change from

taking three or four doses of Burbur a day to taking it every ten or fifteen

minutes until the symptoms resolve. After the symptoms have been resolved they

go back to taking it three times a day.

In most cases, with advanced, chronic neuroborreliosis, where it's gone into

the brain, especially, we start with just one drop of whichever one of those

herbal antimicrobials that I mentioned, Cumanda, Banderol, Quina and Samento,

and then every day or two, add another drop. So it takes maybe a month or so to

build up to full dose, depending on how fast you can tolerate building up. Then

once you get up to a full dose, then you start doing that cycling process that

I mentioned a while ago: twelve and a half days on, one and half day off,

twelve and half days on a second product, twelve and half days off, and so on.

I see. So

you're talking about alternating between all four of those.

What I do practically, in patients, when the patient is able to be tested

energetically, we can actually test to see which ones are going to be effective

against the microbes that they have, using energetic testing. Either

electrodermal screening or some type of kinesiology, will predict fairly

reliably, over ninety-five percent predictive accuracy, which herbal

antimicrobials are going to work best for that patient, so you don't have to

guess. You do exactly the one that that patient tests best for, or the two or

three or four, and you rotate them, depending on what the energetic testing

suggests. That's how we've been able to get the best results.

I'm

really impressed and excited to hear about this protocol. But I'm wondering how

people who don't have you as their doctor go about getting help. Are there

other doctors who have been trained this way, or is this a unique system that

you have?

Yes, we have doctors who have come to our seminars, there's not a lot of them

yet, unfortunately. But hopefully, if the people who are listening to your

program can tell their doctor that there is another possibility, another way

that works, then maybe some of their doctors will come to our seminars and

learn these ways so that there will be more and more doctors scattered through

the country, that can help their patients.

That's what we really want, is to try and get as many doctors as possible

familiar with these protocols. They're working well, they're non-toxic, they're

not giving the adverse reactions like a lot of people see, with the fungal

overgrowth from standard antibiotics. And the patients are getting well and

staying well even though the basic protocol is stopped at some point. You don't

see that with standard antibiotics. With standard antibiotics, unless you start

treating the infection during the first three to six weeks, the patients tend

to have to get repeated rounds of antibiotics longterm, for years and years and

years.

Yes, I've

noticed that. What would you say to the patient who has been tested positive

for Lyme, and has been told that their problem was all in their head. I know

you've probably come across patients who've been told that by other doctors.

Unfortunately, a lot. But just because a doctor doesn't have the knowledge to

understand what causes the condition doesn't make it a psychiatric illness,

doesn't make it an idiopathic illness. Idiopathic is the Latin word that means

“cause unknown.” One of my patients was told that he had an idiopathic

illness. And the patient responded to that physician, “Well, doctor, does that

mean that you're an idiot?” The doctor didn't like that, but unfortunately

there's some truth to it.

Most illnesses have a cause, unfortunately a lot of times conditional medicine

doesn't know the cause yet, but energetic medicine does often time get at some

of the causes that underlie a disease, so that you start working those causes

so that the label, the condition that the patient is labeled with, goes away.

And that's what I think more doctors should be moving toward, is don't spend so

much time time trying to give the patient a label, just try to figure out what

the underlying causes of that condition are so that you can start resolving the

causes systematically so that finally the condition goes away.

I was wondering about people who may suspect they have toxins, either from

mercury fillings, or use of aluminum pans, or whatever it is, what should they

do if they suspect that they have a toxic overload and that it's exacerbating

the problem or making the Lyme worse. How do they get tested for that? Are

there home tests available? Or should they go to a doctor for those?

Sadly, a lot of the mercury that comes out of the teeth goes into the brain and

is tightly bound there, and if they do the wrong kind of test to look for the

mercury, it won't show up in their body. It won't show up in their bloodstream,

for sure. It might show up in their hair, if they've done a detoxification for

a time, trying to get the mercury out of their body, sometimes it will get

mobilized from the brain and end up going out in their scalp hair, and a hair

analysis for heavy metals will show it up. But if they haven't been doing a

detoxification for heavy metals it won't show likely show up in the hair

analysis either.

Sometimes the only way that you can find the mercury in the body, is to do

what's called a challenge test. But if the person still has mercury amalgams in

their teeth, the challenge test has some risks, because you also start

mobilizing some of the mercury off the fillings that are still in the mouth,

into the bloodstream, and some of that ends up going into the brain, in the

wrong the direction. So, it can become a challenge to try to prove that that's

a problem.

In the Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide

that I contributed to back in 1993, and also the update that came out in 2002,

the Alternative Medicine Guide

had a section on dentistry and the effects on health. And there was a chart in

there of 1500+ patients whose mercury amalgams were removed, and the results of

that were reported to the FDA. They found that well over eighty percent of the

patients had a significant improvement in a variety of symptoms, just by

having the mercury amalgams out. A lot of those had had the tests done, to look

for mercury in their body before they had the mercury out of their teeth, and

the tests were negative, but they persisted anyway and got a dentist to take

the mercury out of their teeth.

In a lot of states if a dentist tells the patient that they're toxic from the

mercury amalgam in their teeth, the dentist can lose their license. So, in some

states you have to take the mercury out for cosmetic reasons, because you don't

like the look of that nasty black gray stuff in your mouth. And that's okay as

long as you get the stuff out in the right way. I usually have my patients take

chlorella, which is a cracked algae, before the dental procedure, and during,

and after the dental procedure to try and keep the mercury from moving from in

the mouth from where it's being drilled out into the bloodstream and into the

brain. And that works pretty well.

Chlorella in large doses?

Well, yes, you if you've had mercury amalgam in your teeth for a long time you

start by taking just one capsule per day and you build up, adding another one

every day as long as you're tolerating it well, and until you get up to about

1,500 – 2,000 mgs of chlorella per day, and you keep doing that during the

dental amalgam extraction process, and for several months thereafter.

A lot of dentists are not familiar with the proper techniques to get the

mercury amalgam out, so they will take a large burr or a large drill bit, if

you will, and kind of pulverize the whole mercury amalgam filling in the tooth

and convert it into liquid and gas, and that's the wrong way to do it because

then the maximum amount of loading of the mercury into the body occurs.

But if you use a very fine burr, and make a tiny crease in the amalgam, and

then put an instrument in there and pop those chunks out one at a time, and dispose

of them into a bio-hazard container where they belong in the first place, then

you don't have the problem as much with it getting worse, with the amalgam

removal.

Mercury amalgams are about 55% mercury, and the government makes dentists

handle them like nuclear reactor material before it goes into the mouth, and

when it comes out of the mouth they have to handle it in the same way, in a

bio-hazardous container. But the American Dental Association still tells the

dentists and the patients that it's safe when it's inside your head. And I

think that's oxymoronic. It doesn't even make sense.

That

means that our heads are considered bio-hazard containers.

There's a device called a mercury vapor analyzer, that device that can be stuck

in your mouth after you chew a piece of gum, and it can show you how much

mercury is coming off your gum every time you chew. But a lot of people who use

that vapor device find that the mercury content in their mouth exceeds the

Environmental Protection Agency's recommendation for safe air.

What

percentage of Lyme patients, if you just want to take a guess, have this

mercury amalgam filling problem?

There are a lot of patients who have mercury in their body, who don't have any

mercury in their teeth. I see patients, even adults, who have a massive amount

of mercury, and I ask them, well do you eat fish? Which is another source of

possible mercury. No, I don't eat fish.

Did you ever play with mercury with your hands? No. Did you ever live close to a smelter? No. Did you ever live close to a place

where they burned coal for fuel? No.

And so, when we trace it back we find is that a lot of those patients, that the

mother had so much mercury amalgam in her teeth, that while she was pregnant

with that patient of mine, the mercury moved from her teeth, into the

bloodstream and into the patient while they were in the womb, and so they The

mother had so much mercury in her teeth, that born with a load of mercury,

because they can't find any other source of mercury from their history or from

their environment. So it doesn't have to be in your own teeth, it can be in

your mom's teeth.

And it

just doesn't go away.

No, mercury is bound by the tissues and it doesn't leave easily. So, it's so

important to start taking things like the chlorella, that bind the mercury and

if you have mercury in your teeth, if you have it in their teeth. Because I

don't see patients who are leaving the mercury in their teeth getting well from

Lyme disease. They continue to have to take treatment on an ongoing basis. But

those who have made the decision to get the mercury and the other toxins out of

the body, are getting to the point where they can stop treatment and

getting well. And that's the goal, is to not have to take treatment for the

rest of your life.

I'll say.

There's one more thing that helps to get the mercury out of the body after you

get the mercury out of the teeth. That's a plant called algas. Algas helps to

energetically shake mercury from the cells. Patients who have had chelation

therapies, when they start taking algas, the mercury starts coming out, more

than before they started taking it.

What is

it?

It's an algae taken from off the coast of Peru that's been extracted in a

certain way and energetically imprinted with energies to help mobilize mercury

and other heavy metals. So that's particularly helpful product. And a lot of

patients I see with Lyme disease have brain fog, and there's a great product

for help for that, that's called Pinella. It's another Peruvian herb that's

been used for a long time, for detoxification of the brain.

Is that

also available through Nutramedix?

Yes, they have the Algas and the Pinella as well. You know, that's been one of

the main focuses for the Nutramedix company over the last two or three years,

trying to come up with solutions for Lyme sufferers. It's an epidemic in this

country, well over half the population are infected, and maybe a quarter of

them are having symptoms from it. It's a big problem.

You could probably talk about this for a long time, but what do you think about

the way Lyme is spread? Since you just said that half the population of the

country has been infected. How do you think we're getting it?

Only a very small percentage of those have contracted Lyme disease through a

tick bite, the way conventional medicine thinks. I think the most common

way of spreading it is through sexual intercourse. But I think it's also

spread, and is proven in peer review medical literature, to be spread by

mosquito bites. It's likely spread by drinking unpasteurized milk from mother's

breast, or from the cows or goats, and it's probably contracted by consuming

poorly cooked meats, as well. Vertical transmission from the mother to the

fetus through the placenta has also been documented, as well.

I want to

thank you for sharing your knowledge and information with us today, this has

been really fabulous. I hope that many more doctors come and study with you so

that people start to get well.

Yes, I hope so too. We're very interested in trying to do what we call

multi-center clinical trials. Basically, just treating patients the right

way, evidence-based medicine and treatment-based medicine, and collecting

information from the patients as they're going through the process, and pooling

that data, if you will, so articles can be written, and so that more and more

doctors can see that there is another way, and learn that way. That's why I'm

so interested in teaching whichever doctors who want to come to our

conferences.

By the way, I should tell any of your listeners that want the contact

information for our conferences. The ways that you can learn about the

conference, is through http://www.abeim.net/ that stands for the Academy of

Bio-Energetic and Integrated Medicine. And they can also contact my assistant,

, at .

Or they can send her a fax at (480) 361- 8725. Or they can send her an email:

ksa4drc@....

Hopefully

some of the patients will be able to convince their health practitioners to

check into this and learn that there are other ways to help their patients.

Lyme disease causes so many symptoms, and it's probably a root cause for a lot

of diseases that are considered incurable by conventional medicine, like

autoimmune diseases, and neuro-degenerative diseases, and cardiovascular

diseases, cardiac-arrhythmias, gastrointestinal diseases, MS, ALS, Parkinson's,

ADDHD, autism. Most of them have some kind of Lyme component. And so I've found

that if you can start working on the Lyme and the toxins, then a lot of these

labels go away.

I feel better already, just knowing there is hope. That there is some kind of

real, empirically proven, or being proved, anyway, herbs, materials and

medicines that we can take, not just the typical antibiotics.

I just recently saw one of my patients that was in the Lyme study, starting in

January of 2003. Before she came into the study, she was eighteen years

old, she'd been housebound since three years of age, she could not dress

herself, she had to walk with a walker, she was having frequent anaphylactic

allergy reactions, which all endangered her health. A lot of challenges with

Lyme disease.

Anyway, during the course of the study she got to a point where she could

actually go out of the house on dates with a boyfriend. She just recently

married, she went off to college by herself in less than four years, and worked

twenty-five hours a week to put herself through college. So this just shows you

that you don't have to stay sick just because you've been sick.

Good for her! I'm so glad to hear that. What a great model, and a great image

to end our conversation with. Very hopeful. Thank you so much, I hope we can

speak with you again. We'll keep up with you and keep up with your studies.

I'd be glad to speak with you again. I hope that everyone who is listening and

has Lyme disease can take hope from this, and not be discouraged, and just keep

seeking answers and move forward.

I really

appreciate speaking with you today. Many blessings to you!

And to you.

....

Suzanne Arthur ©2006 Lyme Disease Research Database

[Guest guest]

Wow, this is phenomenol! Everyone please read the previously posted Cowden Lyme protocol. It sounds brilliant. Now, know that I have taken chlorella before, and it made me ill. I even took it with digestive enzymes. I also read that between 20% and 30% of the population can't tolerate chlorella. I tried all kinds of different doses, as well. I wish docs would talk about this when they mention it. I will be researching Dr. Cowden's recommendations though. This information Dr. Cowden mentions is priceless!

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Well tell me more. I am fixing to do a whole bunch of research on

his protocol. I will be searching the net, etc. to learn all I can.

So far, I looked up a couple of things, which show great promise,

like the burbur. Its supposedly has no side effects and cleanses the

body real well. I need some of that. We are just starting on our

lyme-killing spree, so I am still open for ideas. One thing I read

so far is that 65% respond to this protocol for lyme, and that it can

work in 4 to 6 months. Well, that sounds too good to be true, but

its worth a look. Buhner says that 95% respond to his in about a

year's time. Dr. Cowden references Buhner, so they must have

some similar thinking somewhere. What do I know, a researching I

will go, trial and error I will learn.

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Dr. Cowden article from recent PHA:

http://www.publichealthalert.org/MAR%2008%20PHA%20final%20proof.pdf

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I used Biopure Chlorella Pyrenoidosa. Do you think I could get better luck with the others you mention? My symptoms from the Chlorella I tried were headache and arm pain. I suspect I have neuro-lyme, so I get a lot of arm pain, and sometimes numbness. I am pretty much symptom-free now, but I am getting a wee tired on this Resveratrol which I suspect since its suppose to kill lyme and bartonella. I think I am going to order that Burbur that Cowden talks about and see how much that helps with die-off. I am willing to try chlorella again. It just sounds so good. Do you think I will have better luck with the ones you say? I tried all kinds of different doses with the Biopure Chlorella Pyrenoidosa.

Heidi N

Hi Heidi,When I first searched for a good brand of Chlorella for my son, I came across Andy Cutler's advice for NOT taking Chlorella, because Chlorella irritates GI tract and makes a Mercury toxic person sicker. He also mentions that Chlorrela does not have a good grip on metals. It simply takes metals from one place to another, not binding firm enough to drag metals all the way out of the body.When further diving into for more information, I found that what makes the the GI unhappy about Chlorella is the cell wall of the Chlorella. My son is a big gut kid, but I do find a couple of brands that he does well with: Bioray NDF (herbal blend) and HMD (homeopathic preparation) - both contains cell wall decimated Chlorella, and HMD also contains Chlorella Growth Factor. Because the cell wall has been broken up, it is easier for the GI tract to digest and absorb, and it also binds to metals better. I think this is what Dr. Lee Cowden refers as "cracked" Chlorrela.LiminIt's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money Finance.

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Heidi,

I am not familiar with Biopure Chlorella Pyrenoidosa and cannot find any online literature that might verify if Biopure Chlorella has the cell wall intact or decimated. I would hate to see that you purchase a bottle of NDF and find that it does not work for you either. NDF is pricey - $269.95 per 4oz bottle. Since Chlorella in HMD is decimated and is of homeopathic preparation, I would say it is probably safer to bet on this one, and also it only cost $59 per 4oz bottle. You can find more info on this link: http://www.detoxmetal.com/NewFiles/WhatIs.html.

As for detox support, I think Burbur is great as an adjunct to anti-microbial protocol. When we initially started a parasite protocol to deal with intracellular, microscopic parasites, Dr. Lee Cowden recommended to take Burbur 8 drops 4 to 8 times daily for the first 7 days. Now we are down to 8 drops twice a day. As for eliminating man-made and biotoxins from brain and central nervous system, Pinella (also made by Nutramedix) is probably more of an appropriate choice. Pinella is good for detoxing Glutamate, too.

Limin

Re: The Role of Detoxification in Healing: Dr. Lee Cowden, M.D.

I used Biopure Chlorella Pyrenoidosa. Do you think I could get better luck with the others you mention? My symptoms from the Chlorella I tried were headache and arm pain. I suspect I have neuro-lyme, so I get a lot of arm pain, and sometimes numbness. I am pretty much symptom-free now, but I am getting a wee tired on this Resveratrol which I suspect since its suppose to kill lyme and bartonella. I think I am going to order that Burbur that Cowden talks about and see how much that helps with die-off. I am willing to try chlorella again. It just sounds so good. Do you think I will have better luck with the ones you say? I tried all kinds of different doses with the Biopure Chlorella Pyrenoidosa.

Heidi N

Hi Heidi,When I first searched for a good brand of Chlorella for my son, I came across Andy Cutler's advice for NOT taking Chlorella, because Chlorella irritates GI tract and makes a Mercury toxic person sicker. He also mentions that Chlorrela does not have a good grip on metals. It simply takes metals from one place to another, not binding firm enough to drag metals all the way out of the body.When further diving into for more information, I found that what makes the the GI unhappy about Chlorella is the cell wall of the Chlorella. My son is a big gut kid, but I do find a couple of brands that he does well with: Bioray NDF (herbal blend) and HMD (homeopathic preparation) - both contains cell wall decimated Chlorella, and HMD also contains Chlorella Growth Factor. Because the cell wall has been broken up, it is easier for the GI tract to digest and absorb, and it also binds to metals better. I think this is what Dr. Lee Cowden refers as "cracked" Chlorrela.Limin

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