Re: Digestive Issues - Dean

[Guest guest]

Dean, it's very interesting to compare notes, and your experience is very

encouraging. It's great you've gotten a good handle on some of these things.

We've had many of the same treatments, but you're way ahead of me on chelation.

Several years back comprehensive Great Smokies testing revealed moderate

levels of a very tiny parasite called 'dientamoeba fragillis'. I underwent

repeated parasite cleanses, and did follow-up cleanses a couple times the

following year. It probably wouldn't hurt to do it again, but I'm not sure if I

should attempt this simultaneously with DMSA. I think 'eosinophils' are the

immune factor that fights parasites, but I've never seen them enter the normal

range on blood tests. Same is true of neutrophils, and the others were very low

normal. I'm having trouble getting a copy of recent blood work from a doctor's

office to see if they have improved.

I've also read Dr. e, with interest, and plan to do liver cleanses of

this type when I'm able to. My liver is definitely enlarged (I saw someone

after amalgam removal who does lymph drainage & she was really alarmed), yet

testing seems to show normal function. I've done other liver cleanses, taken

liver support, and used a Biotics product called Nephrazyme for kidneys before

starting chelation because it contains much of what e's cleanse uses.

Commercial liver and detox cleanses made me feel awful, and I later connected it

with the daily doses of ALA contained in them.

I was put on 'green' foods years ago and always feel good taking them, but got

more skeptical about them recently because they usually have some chlorella.

I'd been put on lots of sulfur foods, too, and generally feel better with them,

but cut back with starting on DMSA per AI recommendations.

I started Isocort, now at 2 pellets 3 times a day, this week.

Thanks, Dean. I'll forward my hair test & supplements later in a personal

email from an alternate email address.

Joanne

DeanNetwork dean@...> wrote:

Hi Joanne,

I don't think I have the skill to help you on this one.

All I can say is that if you have no cortisol you will be getting reactions to

foods you might not normally have a problem with.

Also, if you have gut inflammation you will use up masses of cortisol.

With adrenal problems you don't release enough HCL in the stomach to get the

digestion going, so you can try supplementing that. I take 10 drops with each

meal, and ascorbic acid helps too.

Ultrasound can't see liver stones that have not 'calcified' in the gall-bladder

yet. I have removed upwards of 15 000 liver stones, (before I knew it was

contraindicated in mercury toxicity by Andy). I couldn't believe it. The first

cleanse removed two handfuls of worms (ascaris) and about a thousand stones. It

was dramatic and never happened again to that degree, but that sight changed my

life and opened me up to new perspectives about what was happening to my health.

I use parasite herbs (cloves, wormwood and blackwalnut tincture) to kill

parasite and fennel and turmeric according to Dr for bowel cleansing. I

would certainly NOT attempt a liver cleanse in your state of health, but perhaps

you could get some parasite out you?

Have you ever tried a whole-food source like Barleygreen? (that is what it is

called here). Really fantastic. It helps me a lot, I take it before meals, I

think it is the enzymes in it that help.

I'm sorry you have such a restricted diet. All I know is that before chelation I

would eat and it would just sit in my stomach and i would get tired, very tired

after a meal. I had several food reactions. These are all gone after a year of

chelation (and a few other things). Once the mercury gets out of those enzymes

hopefully they will start working again for you.

Good luck,

Dean

Digestive Issues

I haven't had complete testing for gluten & casein sensitivities, but there are

some odd digestive issues that perhaps someone can shed light on. Most

practitioners didn't want to do the testing because these foods did not cause

constant diarrhea.

Wheat: seems to paralyze my digestive tract, especially processed flours. I may

need to go, but can't feel the appropriate urge, as if muscles can't contract or

nerves are desensitized? Slows digestive process, makes me irregular, ultimately

with hardened stools. If yeast is involved (i.e. bread), severe inflammation

invariably develops, and processed/bleached flours cause itching all over within

an hour or two.

Dairy: doubled over cramping after 1/2 hour to an hour or so. Also constipating,

eventually resulting in IBS symptoms with alternating diarrhea/constipation.

Nuts/seeds: slow to pass and come out in the same condition they entered. For

soy, I eat a little bit of tofu or tempeh infrequently - also hard to digest.

In short, I have to eat at least 60% vegetables & some fruits; raw is best & a

very large green salad is best. Alternative grains are essential & bean flours

usually avoided. Well cooked bean/rice dishes are ok now for protein in addition

to basic meats. High fat foods seem to go nowhere & make me uncomfortable for

hours; transfats are out of the question unless I'm willing to suffer. Sugars

are kept very low or they most certainly bring on candida symptoms. If I deviate

much from this simple diet, it seems my entire digestive tract gets inflamed

within 24-36 hours and it takes at least a week to heal again. Stress will shut

my system down completely & bring on horrible inflammation. There's no noticable

problem that's unique to sulfur foods, so I do eat them. I underwent extensive,

year-long cleansing for candida & parasites 4 years ago, but these issues

remained. Ultrasound & CAT scans did not show gallstones. I take 3 caps

Oxycleanse nightly to keep regular,

and that's been very beneficial. I haven't been able to reduce use of multiple

digestive enzymes. It's been five years since making the dietary changes

described, and I guess this diet pretty much boils down to the 'cave man' thing.

It's great to have things mostly under control, but my diet is extremely

difficult in social situations.

The diet seems to tie in closely with what's recommended for Crohn's disease,

although I believe that also should cause diarrhea. Is it possible this is

another autoimmune disease I developed? Or are these symptoms typical of

chronic, long-term mercury toxicity & the likelihood of many years of excess

candida growth? I'm certain 3 years of tetracycline, for acne, in high school

set some of these problems off.

Can I expect improvement with chelation?

Joanne

---------------------------------

Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.