picante
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This should provide another clue about neurological damage: i.e., why I experienced it while failing to follow the protocol correctly (and then improved on reduced glutathione) vs. those who improved on the protocol, but then experienced neurological damage by adding glutathione.
I can't put together a coherent hypothesis about this, but someone else may be able to.
UPDATE: I was taking the reduced L-glutathione cream, half the recommended dose, for about 5 days on, followed by a break (usually longer than 5 days). This was because my hypoglycemia was getting worse the longer I was on it.
The last round of 5 days I noticed a symptom I was having 10-11 years ago when trying mercury chelation: middle-of-the-night depression. I was feeling low during the day, too, the longer I took it. I decided to stop it entirely. My last dose was on July 27th.
This is further confirmation of @Freddd & company's findings, which included neurological problems.
Besides the probability of mercury redistribution, I have a second hypothesis about why it would cause neurological problems if taken long-term. I've been experiencing increasing gut inflammation, and having more and more trouble eating (everything). The bloatation I had 2 nights ago just after eating guacamole (avocado, salt, fresh lime, tomato) was so painful I started thinking more about neurotoxins. Until now I've been suspecting homocysteine, ammonia, sulfite, and peroxynitrite. I hadn't really thought about this reaction in terms of glutamate, because my brain goes groggy, not hyperactive. However:
As a side note: before talking to Rich, I had doctors who fruitlessly gave me glutathione IVs (hellaciously expensive but I didn't know any better since my body was in full revolt with SPS) that made my symptoms worse. Why? The darn glutathione breaks down into glutamate, cysteine and glycine anyways and if you can't make your own you get jacked with glutamate.
Dietary glutamates usually give me the helium-balloon gut + brain in Dorothy's poppy field. I've avoided them like the plague for many years. It took me this long on L-glutathione cream to realize that it was triggering the same problem. (Note the +/+ GAD snp in my signature.)
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