So taking out the beta glucans and higher reishi does + egcg has reset me back to where I was the day before.
Fatigue is still not great, although I do also feel a bit achy which would be much closer to an immune response than a standard ME symptomatic response. Problem is once the viruses get into the blood (as I understand it) your left feeling pretty shit and once you clear them without adequate immune boosting, all your symptoms return. This is what I've experienced in all my experiments over the last 3 or 4 years. A return of symptoms once I stop the immune booster/anti viral/anti bacterial.
Of course there's more to it than viruses but it's anyones guess which metabolic subset we all fit into.
Next experiment will be to try a low beta glucan dose for say 2 weeks with reishi and 75mg egcg 3x a day.
Because it was only once I added the beta glucans in that my mouth began to heal properly. The healing had become a bit less than adequat recently, but when I added the glucans back in, my mouth felt fine again. I haven't had an ulcer for 60 days, with the diet I am currently eating this is amazing (lots of acidic supplements, with a mix of some acidic foods but not loads). I used to get sores in there whenever I ate sugar, spicy foods or anything acidic - inc herbal teas etc. Whereas now I can tolerate all that just fine, but if the beta glucans are out for too long, this comes back. Maybe it's hsv1 or hsv2 that causes this particular wound healing issue in the oral health - hard to say. So I do want a small dose of beta glucans as opposed to nothing.
At the same time I have to prevent an immune flare of ebv symptoms, it's starting to become a merry go round. Hopefully I can get out of it soon or better tests will elucidate a bigger issue, which will then possibly explain why I am having so much difficulty.
Fatigue is still not great, although I do also feel a bit achy which would be much closer to an immune response than a standard ME symptomatic response. Problem is once the viruses get into the blood (as I understand it) your left feeling pretty shit and once you clear them without adequate immune boosting, all your symptoms return. This is what I've experienced in all my experiments over the last 3 or 4 years. A return of symptoms once I stop the immune booster/anti viral/anti bacterial.
Of course there's more to it than viruses but it's anyones guess which metabolic subset we all fit into.
Next experiment will be to try a low beta glucan dose for say 2 weeks with reishi and 75mg egcg 3x a day.
Because it was only once I added the beta glucans in that my mouth began to heal properly. The healing had become a bit less than adequat recently, but when I added the glucans back in, my mouth felt fine again. I haven't had an ulcer for 60 days, with the diet I am currently eating this is amazing (lots of acidic supplements, with a mix of some acidic foods but not loads). I used to get sores in there whenever I ate sugar, spicy foods or anything acidic - inc herbal teas etc. Whereas now I can tolerate all that just fine, but if the beta glucans are out for too long, this comes back. Maybe it's hsv1 or hsv2 that causes this particular wound healing issue in the oral health - hard to say. So I do want a small dose of beta glucans as opposed to nothing.
At the same time I have to prevent an immune flare of ebv symptoms, it's starting to become a merry go round. Hopefully I can get out of it soon or better tests will elucidate a bigger issue, which will then possibly explain why I am having so much difficulty.
