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caledonia

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Caledonia you are really releasing a lot of good info! Have you tried this EFT yourself? I was advised on curezone to try it but sincerely never even tried to check it out since it looks like another self-energy healing and I believe I dont have the ability for that for now. You need to put your hand in certain parts? o_O

Yes, I've done EFT for many years. It doesn't take too long to learn. Take it in small chunks over a few days and you'll have it memorized. You can print out the drawing of the face with the tapping points on the Mercola page as a cheat sheet to refer to.

You tap with your fingers on certain acupuncture/acupressure points. I don't really have the energy to physically tap for very long either. So the really interesting thing I discovered is that once you have it memorized, you don't even need to physically tap. If I just imagine myself tapping, that's just as good. So mostly what I do is lay in bed at the end of the day as I'm going to sleep and think of the issue I want to work on, then imagine tapping on the points, and it still works!
 

caledonia

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Hey at least Yucca Root will help with intestinal inflammation, will cut fermentation and acts as a prebiotic.

Beyond, thanks for this info about yucca. I just started taking it for the CBS mutation. This interesting happened. I've had a yeast based athlete's foot infection on my toes for most of this year. I couldn't get anything to clear it up. Recently, I noticed it's finally settling down. So based on your info, it's sounds like it might be the yucca helping.
 
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i developed a sensitivity to chloramine in tap water when i got sick, and it would give me really nasty heartburn, then burning in the guts. to get rid of it, i use charcoal filters rated to remove chloramine (not regular activated charcoal filters, pentek chlorplus and catalytic activated carbon) in my reverse osmosis system. i can tell the same day when the filters get saturated with chloramine by the resulting heartburn. i also found that most bottled spring/distilled/RO water made me sick, sometimes due to chloramine and sometimes due to soluble organic contaminants despite any claims.
 
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i developed a sensitivity to chloramine in tap water when i got sick, and it would give me really nasty heartburn, then burning in the guts. to get rid of it, i use charcoal filters rated to remove chloramine (not regular activated charcoal filters, pentek chlorplus and catalytic activated carbon) in my reverse osmosis system. i can tell the same day when the filters get saturated with chloramine by the resulting heartburn. i also found that most bottled spring/distilled/RO water made me sick, sometimes due to chloramine and sometimes due to soluble organic contaminants despite any claims.

I have been reading a story about a guy who has/had similar case to mine.Very athletic at young age,always on top in every sport but when they sent him to swimming class he was always last one,the worst performing kid in water.
Decade later he found out that chlorinated water was the root cause of his health issues and made dramatic improvements with chlorinated filter system but in my country it's very expensive and I can't afford it.
 

Beyond

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Beyond, thanks for this info about yucca. I just started taking it for the CBS mutation. This interesting happened. I've had a yeast based athlete's foot infection on my toes for most of this year. I couldn't get anything to clear it up. Recently, I noticed it's finally settling down. So based on your info, it's sounds like it might be the yucca helping.

You are welcome, caledonia. Im gonna try Yucca Root in myself soon as well. I got that info on CureZone and later confirmed it somehow in Google.
 
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Hi Steve,
A lot of your symptoms are consistent with connective tissue disorders eg Marfan's, Loey-Dietz.
Homocystinuria can mimic Marfan's too.
Need to see a doctor who understands these disorders eg Rheumatologist and/or Geneticist.

http://www.medicinenet.com/marfan_syndrome/article.htm

I want to exclude Marfan's.Yes,I have lots of it's symptoms from GERD to kyphosis to scoliosis etc. but I am average height and I am VERY unflexible and there has been no Marfan's in my family history that I know of.
So I think I have this homocystinuria but what test do I need to prove it and does it shorten my life even if I get my methylation working?
 

merylg

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Marfan's can occur as an inherited mutation OR spontaneous mutation. Some families carry their own mutation. Can be hard to find, as there are many possible locations on FBN1 gene. Possibly epigenetic regions may be involved.

Not everyone with Marfan's is tall & thin. Marfan's can manifest in one family in different ways. Some can carry the mutation, yet have no signs of the condition. Some can have a more severe expression of the syndrome than others. Some can have normal lifespan, others shortened life-span.

Then there are changes in TGFB1 & TGFB2 to look at related to Loey-Dietz.

Info: http://www.marfan.net.au/showsection.toy?sid=333546

I just found an interesting link relating aspects of Marfan's to possible dietary approaches:

http://www.ctds.info/marfan.html

For Homocystinuria you can test blood Homocysteine level

http://www.labtestsonline.org.au/understanding/analytes/homocysteine/tab/glance
 
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Starting to feel very uncomfortable......
I have seen some of the SNPs of people with ME but I seem to be the most ****ed up genetically here.
There are so many mutations and the double homo COMT and no VDR,or my MTR and MTRR mutations meaning I was B12 deficient since birth and I'm just soooooo depressed I can't even cry anymore.
Someone show me the light!
 

Freddd

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Hello!

Hope this is the right place to post it!
I'm a 23 years old guy and have had never ending problems the last decade of my life.
I have a double mutation for the PTSD gene and lost my Dad 8 years ago which I still couldn't accept.
Talking about accepting things,I have severe perfectionism.S E V E R E.
Not bed ridden like lots of CFS suffers but house bound.Get panics attack from door bell ringing.
Paranoid.Constant flight or fight.
My physical symptoms got worse after I took SSRI and developed bradycardia and heartburn after eating anything or drinking anything (I only drink tap water).
Here is my genetic results:

ACAT1 02,N/A,+-
AHCY 19,N/A,--
AHCY 02,N/A,--
AHCY 01,N/A,--
BHMT 08,N/A,++
BHMT 02,N/A,+-
BHMT 04,N/A,+-
CBS,A360A,+-
CBS,Y233Y (C699T),--
COMT,H62H,++
COMT,V158M,++
COMT 61,P199P,--
MTHFR,E429A (A1298C),+-
MTHFR,A222V (C677T),--
MTHFR 03,P39P,--
MTR,A919G (A2756G),+-
MTRR,A919G (A66G),++
MTRR,K350A,--
MTRR,R415T,--
MTRR,H595Y,--
MTRR 11,A664A,+-
SHMT,C1420T,+-
VDR,BSM/TAQ,--

NOS1 rs3782206 C/T +/-
NOS2 rs2297518 A/G +/-
NOS2 rs2274894 G/T +/-
NOS2 rs2248814 A/G +/-
NOS3 rs1800783 A/T +/-
NOS3 rs1800779 A/G +/-
NOS3 rs2070744 C/T +/-
NOS3 rs3918188 A/C +/-
NOS3 rs7830 G/T +/-
SOD2 rs2758331 A/C +/-
SOD2 rs2855262 A/C +/-
GAD1 rs3749034 A/G +/-
GAD1 rs2241165 A/G +/-
GAD1 rs2058725 C/T +/-
GAD1 rs769407 C/G +/-
GAD1 rs3791851 C/T +/-
GAD1 rs3791850 A/G +/-

Symptoms,everything I can think of (NOT IN CORRECT ORDER!):
-eye tics (lessened over the years)
-droopy eye lids
-strong will
-ankyloglossia (tongue tie)
-deformed chest (breast bone and ribcage) on one side
-scoliosis
-chronic eye floaters
-chronic tinnitus,ringing ears
-visual snow
-acted like if I wasn’t on the same level with my classmates,like I was 10 years younger than them brain-wise
-mild incoordination
-phobia of objects
-dark circles under eyes,had it since childhood
-mouth breathing
-emotional instability
-hand tremor,head tremor (becomes severe in social pressure,stress not got better)
-loss of self-confidence,developed severe perfectionism
-day dreaming,drowsiness
-severe depression
-severe anxiety
-body very hairy (my back and chest and stomach was already hairy while my classmates started to develop armpit hair.but they DO HAVE FACIAL BEARD and I don’t)
-severe phobia of dentists
-crazy thinking,skizophrenic mind
-racing thoughts
-malloclusion
-tongue thrust
-anterior open bite
-underdeveloped genital
-symptoms of estrogen dominance,hypothyroidism,mercury poisoning,adrenal fatigue,brain damage and so on…
-addictions,obsessed with things (smoking,computer,porn)
-depersonalization
-erectional disfunction
-derealization
-had to quit high school due to severe brain fog from SSRI use (still,can't finish it)
-hypoglicemic reactions (worse after quitting smoking)
-gained weight I couldn’t lose after starting SSRI drug
-feminime hands and fingers and nail beds
-white spots on nails every 5 years
-awareness of heartbeat (constant,most uncomfortable symptom)
-bradycardia
-heartburn
-OCD IS SEVERE……going crazy.SSRI induced.
-shrinking genital
-Peyronie's disease
-sensitive to light (still,got worse not so long ago)
-coarse hair
-facial eczema
-need for burping all day (lots of gases,30 secs after drinking)
-insomnia
-all my joints are cracking,popping (still,feeling like an 80 years old now for the past 4 years)
-feeling like there’s something in my throat,sometimes hard to swallow
-irritability
-agression towards loved ones (still,getting really really bad...)
-mood swings
-puffy face
-red scrotum and red dry glans
-unable to make friends,communicate with other people (lacking of communcation skills)
-heartbeat fails to go higher than 120-130 bpm during heavy exercise
-UNABLE TO BUILD MUSCLE DESPITE GOOD DIET

Please,guide me where to start.I was very athletic in my early teen years then PTSDs after PTSDs struck me and I'm here.My dream is to be able to build muscle and become athletic again.
Please please help me!

Hi Steve,

I look at your list of symptoms and I have another question. Do you have gynocomastia? If so I assume puberty onset?

Many of your symptoms look familiar but the balance is shifted in a way not familiar to me. I think I can possibly specifically help with the muscles and neurological and mood, personality and neuropsyc symptoms and skin disorders. Many of the items were growth and hormone disorders during growth which can also be caused by deficiencies AND something else. It is possible that if these active b12/folate nutrients can help some of your symptoms may go away leaving the other problems more evident. The other side of the coin is that woth the large number of neuropsyc situations you may have an extreme response to some of the nutrients so I would suggest a very careful titration in a specific order so you can avoid some possible reactions. However, the other side of it is that some of these things can reverse literally in hours in some case. The nutrients will potentially affect tissue growth all over the body.
 

Beyond

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See this and stop worrying about those mutations: Is Yasko's Nutrigenomics Panel enough?

In my opinion, looking at this very limited set of mutations is simply bad science.
Nanobug I think I do agree. This genetic trend looks like a dead end for me personally, at least for now . Or maybe you can benefit from genetic testing like Gestalt did but I havent seem anyone curing with it and we all know that the Yasko protocol its very very very expensive.

A current methylation blood test could be of more utility. Have you had one done?
 

Dmitri

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Hi Steve,

I can relate to most of your symptoms, except the hormonal disbalances. I also have severe OCD, every thought and movement I make has to be part of a pattern and my mental energy goes into completing rituals. Since your development period has also been with this disease, I noted the physical deformations listed in your post.

I also have scoliosis, sunken chest, peyronie's, undeveloped jaw, etc. since this began with me at age 1 and my body didn't get a chance to develop properly. Have you experienced symptoms with nose growth?
 
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Hi Steve,

I look at your list of symptoms and I have another question. Do you have gynocomastia? If so I assume puberty onset?

Many of your symptoms look familiar but the balance is shifted in a way not familiar to me. I think I can possibly specifically help with the muscles and neurological and mood, personality and neuropsyc symptoms and skin disorders. Many of the items were growth and hormone disorders during growth which can also be caused by deficiencies AND something else. It is possible that if these active b12/folate nutrients can help some of your symptoms may go away leaving the other problems more evident. The other side of the coin is that woth the large number of neuropsyc situations you may have an extreme response to some of the nutrients so I would suggest a very careful titration in a specific order so you can avoid some possible reactions. However, the other side of it is that some of these things can reverse literally in hours in some case. The nutrients will potentially affect tissue growth all over the body.

So you are saying that when I get my B12 levels up to a normal level it will be a personality changer? I've also heard that people who were B12 deficient for a long time will have physical symptoms and quite uncomfortable?
I do not have gynocomastia.
Tell me about the the careful titration in a "specific order",please.

Hi Steve,

I can relate to most of your symptoms, except the hormonal disbalances. I also have severe OCD, every thought and movement I make has to be part of a pattern and my mental energy goes into completing rituals. Since your development period has also been with this disease, I noted the physical deformations listed in your post.

I also have scoliosis, sunken chest, peyronie's, undeveloped jaw, etc. since this began with me at age 1 and my body didn't get a chance to develop properly. Have you experienced symptoms with nose growth?

I'm sorry to hear that. :( I'm sure we will find a way to improve things that can be saved.
Anyway I'm sure I have not only B2 deficiency but a lot more.I seem to have chronic malabsorbtion and spent my childhood eating chocolates,potato chips and rarely meat and more rarely vegetables.I mean I was 23 already when I first ate broccoli,sauerkraut or kefir in my life.
 

Dmitri

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Steve-22: You also mentioned abnormal hair growth. I'm not a hairy person, but my legs shockingly are. It could be relatated to blood circulation. Is your hair growth evenly distributed?
 
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Steve-22: You also mentioned abnormal hair growth. I'm not a hairy person, but my legs shockingly are. It could be relatated to blood circulation. Is your hair growth evenly distributed?

I'm not sure.I'm a really hairy guy compared to an average joe,I have to shave my shoulders and back and there's some hair started appearing on my BICEPS yet I can only grow neck beard,no full facial hair.
Not only too hairy but my body is feminime too.I have fat distribution of a girl.Height is 5 ft 7 inch weight is 145 lbs puffy face,double chin,fat on back that you can grab,beer belly though I only drink alcohol once every 2 years and I have even have a fat bulge on my groin.I have never been overweight,the heaviest I've been was 158 pounds after started taking the SSRI.