mgk
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I was reading through the Deadlock Quartet Symptom List and came across this interesting anecdote by @Freddd:
In my own journey to regaining health, I'd read several books about chronic conditions, health, and diet. One of them recommended bone broth, liver, and eggs as supplemental foods, and I had experimented with adding them to my diet. My experience with liver is memorable because it made me feel really well at first, but then I felt like I had gotten food poisoning the next few days and I haven't had the guts to try it since. In retrospect, I think I was experiencing folate deficiency symptoms.
Once the food poisoning-like symptoms had gone away, I was left feeling worse than before I tried the liver, and I kept trying to figure out why. That eventually led me here, and I keep discovering new things, and feeling better every day. I'm really grateful to all of you for posting your stories and sharing your knowledge.
My grandfather was kept reasonably healthy for decades by an old German cook whose “nerve tonic” stew slowed down his ALS. He was diagnosed in 1942 and died in 1973 after my grandmother got lung cancer and he was moved to a nursing home. He survived 6 months after the end of the nerve tonic stew. He was served every day a “stew” that was made by extracting all the good stuff from 5 pounds of liver daily and adding meat and veggies. He was being given every day the miracle working “protein mystery factor” which was liver extract and misidentified as CyCbl when actually it was MeCbl, AdoCbl, l-methylfolate and carnitine (the natural form of the deadlock quartet) plus all sorts of other vitamins.
In my own journey to regaining health, I'd read several books about chronic conditions, health, and diet. One of them recommended bone broth, liver, and eggs as supplemental foods, and I had experimented with adding them to my diet. My experience with liver is memorable because it made me feel really well at first, but then I felt like I had gotten food poisoning the next few days and I haven't had the guts to try it since. In retrospect, I think I was experiencing folate deficiency symptoms.
Once the food poisoning-like symptoms had gone away, I was left feeling worse than before I tried the liver, and I kept trying to figure out why. That eventually led me here, and I keep discovering new things, and feeling better every day. I'm really grateful to all of you for posting your stories and sharing your knowledge.