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Wayne, would you both mind posting particulars about your methods? How-to, dosing etc? THanks!
Hi leela. My progress out of downward spiralling disaster began with removing dairy and gluten. I started the GAPS diet, 2 years ago end of January. Not only gluten and dairy free, but no starches until gut healing. I've just now successfully added 1 Tbl soaked buckwheat. Hi fat, bone broth, small amounts of meats, fresh vegetable juice, and for me, my only cooked veggie, zucchini. 6 months into the diet I uncovered sulfur and histamine intolerances, which has left me with a very minimal, but very satisfying, diet.
My next success was adding inMTHFR/pyroluria supps...big overlap here. Within a week of adding in those minerals plus TMG (a methyl-donor) my inner river of negativity stopped. I could suddenly approach the ongoing research needed for recovery as an interesting challenge, instead of an overwhelming burden. I've now been fully on Freddd's Protocol for 9 months. I've been very cautious in adding things, probably too cautious, I now feel. I experienced a shift as I added in each of the 4 Deadlock Quartet. Just prior to this, I'd once again tried hydroxyB12 and folinic as both Rich VanK and Amy Yasko suggest. They again, as in my attempts over the past 3-4 years, did nothing. And I searched for days trying to nail down which carnitine Fred was suggesting, and due to my inability to find it, tried ALCAR, which I already had on hand, as well as carnitine bitartrate or something. When I finally added my first dose of L-Carnitine Fumarate, LCF, I felt an almost immediate 'brightening' of my whole system. Many people use this term. Each of the other elements has added a heightened feeling of well-being. )LCF, Methyl B12, Adeno B12, Methyl Folate) Now I'm using my tendency toward skin outbreaks to monitor my folate deficiency, am slowly increasing my dose by 1-200 mcg every day, or every other day.
I started using footbaths from GAPS advice re releasing toxins. When I began needing a lot of extra K+ due to methylation start-up, I started adding my K+ to the footbaths, so I didn't have to take so much by mouth. This proved so successful, that I've added all my powdered supps to footbath: aminos, C, Ca,...I use 2 baths. First one with clay and charcoal for pulling out toxins, the second to clean up from the first (!), with bicarb, powdered supps, magnesium oil. For a time I used special clays to detox metals, now plain bentonite.
Natasha Campbell-McBride, developer of GAPS, uses juicing for detoxification. I also add chlorella to my juice to help bind and eliminate bacteria. I use a few things for metal/bacteria detox, but have kept it pretty gentle, avoiding cilantro, for example, and other strong things. I've used a few courses of metal magnet products. Oregano oil on the soles of my feet. Also clove oil and lemongrass oil on feet to combat biofilm. Unfortunately most of my supps have mag stearate, which adds to biofilm, making bacterial elimination harder.
Hope this helps. Happy New Year, ahmo