hb8847
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It's still fringe medicine. It's still without clinical trials and concrete guidelines.
Yes, although we do have Brewer's study on 93% of his CFS patients having mould issues. And, as far as I'm aware, Dr Nathan's method for ridding mould (ie using binders, targeted antifungals/antibiotics, diet, etc) seems to be fairly uncontroversial - most of the doctors in the field I've spoken to about mould seem to refer to some sort of use of these sorts of treatments. Rather I think what is fringe medicine is the idea that mould presents a real problem in many more people than our society realises, and I suspect he's right on that front. (Although also, yes, some of the DNRS type stuff he advocates is very much fringe and controversial.)
Having said that, I think I may just buy his book.
Here's a download link if you don't want to shell out. You can always buy it later if you find it helpful.
I've had yet another setback when I started holding my head upside down when taking nasal sprays/ oils etc - with the plan of getting it up into other areas of the sinuses. Well I think it worked, because as soon as I did this I lost all my hard-won gains. Breathing issues are back, can't tolerate glutathione and I feel sick again. Not the worst I've ever felt, but worse than feeling great like I had been.
I really think these treatments you guys are having issues with must be Herxheimer reactions, it doesn't make much sense that you'd be reacting to the adjuvants as most of them are fairly anodyne. And if it's a Herx, you know you're on the right path, it's just flooding your body with too many toxins for it to be able to handle.
I think I'm gonna try charcoal too as well - I've been completely unable to take antifungals (or anything that actively kills microbes because it seems my body just can't handle any significant increase in the toxin load), but I'm really hopeful that if I start some of these "binders" slowly they might do the trick... I did do bentonite clay for a while in the past and at times it felt like it was doing me a lot of good, but I think in retrospect I was just going to fast with it (as I do with everything) - it just started making me feel like crap again. I feel the key to a lot of this is just to go very gradually, frustrating as that is.