I plan to start slowwww . . . . 1 or 2 drops a day.
This is new to me, how are the people above who started taking drops months ago?
Hi
@Mary &
@JasonPerth,
Just a little update on my dosage: I was always at the lower end of the recommended dosages, learning early on that 15 drops was too much, and then settling into about 9-12 drops/day for several months. I'm now down to about 6 drops/day. When I tried 9 drops recently, I quickly noticed the kind of headache I used to experience at 15 drops.
My best guess as to why I now have a lower "tolerance" is that my body doesn't need it as much as it did when I first started. I'll never forget how after about 2 months of regular dosing of around 12 drops/day, my more than normal occasional sinus drainage (since starting MB) went from an hour or two every few days, to a full on deluge that lasted an entire day.
That deluge had many hallmarks of a bad cold, but in the early morning when it started, I noticed I felt better than normal. I used that opportunity to try to get some organizing done, which I normally could only do for short periods of time (15 min. to an hour at most). The day of the "deluge", I worked for several hours, and seemed to gain momentum as the day progressed. I think I used up about a full box of kleenex that day! lol
My best guess on this experience is that the MB broke up some kind of (fungal?) infection in my body, quite possibly in my sinuses. And when that day was over, the excess drainage went away for good, and I no longer had occasional days where I had unusual drainage. My sinuses are now much clearer than before I started MB, which has now saved me a few dollars in my "kleenex budget". lol.
Mary, I think you're wise to approach this cautiously. The nice thing about starting out with low dosing, is there's really no need or urgency to try to start out at too high a dosage. I once read that less MB is more effective than more MB, and I think that's likely accurate. The goal is to slowly find the optimal, neither too much or too little. And that may change over time, as it did for me. I've also read recommendations to skip a day or two each week, and let your body reset however it needs to without the daily MB.
Jason, I checked the links I posted in one of my earlier posts for MB products online and discovered they still work, and thought I'd paste them below. I don't know if you have access to these in Australia, but you might. Good luck to both of you (and anybody else) as you give this a try!
I initially purchased a
3.5 oz. 1% solution bottle at Amazon, but you can also
buy it for much less if you get the powder (same company) and dilute it with purified water. The ratio is 1 gram of the powder to 100 ml. (about 3.5 oz.) of water. The exact ratio is not really important, and some people like to make it both stronger and weaker than the above ratio. The 1 gram to 100 ml. ratio is the most commonly used however.
The above linked products are pharmaceutical grade (USP), which is what they recommend for taking it internally. There are other less pure grades out there for fish tanks and laboratory use.
I wish I had taken the time (and energy) to read more in-depth about MB before --
