(I havn´t read the posts above properly.)
This morning I decided to try lemon juice, supposed to be alkalinizing, instead of baking soda, hoping it would help lower my BP. I added 3 tablespoons of lemon juice to a glass of water and drank it all before breakfast (using a straw to protect the enamel on my teeth). Much to my surprise within about an hour the achiness had dissipated, and my energy had picked up! I felt better than I have in at least 3 weeks. The lemon juice apparently did something that the baking soda couldn’t. Although when I checked my Ph, it had only gone up a little (unlike with the baking soda), but I felt much better. And my BP went down to about 125/75 which it has not been for quite awhile!
So - any ideas as to what might be going on?
Citrate acid is also a known chelator for metals, according to
wikipedia. So, this could also be what´s going on, I think, and:
I recently made a rather similar experience to your´s. It may be a bit complicate:
I thought to take in metals from chocolate, because - so my theory - under better (improving) circumstances - which I can achieve in my case by a lower manganese diet and intake of
some vitB´s - the metals would consolidate the improvement. They would settle where they are needed for actions consolidating the improvent. Actions that are going to be healthier would get strengthened. For this theory it is even not necessary to know which tasks the metals fulfill, it´s only needed to know that there are these metals in the body.
So indeed, this works fine. And I got a bit high on spirits ... I suddenly made a mistake in my lower manganese diet ... So again (and still) having brain fog, I thought the metals in chocolate would help, but of course no! Now they helped to establish the new bad circumstances from my mistake. Most noticable:
After the mistake, I got tooth ache. Luckily I remembered the citrate acid chelation, and the miracle took place: after having drunken lemon juice from half a lemon, the tooth aches vanished. (Next day by the dentist it turned out that a tooth already has died, having caused a jaw infection as well.)
So, taken together, metal management could be very easily a part of any improvement. Chelating metals could
mean a loosening of bad configurations that lasts from the past.
Consequently I would also claim, for unexplained or unjustified elevated pain (e.g. my tooth was already dead) citrate acid could easily be the medical of first try.
I would think citrate is quite natural, and might be used by the body for exactly this purpose.
In respect of our illness it would be required as soon as the causes for bad circumstances were absent and the body wanted to change its behaviour. If these causes are the known or unknown triggers I don´t know and remain sceptical enough. But it´s really worth a careful try, I would think.
But importantly, also the intake of metals could be required as they may be needed for actions. It could well be a reconfiguration which is here on the cards.
So far I personally have cared only for metals which are found in chocolate. It might be not enough (and therefore it could be a mistake to carry on with a fast chelation because I would chelate some metals which I wouldn´t take in soon enough again.)
(I have already told it here: a week ago or so in the thread benzodiazapines and almost two months ago in my thread thalamus & basalganglia.)