All I can say is my ammonia was up over 65 while taking it so I decided to start listening to my doctor. I took it out and didnt add mos (mannanogliosacharides) no other changes.. Stayed on the diflucan and all herbs I'd been on. Ammonia low normal, I think it was 22. i know it was under 30. back where we'd got them down before I decided to "improve" my healing.
I think years of chasing cures makes it hard for me to not wanna try the latest and greatest, but it often seems to bite me in the ass. Ymmv.
Point to note I'm not dealing with garden variety candida. I've got some other saprophyte at pathogenic levels.
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PathogenKiller, just curious, but how many grams of protein do you eat per day? And what percent of your total calories is that?
I only ask because I'm reminded by something Richard Nikoley and Tim Steele have discovered from the many n=1 RS experiments that they have been privy to. In a
recent podcast Tim Steele said that what they are beginning to notice is that the lower your carbohydrate intake is, the less benefit one gets from RS. So, the low carbers — particularly the
very low carbers — seem to be the ones who don't get benefit from RS and they seem to be more likely to have some issues with it.
Interestingly, Tim said the people who seem to do the best with RS tend to be the ones who eat like the
Perfect Health Diet, which has a good amount of fermentable carbs and RS in it.
Paul Jaminet, the author of the
Perfect Health Diet, (who recommends ~10% calories from protein, ~30% calories from starchy "safe" carbs and the remainder calories as Fat) said this about ammonia toxicity
in an article on protein and ammonia.
Paul Jaminet said:
Eating carbs does reduce protein metabolization. That enables high carbers to eat less protein, and does reduce ammonia toxicity. However, I think at normal levels of protein metabolism the ammonia is not really a problem — the liver can convert it to urea fairly well. It’s when you start getting up to very high protein intakes (so that you also have the problem of
unabsorbed protein metabolized by gut bacteria releasing waste toxins) that toxicity from protein becomes a problem.[
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If that's true, it's entirely conceivable that eating higher levels of protein (and therefore less carbs) with RS could lead to excess ammonia, since a more robust microflora, from the RS supplementation, would metabolize more unabsorbed protein and therefore produce more ammonia. If that's true, it might be a factor in why low carbers don't do as well with RS.
Of course, if you are eating low protein, and sufficient carbs, then that perhaps suggests liver clearance issues.
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor and nothing I say should be construed as medical advice.
