Hi,
It was a one off, I could never reproduce the effect again. I can't remember the brand, although I do think brand can make a difference (I blew £50 on a kilo of chlorella off of ebay since then, and it didn't smell or taste nearly as pungent). My suspicion is that it was some sort of detoxification occuring, though why it only happened that one time is a mystery. I've been through a lot since this incident. I've had far more extreme results with other substances since--only to find myself here and now stuck in a rut once again. See this
link where I try (and fail) to find some answers, if you're interested (there's also evidence on this site of that period I went through that the link talks about).
EDIT: best just read the link, ignore the following crap at least until after reading it.
I may ramble on here (I know some (most?) cfs sufferers have harder times with text wall than I do... consider it a forewarning...) All I know is that there is a high likelyhood of a mismash of diminished methionine synthase activity (taking colostrum gives me a boost, and the IGF is known to stimulate methionine synthase), perhaps brought on my mercury toxicity, and low glutathione which may also be due to that, or due to folate and b12 deficiencies. It's hard to know which started first. Low glutathione could have caused mercury to accumulate that would pass through a normal person harmlessly, or the low glutathione could have started only after a shock dose of mercury (perhaps from a vaccine, though I can't access my medical records to find out if I had one around the time I came down with CFS--it would explain a lot if I had).
Back in the end of May due to the breakthroughs I talk abotu in the link I felt like an absolute god. I was hypomaniacal and megolomaniacal, but it wasn't all delusion... I had very measurable cognitive improvements and total lift of brain fog--it was like becoming sentient. I think I just went mad with power because I felt powerful--super super super healthy and normal really and it was just the contrast that made it feel god-like.
At the best point I was ready to pronounce my fatigue almost totally gone.
Right now I'm completely lost. The fatigue has come back and it feels like none of the dramatic leaps forward last year ever happened. I wonder if the whole theory of moving mercury into the brain is true. That oft-repeated idea originates from Cutler, the 'grandfather' of detox wisdom. People utter the things he said like they're saying it for the first time or it was their own idea, making it look like a commonly accepted notion, but it all originates from him. The thing is I haven't ever seen him cite his sources, so I don't know how he knows what he's saying anymore than the people who quote him know what they're saying. But maybe he knows what he's talking about. It's on my to-do list to try his protocol sometime... if I can find it in me to sacrifice this damn amalgam filling first that I never asked for! (stupid dentist, need to change him).
Another possibility is that I caused serious upsets in my bodily chemistry by what I was doing to it. NAC depletes all minerals over time. I may have induced a selenium deficiency for example.
I still get the "detox episodes" I mention in that link--but they went frmo lasting whole days, to lasting half a day with many days inbetween episodes, to lasting an hour and a week between episodes, to now where it lasts about 20 minutes max. Intensity is also far less. What I do to instigate it is also extremely random. It would be nice to think that that means there's just less to detox, but deep down I don't feel that that's the case. I'm nothing like the walking on cloud 9 I had last year. I can taste the memory of it, but I'm a complete joke compared to him.
One thing i'm reintroducing again to my regimin is ashwagandha. Read an article about it raising glutathione (or some derivative) in the spine. Which is where I get shudders from. What do you know, according to my logs I was taking that on the week leading up to my breakthrough... and dropped it afterward (out of fear of it containing heavy metals!). But everything else was important to... it's like some cosmic event where stars align only every thousand years... everything I was taking at that time just happened to come into perfect alignment and induce this absolutely torrential physiological process that made me feel super healthy and fixed. I think I was just super super lucky to have it happen. Now I just need to figure out what the hell I did. Everything I initially attributed it to--NAC, potassium and sodium chloride, and sodium bicarbonate, are no less significant. But I think it's a lot more than that and what I never wrote of to begin with was everything else I was taking... I think it ALL mattered. I think my subconscious guided me to certain substances based on the masses of literature I'd read and the reasons for picking up the various things I did.
Sorry, that's a really rambling post, but it's hard to be coherent with the fatigue. If I had to give you any advice thoguh i'd say take no shortcuts, and never stop learning how this stuff all works. I'm beginning to build up a picture in my head, but i'm getting no help with it, it's all self taught. Eventually I hope to work my way out of this maze...
Edited by caruga, 23 March 2012 - 01:08 AM.
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