On a tight budget please list your top supplements that have an impact on you

Hello everyone i am not one to take a million supplements but i do take menthylated b vitamins everyday ,and try and eat plant based and probiotics twice a day.My llmd said my immune system.is still very low and i need something for toxins drainage .Can anyone recommend anything that works or has helped you in your healing?I also take liposomal gluthione twice per day but that supplement is expensive at 65.00 per bottle.....And has anyone had sucess with cryptrolis for babesia?thankyou

Thanks evaston good to know the cryptrolis is having an impact on the babesia i am going to order some what brand dod you order woodland essence? I hate wasting money on things that do not work..

Still testing Woodland Essence's CSA and MYCO. I had herxed with their Auntie Vi so I know it was killing an infection. Bart doesnt give me a straight answer.

The more Mg I take the more active it becomes. Since tapering down, it has faded into the background noise. I am sure there are other infections that remain but they are improving also.

I used a lot of Rx's that did much of the wet work. I am solely down to 400mg of Fluconazole weekly where I will remain 2 months and then taper to bimonthly 2mo, and then monthly for 2-3 months before stopping cold. With that disclosed....

Supplements that I found most worth it so far:

Nascent Iodine - best when eliminating Chlorine, Fluoride, and Bromine (all bread). Requires Selenium and other supporting cast minerals if you dose high.

Modified Citrus Pectin - If your Lyme is connected to mold, this is a must have for at least 2 months at 4 tablets of the Vitacost brand.

Monolauren - Evidence shows it kills Borellia and it seems to be working fine. I would remain on this at 3600mg minimum daily until 3 months after symptoms stop or longer. Vitacost sells Sun Brand for very reasonable.

Olive Leaf Extract - You wont feel it doing anything but if you have viruses it will likely be working in the background. I would like to add L-Lysine for support in this area but have not yet.

I am hopeful on MegaHydrate on so many levels of healing but it will be a while before I receive my order, use, and report on this.

Some supplements will be impossible to evaluate. I continue to use Fucoidan and Brown Seaweed as I am concerned about cancer from aflatoxins and mycotoxins and this is the only supplement that I know of which may prevent this.

NAC is a cheap and great supplement which has many benefits one of the main ones as a pre-cursor to glutathione production so you can get off those expensive IV shots.

vitamin c should always be a staple for immune support

Oh my llmd wants me to get pekane drainage kit do not know if i.spelled that right but i thinking activated charcoal and red root what do you guys think??

pekana detox kit (the 3 bottles) is the best detoxing system out there. pricey though. other ones are peppered throughout this thread. i personally use liver cleanse from thorne and red root for lymphs.

Just a note about chlorella - it's really more of a chelator than a binder. It's generally used to chelate heavy metals, more than to eliminate GI toxins and you need to be careful with it since chelating too quickly can pull hvy mtls from tissues but if they are not removed from the body quickly enough, the body can reabsorb them. So it's important to go slow and easy with chelating.

Many people also incorporate a binder like charcoal or bentonite clay with the chelating to make sure everything gets effectively removed through bowel movements and urinating.

-p

Pirouette said...
Just a note about chlorella - it's really more of a chelator than a binder. It's generally used to chelate heavy metals, more than to eliminate GI toxins and you need to be careful with it since chelating too quickly can pull hvy mtls from tissues but if they are not removed from the body quickly enough, the body can reabsorb them. So it's important to go slow and easy with chelating.

Many people also incorporate a binder like charcoal or bentonite clay with the chelating to make sure everything gets effectively removed through bowel movements and urinating.

-p

chlorella is 100% NOT a chelator, regardless of what Dr. K may claim.

if you want to chelate use DMSA or ALA or any actual real chelator. sorry, but Dr K is confused and is spreading dangerous nonsense when it comes to chelation. he doesnt understand it at all.

if you are legitimately mercury toxic dont listen to him. he will make you worse.

Hi Lapis -

I didn't get that info from Dr K.

I shouldn't have mentioned the chelating part - technically, you're right that there are better chelators that aren't a sulpher food and chelators that bind to metals more strongly.

There is some confusion over the use of chlorella if you're focusing on intensive heavy metals detoxing, which most people on this forum are not and should not (it's not a good idea to aggressively chelate AND treat Lyme & CO simultaneously.) So most people here taking it are using it for detox, and there are better products.

And like chlorella, other metal detoxers like cilantro can also be tainted with heavy metals because they're grown in soil - of course, this is true for other herbs. We've talked about that on the forum.

But some people swear by it. I think one advantage is to use chlorella only when you're focusing on heavy metals and use it to help remove them in the GI, where it generally stays. I have a friend who was working with a couple of MDs/NDs in NYC, including a neurologist and this was her staple treatment - and this was 10 yrs ago. I tried it and took too much - next thing I knew my hair started falling out, which it does when I start treating for hvy mtls. It may not be well understood exactly what it does or how it works, but many people report a benefit with it.

-p

I have old amalgams and they are surely leaking. However, I do believe I'm detoxing the mtls fairly well. I've been tested 4-5 times for hvy mtls - diff means, diff docs, over a 2 yr period - but nothing ever shows up. My LLMD & I investigated this pretty well before I started Lyme & Co tx. Obviously, the tests aren't always reliable so I go by my reactions and sx.

I misstated my initial reaction to chlorella - significant sx I had from that chlorella overdose wasn't hair falling out - it was a viral surge. (I know this well ever since childhood I get swollen lymph nodes, extreme exhaustion, and a few other telltale signs of a viral surge). It could have been caused by redistribution but about 100 other things also cause viral surges in me, I have a long history with it.

My hair started going thin when thyroid went haywire right after I was infected w/ Lyme & Co about 20 yrs ago. It's stayed relatively stable but at that "thin" level ever since.

A couple yrs ago I had noticeable increased hair loss sx after eating some food powder (Garden of Life raw food powder!) that included a rice product sourced from a location in China with known metals in the soils. Took me a few months to figure it out. After I stopped eating the powder, all the sx stopped. So that's been my bell weather for any hvy mtls levels.

I still need to get my amalgams replaced and I intend to do a more intensive hvy mtls detox but won't do any of this until after I'm done w/ Lyme & Co tx. If I had significant hvy mtls I would have done this before starting down the Lyme & Co road.

I can attest that chlorella does work for some people - reports are all over the internet. I cannot explain exactly why but I'm sure it's not a simple thing. I also understand the reasons it's not supposed to work.

I have a friend who grew up in near an iron ore mine in Argentina. She's been chleating for 10 yrs - it's a slow, slow process. She's tried numerous modalities, she's worked with some of the best MDs and NDs and Chinese practitioners in NYC. She's taken chlorella with good results.

I don't disagree that chlorella can create more problems for some but I don't think everything is cut-and-dry regarding chlorella. For the purposes of trying to keep things a little simpler on this forum, which focuses on Lyme & Co and when responding to people using chlorella for "regular" detoxing and binding, I generally recommend against it.

-p