Low fat yogurt is good, fat free a last resort. I use regular goat yogurt and always drain the whey off so you have a soft cheese.

Do not use that cottage cheese, it is full of things not needed.

Keep in mind that the cottage cheese of Germany is not the same as here. Use a good quality raw yogurt if possible and drain the whey and then add in a bit of water as needed to looses the yogurt up.

What kind of oil are you using? It needs to be fresh cold pressed in a dark bottle stored in the frig. If not use flax seeds at the rate of 2.5 to 1.

SARA

I just answered you pm. I am confused, how does a anti-depressant help your mercury levels? Let's look at budwig seriously. The rules of Budwig is that you cannot take any supplements or drugs BUT she states that if removing that drug quickly would be harmful then do it slowly.

So food herbs not a problem with the budwig diet. Make sure you do the beginning stages with honey and flax seeds ground. You must not keep the seeds that have been ground for more than ten minutes, so grind what you need. If you have cancer her instructions are to use only a local cold pressed oil OR flax seeds. So the flax seeds are 2.5 to 1 T of flax oil.

I contacted UVA at http://www.healingcancernaturally.com
and she told me that if I could not get a LOCAL cold pressed oil, one that does not need shipping, I should stick with the seeds.

Everything depends on your condition,your disease and the products available to you. The Budwig diet that is followed strictly with the oils needs to be maintained for 5 years or more.

There are many articles on this forum about draining the yogurt. Keep in mind that the cottage cheese of today is not the same as the cottage cheese of Germany. It is closer to yogurt. So if you have the ability to get raw yogurt it is best. Even better is goat yogurt. Now it is goat season.

After you get the yogurt, you drain it thru some cheese cloth or a cotton cloth and drain the whey off and it becomes thick like creme cheese. You take that yogurt and add a bit of water to it is not using the oil and if your are the oil should be enough and add the rest. Many authors are recommending 1/4 t. of cayenne for circulation.
I personally use the cayenne, every single day.

If you are in pain there are many remedies on the web site I gave you or you can use.
1 glass of water
1 T of raw apple vinegar
2 t. of honey
1/4 t. of cayenne,
Sip this thru the day.

or my remedy is

2 T of ginger and tumeric and 1 T. of cayenne. Mix all this together and take 1/2 t. of the mixture and place in a glass of water and drink.

The other thing that works great for pain is black seed oil. I take black seed oil and rub on my temples when I have a headache and a bit in each nostril.

Keep in mind that you can never mix food supplements and drugs together other than grape seed and olive leaf which has no drug interaction.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

SARA