Yah I would like to know too Faith110.

Hawksfan,

I'm switching over to an old time program called nature! On my most recent hair test I proved that I am healing with diet and lifestyle alone. I have not taken any supplements in 6 months and my ratios are substantially better. My health issues are severe adrenal fatigue, dysautonomia- renal salt wasting syndrome and syndrome of insufficent antidiruretic hormones, prediabetes, hypothyroidism, and leaky gut with all the lovely things that go with that. I used to have to drink salt water every 1/2 hour to stay stable and am now 3 weeks with no salt water and doing fine. My blood glucose levels are also much better and more stable. I have more energy and can go much longer without having to eat. My hair is no longer falling out and my weight is healthy. I also have no more anxiety attacks. Food is my medicine and my tests are proving it. I meditate, and have gotten very close to God.
So yeah, faith, food, rest, and joy. That's my program.

SB,

I highly doubt 2 days of 1/4 dose would be a healing reaction! Seriously I only took 1/4 of the full dose and my body reacted so violently that I crashed and it took 3 days to recover. It felt like I was right back to square one. I have not felt like that in months! I am much better than I was, healing slowly, but seeing improvement. Don't want to take something that is going to completely disable me. I'm sure the program works for some (not hating on it), but I was doing better on my own. I have learned alot about diet that I will continue to utilize, but no more pills for me :)

DBLC,

Thank you :) And believe me, I know a thing or two about trial and error! I feel like I've tried every supplement known to man! I'm healing very slowly, but looking back I am no where near where I was 8 months ago. I've already been through 2 practitioners. One put me back in the hospital, the other just ripped me off. I'm so tired of all these so called "healers". I'm especially tired of paying for their yachts too :).

I don't feel great everyday. Sometimes I feel good other days I feel like crap. Tis the unfortunate process of a neuro-endocrine mess! But I would rather feel mildly cruddy than be sent back into the ninth circle of hell. Trying to avoid stress not create a new obsession with levels and "reactions" to worry about! I trust my body, and I know what detox feels like. It's definitely not supposed to be that violent!

I will likely get another hair test done in 6 months with a new practitioner just to see where the ratios are at. This time (6 months between tests) my Na/K ratio went up from a dreadful .70 to 1.2. Thyroid ratio is almost perfect, still a teensy bit on the hypo side. I also dumped more than half of the aluminum I had. All this with diet as my cornerstone. So it can be done. The body doesn't need synthetic pills to detox. I still have a ways to go but at least I know I am on the right track.

Also the idea of being on a supplement program for at least 5 years doesn't sit well with me. Not bashing the program, just my 2 cents :)

Of course I will Seattle :) I've made some great friends here on CZ and I just because I'm not doing the supplement portion of NB doesn't mean that I am going to abandon y'all!