Hi,
I'm going to post answering this question under the question right bellow this one, so look there in about 5 or 10 minutes. Later, Mike

Hi,
I was asked just a little while ago by a gentleman I met here on curezone what my whole story was, so I'm just going to copy that email and make some modifications. Feel free to use the contact info at the bottom to get a hold of me if you have any specific questions I can help with one on one. Here you go:

Hi,
yeah, I'm a grad student at UW-Madison. I don't know that I had any experiences that I would call die-off. I seemed to more or less just continue to improve right from the very beginning. Let me try and go through the details of my experience and that of the rest of my family. I do need to preface all this by saying that Dr. Young's approach is not just for candida, or just for any other particular illness, it is a general approach to good health, and is thus very applicable to a whole host of aliments as my family and I have found. (For my take on all of that see my post down bellow, "repost of personal note on pH")
When I started I was already running about 2-3 times a week to try and keep in shape and lose some weight. I also hoped it would help to increase my energy which was dragging. I had small improvements, like I lost 10 lbs. in the first 6 months, but my energy was still pretty low, and I kept getting really bad shin splints which kept me from running as often or as long as I might have liked. I also was pretty slow recovering from the running. Then about three months before I started Dr. Young's program my eczema flared up. It's always there, but not always so bad, and it used to only flare up for a few weeks. This time was bad though. My hands cracked open and bled, and my face was always a little red and blotchy. I also had trouble with different areas of acne, the strangest one was on my chest. And no matter how long I slept at night, I always woke up tired. I was sleeping 9-10 hours some nights, and just couldn't get rested. My mom was about 80 lbs. over weight and gaining, so to help here I started to do some more reading and research into health and weight loss. That's when I came across Dr. Young's first book "the pH miracle." It started to change the way I looked at health and illness, and the balance of the body. Specifically the importance of the pH balance in all the fluids of the body. But it didn't have enough of the scientific or historic background to really satisfy me (I'm a 4th year physics grad student, I need the details). So I found out he had another book out called "sick and tired? reclaim your inner terrain" and I read that too. It has a greatly expanded section on the historical background and scientific basis for his opinions and approach to health. Including some of the details of his own research (he is an active micro-biologist and nutritionist). So then I contacted a lady named Linda who is a distributor for the innerlight products, which is the company that produces and distributes the supplements that Dr. Young designed. Turns out he still oversees their productions to be sure that they always contain what he originally intended them too. Linda explained that she had been as skeptical as I was about the program when she first started, but she had given it a shot. As a personal experiment she had started by just adding the supergreens with prime pH to her diet and stopping drinking coffee. For two months she did not change anything else in her diet or add any exercise. At the end of those two months she had lost 27 lbs. and her cholesterol had gone from about 350 down to 245. She lost a leg in a motor cycle accident years ago, and now that she lost the weight she could finally start to exercise a little by walking with here prosthetic. Well that was enough to get me to try it for myself. I ordered a month and a half worth of the supergreens and prime pH for both myself and my parents. Linda convinced me that to save money on the order it would actually be cheaper to sign up with the company as a distributor like she did (costs $35, but I saved about $60 on the first order with the 25% discount). So for the first two weeks all I changed was to add the supergreens and prime pH to my diet. The first day I only had two quarts at half strength, and I had a dull headache for about 4-6 hours. Linda explained that it is an initial sign of the detox process beginning. But the headache left and has not returned, in fact I cannot think of a time when I have had a headache since in the last 6 months. Well, after two days I was up to 3-4 quarts per day at full strength. Now I'm at 4-5 quarts a day. I decided to really give it a test, so I started running every day to see how long I could go before the shin splints got too bad to continue. Dr. Young had claimed that the supergreens would help to replenish the alkaline stores in the body and improve it's ability to eliminate excess acid such as lactic acid from exercising. Lactic acid build up is one of the major causes of shin splints. Well I ran 8 out of the next 9 days and never had a hint of shin splint pain. Also, my recovery time had improved incredibly. I was recovering within about an hour of every run. I covered 27 miles in those runs. Within a matter of a few weeks I had increased my longest run from 4.5 miles to 8.5 miles. My times for a particular distance were dropping every time I ran, by minutes at a time. So I was pretty happy about all that. Then there was the eczema. Well, Dr. Young had also mentioned in his book that one way the body tries to get rid of excess acid is by passing it off through the skin. This can irritate the skin causing a whole range of symptoms including eczema, acne, boils, etc. So I decided to test these claims and see what would happen if I stopped putting on any moisturizer when I started drinking the supergreens. Now prior to then I was putting on moisturizer (which had been effective for me in the past) 12-15 times per day and still could not keep my hands from cracking open and bleeding. Well just 5 days after starting with the supergreens all the cracks on my hands had healed over, with no moisturizer. Now the eczema was certainly still there, but the worst of it had faded, and without any creams or anything. After two weeks I started to use some moisturizer again after showers and washing dishes and such. The skin has a 7 week long cycle, so for it to totally heal takes a long time, but I can happily say today that it's really just gone. Now to the question of energy and fatigue, which based on my reading, and a few spit tests, I think was due to a candida overgrowth. This to me was one of the most impressive things. Just 5 days after starting with the supergreens I woke up that morning before my alarm. I had only been asleep for 7 1/2 hours, but I was totally awake and felt refreshed. A feeling I had not had in a long time. I got out of bed and there was no rubbing of the eyes or yawning and dragging myself around the apartment. I was awake, completely. I tried to keep track for a while, but it seemed from then on after about 7 or 71/2 hours of sleep I would just wake up on my own refreshed and rested. Within seconds of standing up I would feel totally awake and ready to go. Even found my self practically skipping through the apartment to breakfast and such. I also noticed that the mid afternoon energy drain was fading away, and my energy level was more consistent. The mental changes are more difficult to pin point and say for sure, but I think my memory has improved, almost back to the way it was when I was a kid, and my focus is better. I was really unmotivated and dragging my feet at work before, but now I have my drive back, and want to work hard. I also started losing weight. In about a month after starting I was down to 212. After another month I had settled around 206-208, and have pretty much stayed there ever since. That is my ideal weight as far as I can tell. My scale says I'm at about 17% body fat, which is in the good range. My Acne basically completely faded away after a couple of weeks, except for one spot on my chest which took a little longer. The red blotchy spots on my face were gone within a week, and even my girlfriend commented that my skin overall is healthier and smoother. Unlike every other winter I have not had a single day of illness that kept me from doing all my regular stuff. Nothing has been much worse than a moderate cold. This too was predicted by Dr. Young. I have since then added a few of his other supplements to my regiment including the super soy protein powder to help with rebuilding tissue and muscle, and the biolight for higher energy production efficiency. I have also started to work through some other cleanses. Right now I'm about half way through a parasite cleanse, which has been going pretty smoothly (actually that was then, I'm now done with that cleanse). next I'll start going through the major organs to make sure they are all in peak health. Oh yeah, I forgot to say that after two weeks I also started to work on bringing my diet in line with Dr. Young's suggestions. I'm no where near perfect all the time, but have make some pretty distinct improvements and have seen the benefits. The other project I'm working on now is bringing down my blood pressure and heart rate naturally so that I can stop taking the beta blockers I am currently on. Well, other than giving you all the months of data I have taken on pH levels, blood pressure, heart rate, and body weight, I guess that's about it for me. I'll be more brief in describing my other family members' experiences.
My Mom has gone from gaining 12 lbs. in the three months before starting, to losing 10 in the first 6 weeks after. She also noticed the decreased pain and recovery time from exercising and said that it made her nails stronger. She used to have terrible migraine headaches that would incapacitate her for days at a time. She would usually get at least two bad ones every month. Now she says she hasn't taken a single pain pill for a headache in months, and they have improved 500%. The ones she does get she says are so mild they don't even disrupt her day. Soon I hope they will have completely faded away.
My dad lost 25 lbs. and has been working on getting his strength back up. He really had not problems to speak of before, and is really just focused on good health than any thing in particular.
My Brother is working on bringing down his blood pressure as well as improving his sleep to help reduce some of the problems with his ADHD. This has only started recently and I don't have any solid evidence to make any statements yet.
My sister in-law has been using the supergreens to help lose weight after having her baby and to help firm up her skin. She also says that it has taken away a lot of the pain from exercising. I think she has lost 5 or 10 lbs. so far.
Another gentleman I met on curezone is currently trying it out to see if it will help with his eczema as it did with mine. He really wants to be able to exercise again. I am getting him the same 25% discount that my family and I get so that he doesn't have to pay any more than necessary. I certainly don't mind helping out any way I can. he only started a couple weeks ago and I have not heard from him about it yet.
Well I think that pretty much sums up what I know so far. If there is anything else I can help with please let me know. And feel free to call anytime if you want to talk directly you can email me at mslarsen@wisc.edu . Take care, Mike

Post Script: I have also been talking with a gentleman just recently who has started to use the program to treat his adult aquired type II diabetes. I'll let you know what I hear from him in the future.

Quick note,
if anyone is interested in getting Dr. Young's book, I just noticed that Barns and Noble has it for $13.96, compared to the cheapest other price which is straight from Dr. Young's website for $15.95. So if you want to get a copy, just search for "sick and tired?" and it should be the first book up by Dr. Robert O. Young. Just a heads up if anyone is interested and wants to save some money while they are at it. I don't know if you can get the same price in store, but if you can you could save on shipping that way, or order another book to make your total over $25 and get free shipping. Well that's it. Catch you all later, mike