Re: my protocol
HV would rather people avoid stimulant laxatives. "I would look for bitters without the stimulant laxatives (senna, cascara sagrada, rhubarb root, cape aloe) as these can cause a laxative dependence after a few weeks." He has said this a number of times. It really bothers me that
Dr. Schulze Formula #1 does not make the disclaimer that other laxatives do. It even says to take it everyday. I'm screwed.
I do drink over 3 liters of water plus other liquids per day. So I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything right. 3 years ago I was not having even one BM per day; sometimes 4 per week. Bad, bad, bad. I've heard that you should have as many BMs as you have meals. One meal should push out another previous meal. Something like that.
I'm using magnesium peroxide. When I get backed up (like today), I will sometimes take a combination of mag chloride, mag aspartate, mag succinate, mag amino acid chelate, and mag oxide. HV does not like the mag oxide. Apparently it is hard on the intestinal lining.
If all this is bad enough, my sinuses are constipated whenever my bowels are.