Re: I got my DMPS challenge test results today. Now what?

DMPS: very good, no advice necessary.

FOOD: Here I want to say something.

You seem to be like most people today, who get their dietary advice not from their own bodies but from the "majority opinion", and the majority opinion is actually a minority opinion, it just got repeated over and over again, with people quoting each other, and very few people left who know where the advice actually really originated.

If you, i.e. your body, knows many different (non-industrial, traditional - but I won't say "non-processed" because traditional(!) processing is GOOD) foods, than let YOUR OWN BODY tell you what to eat. For example - and that's all it is, I do NOT want to discuss your actual diet - if you like bacon and eggs, go ahead. (Animal) fat is very good and easy to digest, and great for candida anyway. Right now I, personally, have a huge appetite for nuts and curd. I CAN eat too much of it, but it's been a major part of my daily diet for a long time now, completely different from a few years ago (when I read about what to eat, oh my god what a mistake) - and I feel MUCH better. I also eat quite a bit of cream cheese (but much of it from other animals than cows, much more tasty) and meat, and plenty of herbs. In the past bakeries where my main source of food, these days I would not even notice if all bakeries in the world disappeared. Not because I read something and follow advice that I should not eat there - I could not care less, but because my body wants NOTHING, also no cake and other such stuff (in the past: plenty!), of what they offer in bakeries. And I live in Germany, our bakeries are quite a bit better than the US ones (I know I also lived in the US for many years).

I am hungry only twice a day, and I have no appetite whatsoever for ANY snacks, and most definitely want nothing sweet except for a tiny bit of honey with my (bucket load of) nut cream (organic) in the morning (but until a few months ago I had bacon and/or eggs and the like for breakfast, my body told me it's time for nuts now). This is in stark contrast to how I lived a few years ago, always hungry, always looking for a piece of cake or the like every single day.

I achieved this by listening to MY OWN BODY. Fortunately it knows traditional foods, because I got plenty of it in my life. I DID start with advice, after eating "healthy", i.e. *lots* of vegetables, no meat, got me, i.e. my bowels, into worse and worse shape. A doctor than told me to eat FAT and MEAT, eggs, curd, NO VEGGIES, NO FRUITS, FEW CARBS. Today I can eat carbs, if I want, and I do - but my appetite has changed, see above. I used to get 80% of my energy from carbs, now I get 60% or so from various fats (animal fats and, for the moment, nuts).


One word about Candida.

I had a severe Candida overgrowth issue 3 years ago, which was the trigger to look at what had been wrong with me for so many years. I even got prescribed the severe anti-fungal medication, the one that goes into the blood (Nystatin based meds don't enter the blood stream).

Helped GREAT - but it was a mistake. What helped was the DMPS, DMSA and (later) ALA based mercury detoxification (by an internal medicine doctor at a University clinic here in Germany, every 1-4 months - at first monthly, later 2,3,4, etc. months). My recommendation: IGNORE candida. Unless you eat lots of "easy carbs" like Sugar (fruits!) and beer(! - wine is better, it is NOT the alcohol) you won't be able to improve your candida-situation much with antifungals. It WILL go away when you continue with DMPS.

Also, what they say about DMSA (itself) causing candida to grow, should you get DMSA later - not true, I found out. Yes, when you detox with the chelators, i.e. DMSA too, candida WILL be more of a problem occasionally. However, I can prove that this is NOT because of DMSA: Today I can take tons of DMSA and have no issues. I conclude that it's the heavy metals mobilized by DMPS and DMSA that cause candida growth, not the chelators themselves.


Constipation:

That was a constant issue for me for many years - before I started detox, and before I switched the diet.

The problem may be, at least that's what I concluded from my experiences (which included hardly digested food, ANY FOOD, 3 years ago, and several stool samples, and a mountain of lab tests) that the heavy metals kill the gut bacteria, and then your digestion sucks, constipation happens. When I had constipation the amount of gut bacteria they found was very low too - and those where the times when the mercury levels (also found in lab tests, I don't believe in "alternative medicine" stuff) where high (but, as Cutler I believe says, lab values don't mean too much in our case, body burden can not really be measured with today's methods, you have to just TRY if chelation helps).

So, that too will go away as you chelate - I can't give you much hope for the present. Chlorella helped me A LOT, and I was VERY skeptical of that stuff, that was "alternative medicine" BS I thought. However, I get indoor Chlorella grown in a huge glass pipe system, 100% free of anything bad. I would not trust outdoor Chlorella, which often comes with the exact things already in it that you want to get rid of. It costs a fortune though (also because I've always eaten A HELL OF A LOT of that stuff), and I've no idea if you can get something like that in the US. I don't care what Cutler says - I made many experiments over the last three years, to find out what works and what doesn't, each time I didn't use Chlorella my experiences where quite bad.


Well, have fun... :)