Theory of My Disease, Restated

This is from an email update I sent to my family:

While many people have reversed their autoimmune disease by eliminating gluten and adopting alkaline diets, my health continues to deteriorate with every measure I take with my doctors.

As I have gone deeper into analysing my symptoms, including my initial experience with iodine, I am more convinced that my body is overwhelmed with accumulated environmental toxins (mercury, fluoride, bromine, etc) as well as those from parasitic microbes and retroviruses.

We all have antibodies to our own tissues as part of the body's self-cleaning system. Antibodies increase in response to inflammation; reduce the inflammation, and you reduce the antibodies. I have lactic acid in my muscles that doesn't clear out and inflamed joints, which all indicate that my body is operating in an anaerobic state. Mitochondria produce 2 units of energy from glucose in an acidic (fermentation) environment, as opposed to 36 units in an aerobic environment. ...Hello chronic fatigue!

The theory I am currently pursuing is that my adrenal glands are burned out from having to operate on high for many years in order to deal with inflammation. My body can no longer produce enough cortisol to quench the fire, so I need to be more aggressive in alkalizing my body and supporting the detox pathways.

Information about Lyme Disease and similar vector-borne illnesses has been coming into view through my experience with iodine. The Tapeworm I passed in 2008 and the mystery illness I had in 2009 suggest a high probability that 'vectors' live deep inside me. Not only are their waste products acidic/inflammatory, their toxicity is multiplied when you kill them. This causes a Herxheimer reaction that places more demand on the adrenal glands and detox pathways.

The best way to neutralize the acids, I have found through Lyme Disease support groups, is Alka-Seltzer Gold accompanied by lemon juice, raw apple cider vinegar and/or HCL capsules. The stomach needs to have sufficient acid for digestion and those acids need to have an alkalizing affect once they pass through the stomach. citric acid , RACV, and HCL are all alkalizing; white vinegar, phosphoric acid (in soda-pop), and others are not.

It is beginning to look like I can recover my health - maybe even endogenous hormone production - I 'JUST' need to get through the very difficult process of liberating accumulated toxins from my tissues, killing the 'bad guys,' and eliminating them.