RobertP

OK all, I feel a little wordiness coming on, even for me. I have felt it somewhat of a disservice to not mention success I have had lately in more detail so you can see side effects of something good and see more first hand why I say what I say and see how I see. Hopefully it will seem more real and less left field after this. First, the self diagnosis thing, it's tricky and we fail a lot, but on the other hand, the doctors didn't get it right until it was very serious. You have known for years but they couldn't pinpoint it. Now they can. It's Crohn's. But it wasn't before, just 'something' you knew about and they couldn't identify. We will now diagnose it, Crohn's disease, stare blankly while drugging it, and hoping to extend your life in comfort a little. Reactive medicine. Makes me kind of crazy, especially when what I have thought for a while finally I have found success in, makes it less theoretical. I bought products designed for a purpose. I did not make them in my home lab with knowledge only known to me that people should rightly question. We have the technology. People made this because research suggested these can help. This could have been averted, in my little world at least. But it can be greatly alleviated or cured, in my little world at least. This is another reason I want to catch 'whatever it is' in me, before a doctor can tell me its MS or equivalent bank busting life drainer. As far as the hormones/psychological/what else could it be, let me tell you about a round of success I have had in more detail, so you can see how I am considering that it is hormonal, yes, but not fixed with hormone therapy, and physical, yes, but fixed with psychological elements. Everything seriously has been a curve ball for me, and this has worked reliably inside my family. If I am repeating, I will put more detail here so you can see how the results I have experienced have had an affect on how I currently see things. If this isn't an answer exactly, it is a different point of view where I think I hit the root and lots of top level symptoms evaporated. I have mentioned quite a few things on this post, but not being a rich man, and seeing that every little symptom has an herb or drug, for about $500/month I could theoretically be well if I just took all the stuff on the natural side. Many of them I have tried singly with success. Money aside, this still doesn't 'ring' true for true health for me. I know the ring of truth is sometimes theoretical and not helpful, but let me put down recent success, and hopefully it can show some of the curve balls and optical illusions. I have been many times on the road where something works... for a day, like the drugs you mention above, Misshalfway. More vegetables. Organic beef. Organic vegetables. Gluten free was the first thing that reliably took an edge off, but seemed to make my joints hurt for the first few months doing it, a trade off that was worthwhile at the time. Certain vitamin mixes, better than most, more reliable than most, but ultimately ended up feeding the 'beast' and needing to cycle off. Cardboard and various candida diets, good for my brain, bad for my body, tended to have rapid weight loss. So I would cycle back and forth with enough positive feedback to keep Candida on the radar because of that type of success, but not know how to deal with it and maintain physical weight and energy. If something worked, it was always a two edged sword, cost too much and worked a little, worked but weight dropped off, some trade off at every step. A relative who I can relate very well to, has taken the psychological route, viewing it as depression that caused fatigue where I had viewed it as fatigue that could cause depression. He took antidepressants that made him hallucinate, others made him happier with his situation, but did not help him find the motivation to get out. So he was getting similar results on the psychological path that I was getting on the nutritional path. My radar has always steered me clear of medications, although I have taken ritalin, gave me better concentration at a price but ultimately my whole being rejected, synthroid, which as noted above, worked GREAT for about a week, then felt like I had some precipitate that felt like magic sand, if anyone remembers that stuff, floating in my blood, so I went off that without further questions and felt nothing to pursue there. Did I mention that heightened judgmentalism and frustration with the failure of others was on the list of symptoms? Touches on the temper sector. Also have tried time release ritalin, found myself being more 'kind', shoveling lots of driveways in the winter while not 'feeling' sped up... :) but even that wore off to irritability, why, stimulating a burned up nervous system would make me irritable I don't know... Wellbutrin was next, and I was about ready at the time, but my relative on the psychological route that I felt was closely related enough to think I was similar to, his psychologist has said Wellbutrin was number 25 on a list of about 25 things he would try, combined with coworkers who had major stomach pain and permanent vision change on that one, was happy with generic prozac. So, that wasn't encouraging on top of the fact that my 'radar' still said no, and that hadn't led me wrong at that level. I give the above as a short backdrop for success listed below. I refinanced my house, pretended like I was going to save my money on the payment I didn't have to make in December, but also was ready for another round against this 'thing'. I called a couple of health food stores, told them I wanted another swing on this shadow Candida, see if I could connect with this invisible enemy, and clear the cloud and the fatigue. They mumbled about different products, I have had that vibe, not enough of a response to make me want to try any of them, but also they all seemed to go on about this New Chapter Candida Take Care that I mentioned above. Strange. I haven't heard anything reviewed that glowingly. How much does it cost? Yikes! Currently 25% off? Well, let's give it a try. If it hits the root, it could be the best thing I did in a long time. The cloud needs to be removed. I tried other things in this same time frame, and I could comment on them, but the words would be wasted as the result is much smaller and any benefit from them only builds on this and is not maintained without it. So, first, me. Sleep is better, more complete, I have a better shot of waking up better. I get things done, simple things while thinking about them rather than, say, psyching myself up to clean the breakfast table. You know, easy stuff. Less wandering around. No brain cloud. Memory is not being rearranged causing me to get things backwards reliably. Faulty x-ray vision is repaired, I can see what is in front of me rather than requiring my wife to point out the obvious, and a physical emotion that contributes to the OCD cycle which I couldn't have easily pointed to before it cleared. Cleared! Not sure if it was peaceful or an eerie silence, but certainly a nice change. I am out now so waiting for the next shipment. My wife says my teeth have lightened a few shades. For my wife, better sleep, thicker hair, better energy, not dragging so much, teeth have cleared and toenails coming in clearer, keep in mind she had no complaints and wasn't looking for anything. I just had her do this because they say it is pointless for one spouse to do it without the other as it will go back and forth. Her skin tone changed, improved, rosacea went down quite a few shades although not gone, all good things. I have seen 'this' growing on my oldest daughter the most, so I got some for her after I saw what the first bottle was doing for me. She stopped tearing the house apart for candy, cookies, and other snacks after school every day. When at church activities that have goodies, we are no longer finding adults reporting that she has had 5, 6, or 7 cupcakes when we weren't looking. She got candy for Valentine's and didn't eat it in the first 2 minutes of opening it, but saved some for later. Her temper is down, her whininess is down, and the other day while being upset about her homework to the point I couldn't help her, she suddenly just 'felt' like taking one, she mixes it in juice, came back, calm, looked again, said duh, that's the answer, I forgot this part, and calmly got the right answer. WOW! Finally, the youngest, number 5. She had terrible breath and dirty diapers to match. Other than that, happy, but she wouldn't sleep through the night. As I have reflected, my mom says I was rough to raise, harder than the other 4 combined the way she remembers it, was the last to sleep through the night at 18 months, spit up a lot, so I have had reason to believe this has been with me my whole life. It seems to be a large part of the reason I could seem smart but never do well in school at any grade level, very frustrating to my teachers, not to mention me. Right, back to my youngest. Not sleeping through the night, stinky diapers and bad breath. On a hunch, taking yet another punch at these shadows, hoping to connect, we gave her half in the morning, half at night with half a yo baby yogurt, one a day of each. She loves it. It's part of her morning and night time routine now. After day 3, she slept through the night and has since with few exceptions that I can call normal, she has a cold and is miserable, things like that. Diaper smell and bad breath both cleared up, her temperament wasn't to a point that I was looking for change in that, but those three symptoms cleared. So, with that experiment with that silly little brand of cranberry extract that causes yeast to let go and pass rather than die and pass, there is no die off, only the benefit of less bad critters eating our food and turning it to poison and making us feel crappy. You can say that here, can't you? Oh, right, my oldest daughter eats less and feels fuller and doesn't get sick right before lunch at school every day either. To have all of these things clear, not requiring a hundred things for a hundred symptoms, takes me more firmly to the parasite point of view, which before I could only consider as a possibility that made enough sense to not drop. I know there are many more parasites than Candida, but finally I find something that doesn't require me to choose between my brain and body, works for my whole family. I would like to give it to all, at about $140/month. Yikes! Might be willing to cut the phone and something else. It's about at that level for me. In any case, lots of success, consistent with my belief that it should be 'boiled down', work on a lot of things, and make a lot of things disappear. The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on my part allows a behavior retrain when the emotions do cycle back, so they are also cycling down over time. Cranberry extract and parasites. Don't write them off. Parasites, put them closer to front and center. Their whole job is to be subtle and undetected. Detect them. Balance them. Candida belongs in your gut, can't be killed off. Keep it small and in its place. Best of luck to you all, really. My faith is with you. Remember, we're all in this together. It CAN be done. RobertP

For Crohn's, if I can't directly recommend the SCD diet, it is something I would be aware of. Pecanbread is one site, t's Breaking the Vicious Cycle Web Site - Home is another. A search will bring up lots of info there. A lot of people seem to get better on this. I have Elaine Gotshall's book, a good read, although I never could maintain weight on that diet myself as I understood it and went off it about once a week to have some complex starches to relieve deep muscle aches and rapid weight loss. Maybe I was doing it wrong. I still learned something from it, tried to do it for 3 or 4 months. Bacillus Subtillis and S Boullardii should come to the top of the list for Crohn's, but you could read that in the book too. Jordan Reuben also healed from Crohn's disease, wrote a book and has a supplement line, seems for the whole book, the turning point was the 'dirt' he ate, which was rich in soil based organisms. I have great reason to believe that it's not hopeless at all. Elphaba, I feel your pain. I seem like a self diagnosing nut, but really it is partly from telling doctors I didn't feel right, they take panels, tell me I'm fine. I know I'm not, or certainly wasn't at the time. I have kept the worst symptoms to a minimum with low sugar and gluten free, now the cranberry extract seems to add to the success. Without that, before I learned that, struggling for consciousness in the afternoons. No fun. If nothing was required of me, I was laying on the floor or in bed, very familiar with headrushes when I stood up. I sort of gave up on doctors for this a long time ago. Panels are fine, I'm healthy, how about an speed (time release ritalin, forget the brand name)? It makes you edgy? Well, this class of drugs may not be for you. How about an antidepressant? It won't hurt you, honest. Root cause, doctor. I need my brain my whole life, can't be letting this eat my brain while I take your meds to feel better while the problem lurks beneath. Root cause. Forget the leaves. For thyroid, my wife has done fine on a couple of thytrophin per day, recommended by a naturopath, so not completely self diagnosed there. I like Iosol iodine and dl-phenylalanine. Tyrosine is supposed to be good, but I only feel results from dl-phenylalanine. It's a good component for thyroid, dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine. Of course, going gluten free somehow balanced something that takes away my need to keep taking that, feels more like a stimulant now. For actual measurements though, my wife was low thyroid and the thytrophin from Standard Process brought her back to normal range when for whatever reason, escalating dosages of synthroid seemed to keep her at the same spot, like the thyroid was determined to keep that level. Go figure. Even now though, I'm not really on task, should be studying. :) Hurts my brain less to do this than burn that stuff into it.

Seems like this thread is dying. I hope I'm not killing it or that something is going on somewhere here on this. I have made a lot of progress in the last 30 days. Not bad for walking circles around this thing for 20 or more years with little doodads here and there. I feel at this rate I may not go senile early. I wake up, and if it's a little hard, it clears, which it never really used to. I have more focus at work. I started ice skating, but noticed it was more cardio than I expected, so I wanted to get in cardio shape, which I have always naturally resisted, certainly at this level. I have been running 3 times, gently at first, ran a quarter lap and walked the rest. 1/16 of a mile I ran? The things that seem to be contributing to this are, in order of perceived effectiveness for me, low sugar, and only high quality like See's (or my wife's home made chocolate which just might be better) when I cheat, New Chapter Candida Take Care, 1 in the morning and two at night, although it's expensive and now I take one at night, home made yogurt, made strong with lots of liquid, to mix about a tablespoon with a glass of milk for a cultured starter, Natrol digest support enzymes, 2 or 3 with a meal, food grade hydrogen peroxide, 3-8 drops, that 25 drops I read about is hard to get down, in a cup of water, with a few drops of grapefruit seed extract on an empty stomach. My lungs finally don't feel undersized, whatever made them feel kind of smaller is not there. Not that I was short of breath, but running is less trouble, running on the track around the rink helps, a little softer than cement so I don't get shin splints. Anyway, there is the short version. Seriously, much better, shoveled the driveway when normally I would need more pressure to get around to it, etc. Hope it helps someone. It's still legal. Oh, cognitive behavioral therapy seems to change my base response to life in general so nutrition isn't fighting fear/anxiety/discomfort, so my food is used for me more than it has been in the past. Discomfort affects digestion and fear is a demon that can steal as many nutrients as I can throw at it, so it's nice to have that reasonably cleared. CBT, broad topic I guess, but the only kind I know works really well, about 10 minutes a day there.

Internet causes regression. Try not to nitpick semantics and psychology flavors and see what I'm saying. It happened to me a little, need to remind myself what is real in this virtual world. Sounds like your friend is on the other side of that. It's a good reminder for me. Be careful out there. :)

There are a couple of good articles on this site. Here is one for how Byron Richards feels about Oprah's experts. Oprah’s Thyroid Problem Explained | Health and Wellness News He did another one last week. To save the thyroid, I would go gluten free, previous links given suggest that I think, and I would suggest being aware of Dr Jeff's joint cream. Joint cream? It has CMO, which is supposed to be good for a lot of things autoimmune. Worked for my ankle, semi painful thyroid and psoriasis. Sort of an off label use for joint cream, but not for CMO. Where I am coming clear, I can see this a little more clearly. Yeast Infection No Moreâ„¢ - Cure Yeast Infection Holistically has been helpful. It sounds like castor oil packs will help break up some of the gunk in the lymph system and get good circulation back there for some of what you are describing. I think I'm still on my way out, even though I should be asleep right now and am not due to some symptoms. They are fewer and further between.

See if more symptoms than you expect match up with Candida. Yeast Infection No Moreâ„¢ - Cure Yeast Infection Holistically has been helpful to me.

Oh, another important thing, after you have succeeded in winning this round, however brief, take a few moments to enjoy the victory. ENJOY IT! It didn't win this time! Go to your happy place. :) Maybe set a time aside to practice. Bring it to you in a controlled environment, and practice gratitude breathing it away. Send me a note if you have questions. I have been there and think I have a handle on a few of the fronts it can hit from, still a work in progress though.

Multiple fronts can beat this. Understand the discomfort of your thoughts stimulate adrenaline, the neurotransmitter that burns them in, so it is an OCD cycle. This can be broken more easily than you would think, which may not make it easy. I wish I could say more and have it make sense in a short sentence. Check out the studies I put on my profile I threw together. Brain conditioning has helped a lot of people. That is rather unconventional. For breaking OCD cycle, challenge the thought, but in a way that is not challenging. I wish I could explain briefly, will try here. There are different parts of your mind. Take them all off the troubling thought, not just the 'stage', but take the emotion to another place as well. You get your mind off it, but you can still FEEL it. This nags and burns it in, even when the mind thinks it went somewhere else to avoid this. Take in a 6 count breath. Be grateful for something. You are breathing in gratitude, for your family, the sun, whatever you are grateful for that builds your spirit as well, maybe don't feed worldliness too much, but use your own internal gauge. As you fill your heart with gratitude on the inhale, now that it's full, do a 6 count exhale and feel it circulate to every end of your body. Do this again. This has everything to do with what and how you are (grateful) and nothing at all to do with how you are not, whether it is thinking about someone, playing at a park, flying an airplane, or thinking a troubling thought. This gratitude is an antidote to many emotional ills. You are grateful. Period. Spiritually, this helps in ways that should be readily observable, and physiologically this calms brain centers, doubles your lymph flow, and if the air's any good where you are, it increases oxygen to the body. It isn't nearly as powerful if you aren't grateful and then pump it through your body. This can erase a lot of emotion that you think may not erase otherwise. Give it a try. There is more, but I say this will help break that cycle and recondition those automated brain centers to be happy. Think Pavlovs dogs. That bell could mean food is coming so they salivate, they are going to get beaten with a stick so they're scared, they are going to be petted so they get excited. The point being is we are conditionable in many ways, and this focus on the breath bridges the conscious/subconscious a little since you have both conscious and subconscious control of your breath, calms the brain, reconditions its base state with enough practice. I have also had success getting Candida out more convincingly on the physical battlefront than I have in the past, avoiding food allergies and cheap sugar helps too. Fine ice cream and chocolates aren't as bad an assault as something icky out of the vending machine. You can do it. Remember that part. There is no question without an answer, so there is an answer. Hang in there. Maybe a search for cognitive behavioral therapy can give some ideas. It seems like it is a demon you fight with, and maybe it is, but don't fight it. One of the times I did this I literally had the sense that the thing I was walking away from called me a chicken, like a boy in grade school walking away from a fight. I kept walking. Fly above it. Don't fight it, you will burn it in and keep the auger turning deeper. Jesus never said he wouldn't turn a rock to a stone, to fight the temptation. He said man doesn't live by bread alone, directing his survival and impulse to live it could be made to appear, to every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. It wasn't like 'I won't turn that rock to bread. Or that one. Or that one! Oh no, another one!' Do you sense the contrast? He seems to have succeeded on the first statement. We need a little more practice. The OCD cycle could have been bad on that one. Hang in there and get good help. Use your little internal radar when seeing who can help you. If you want right, it will lead you right.

I was a temple worker for a few years. This could hit me there as well as anywhere. There was no refuge from this there. At times it seems like boxing shadows, but I think I have got closer to some. I have got less sleep lately, work better, today my mind was clear and I could remember things needed for work. For me there are 2 kinds of spoons, muscle spoons and nerve spoons. Sometimes I am fine to go play, so it looks like I am not too beat up, but have me plan something or stay on task, that's a problem. I have known how to keep the physical symptoms to a minimum for years. For comparison in the last 30 or so days, though, my wife asked for almost a week for me to get the Christmas lights up and she got half of them up when I didn't, something that is easy for me and hard for her, but whatever that magic stuff is that makes me plan, get the stuff, and do, didn't, wouldn't, had to fight it every step. I got it done. To get them down, I had it all but done before she asked, even the tedious parts that require more dexterity and detail work to untangle the lights, something I have left for her every year to put up and take down. Major improvements. There is a lot I have done to get this far, but the latest step is the cranberry extract noted before, and the H2O2 isn't hurting anything, still paying attention to that. My vision even seems to be clearing, so I will be watching that. Get it? If it's not helpful, keep believing anyway. It's a very fine line in my mind between faith to endure and faith to be healed. God has power to assist with either. The choice seems to be up to this and if we endure to the end, we can be commended for both. Considering both sides, I will always have an unreasonable amount on the healing side where possible. I hope a little rubs off if you're feeling short. It CAN be done. Something else must be on the way though. Hmm. Now why would I think that?

Socialism to me means high taxes, the government pretending it has the capacity to take care of your and my problems, through a charity fund that seems to have a higher amount going to overhead than going to help the people it claims to serve. I think the opportunity for greed can and does just as easily show up in the governing class of this classless type of society.

When they have been there, lots of spoons have gone into this. It will not steal my whole life. We have the technology.

Me again. For autoimmune of any kind, at least be aware of CMO. It can reset elements of the immune system to stop pain from happening if it is immune related. My ankle that I broke that hurt for a year and a half, achilles because I yanked it, toothpick of bone off the front because that's how it snapped when if flexed that way, and a crack up the side of the ankle. Not world record, but hurt a year and a half later. Look it up. The story is here. healthenlightenment.com/Dr-Jeffs-Joint-Cream.shtml For my part, brain fox is lifting, new in last 2 weeks, New Chapter Candida Take Care being the most significant recent addition. Hydrogen Peroxide in the concentrations I am taking it should be as safe as rain water, since it is found there and contributes to part of the cleaning activity of the rain. I am doing it is the point. Old stuff has a place, that cranberry extract is quite the addition. Be aware of how to eat to not encourage Candida to grow. For instance, since I feel better and don't have immediate bad reactions to counteract my tastebuds, potato chips are now simply delicious and have a delayed reaction before they get me, so I eat more junk and shoot myself in the foot a little. It is like there is a level I subconsciously set at, and any progress gives latitude for a little cheating. Potato chips have simple starch that Candida love, and monounsaturated oil, which also is like pouring gasoline on the fire. Although I wrestle with this, I am not nearly where some of you are that are posting here, so I feel that I do have something to contribute, but the cranberry extract is one of the best, and maybe more expensive, and has helped consistently for almost 3 weeks now. Cleaned the house 2 Saturdays in a row? Come on! That's progress. I have gone months tidying up little spots while letting other things get out of hand. Here is another link that can help you understand an element of what you wrestle with, although nothing is ever this easy. Search Supplements, Health Topics, and News on WellnessResources.com Health Classes with Byron J. Richards - Weight Loss, Supplements, Natural News - Wellness Resources Main template Although the specific carbohydrate diet was hard on me, and I might not actually recommend it, the knowledge contained there is of value. It helps see the illusion of what you think food is, versus what it turns into inside of you when acted upon by one bacteria or another. When this is resolved, your food can start feeding you. You can clear out the viruses, many tools available, my credentials are my success, and they are going up. Besides that, I do technical support for a living. I realize people don't look these all up and read them, but I put them here anyway. What you are looking for will grab you, whether here, somewhere else, or not at all. To boil it down, cranberry extract, digestive enzymes, nothing to report on the hydrogen peroxide yet, but I don't mind in the concentrations I have used so far. Here are my two reference points on this one. The Many Benefits of Hydrogen Peroxide By Dr. David G. Williams I had a subscription to David Williams newsletter for 2 years, he has been most helpful for me. For those of you with a stomach ache that goes with this, go to the store, get the greenest bananas you can find, peel them, use a knife if you have to, slice them and put them in your oven with a 60 watt light bulb for a day or two, let the dry, and eat a couple of slices here and there. That almost completely shut down my stomach discomforts. Learned that from him as well, speaking of his subscription. And one more site for hydrogen peroxide suggestions as I am comparing the two to see what rings ok inside me. answers So, staying up late here, knowing I can add at least 20% to most people struggling with this, or the knowledge I have been applying has broad success. At least I can try. Lots of info here, I know I only skim other links on this site myself, but I'm trying. Good luck all, and let me know your best stuff too. I don't feel I have arrived. One more step.

I love this stuff, partly because I am at least on the periferal edge of this. Although I would write a book if I'm not careful, I would like to boil down the things that I have found most helpful, especially since I have found one thing recently that was like the on switch for everything else. I have been able to reduce the symptoms to be short of intolerable for quite a few years, but the symptoms related to candida and adrenal exhaustion seemed to match most closely in my own reading, hypoglycemia symptoms have been in the past, but my instinct knew it was in digestion where the problem existed, or that had to be conquered first to see what was next. In the last 2 weeks I feel like I am in completely new territory. I will boil down what I am doing that works, some of which are hard for people who haven't crossed the line to gluten free, for instance. Yikes, I know, wheat for man. If wheat is for man, it is a puzzle I am working on now, because wheat doesn't seem to be for man. Possibly the change in strains to the higher gluten strains in the late 1800s makes the difference, I'm not sure. Wheat is a tough food. The fiber is like sand paper, the gluten is difficult to digest and doesn't contribute to the health of a person with a compromised GI tract. Having done SCD, specific carbohydrate diet, and being back to just simple gluten free, this is opens almost the whole world back up to me relatively speaking. Gluten free, almost like being allergic to my religion really, but nothing else I do is very helpful without it. I have a testimony of the gospel, which doesn't mean the WoW is quite as cut and dried to me as to many people. Tannic acid is among the reasons why we don't drink tea? Tannins also give wheat and flax their color, etc. People I know instinctively put things besides wheat in their food storage, something in them knows that's a rough go to switch over. Best explanation I heard is if we are told not to drink orange juice on Wednesday, we don't drink orange juice on Wednesday. We obey without understanding sometimes. So, if you're still reading, here are the other things I have found. Full spectrum enzymes. I focus on lactase, maltase, AND sucrase/invertase. Sucrase tends to be missing, find one with this and it seems the protein enzymes take care of themselves. I have had best success so far with Natrol Digest Support, 2 or 3 per meal. Sometimes I will sprinkle it in a protein shake to spread it out. The latest thing for me that seems to have unlocked yet another door is New Chapter Candida Take Care. If you read about Candida, you will find it is kind of ghostly. I view it a little like an evil spirit. Not everyone believes in them, and those that do have very different ideas on how to deal with it with varying degrees of results. The symptoms are hard to identify and not necessarily related until you turn it down and notice a lot of unrelated symptoms drop down, for me, heaviness of emotion and thought, toward depression that I could keep the edge off, a little anxiety, er, earwax? Yes, even that went down, dandruff, weird stuff that I would not have put together, For me, the switch was New Chapter Candida Take Care. I was on another boost where I was ready to learn and try new things again, health people gave great reviews of that product and now I have to offer the same great review. Baby's bad breath cleared after about day 4, half a capsule morning and night in her yogurt, she and I both sleep through the night much better and more reliably, I eat a lot of complex starches now without the debilitating brain cloud and feeling of my brain being directly attacked, good weight has quickly returned. I can only suggest that people struggling with fatigue be aware of this and if it rings your bell, to give it a try. There is no die off, which I am familiar enough with, it just has compounds that take away Candida's ability to stick, so it drops out. I also have food grade hydrogen peroxide on the way. Search the web for food grade hydrogen peroxide. Very controversial, but there are doctors I have chosen to believe over the years and David Williams is one of them. His article will pop to the top of the food grade h202 search if interested. Be aware it's caustic and dangerous, always dilute as directed and pay attention to what is going on, but the oxygen appears to feed the good bacteria and be bad for the bad bacteria. Also though Oxygen is the original oxidizer, hence the name, so can be damaging as is obvious in higher concentrations. I expect to have a report on that shortly as well. Here is my short list for energy, some not listed above. Lindbergh CoQ10 from nutritionexpress, get the gel cap, poke a pin in it and squeeze into a shake and pulverize into a thousand pieces if you are serious about getting the energy out of it. Powdered should be pre-dissolved in an omega 3 supplement, will be almost as good. Even predissolved in Canola can help, but Omega 3-6-9 is better. Coenzyme active B Complex, I like the ones from wellnessresources Full Spectrum digestive enzymes. For me if it doesn't have sucrase/invertase, I don't notice any benefit to speak of, people of course are different on this front, but that is one of the keys for me. Omega 3, not flax oil since it seems to feed Candida directly like gasoline on a fire, people who know know immediately. Fish oil or vegetarian DHA is better. I only met one person who had instant and severe anxiety from Omega 3 oils, but I had read it could happen and they matched that exactly, also knew they had IBS which to me clearly explained the whole reaction. Oh, right, probiotics, I make my own yogurt, but Garden of Life Primal Defense is a powerful one with S. Boulardii to get rid of other pathogens like C difficile. Finally, the latest addition, New Chapter Candida Take Care. Would be hard to prioritize, but speaking generally and cheaply I would do Candida Take Care and enzymes along with gluten free, realizing perfectly well that almost everything is a curve ball and everyone is different. That is cheaper and gets to the heart of the battle in my opinion. My face is clearing and filling out, almost don't recognize myself in the mirror. I just noticed I have spent my life not being sensitive to cold, last year or so I have been, but now I am in my basement, not cold at all sitting here like I would have been in the past. Hopefully for someone looking and interested there is something useful here or at least loose threads to pick and see where they lead you. I can claim a reasonable degree of success from these, of course just how I do gluten free is outside of this and probably is at least partly relevant. I have experienced a lot more freedom with Candida Take Care, more latitude, great addition for me, making other specifics a little less relevant or required in how I eat. Check online for the best prices, $18 per bottle is the best I found, get 2 for the 21 day program. I am on day 15. Sorry for all the words, hard for me to not get carried away on some things. Good luck.

The part of the Word of Wisdom that is enforced seems to be more related to addiction, in my pondering at least. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, harmful drugs. The Word of Wisdon is a low bar, for the weakest of all who are or can be considered saints. That seems to leave latitude for looking for the best. Being gluten intolerant is a bit of a curve ball for me. Maybe one day I will have a GI tract that will be able to properly process that stuff. For now I agree with the mindset that it has gluten, gliadin, opiates, and a complex gluten/starch complex that seems to feed bad bacteria in the gut rather than anything healthy. I see world class athletes who aren't gluten free, so obviously I am an anomaly and there are a bunch of us. Oh well. On the meat front, I don't think I eat a lot, but I agree with the previous person, ALA doesn't convert to DHA or EPA at significant ratios, DHA can be obtained from a vegetarian source now, EPA still can't. CLA comes from beef. We can get LA, linoleic acid, from the same vegetables the cows eat in minute quantities, but we won't turn it into CLA. Carnitine is needed for fat metabolism, also found mostly in beef. The body can make it, but many people's body don't make enough of it, making it essential for those people. For all there is bad to say about beef, I figure I should point these points out. Being one who has tried vegetarianism and having had it fail miserably, I figure my GI tract needs coke bottle glasses equivalent correction to see food properly. B12 is also one that is hard to get from vegan sources. So there are at least 5 identified nutrients that are best found in meet of one kind or another. Some vegans seem fine without them, some seem to be at the edge of Kwasiokor onset. Be aware I guess. For my part, until further notice I figure I will be able to vegan at the same time a lion can. Whatever change comes over them to eat straw will allow me to do the same. Until then, I will probably be eating at least some meat. Oh, and also I lean toward grass fed, certainly not garbage/cannibal beef.

That's perfect. If I felt to cancel or pull something I had published, I hope I would be able to. Once again, it sort of backfired anyway. I wouldn't have heard about this at all if it hadn't been cancelled.

I know it's not youtube, but this seemed like the best place for this. Joy to Everyone

In my mind, the health care system has already failed. Spending too much on things that don't work. Medicare is next. Insurance doesn't seem so hot either for normal people to me. Our job now is to know how to not get sick, a very tall order indeed, but possible I have to believe. More debt is no blessing. As for the key to who gets bailed out and who doesn't, I think Andrew Jackson had it pegged. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/andrew+jackson Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. In our day, that statement echoes loud in my mind. They gambled, they lost, and they charged it to the bank, the fed, us, no spoils to take here. They know every man his brother it seems to me. (Moses 5 if I am too ambiguous still) They know who should be bailed out and who they can let sink. So it seems to be to me.

Those realities can be hard to face. Advice can be true at times but not felt as easily. One thing that I think can help, is there is not much that bishops haven't heard. You aren't going to curl his hair with anything you have to bring before him. Don't let anything of that nature be your fear. You are not somewhere people haven't been. Talk to him, he can help. One place I think can help you beat the nicotine is here. Brain State Technologies, find a local office if there is one. They have helped people get off meth and all sorts of stuff, just let the brain find out how to be balanced and happy, read at least the one testimonial on that site from the meth addict. It is pretty powerful from my point of view. I have only been 3 times, more for other things, but I feel it has helped me bridge the gap a little between conscious and subconscious, you know, that part that wants tobacco even when you think you don't? They have a quit smoking program at the local one here, and I expect since they franchise that all of them will have that. Kind of a different outlook, but just tossing it out there. Getting sins behind can help one see better. Repentance gets us closer to God, and if we aren't standing where we can see down that straight and narrow path, things are more likely to block our view, which isn't to say there isn't something to see at the end of that path that we keep reaching for, just that we aren't standing in the right place to see or looking the right way. State of being affects our point of view. Repentance affects our state of being and allows us to see things that weren't visible previously.

Weight regulation to me is like breathing. You can take conscious control for a while, but eventually it will do what it does. To regulate weight is like so many other things in life. You don't do it directly. It is a by-product of other systems being in balance. It seems to me that a healthy meal with everything you need will stop cravings. This is not easy to find in the current food supply. Over simplified I know, but you are having a tug of war with powerful hormones like thyroid, leptin and ghrelin, and if you don't work with them, they will win in the long term, just like if you try to hold your breath for 15 minutes, somewhere along the way you will lose the tug of war with your conscious control over your breath. The above metabolic training sounds like the right kind of thing. The hormones need to be in the right levels and received properly. If something is low or high or the receptor is blocked, you will operate out of synch and the body will compensate with food as one instinct among others. I like the latest I read on the food pyramid. Having a hypoglycemic background, no one needed to tell me that the food pyramid was no good. It just wasn't possible for me to follow it and feel anything resembling good. If you want to look like a pyramid, eat like one. It appears to be designed by marketers, which I had suspected for a while, but it seems like there is more evidence now. Food Pyramid Found Guilty | Weight Loss News is a fun article for a case in point. In fairness here, he doesn't cover the brain's ability to heal, so healing even from that kind of damage can be done, but why go there if you know better. Another thing that seems to me to be a problem is that the subconscious and conscious don't seem to communicate very well. If you are tired, you will naturally crave your preferred kind of junk, sugar, fat, salt, whatever. In my case, sugar should give more energy, right? Really though, other things will fill the hole without making it bigger. This takes conscious and disciplined interpretation of the subconscious signal of hunger. Also I noticed recently that eating comfort food rewards the bad behavior of not feeling well. Interesting experience, but I see it clearly now. Feel bad, reward with good food. Yay. Cycle is created. Learn not to go there.

I learned something on my mission that worked so well for a week and a half that I was certain I had it, so I didn't write it down. It worked so well I forgot it. I was on splits with a pychiatrist who told me a dumb little sequence like my right pinky is tired, my left big toe is tired, then roll on your right side, boom, that's it. I didn't believe him but I never even remember finishing the sequence. If anybody knows... :) Since then though, I found a food I was allergic to, removing that got rid of many sleep disturbances. Also I found an Omege 3/6/9 helps, evening primrose oil somehow turns to melatonin. I have had good luck with this. Tryptophan and 5HTP are great for some, but for me they are too good. They wear off at about 3 PM the next day, and waking up? Yikes!

I have had the opportunity to accidentally help someone with Fibromyalgia. I made myself an anti-burnout formula since that is what I was facing at the time. Certain mix of vitamins, minerals, neurotransmitter precursors. Worked pretty well. My dad liked it and let a neighbor with Fibromyalgia try it. I made it for me, but she was an instant customer for a few months. Give the body what it needs. Avoid what it shouldn't have. My dad's neighbor has since moved out of the city where there isn't smog and says that helped as much as anything. She has also gone vegan. Food is tricky. Everything is a curve ball. One I thought should be best has turned out to be worst, but I had to go off for more than a week before being able to identify this. Once identified and properly replaced, it took care of a chunk of trouble. That previous post by mattai is important too. Pain stuck in your nervous system from your past is big. The less fear or discomfort from your past, the less vitamins and nutrients you process just feeling pain. Nerves are firing to feel pain and this eats up resources. Notice how one breathes like they are out of breath when in extreme pain. That is a lot of resource getting eaten up followed by exhaustion. Brain State Technologies Got Stagefright? Be Not Afraid > Playback February/March 2002 Untie the knots in your nervous system, find out how to get it to let go. This is new to me, but I like it. It helps. I come from the anxiety side, so I'm not lost on involuntary nervous system discomforts. I don't know what your doctor thinks, but my friend was able to work with his doctor to get low dose Naltrexone prescribed, basically inhibits opioid receptors for 4 hours a night, the body raises the amount of endorphins to compensate, then the drug wears off and the nerves can be cooled by higher amounts of endorphins. His MS stopped progression completely for 2 years last I knew, so he is obviously a fan. I googled it just now and found it has research on it for fibro and CFS as well. All good stuff.

Try breathing in, 6 counts, think of something you are very thankful for. Imagine and feel your heart filling with gratitude. Exhale on a 6 count. Imagine the light from that gratitude flooding your body. Do it again. And again. Think of something else, and don't qualify your gratitude. You are probably reading this from the warmth of your house. I have had some mighty fearsome temptations that have given me a good clobbering, and they so far seem to evaporate when I do this. Then I can reassess the situation from a more reliable point of view, or even prepare thoughts from this point of view. The temptation is not fought directly, head on, but this seems to lift me out of it. Be grateful. You might even find it is a close cousin of a pure love. I think that is what I am learning as I do this. I really want less and I'm thankful for much more. Give it a whirl.

Your subject line caught my eye. Someone I know said that to me recently. Welcome to the forum.

I don't have any to speak of that come to the front of my mind, but more than one in my family do. It is how more than one member of my forebears came to join the church. They happen. You are not alone, that's for sure. I seem to be in the place where believing without seeing is still required, and yet I don't need to see. I just need to keep the strength to move forward.

May I suggest Brain State Technologies to find a local office and Brain State Technologies with Lee Gerdes for more videos on what brain harmonizing is, or if the link changes look for the interview with Lee Gerdes. I saw this and had to try it. In this case, maybe it won't put your daughter on the Dean's list as it did for his son and all his friends, but I saw these videos and thought they were fascinating! I had to try it out. The exercises target different imbalances in the brain, but my own report is that it taught me how to 'flex' my brain different ways, which immediately got rid of a headache I have had my whole life and helps me look at problems differently. My temper is greatly reduced, which is nice. They could see it on the scan, a nice hot spot up on top that the first exercise was designed to teach me how to cool. It did. Controlling the subconscious, which becomes semi-conscious more than sub-conscious after this neurofeedback mechanism points your brain to parts it didn't know existed, becomes more possible. For me, the exercise was targeted, but once I could feel the part of my brain it was flexing, it kind of says, 'Oh, that! I get it!' and then it has a new muscle it can use. For me it was a little like learning to wiggle my ears. The nerve was there, the muscle was there, but I had no idea. Since they have mapped the brain and created a feedback mechanism to stimulate different parts, it allowed me to learn about parts of my brain I had no concept of previous to being hooked up to the machine. I look forward to going back a few more times. At least check out the video of the girl who stuttered before the training on the main site. That is pretty cool to see all by itself.