News from the front

C's mom gives us interesting information today. Her son is diagnosed h'penic, like me, and has been recovering nicely for the last...8 or 9 months[?]. Similar compounds to mine. Anyway, she is a great mother, and has been an asset, if not the main force, in her son's recovery. She is really wondeful. She is also rigorously inquisitive and researches every answer she gets. When her son's most recent labs came back from the PTC, she asked a nurse there some questions.

She writes:

"My consult with nurse E--- went well. She was very patient, took her time
with me and answeredall of my questions. I sent a list of questions to her a few
days before the phone consult.What did I learn? Pretty much what you
already told me. The chromium and adytyl L Carnitine is for hypoglycemia
which they want him to take regardless of his labs looking good. His glucose was
high (first lab).The MTP will raise the ceruloplasmin. It always lags
behind the other improvements. They like the free copper to be less than
25%.They expect his toxic metals in the hair to increase when he takes his next 6 month test. They think theMTP is going to make his body start excreeting the toxins. They are switching to Borage oil because it is less expensive and from Pro EFA to Nordic Natureals Pro Omega because we get a better dose withthe Pro Omega. They like using a mix of zinc picolinate and zinc
citrate because they think it works better. ... "

So, we all get to learn a few things from her tenacity and research. MTP does indeed cause the body to excrete toxins. No big suprise there, that is what the amino acids included would seem to potentiate. 25% FC, mine is at 38%, is the Free copper prefered by the PTC. MTP will indeed, or should indeed, raise circulating Cp levels. My Cp is very low. So low I was tested for Wilson's. Not once, but thrice. The first two time involved urinalysis, the third a liver biopsy. no Wilson's, but my Cp is still very low. Cp is a protein that binds copper. It can then move copper to the respective body sites in the inactive form. Cu is, after all, a heavy metal, toxic in large doses. It destroys histamine and sponsers norepinephrine formation. Thats a recipe for excitablity and serious discomfort. I believe it is formed in teh adrenal glands, after signalling from the liver. That adrenal connection is, to me, important. My adrenal glads are still a wreck, though nowhere what they used to be. After a half decade of non-stop flogging sometimes I will be cold for days, or my energy completely gone. My adrenal glands have, at times felt sore, but I might be imagaing thus, or it might just be back soreness that results from extended periods of anxiety and muscle bracing. Anyway, increased Cp is a good thing. And removing the toxins form the system. Histamine, known for its swelling effects in an alergic reaction such as rhinitus, is responsible for flushing out toxins in our system. Everyday all day your body has many local, microscopic, histamine reactions, moving lead, copper, tin, mercury, etc, out of your body by flushing the area with blood. Then it is bound by Cp and excreted through the kidneys. If you do not have enough Histamine, however, what have you? Build up. Nasty circle.

In repsonse to my bad day posting, she wrote the following interesting tidbit:

I think ( and I bet C----- would concur) that [your cyclical bad day
cycle] sounds like protracted withdrawl [editor's note- I took serazone for
1 calander year in 2000]. The TH folks in Canada say that it can take many
years to get all of a drug out of the system - even it it was only taken for
about a year. We get to look forward to that [C's doctor also had him on
some powerful prescription toxins, er, medicine]. Maybe the MTP will speed up
the process. C starts the MTP next week or as soon as we get the
pills in the mail.

Well C, good luck. Its a bit nasty at first. Take you time. The MTP has been one of the three supplments that radically improved my health. I hope you get the same from it.

I noted this morning that the flaw in the protracted withdrawl theory is that I took Serazone 5 years ago. C's mom counters that the TH people say it is not unheard of to find recirculating traces of a prescription pharmaceutical in the body up to a DECADE after wards. The other evidence tending to disprove this theory, is that while I never felt better on the Serazone, I never felt much worse. That said, maybe the flatness I feel is, indeed, Serazone. Some people complain of SSRI's flattening them out. But my one other experince with a SSRI, fluoxitine, AKA prozac, was horrific. I would expect a terrible response to the remainders of the stuff in my system, but perhaps there is too much there to worry about.

In support of what we will call, the M theory, I will say that I get these bad days usually, though not always, after a period of activity, or fewer than usual calories. I am an attorney, I tend to consume food on an irregular schedule. Sometimes I eat 4000, sometimes 1500. I dont pay attention unless my body weight slips. Then I eat everything I can find. Anyway, M cites an example of a friend's daughter, once, briefly, on a powerful pharamceutical, who has experinced several "flashbacks", if you will, btoh times after athletic training. The theory being that the toxins are stored in the body fat, and are released when our body burns fat for energy. In that case, I would imagine strength training, which has a greater emphasis on fat burning, to be more of a problem. No matter, it has to get out of there some time.

Interesting though to think that our past sins are still carried with us in the register of a fat stores. Truly, we never leave our past behind.

Thanks M.