I didnt put much hope into this. I had this "yeah it helps a little" feeling when i first added the Buhner herbs to my own protocol. So i take my daily doses and im kind of detached from it. I was a total medical failure. I actually educated myself back then and read every PDF i could find, i tried the original Zhang Protocol and wasted thousands, same with Cowden, Klinghardt, actually did Cowden twice, i read Burrascano and got antibiotics and tried all sorts of combinations with limited success but big setbacks, it would only get worse and worse. Maybe its not lyme.
So for years after that i kind of accepeted my fate and became hypersensitive to everything, a classic story. I very slowly gave it another try and read thousands of hours on the web. Its actually fun! I think i have a great analytical mind and i tried many things slowly and carefully and put a lot of thought into what i "actually" need and what does not cost too much.
So this is what i came up with, i often get a lot of PMs when i post something what im doing so im giving away everything for free which should be the gold standard because many people are broke af:
- Osmosis Water, a lot plus real celtic salt in it and a mineral mix for pH with sango coral
- I make my own limonade with zero sugar with that water, its great and helpful
- I juice a couple times a week. Celery, Cucumber or whatever i get my hands on
- Ginger tea, Cystus tea, also FRESH GARLIC TEA (a must!)
- No fluoride in my home
- Got rid of everything with microplastics / PFAS very slowly. No toxic pan.
- If you cant afford osmosis, 100% get a charcoal filter at least, a good one
- Lyme Mix and Bart mix, Buhner based, also Single Crypto Tincture as an addition, ramped up super super slow, still at a lower dose
- Magnesium, B12, Vitamin D, Taurine, P5P, Zinc
- Mag before sleep
- Lugols iodine 6-12,5mg daily, Selenium 200mcg 3days a week. Sometimes i do 6mg lugols at night. Its for my thyroid, thyroid meds all FAILED horribly (think of it as my alternative)
- I rotate Charcoal with other binders, very important. All binders are good.
- Liver detox herbs on and off, the usual ones.
- I use low EMF whenever possible. I almost never have a phone near me. No Wifi. No OLED PWM screens. Blue light filter whenever i can.
- I use sunlight whenever i can, no sunglasses. Its helpful!
- Meditation, mindfulness, inner work but not all the time. Important!
- Also some scripts from DNRS are good, especially if its bad. All free on youtube. Calm down Mast Cells. Keep faith. Dont overcomplicate it, it helps you. Body is trying to heal. It makes the immune system stronger. Thought impacts cells!
- I use grounding sheets and i feel they help me with sleep.
- Iron, i use a lot of vegan iron and converted back from being vegan, but im vegetarian now, lots of good eggs too
- I also use copper very carefully because of Histamine/DAO (i have lots of grey hair and hashimotos) it was very low in my hair analysis back then...
Now after one year of being on all herbals & 3 years on lugols something strange happened: I started to gain weight?! I never gained weight in 20 years. Never. Every diet change was useless for the weight, all other supplements didnt make a difference, maybe zinc a little. Back then i used protein powder and it did nothing even with training. Now i use nothing like that and it seems to improve. The lyme herbs and the osmosis system were the LEAST things i added. So i would also say together with the "brain retraining" its the most important part besides the lugols.
I can ride my bike more often, it was not a "big" problem before but i always felt way more exhaustion in general on my whole system, the muscles, the neck...So being super skinny and more mentally exhausted i never had the complete trust in my lyme diagnosis, after all which is strange right?
Another thing that happened was i would not sleep until 5pm anymore, wake up more refreshed. I could actually go out again and do some things i enjoyed. Recently a small trip, i felt exhausted but it was okay, would not have been possible before. I would wake up more frequently at 11am or something like that, which was very weird. I didnt think thats the herbs, maybe its the herbs i thought. Often even earlier but i go back to sleep to get more hours of sleep. I feel its needed.
I also feel like my muscle strength is actually coming back? Has never happened before. Imagine having super weak muscles for 20 years straight (actually its 23 years..)
Its like actually now my muscles feel like they are growing, i do some super light weight training and i can FEEL them grow LOL or something where as before i was doing pushups, weights and the effect was very limited, same for the strength. Im very surprised because i take a very pussy dose of herbals, its pretty low but im super super consistent, i literally take it every day. I sometimes herx mildly because of it and thats why i keep the dose so low i hate the doom feeling on higher doses and the feeling is already crazy enough itself. I hate the herxing, i hate the state of not having an actual job, just floating but at the same time i also get super burned out from too much work very quickly so this might be actually good for me in the long run.
It also feels like my body is getting pumped up with testosterone and its almost like a bigger avatar sits in my body already if that makes sense to you. So this might be the herbs and the consistent routine!!!!!!!!!
Super excited!!!