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I'm in the UK and most of our fruit selection is ass, half the time it doesn't taste sweet, it's expensive etc

I land on drinking about 1L to 1.5L of fruit juice (not from concentrate) a day to bolster my simple sugar/calorie intake

Because it's juiced in southern Europe I think they probably use better/sweeter varities at peak ripeness and juice is a lot cheaper per calorie. Also I don't worry about it not being organic as research shows juice processing can remove a lot of pesticides which cuts the costs

On the whole probably not optimal but my thinking is it's better than white sugar, coke and maybe honey and so long as I'm eating nutirent dense otherwise should be okay

(I do eat some fresh fruit, oranges and bananas are at least fairly reliable)

I take 600mg rifampicin, 500mg azithromycin, 12g cryptolepsis, 12g knotweed and relatively stable don't herx anymore

But I try to increase houttuynia from 2 to 4 drops a day and it's like I've been hit by a truck

How? I would have thought any bartonella would be pretty beaten back by my combo?

Is it biofilm? maybe the anti-viral aspect?

Had chronic Lyme and Co for many years, currently treating

Just wondering if anyone also notices a cyclical pattern with symptom severity

I usually get a "good" period of time, anywhere from 4 days to a week or so and then for the other 2 or 3 weeks my symptoms are a lot worse

Does this apply for anyone else, is it indicative of anything?

Had a lot of success with my 2nd attempt at growing and now I have enough mushrooms to last years, :D

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Just wondering if anyone has grown culinary/medicinal mushrooms using the the same or similar technique - grain bag/ uncle Ben's, spawn to bulk then fruit in tubs and if so which ones work best? Feels a shame to never use this equipment again

Self treating

I know marty Ross reccomends 600mg rifampicin with 1g clarithromycin

Not sure if you can like for like them or not. Azithromycin is less affected by cyp so I've been taking 750mg on the assumption that you need less

Has anyone's llmd ever given azith with rif and if so what dose?

All the online generic Indian pharmacies are sold out is something going on?

If anyone has and has a link that'd be so helpful:)

I've been focusing on trying to elevate nitric oxide (NO) as much as possible

Why NO? Its a very potent anti-microbial and vasodilator to help delivery of other anti-microbials

Lyme & co can orchestrate a sophisticated negative feedback loop to downregulate it's production

I devised a method, which is basically trying to mobilise as much NO as possible in one go. I think by trying to force a deluge you can overcome some of the negative feedback and initiate some positive feedback so more amplifies more

The experiment

1. Citrulline loading - 4g twice a day for a few days

Citrulline is converted to arginine in the kidneys. 3-4x more effective at raising arginine plasma (where we want it at the endothelium) than arginine

2. Salad loading for a few days - Arugula, lettuce, beetroots chewed throughly. This is to increase skin nitrite levels. Nitrates in these foods get converted to nitrite by oral bacteria so chew a lot

3.1 Couple of hours prior to sunbathe - another 4g citrulline and arginine and salad and B vitamin complex

3.2 The sunbathe - as much skin exposed as possible (nude) at strong sun for as long as sensible (for me 35mins either side without burning UK). UV creates a massive flood of NO compounds from nitrites stored in skin

4. Humming and CO2 retention breathing during sunbathing to further increase inhaled NO and oxygen conc.

So this put me on the floor, totally unlike a normal sunbathe of the same duration, could barely move or string a sentence together. Slept and next day it had passed. Feels like a really powerful therapy

Very simplified theory is that the massive surge of NO upregulates the enzymes that make it. The enzymes then have a big supply of arigine to make more. Etc etc

Arginase (removes arginine) is also massively upregulated by Lyme and Co, so having a lots of arginine at once overcomes the block. Thus the negative feedback loop is broken

Will be doing it again, hopefully can replicate the effect. Would anyone else be willing to try?

Cryptolepis and malarone are only things that have given it to me in the past

Started ivermectin a few days ago and it's back. Dull ache pain in mid/lower side/back

Chat reckons it's haemoglobin from the rbc lysis. It's toxic to kidney and obviously excreted that way, so causes some inflammation on its way out

If true interesting signal I've never really seen discussed before, anyone else get it?