Bluefyre said:Gandalf, that's good to know about the 5-htp. I have been hesitant to order it and have it confiscated at the border. I think I will try a bottle with my next order and see if it crosses. It has become one of my most important supplements. I discovered years ago I am what they like to call celiac, but from all of my reading on the forum, I think I'm just one of canaries in the mine. Because of a severely compromised digestive track (didn't discovery gluten intolerance until 50) I have suffered insomnia most of my life due to serotonin deficiency. It is still a miracle to me that I can go to bed and more frequently than not, sleep soundly for sometimes 7 hours. I've even started dreaming again. I have felt for years that my head was in some kind of jar just off to the left or right of my shoulders. I'm hoping the mercury detox will help as well. Thank you for your responses.
It's good to experiment with improving sleeping conditions as a direct way of regulating neurotransmitters and hormones, rather than using supplements. It is also a lot cheaper! Everyone has to do the experiments, though, because there can be so much variation from one person to the next.Gandalf said:Are-you sleeping in a dark room ?
If not, have a look at that thread and you will discover the many advantages of doing so.
Some people have reduced if not stopped the use of 5-HTP after sleeping in a dark room.
Laurentien said:Laurentian, the health food store I shop at told me that as of December 1st they were no longer allowed to sell it. Since I'm in BC maybe it's different, but I think it's Canada-wide. So even if they had it, I don't think they can sell it. Thank goodness for NAC!
I will check tomorrow if they have any in store and if I can buy it I will let you know.
Citation de: Psyche le Mars 26, 2010, 10:32:48
Baker's protocol is the same one for mercury detox in autistic children:
DMSA
Vitamin C
Alpha lipoic acid
Zinc
Selenium
Vitamin B6
Vitamin E
Melatonin
Taurine
Reduced glutathione (Even if it doesn't get absorbed, apparently it helps to heal the gut, but we use NAC)
It is a two-week rotation with three days on DMSA and eleven days off. All of the supplements are taken every day, but the DMSA is taken only on days one through three of each cycle (200mg x 3, just for the first 3 days of each 14 days cycle). It is at least six cycles. More info on Baker's book: Detoxification and Healing.
They still have 200 capsules of 50mg at the health store with an expire date of 02-2013.Laurentien said:Laurentien said:Laurentian, the health food store I shop at told me that as of December 1st they were no longer allowed to sell it. Since I'm in BC maybe it's different, but I think it's Canada-wide. So even if they had it, I don't think they can sell it. Thank goodness for NAC!
I will check tomorrow if they have any in store and if I can buy it I will let you know.
I just bought L-Glutathione at the health store Bluefyre made by Organika from B.C. if I remember correctly. They didn't hear or received any information concerning this product so, if I were you, I would check with different health store if they heard about this.
You may have look for Glutathione but did you look for L-Glutathione which is REDUCED as prescribed in Baker protocol. I may be wrong but I think that they are different product.
Citation de: Psyche le Mars 26, 2010, 10:32:48
Baker's protocol is the same one for mercury detox in autistic children:
DMSA
Vitamin C
Alpha lipoic acid
Zinc
Selenium
Vitamin B6
Vitamin E
Melatonin
Taurine
Reduced glutathione (Even if it doesn't get absorbed, apparently it helps to heal the gut, but we use NAC)
It is a two-week rotation with three days on DMSA and eleven days off. All of the supplements are taken every day, but the DMSA is taken only on days one through three of each cycle (200mg x 3, just for the first 3 days of each 14 days cycle). It is at least six cycles. More info on Baker's book: Detoxification and Healing.
Megan said:Sherry Rogers, in Detoxify or Die, mentions NAC as a "replacement option" for reduced L-glutathione. This is in Chapter V, "How to Detoxify." I can buy either where I live, but I chose NAC after reading through many of the forum threads relating to NAC.
It is interrelated. As "3D Flatlanders" (Spacelanders?) we see things as separate that are really connected. No coincidences. All lessons. What else is there to say?Bluefyre said:...I hope I'm not getting too far off-topic, but it all seems so inter-related, the mercury toxicity and the emotional toxicity.
What about "learning is fun?"Bluefyre said:I think that says it all.
Psyche said:...
Ideally, we should detox mercury and be done with it, but mercury toxicity is so pervarsive that this is basically impossible. This video about mercury amalgams brings it home so to speak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Pnuqe-V7w&NR=1
The guys are wearing gas masks when they recreate what happens in a dentist's office. Mercury levels above 100 will evacuate a factory. Normal mercury fillings can emanate levels of 190.
I discovered many years ago that I needed to wrap up my (paid) work hours before I went to sleep. I do technical and entirely mental work, and I need a substantial buffer between when I formally quit for the day and when I go to sleep. It became such an engrained habit to have this buffer that I forgot about it until recently when I needed to work late a few times and I noticed once again how it disturbs my sleep.Bluefyre said:...I also notice turning off the computer at least an hour before I go to bed helps. When I read forum threads I find it keeps my mind too active and I just can't settle myself down...I think I still need the serotonin for my moods. I have suffered from depression most of my life, severely at times. Some of the healing has come from working on the damage done by narcissistic parenting and sexual abuse, and some seems to be just plain organic. The recommended books like Martha' Stout's have been most helpful in this regard...
...I have some hope now that this is a possibility. And being able to sleep is a huge part of it.