Fun with lymph cleansers
(Updated April 2023.) Except for a few half-hearted liver flushes, I did not bother with detox treatments in any of my health self-experiments until I suddenly switched my entire focus to mold avoidance.
Year: 2018
Revisiting the gluten thing
(Updated April 2023.) I’ve been gluten-free since April of 1998, when I discovered that my decades-long crushing depression lifted considerably 12 hours after I stopped it.
I tried to detox lead and all I got was this stupid vertigo
(Updated April 2023.) (See also this post on iron-induced vertigo.) I developed vertigo after my second dose of DMSA treatment for lead chelation. For the next four weeks I had trouble moving quickly, standing up, going down stairs, etc., with no signs of it abating.
The summer of my frozen shoulder *
(Updated April 2023.) In 2014 I stumbled on a staircase, reached out to balance myself against the wall, and was rewarded with a breathtaking pain in my left shoulder that I tried to ignore for a year.
Operation Electrosmog Reduction, Part 2
(Updated April 2023. See also part 1 of my electrosmog reduction experiment.) For the past five years, since reading Zapped by Ann Louise Gittleman, I have tried to control my exposure to electromagnetic fields aka EMF as much as I can without going batty.
Disturbing theories about the 1989 L-tryptophan poisonings
In this 2001 UK Guardian article about a covered-up mass pesticide poisoning in Spain, the journalist asserts that the same thing was behind the 1989 deaths in the US attributed to tainted L-tryptophan supplements.
Stopping sugar cravings with essential oils
(Updated April 2023.) As mentioned in this February 2013 post, my sugar cravings have been extremely resistant to my nutritional-therapy tinkering.
Call for essays: WTF is happening?
As I mention on my page on chronic, undiagnosed illness, my estimate of how many Americans share my experience with inscrutable health issues has evolved over the years from maybe 10,000 to at least three million.
My year with a concierge doctor
In 2017, I spent $1,400 for a subscription to a concierge doctor, one who charges extra to offer better access for her patients and has far fewer patients than the typical hospital system doctor.
The aftermath of bromine poisoning from a mattress
(Updated April 2023. See also this post on eliminating bromine from my diet.) In 2017 I purchased one of those $200 memory-foam, squished-and-rolled-up mattresses that come in a box in the mail, from a company that rhymes with Linus.
