2018 • Avoiding Rx

15Dec 2018 by Marjorie No Comments

Fun with lymph cleansers

(Illustration by MRhea.) 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. Read More Fun with lymph cleansers

30Oct 2018 by Marjorie 2 Comments

Revisiting the gluten thing

self-experiment

(Illustration by MRhea.) 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. Read More Revisiting the gluten thing

05Sep 2018 by Marjorie 3 Comments

I tried to detox lead and all I got was this stupid vertigo

nutritional therapy, other therapies, self-experiment

(Illustration by MRhea using Leonardo.Ai.) (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. Read More I tried to detox lead and all I got was this stupid vertigo

09Aug 2018 by Marjorie 2 Comments

The summer of my frozen shoulder *

specific health issue, US healthcare system

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. Read More The summer of my frozen shoulder *

12Jul 2018 by Marjorie No Comments

Operation Electrosmog Reduction, Part 2

self-experiment, reference

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. Read More Operation Electrosmog Reduction, Part 2

10Jun 2018 by Marjorie No Comments

Disturbing theories about the 1989 L-tryptophan poisonings

US healthcare system

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. Read More Disturbing theories about the 1989 L-tryptophan poisonings

Year: 2018