Re: Some interesting new approaches
Hi Shroom - yup - I'm a biochemist working on the structure and function of the hepatitis C virus RNA. My fancy booklarnin' has really not helped me with the yeast thing one bit - first of all probiotics is not my field and not something they really teach alot in biochemistry school, and second you never get to really learn about the human body as an integrated system.
I think I was wrong about phosphatidylcholine inducing glutathione - what PC does is actually increase choline levels. Choline helps fats get in and out of cells. Its also a methyl donor, so its really important for exporting fat from the liver.
It was actually the Chlorella used in one of the protocols that supposedly gives a huge boost to glutathione levels.
But that doesn't mean that
Liver Flushes aren't the answer, in the end... according to a recent townsend letter: "The biliary tree, gall bladder, and bile formation within the liver serve in the vital processes of detoxication (disposal of waste products bilirubin, heavy metals, biotoxins, xenobiotics), lipid metabolism, transport and digestion (bile acids). Abnormalities of the hepatobiliary system may involve biliary stasis whereby infectious material or biotoxins reside within the liver, biliary tree and gall bladder, as a viscous suspension in biliary sludge. Biotoxins as bacteria, viruses, parasites, spirochetes, dinoflagelletes, and fungus may be within biliary sludge often creating neurotoxins that may then impact the CNS via the ENS, or the gut (The Second Brain)."
so it may be that we all have an infestation of candida (fungus) in our biliary (liver) systems as well, and that we won't really clear our infections until we get rid of that... but I don't know - that's just an idea.
I didn't know about chapparo! I looked it up and it sounds very promising - (and not too expensive, thank goodness). I'm totally gonna give that a try! thanks.
i'm gonna start incorporating some b. infantis slowly - but i am gonna do some liver flushes, and i am majorly thinking about doing the whole detoxbox protocol... maybe it works... who knows? its the expense of this all that kills me.
good luck with your continued improvement!
Candilass