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Well this is a bit weird. You don't expect shocks like this at 64. A week now and 100% sure and even more sure the more I read.

It explains so much and I am quite at home already knowing I am aspie BUT am grieving about the lost relationships through my life because of it. I guess I developed unhelpful coping strategies including passivity so that I would get by without being noticed.

I already feel at home here and recognise like minded folk. Good to meet at last.

A little about myself - I am extremely sick, having mercury and pesticide poisoning, topped off with Lyme Disease, untreated, and am trying to improve my health with GFDF diet with low carbos due to candida. I am using herbs essential oils probiotics digestive enzymes and rife therapy. It is a slow haul but signs of improvement. What with aspies, my health issues, restrictive diet and aging, it seems too hard at times but I believe that where there is life there is hope and I want to live now to see how this aspie thing pans out.

Oh and I study theology and microbiology.

You can PM me if you have any herbalism questions related to managing anxiety, stress, waking, sleeping, digestion or of course, that king of herbs, the one that kept me alive in high school. Also my mom is a molecular biology PhD & I have many friends in ethnobotany, so if you can't validate an option against your particular ailments, I might be able to track down some context.

I've never had to manage remotely what you're trying to, but I applaud the resolve to do so naturally and you can consider me a Colorado tour guide, of sorts.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Welcome to WrongPlanet Where there is life there is hope, I've always liked that phrase!

Thanks for the welcome guys

cberg

Interesting about your mom. I have had to learn how to be my own doctor through studying. I would be interested to hear of any suggestions. I am using Frankencense essential oil for DNA repair due to the pesticide and sedation for sleep plus other things here and there for detoxification but do have a lot of insomnia and anxiety and very bad pain. I do think that I have preserved my brain due to not touching medications and especially psych meds for over 15 years (ani-depressants for 2 years about 30 years ago) due to my sensitivities so I am thankful that I did not get diagnosed and medicated early on.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

cberg

Thanks. I had my genome done by 23and me last year and found I had the MTHFR mutation along with many others common in AS so I should have clicked then.

With probiotics my doctor prescribed Mutaflor and bifido ones but they all increased my histamine levels. However, I have just started Prescript Assist a soil based one and have had immediate improvements. Don't know what Oolong & Puerh are though. I use herbal teas a lot and am rifing too.

Prebiotics are actually quite distinct from cultured probiotics such as bifidis regularis or lactobacillius; prebiotics, in my repertoire, are derived from fermentation cultures which have prior run their course in already-nutritous plants - think transmuted soil. Oolong is a fermented camelia sinensis strain of tea, somewhere between green & black teas, known for its' hyper-localized production in Anxi, Fujian Province, China, but Puerh is probably a better example, its' production is similar but the tea leaves ferment & are then sent into pill presses, producing a very earthy tea liqueur with nutritional value I could hardly believe when I got into it a few months ago. I really have no need to eat breakfast anymore, I simply start my day with a few cups and observe palpable benefits to my circulation and state of mind, providing a great opportunity to take note of my metabolic rates. You'd love Puerh, and I'd be very surprised if you couldn't find it in the UK.

Edit: On this basis, I wouldn't be at all surprised if fermented teas actually strengthen the blood-brain-barrier. Since I started with Puerh, my espresso habit declined dramatically, and lipids taken with caffeine produce the isomeric structure of caffeine molecules capable of crossing the blood-brain-barrier.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

cberg

Prescript Assist is not a prebiotic although it does contain some:

http://www.biovitamins.eu/prescript-ass ... netic-clay

I am really encouraged at present with the results of taking just .50 of a capsule daily so far. My body has moved into healing mode and I have started some underarm detoxing.

I bought some tea from a side stall last year but have not used it as I decided that I did not want the caffeine but have hunted it out of my cupboard and it looks like this one:

http://www.adagio.uk.com/oolong/index.html

that is the ali shan. Do you recognize it at all? So I made a pot of it today and will have a go at the ones you mentioned. Frankencense is the only EO which crosses the BBB. It needs to be a very good supplier though so expensive but I am very impressed with its sedating qualities. It has been found to switch on the death gene in cancerous cells, but it is for DNA repair that I want it because I have a salicylate adduct found.

Hey thanks for sharing your knowledge! I did not think about the BBB being involved with caffeine intolerance.

I don't know much about frankincense, even less about how it might repair DNA but I'm definitely intrigued. I don't always recognize individual Oolong strains but I think I've had that one, it was among the lighter brews as I remember. I read about caffeine and the BBB a year or two back, but it made a lot of sense to me - Caffeine has basically the opposite effect on my nerves as it does on my concentration. Cheap acidic coffee might've done quite a fair bit of damage to my system, I suspect my lymphatic in particular, but I'm really not sure. Any idea if some of your methods might help with that?

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Hi cberg

Here are a few studies on frankencense regarding anti-cancer effects:

http://www.oapublishinglondon.com/article/656

I primarily noticed unusually inefficient absorption of liquids in my digestion, inordinate sweating, various neuromotor control issues and, assuming the routine symptom is a separate phenomena, more jitters than any real stimulant benefit/effect.

The strange history of rife devices intrigued me when I caught up with you - the concept of targeted resonances, outside of this context, was actually developed in a race between Tesla & Edison. Just as many of their efforts were downplayed by public paranoia, the health benefits of Cannabis were systematically ignored for the better part of a century, as they still are, along with the true implications of many of Nikola Tesla's inventions. In those times, capitalist conspiracy was basically just vanilla flavored governance, so I think you may experience quite surprisingly good results, even if not necessarily from all your approaches. A little positivity certainly can't hurt...

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Perhaps adrenal problems?

Yes I have been having good results with rifing even though skeptic at first. Positivity most useful!