Hi Dana,

Welcome to the new board!
Glad to see you here.

Hello-
Thanks so much for sharing this info.

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Very welcome:-)

I've wondered about the salt and vit c protocol since its mention on the Lyme-and-rife group in the last few months. I have had "symptoms" since around 1988 when, within the same period of time, I was bitten by a tick and had a half dozen or so almalgam fillings replaced (didn't really know better at the time). After all these years of a complex of symptoms that was diagnosed as chronic fatigue sydrome, I was diagnosed with Lyme (Bowen 1:32 -- not a terribly high count) this past summer. Over the years since the late 80s, I'v taken many 10s of thousands of $$$ of supplements, which I'm certain has kept me from being really sick, though I've not really been able to work  since the early 90s.
In the last few months, I also have read Andy Cutler's book, and I'm pretty sure that mercury toxicity is a large part of my problem (and I had my fillings replaced in the late 90s). I have done a few rounds of Andy-style chelation, and I have noticed quite a bit of improvement.

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Great!  yeah, 1:32 fortunately, is not a high level of Bb.  But with the lyme complex it is always a "layer" situation where co-infection (and metals as you've noticed) become involved.  That's good you're knocking the metal load back, that will assist the overall immune, remove weaknesses in areas.

So, my question is: do you think that the salt/vitamin c protocol can be used at the same time as doing chelation? I do believe that the Lyme needs to be addressed as well as the Hg. At present, the only thing I'm doing that is intended to treat Lyme is using a Photon Genie
and (as usual) taking lots of supplements. I'm not willing to get into abx and have thus been looking for something else. So, what do you think? Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dana

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If you're doing Andy's protocol, it should be fine in terms of no clash between the salt/C and the ALA.  However, you may get some "cross-herxing" - that is, there may be herx a little from the chelation process, and then herx from the microbial die-off/kill from the salt/C.  However, if a person takes it very gradiently and "scale-up" in dosing with the salt/C, and drink plenty of water, etc., it should help in keeping things in a tolerable area.

All the best,

Marc
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