Gut healing - what seems to be helping me
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 8 years
- Published
- Jun 2011
Summary
After about 8 years of illness, 9 months of drinking raw-milk kefir resolved her multiple chemical sensitivity ("no longer feel like I'm choking" around perfume), completely cleared longstanding hand eczema, let her cut thyroid medication from 225mcg to 150mcg (her lowest dose in 15+ years), and ended a general hypersensitivity to supplements. She is explicit it "hasn't done anything to help the brain fog or general energy and stamina" — specific symptoms resolved while core fatigue and cognition stayed unchanged — and continued the kefir as ongoing maintenance.
What they credit
Credits Hormones & thyroid, Supplements, B12 injections and methylation, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, Probiotics and fermented foods, Thyroid (T3, T4, NDT).
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