My complete protocol - recovering well from bad 7 years+ CFS
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 5 years
- Published
- Dec 2009
Summary
Ran a broad two-year self-built protocol - high-dose B vitamins, vitamin D3, D-ribose, CoQ10, acetyl-L-carnitine, a sublingual/nasal B12-folate methylation stack, amino acids, Buteyko breathing, infrared sauna and transdermal magnesium - layered onto months of bed rest and a wheat/dairy/egg/lectin-free paleo-style diet. Daily steps rose from about 700 to roughly 2,000 and he regained the ability to drive, socialize and start weight training. He is explicit it is not a cure - "probably only half-way better at most" - and frames the supplements and pacing as an indefinite long-term commitment rather than a finished treatment.
What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Diet, Pacing, Supplements, B12 injections and methylation, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, CoQ10 / ubiquinol, Elimination and ketogenic diets, Hyperthermia and sauna, NAD+ boosters (NMN, nicotinamide riboside, NADH, ATP), Pacing and the energy envelope, Radical rest, Selenium, iodine, minerals, Vitamin D and sun exposure.
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