A few questions about improving my practice of the Freddd protocol, if anyone is feeling kindly (and knowledgeable).
The background is that I have done pretty well on the protocol since August, with a long list of improvements including 2 hours less sleep, good energy, brainfog gone, improved motor skills, higher temps, good libido.
There have also been 3 or 4 bad crashes, possibly due to LCF per se, and also (according to Fred) to LCF causing cells to suck up my potassium. Plus a 3-week bout of anxiety which is dissipating only now. That was seemingly sparked by LCF, but continued long after I cut doses right back. Pyroluria? (The pyroluria supps help.) Low NTs? (The Mood Cure aminos help.) or maybe (as I think Fred suggested) not enough K. Not sure in other words.
But overall, good progress - with a few remaining questions re what are, to me, grey areas:
2mg mB12
70mg LCF
+ AdoCbl 5 mg once a week
That seems to be giving me good progress (crashes aside). Should I be trying to raise doses?
Thanks to all.
The background is that I have done pretty well on the protocol since August, with a long list of improvements including 2 hours less sleep, good energy, brainfog gone, improved motor skills, higher temps, good libido.
There have also been 3 or 4 bad crashes, possibly due to LCF per se, and also (according to Fred) to LCF causing cells to suck up my potassium. Plus a 3-week bout of anxiety which is dissipating only now. That was seemingly sparked by LCF, but continued long after I cut doses right back. Pyroluria? (The pyroluria supps help.) Low NTs? (The Mood Cure aminos help.) or maybe (as I think Fred suggested) not enough K. Not sure in other words.
But overall, good progress - with a few remaining questions re what are, to me, grey areas:
- Daily, I am on roughly:
2mg mB12
70mg LCF
+ AdoCbl 5 mg once a week
That seems to be giving me good progress (crashes aside). Should I be trying to raise doses?
- Whereas I hold the B12s against my inner lip till they dissolve, I just swallow the m-folate. Is that right?
- I haven't yet tried SAM-e, TMG, ALA or D ribose. Results have been gratifying without them. Funds are short: do I need to try them?
- What is the 50mg mB12 test dose for? Should we all try it?
- As I take a fair bit of potassium, should I also be taking calcium?
- Fred re m-folate: "Everybody who takes the small doses has terrible results and a rough time." Is "everybody" literal? I take small doses - 100-200 mcg m-folate 3-4 times a day - about 1:4 with mB12. I have had crashes, but only 4 symptoms ("less sociable", "impaired planning and logic", "low energy", "increased irritability") of the 41 PFD symptoms Fred lists. And virtually none of the body ones like diarrhea & chelitis. Have I missed PFD, or am I in denial?
- Freddd recommends 30-50mg AdbCbl once a week. I take 10mg once a week, but noticed no effect at all after the first 2 weeks (when it gave me one tired day). Do I need to try the 30-50mg dose, or does the absence of sfx on 10 suggest I'm okay with that?
- If not, do I put 30-50 mg behind my lip at once?
Thanks to all.
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