Posted by bleauberry on September 8, 2013, at 6:40:29 [reposted on September 8, 2013, at 23:32:16 | original URL]
In reply to New to KPU Treatment, posted by Atlee on September 5, 2013, at 15:10:42
Asking whether this protocol will work or not is about the same as asking if prozac will work. We don't know. Trial and error. That's because every patient is different in terms of biology and pathology. Say for example lyme patients....10 patients can all have widely varying presentations and each of those 10 respond to something different than the others.
In other words, in my journeys anyway, each patient requires a custom made treatment, not a general blanket treatment.
That said, the more trial and error of new approaches is good, because during that process things are discovered that are helpful, and things that are not helpful even though the internet said they should be helpful. Some good discoveries can be made on a personal basis that you didn't see anywhere on the net.
A guy last night was trying to sell me on this pill from GNC that has a bunch of ingredients aimed at anti aging. He said it works great for everyone. I looked at the ingredient list and told him it would make me worse not better and that got him defensive and trying to sell me even harder. Then I explained why. The ingredient list had some glucosamine in it, which I have tried several times over the years. Maybe it is a good supplement for a lot of people, but I happen to be allergic or have bad reactions to shellfish, and glucosamine is made out of shellfish. The entire pill, for my use, is totally useless because of all the ingredients in it which looked pretty good, the fact that glucosamine was in it was a deal breaker.
Medical treatment is not science, it is art. It is experimentation. It is trial and error. There is not single approach that works well for everyone, even if they have the exact same condition and symptoms.
That's why they call it "practicing medicine".
Honestly, I think we as patients do a better more efficient job of practicing medicine on our own time that doctors do. We are more open minded, we have more time to research, we have access to the exact same information they do, and we know our own bodies and selves better than they do.
It's a different journey for every one of us. I think the most important thing is.....try stuff, research stuff, discover for oneself what helps best and what doesn't.
In a broader sense, I am of the belief that a great many diseases of psychiatric nature and physical nature can be minimized as much as possible and even brought to remission by focusing treatment on these 4 categories...
1) Anti inflammation.
2) Anti microbial.
3) Anti toxins.
4) Nutrients.As a final note, Klinghardt has a lot of good ideas worth trying.
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