natedawggh
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So, even though I've had a huge success with my health I have been thinking that I have iron overload and am just maintaining my health in spite of it (I have not been able to get a doctor to test iron, even though I had thyroid tumors). I am suspicious of this because if I stop any of the protocols I've developed then conditions start to return or regress. I have lost weight, no longer have insomnia, my hair has grown back (and I even think some gray has faded...), my tumors have shrunk and my triglycerides are down, There is only one symptom that continues to plague me, which is a small lesion on my tongue that is white with candida (though since I have to continue taking supplements and thyroid, I'd consider them to all just be suppressed rather than cured). I have never been able to get this lesion to go away and I am still about 20 lbs from being skinny again, and all the doctors I've gone to have dismissed it, even though it is obviously related to whatever is going on in my body.
I decided to try the cilantro Iron chelation and I think it's done some work. Many sites on the web advocate using cilantro with chlorella, but you should not do this as chlorella is high in iron and will add iron to your body instead of taking it away. Cilantro is obviously cheap, and apparently chelates heavy metals very well. About six years ago I was very skinny from using Resveratrol (before I knew how toxic it is), but Reseveratrol apparently also chelates Iron very well (before you think you will use Resveratrol even though it's toxic... it also made me fat later because it increases cortisol greatly. So don't use it). I think I am subscribing to the idea that Iron is ultimately the cause of unhealthy weight gain, directly through suppression of mitochondrial respiration but also indirectly by feeding bacteria and fungus. Just like exercise, amino acids can aid in the management weight but that doesn't mean they remove the cause, and I think the cause is excess Iron, especially when one is physically active and does not see a reduction in body fat.
Has anyone else used cilantro to chelate Iron and/or seen results from doing so? I saw a post in another forum of a woman who had a very high ferritin measurement around something like 1500 and within two weeks using cilantro every day brought it all the way down into the low 400's. Cilantro is praised among the hemochromatosis community. I also supplement with copper and zinc and eat foods like shrimp which are high in minerals just in case the cilantro might chelate those as well, and I would advise anyone attempting this to make sure you are getting a generous supply of the good minerals in tandem with cilantro chelation.
I've also tried some other things to chelate Iron. Turmeric specifically, and I can tell you it does increase estrogen, or some other stress hormones and probably shouldn't use it for chelation purposes. I have gotten my body into such a calm, healthful feeling state most of the time that I am now very sensitive to when something is destructive rather than healthful, and I felt very agitated and a bit cold when using Turmeric (and Resveratrol made me want to kill somebody). I don't at all get that with cilantro.
I decided to try the cilantro Iron chelation and I think it's done some work. Many sites on the web advocate using cilantro with chlorella, but you should not do this as chlorella is high in iron and will add iron to your body instead of taking it away. Cilantro is obviously cheap, and apparently chelates heavy metals very well. About six years ago I was very skinny from using Resveratrol (before I knew how toxic it is), but Reseveratrol apparently also chelates Iron very well (before you think you will use Resveratrol even though it's toxic... it also made me fat later because it increases cortisol greatly. So don't use it). I think I am subscribing to the idea that Iron is ultimately the cause of unhealthy weight gain, directly through suppression of mitochondrial respiration but also indirectly by feeding bacteria and fungus. Just like exercise, amino acids can aid in the management weight but that doesn't mean they remove the cause, and I think the cause is excess Iron, especially when one is physically active and does not see a reduction in body fat.
Has anyone else used cilantro to chelate Iron and/or seen results from doing so? I saw a post in another forum of a woman who had a very high ferritin measurement around something like 1500 and within two weeks using cilantro every day brought it all the way down into the low 400's. Cilantro is praised among the hemochromatosis community. I also supplement with copper and zinc and eat foods like shrimp which are high in minerals just in case the cilantro might chelate those as well, and I would advise anyone attempting this to make sure you are getting a generous supply of the good minerals in tandem with cilantro chelation.
I've also tried some other things to chelate Iron. Turmeric specifically, and I can tell you it does increase estrogen, or some other stress hormones and probably shouldn't use it for chelation purposes. I have gotten my body into such a calm, healthful feeling state most of the time that I am now very sensitive to when something is destructive rather than healthful, and I felt very agitated and a bit cold when using Turmeric (and Resveratrol made me want to kill somebody). I don't at all get that with cilantro.