[color:"blue"] Round 9, first week of september [/color]

This was a... ZEOLITE cycle! Yeah, surprise huh? I decided to go for it. I was able to do 6 drops 3 times a day for 3 days and I can tell you it's working. It felt similar to a DMSA/ALA cycle, some headache (feeling that things are moving/working in the head), some fatigue during the cycle, thirst, and some periods of clearheadedness.

I bought NCD Zeolite directly from Waiora. The reason is because I was starting to have a little dysbiosis in the gut with the DMSA/ALA... I will be alternating chelators from one cycle to the next to give my gut a break.

I have to agree with a previous post that chelation is probably hard on the adrenals... I did salivary testing after the 8th round in august and my cortisol is way out of the normal range, on the roof, and my DHEA is low normal. Is it caused by the chelation or is it my normal adrenal status... good question but it wouldn't suprise me if it was the chelation althought my 6 years of undiagnosed hypothyroidism probably burned my adrenals...

Anyway, I now know that I am moving into the territory of adrenal exhaustion and I will try to get my hands on some DHEA. It is Rx here in Canada (it's a Schedule 4 substance), unlike in the US (you lucky bast*rds! I heard your Congress wanted to move it from Schedule 3 to 4 soon, you might want to do something about it...). My endocrinologist prescribed me some Testosterone because the salivary test indicated hypogonadism. The T supplementation is helping a lot but it doesn't seem, at least for now, to do anything about the attention deficit/concentration/memory issues I am having. It is mostly giving me back strenght and muscle tone. We'll see how it goes.

So as you can see, I am fighting a war on many fronts. Cutler writes that DHEA can be a supplement of choice in his book, he says people using it seem to fare better chelation wise. This would seem to support the chealtion-adrenal relation. I'll see if it does any good and l'ill keep you folks posted.

Take care and it's great to read you here and in other posts as well.