I've read about molybdenum on Andy's site but fortunately chemical sensitivity and allergies are symptoms I've been spared. I do take lots of B vitamins. I recently tried to cut out the CoQ10 because I never noticed it making a difference for me -- bad move. Whether it's helping a little, a lot or not at all, my body is depending on it now. I was trying to save some money because this whole process gets expensive, and I've also been seeing two healers. I think I'm going to discontinue with the herbalist for now because I know what I need to be doing and more or less how to do it.

I did wonder if the paleolithic diet was contributing to this. I'm not sure about blood sugar issues though . . . when I started paleo several years ago, I felt better straight away apart from some sugar cravings at first, which went away. I seem to need a fairly high amount of protein and fat and that would keep me full. I'm back to doing that now, and I still eat plenty of veg (which are carbs). Maybe getting rid of the sugar after such a long time of eating a lot of it, has been a jolt to my system. Whenever I tried to quit before I'd end up feeling so awful that I'd go back to it. That hasn't happened this time largely because I have no appetite. Almost 2 weeks without sugar now; I don't think I managed that long in a year or so -- that was when I made a determined effort to kill possible candida. (I attacked it with an antifungal, caprylic acid and raw garlic but didn't get die-off symptoms so I figured it wasn't a problem. I'd also had a negative test for candida antibodies.)

Bex, thanks for the reassurance. It helps to know that others have been through this (though I'm sorry for that). I'm going to stick with it. I hope cutting the supplements out tomorrow will help.

When you start the ALA, would you like to do a thread about your own experience? I'd be interested and I'm sure everyone here would love to support you. Best of luck