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Recent Posts
- An Early Spring
- Pivoting
- What Makes a Good Programmer?
- Halfway There
- Defensiveness is not a Virtue
- I Have an Itch
- Embracing My Square Peg
- And So It Begins
- Network’s Antonym: Separate
- Chicago in December
- Got Symptoms?
- I Took those Photographs in a Mirror
- Out with the Old, In with the New!
- Let’s Play Pretend
- Thoughts on Work-Life Balance
Category Archives: Progress/Recovery
An Early Spring
I am kind of excited right now because I am not going through the misery of seasonal allergies. Yep, they’re pretty much gone. The hay fever symptoms started in 2000 when I turned forty years old. Welcome to middle age. … Continue reading
Posted in Diet, Health, Progress/Recovery, Symptoms, Uncategorized
Tagged Andy Cutler, cheese, dairy, easter candy, gluten, hay fever, mercury poisoning, milk, naet, pollen, recovery, seasonal allergies
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Change is Good. Fear, Anxiety, and Stress need not Prevail
Ever get nervous when going into a new situation, say, an interview? A presentation? An audition? A test? A meeting? A date? When I was much younger, I used to get so nervous before high school track events that I … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Happiness, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Modeling, Progress/Recovery
Tagged andrew hall cutler, Andy Cutler, anxiety supplements, career builder, consulting, gotu kola, heavy metal poisoning, inositol, model, modeling, nervousness, niacinamide, oprah, oral chelation, recovery, stress, taurine, transitions, worry
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Well This is a Surprise
Person of Interest and I both ordered Hair Elements Tests from Doctor’s Data last week. This is only my second hair test for heavy metals in eight years. This is Person of Interest’s first hair test. He has not seen … Continue reading
Posted in Aluminum, Hair Testing, Progress/Recovery
Tagged aluminum, doctor's data, hair elements, hair test, hair testing
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The Mysterious Case of Aluminum
What is written here is for informational purposes only. Please read the Disclaimer, take responsibility for your health, and do your own extensive research before making any health-related decisions. I have been attempting to solve the aluminum mystery for … Continue reading
How I Gave Up Chocolate
It’s not as hard as you might think. When I crashed and burned from eating a couple of bunches of cilantro and redistributed a body burden of heavy metals all over the place, including my brain, I got very sick … Continue reading
Posted in Diet, Mercury, Progress/Recovery, Uncategorized
Tagged adult onset diabetes, alpha lipoic acid, anger, chelation, chocaholic, chocolate, chocolate lover, copper, copper overload, heavy metal, high copper, immune system, legumes, molybdenum, mood, peanut butter, redistribution, resettlement, tree nuts, zinc
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Eight Years and Counting: My Chelation Story
How I Used the Andy Cutler Protocol to Remove Heavy Metals A word of caution: what is written below is my experience and is for informational purposes only. Please read the Disclaimer page and spend a few weeks or even … Continue reading
Posted in Mercury, Progress/Recovery
Tagged andrew hall cutler, Andy Cutler, chelation, dibetes, heavy metal toxicity, mercury, phenol, recovery, redistribution, regression, resettlement, symptoms
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My Experience with Hair Testing for Heavy Metal Toxicity
Beyond Symptoms: A Hair Test Could Determine a Mercury Problem In previous posts, I outlined aspects of a health anomaly which for me, means that I need a little help excreting heavy metals. Thankfully, I am recovered and in excellent health now. I previously wrote about my … Continue reading
Posted in Hair Testing, Progress/Recovery
Tagged aluminum, andrew hall cutler, Andy Cutler, chelation, cilantro, counting rules, false negative, false positive, hair elements, hair testing, lead, mercury, poisoning, recovery, toxicity
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A Lifetime of Questions
A Personal Laundry List of Mercury Poisoning Symptoms How do you squeeze a lifetime of personal health into one blog post? Could you do it? Would you do it? Should you do it? This is one of the hardest posts for … Continue reading
Posted in Brain Healing, Hair Testing, Happiness, Heavy Metal Toxicity, I Have Questions, Progress/Recovery, Symptoms
Tagged amalgam illness, andrew hall cutler, Andy Cutler, eating disorder, essential fatty acids, gingivitis, heavy metal toxicity, hypokalemia, lead poisoning, leaky gut, mercury poisoning, photophobia, progesterone deficiency, recovery, supraventricular tachycardia, symptoms, tinnitus
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On Being Visual, Getting Distracted, and Short-Term Memory
See this picture above? That’s my Starbucks photo. Yep, I intended to take a coffee shop picture and this is what I ended up with. Here, I managed to stay focused enough to capture a shot of my favorite outdoor place for a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Brain Healing, Image, Nonsense, Progress/Recovery
Tagged architecture, beer, brain healing, camera, concentration, distraction, focus, memory, phototgraphy, visual learner
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