I developed asthma after a flu shot I received several years ago. Ironically, having asthma puts me in a "high risk" category, so I am *supposed* to have a flu shot each year, altho there is NO WAY I would ever agree to another one!

I had to use inhalers and daily medication to keep my asthma under control. At one point, I was choking and gasping for air so severely that the doctors and nurses thought I had SARS. But the antibiotic they gave me did nothing. I eventually traced it to milk, corn, and red food dye. I eliminated those for a while, added some supplements, then added the foods back with an appropriate enzyme, and the asthma was gone, altho the foods now caused acne and a stuffy nose/congestion, which I was able to live with. The supplements I used to eliminate my asthma problem were fish oil, B vitamins, olive leaf extract, vitamin C, selenium, and digestive enzymes. The olive leaf extract also eliminated my seasonal allergies, prevented colds and flu a few winters ago, and is eliminating a few warts I have had for a while.

Since then, I have added in other supplements. I have to take almost all of my supplements at night, because they cause me to fall asleep, one time even while driving! So, I use them as sleeping pills, replacing the NyQuil I previously took each night so I could sleep. And, the B vitamins and several other supplements cause yeast for me, giving me a whopper of a headache, so I take them with two tablets of GSE. But, this combination does seem to be helping me function better during the day.

I had been taking enzymes for quite a while, to address food problems. They did not address all food problems, but my reaction to those foods changed over time. At first, food problems would cause gut issues [primarily diarrhea], asthma, severe headaches, and a few other nasties. After I added those other supplements, the problems caused by the foods that enzymes did not address for me, was basically that I had nasty acne if I ate those foods. However, nitrates still caused massive headaches that would last for three days, so I continue to avoid those like the plague.

I had 8 amalgam dental fillings in my mouth. I had the bottom ones removed over two visits in March 2006, and the top ones removed over two visits in August 2006. I used a regular dentist, who did not use any of the recommended precautions, but I took all the supplements I listed above, plus milk thistle, and I never had any problems.

I have added in several other supplements, most of them are the supplements that were helpful for my kids. I started taking ALA shortly after my last amalgams were removed, in August 2006. I am using the 3x per day protocol that was effective for my kids. Improvements and changes I have noted since starting ALA:

I still have to take most of my supplements at night, with the exception of milk thistle which seems to give me energy. At first, I could take minerals during the day, but after a while, that one ended up causing me to be sleepy also.

I have had to eat all foods with No-Fenol enzyme [the other enzymes were optional, No-Fenol has been required for almost 3 years], otherwise I have had problems. Now, I can skip the No-Fenol occasionally, without any of the usual negative effects [headache, coughing, acne, sleep issues, etc].

I no longer have an acne issue whenever I eat something that the enzymes do not fully address. Right now I have a low level blackhead issue, but this is much improved over the major blackheads and cystic acne/whiteheads I have had in the past from food issues. Even tho I don't always take my No-Fenol, I have not had a cystic whitehead for the past month. I have also been able to reduce the decongestant I have had to use for the past year or so.

I no longer have to take my supplements with GSE! I started getting headaches in the middle of the night, which had meant yeast in the past, so I would take another GSE tablet [which worked in the past], but I would wake up with a worse headache than before. So I reduced the nightly GSE to one tablet, which worked for about a month. Then I reduced it to just taking Candidase and probiotics with the nightly supplements, and that worked for about a month. Now, taking Candidase or probiotics will cause a bad bacteria headache. No more yeast problems!

On December 24, I ate an apple fritter for breakfast. I have not had sugar in the morning, especially on an empty stomach, for several years, because it has been a guarantee of a severe yeast issue, including the massive yeast headache I would get. But this time, no headache!

For a Christmas party I attended, I ate a homemade chicken and rice soup. It was WONDERFUL! So, I went back for a second bowl. About half-way thru the second bowl, I noticed bacon bits in the soup. This was a major nasty find, because bacon, having nitrates, was guaranteed to give me a 3-day massive headache, which I was *not* looking forward to. But, no headache! Since then, I have challenged nitrates in other small amounts, without any problems. Still don't have the nerve to challenge with something as large as a regular hot dog or sandwich meat, but small amounts of bacon in other recipes have not been a problem at all. [I do use No-Fenol for these challenges.]

The vitamin C, OLE, and Virastop are addressing warts and other virus issues. I have had the occasional wart on my hands, and plantar warts on my feet, which are flaring and then disappearing.

The last cold I had, I caught from others in an office where I teach law students a few afternoons per week. Everyone was sick for about 10 days. I had an itchy nose for about 36 hours.

Anxiety over new situations is much reduced from where it has been before. This is probably the biggest "non-physical" improvement that I have noticed.