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Thanks for sharing. I've always been firmly grounded and positive person. And then a few years ago riding my bike down the road, I felt a immense wave of anxiety coming over me so intense that I felt like jumping off my bike and running away from myself. As an ex army special forces guy I found this particularly disturbing. And this was just the beginning. My situation continued in that general direction until I started experiencing pain in my liver area. I hoped it would go away but it didn't, so two months ago I decided to face it head on and get full tests done. Xrays, CT scans, ultrasounds, blood work. urinalysis the works. All came back clear. But I just felt it was not me... and searching my symptoms pointed to parasites. So I did a 6 day liver cleans (cant recommend this enough) followed by adjusted diet and two rounds of combantrin I'm please to be back to a very good place.

Depression and anxiety are nasty. I was surprised to learn they are symptoms of parasites. They've evolved in such a way that they can manipulate the host into craving foods that are beneficial for them (not for the host). Symptoms among others include anxiety, depression and irritability.

> Symptoms among others include anxiety, depression and irritability.

It wasn't until the late 1800s that the miasma theory of disease was overturned in acceptance by germ theory. At some point in the next century, computers will become powerful enough to closely simulate the entire human body. We'll be able to hook up our bodies and compare them to a common model in a sort of "debugging" process. I think what we'll find is a diverse host of viruses and parasites, or other curable abnormalities that are responsible for mental health problems.

What parasites are we talking about and what's a 6 day liver cleans ? (I mean, the procedure).

Do you mean to say you had depression for a few months (with anxiety on top) ?

I had ups and downs after the first anxiety attack occurred but if normalized it was certainly a gradual decline into depression. Anxiety would come and go and although i never considered suicide I did wonder if I would be better of dead.

The liver flush I did involved a morning celery and lemon juice. 5 light meals. 1L of apple juice spread throughout the day. After dinner a glass of water with epsom salts (tastes like pool water but has epic muscle relaxing effects so amazing sleeps) and psylium husk. On day six involves some more epsom salts, then drinking half a glass of olive oil with lemon juice. There's more to it but you can find this protocol pretty easily. Its quite common to pass a lot of stones in stool the next day which is old bile that has been hardened after being purged from the liver. It's important to check you don't have gall stones before doing the liver flush. An ultrasound will tell.

In terms of parasites I cant say 100% but combantrin works on 4 main types (mostly parasitic worms) [1]. There's also liver flukes which seemed to be explain some symptoms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrantel

"Also, people who try gallbladder cleansing might see what looks like gallstones in their stool the next day. But they're really seeing globs of oil, juice and other materials."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gallstones/ex...

Thanks.

Wow, this is a very interesting story. Another person might have just resigned themselves to their angst-ridden fate, and never gone beyond psych meds. It seems like generalist doctors (I’m sure lot all!) think, or at least act, as if there’s no link or causal relationship between mind and body. I did a three day fast which reduced my anxiety symptoms immensely for months, glad you sorted this out.

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