I have been pulsing Artemisinin for about 8 months now. Every once in a while I don't order it in time and I miss a week or two of taking it.
Will this sort of thing cause resistance?
The Art still makes me feel miserable, that is for sure. After 8 months, I still feel run down and fluish when I take it. I really wish I could just stop taking it altogether. But the reaction tells me I'm not done yet.
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I don't think it will cause resistance. Taking it daily will though (I did this with my first LLMD).
As long as you're getting a reaction, that sounds like it's working, so I would stick with it.
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Are you taking Artemisinin with 1/2 cup of organic grapefruit Juice? It does not work without that. Check some of the old threads here or google it with University of Washington Prof Laigh. It explains. Many I know (I did) add it to the KLC (cocktail) by Dr. K. It works. I have posted it several times.
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Would taking the ARt with grapefruit juice then make the other antibiotics not work as well because of the juice?
Thanks so much!
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if it isn't working, it's making me feel like crap. I hate it. Ill pick some gf juice up next time I'm at the store.
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birdie67, ask the doctor who prescribes abx and art. I never took abx - so don't know. Many people put it in the Klinghardt cocktail with everything else and it works. I know it does not work without grapefruit juice. If in doubt, take it as a pleasant short drink with grapefruit juicea little later.
Take care.
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I think that GF juice will counteract the Mepron, correct? I don't think I should drink it. I am pretty sure the Art works without it. Its making me miserable.
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I never drank grapefruit juice with art, and I got well.
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I take the Dr K cocktail but instead of grapefruit juice I add Aller-C, a super vitamin C supplement...maybe that would be better since it won't effect abx?
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I just started taking Artemisinin and I am on my 4th day today. I expected to get shortness of breath and it never happened.
I don't feel any different with it & I am up to 2 pills twice a day of the Doctor's Best Artemisinin. I wonder if this is a good brand and what brand are others taking?
How long before you saw a reaction?
TF, did you pulse the Art, was it on Fri, Sat, Sun (if I recall)?
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Right.
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My LLMD suggested I use Research Nutritionals arteminisin. It is a higher dose per capsule. Unfortunately, you need a doctors code to get it from them, but you take less capsules than the 200 mg caps that I am finding everywhere else.
Starting out with one 250 mg cap twice a day for 4 days on 3 days off. The goal is to get up to two caps twice a day with the same pulsing schedule.
One cap twice a day kicked my butt.
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I think Dr. K likes Artemisinin in suppositories now. Biopure will come out with the product soon.
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Take Zhang's artemesia 2.
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I have heard of the grapefruit juice, but I also read today that it is more effectively absorbed with oily foods. Fish oils or whole milk or yogurt.
I know that is true for Mepron, but I never heard of oils being true for Art?
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I was told to take mine on an empty stomach. That's what I did.
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I'm just happy I get to back down the dosage. The stuff was making me feel worse and worse. I was told to take it on an empty stomach too.
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