I think Pam and Edwin have made some excellent points on this thread.
Medical test values do not indicate exact causes, nor can they be relied upon to indicate harm of any kind. There can be a number of causes at work in producing a certain test value and use of the MMS protocols can be a direct or indirect cause for those values.
Doctors will typically attempt to speak authoritatively (because they need the patient's trust) about what they think the cause is and whether they think it indicates harm, but they are operating within their limited frame of experience. Their conclusions may well be wrong, and if you tell them you are doing something 'alternative' they often jump on that as a culprit, because they don't have experience with it.
Conventional doctors do not have experience with the type of healing produced in natural, body supportive, therapies. They typically assume all symptoms are bad, and that is not the case with natural healing.
The biggest problem, and this is not recognized by conventional medicine, is that bad test values may not indicate harm. If you understand natural healing, it may be an indication of healing action taking place. It is the same concept as feeling worse when you change your diet and lifestyle for the better and start using powerful supportive therapies. Addictions of various kinds will make you feel worse when you have in fact made a change for the better. Supportive therapies may cause you to feel very sick, but it is a necessary step toward healing. Abnormal blood or other medical test values are the same, they can indicate a necessary temporary step to ultimate healing.
When you are healing, your test values can be way off. This has been reported in the Gerson literature, in Dr. Gerson's cancer book and also in 2 patient handbooks I have from two of the Gerson hospitals in Mexico. I included the "healing flareup" chapter from Gerson's book here
genesis2forum.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=28&id=2569&Itemid=66 . I don't recall if he mentions abnormal test values there that accompany healing flareups but he does elsewhere in the book and says blood test values don't mean anything during a healing flareup.
Healing flareups on the full Gerson therapy are often of short duration, but if you are following a different or less rigorous regimen, they can stretch out into long periods of time. I think this happens with the MMS protocols.
I know it may be very difficult to know whether you are healing yourself or harming yourself when the symptoms can be the same, but this is where intuition and faith have a role in being your own doctor. You know and care about your body better than anyone else. This was very hard for me to grasp coming from 33 years of a totally conventional medicine mindset, but if I had not been willing to wake up and learn, I would not be alive today.
When I first went on the full Gerson regimen of 12 juices a day, I triggered a typical healing flareup that made me feel like I was going to die. I'm sure my test values would have been off the charts and a conventional doctor would accuse me of trying to kill myself. But I weathered through it, and killed off some tumors that came out of my colon. The same thing happened on a second healing flareup about a week later. After these experiences, I knew in my heart I was no longer dying and these flareups were needed for my body to heal itself. This same concept applies to all medical test values in my opinion.
Edwin makes the same point that Jim makes, if you are experiencing problems, then reduce the dose. Ultimately you will get well and test values will show that. If you have long term chronic illness or diseases that were many years in the making, such as cancer, then it could take a long time to get fully well. This is how it is for me, but at least I am on the road to wellness.
Michael
