What is the relative importance of the parts of the protocol? This is a hard question, and I’ve never tried to explain this before. It also relies heavily upon my opinion, and I try to avoid expressing my opinion, as I prefer to refer to the science and to summaries of the science. Also, I tend to change my opinions as I learn more, and I don’t like to even rely on my own opinions. The good part of attempting to quantify my own opinions is that it reveals a bit of my own expertise, and/or is a transparency into my bias, and I don’t have to “quote the science”, because this is opinion.
I realized I had another reason to put forth my opinion rankings. I recently removed MSM Sulfur and Selenium from our protocol, and I had previously thought of those things as less important anyway, so this may help me to identify both things that warrant further research and things that might be considered to add to the protocol.
I will rank my own recommendations on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most important. I will try to give a tiny short summary of why I rank it where I do.
Things I rank as 10/10:
Coppper: I regard copper as a cure-all, because it does well over 200 positive things for the body.
Iodine: This also is a cure-all, with over 200 positive benefits related just to one category: detoxing fluoride.
Potassium: Potassium has a very similar healing profile to copper, doing many similar things, but not quite as many.
B12: This also has a similar and extensive profile of positive effects in the body.
Avoiding Vitamin A: I have recently increased this in relative importance to the maximum due to ongoing research and feeling better in more strictly avoiding it. It causes a lot of damage, ill health, and it blocks copper.
Things I rank as 9/10:
Exercise: We probably don’t speak of exercise nearly enough, but it might even be more important than copper! But there are drawbacks: overtraining, joint injuries, induced copper deficiency.
Zinc: Clearly a top ranked mineral, and vital with copper, and certainly not optional on high copper, but it can induce copper deficiency if taken to excess AND if no copper is taken, such as even 50 mg of zinc. We can take more because we take copper.
Vitamins B1 and B2: A few of the B Vitamins are top ranked for providing energy and health: B1 and B2.
Eating Beef and eggs: We are not carnivore, but we consider Beef and eggs to be vital foods.
Avoiding Iron: Very high in importance, it blocks copper, and may not be needed at all. Some who have suffered heavy bleeding and have not replenished iron may need some temporary supplementation, but this should not be taken regularly. The food supply is already high in iron, naturally in beef and greens, and added to flour.
Avoiding fluoride is super important, but perhaps less so as we have advanced in our healing journey. For a years, we avoided eating Chicken, which appears to bother us less these days.
Things I rank as 8/10:
Boron: Great, but the list of benefits is a bit smaller, yet still vital. It’s a bit more controversial.
Magnesium: It’s great, and vital for energy, but just never quite fixed my health as dramatically as much as the other minerals that I rank higher. I experimented with not taking it, and I got sore feet and other problems, and that was a bad experiment. Our bodies retain magnesium better with copper and boron, but I still needed to supplement.
Green Smoothies: I healed from arthritis from Green Smoothies and isometric stretching, but one of the drawbacks is demineralization, as greens are mild diuretics. Greens provide magnesium, and are also good for kidney detoxing.
Avoiding B6 and B9: these are both nerve toxins. We actually developed peripheral neuropathy by taking a B Complex with too much B6: 50 mg, and taking several of them daily, which put us over a limit of 100 mg. Plus, we found B6 in our magnesium, so we were getting 250 mg of B6, and we had to stop our “high B complex” experiment due to developing numbness and tingling in our fingers and toes: called peripheral neuropathy.
Things I rank as 7/10:
Vitamins B5 and B7 :Some of the B Vitamins don’t quite generate raving testimonials like B1 and B2.
Things I rank as 6/10:
Avoiding Excess Sodium: This is much less important than taking potassium. There is sodium naturally in food, so we are not aiming for zero sodium, which is impossible. About the lowest anyone can get is still a whopping 500 mg of sodium. Some sodium above that may be beneficial, merely so we can tolerate sodium while traveling or eating out and living in America.
Sunlight: Jennifer would rank sunlight higher than me, and I know it’s good, but I don’t like sunburn, which I rarely get because of copper. I am not fond of the time this takes.
Colloidal gold: I notice this is a positive brain nutrient, and good for the nerves.
Avoiding Vitamin D: This is rather important, yet controversial. Supplementation causes osteoporosis, or weak bones, which is shockingly contrary to claims it is vital for bone health and bone density! How can it be the opposite? Our bodies make more Vitamin D naturally as we take copper and magnesium. So we are not deficient. It is likely that naturally made Vitamin D, and correlating that, is far superior to supplementation, which not only does not work, but is counterproductive.
Things I rank as 5/10:
Red Light Therapy: We don’t do this as often as we should. This always makes me feel better: both more relaxed, and it appears to speed up healing from workouts.
Blueberry concentrate: We have recently fallen out of this good habit. We have been traveling so much.
Vitamin C: This is oddly so controversial. Some on our protocol can survive without it, which almost seems strange to me. It’s vital for helping to form collagen, and it’s a powerful detoxer. Deficiency symptoms are real: scurvy.
Manganese: This has detectable benefits, both as a brain nutrient, and relieving joint pains. There is a MN SOD, and SOD has many clear detoxing benefits.
Things I rank as 4/10:
Molybdenum: This has a low profile of benefits, but they exist: avoiding nausea, helping relieve racing heart symptoms.
Things I rank as 3/10:
B3: I’ve always been a bit skeptical of Niacin, but I’ve found it vital to avoid deficiency, and it can also block copper at higher doses over 1500 to 3000 mg, even causing liver damage. We take 100 mg.
Silica: This is on the protocol, but we take it sporadically. Occasionally we drink Fiji water when traveling. It helps to detox aluminum. I’ve seen success stories from this.
Things I rank as 2/10:
Chromium seems to do very little, but it used to be commonly taken by bodybuilders, and it may help prevent diabetes, and help to process sugars.
Things I rank as 1/10:
Creatine Monohydrate. This is on the protocol, for improvements in ATP recycling, but we don’t like taking it as it can cause bloating. It is widely regarded as one of the most effective and well researched supplements available. I just don’t like bloating. We removed MSM Sulfur and Selenium, in part, because they can each cause bloating.
Avoiding colloidal silver. We avoid it, but I don’t know how important that is to do. There is some concern it might block copper, but it seems redundant and unnecessary as so many other minerals on our protocol kill germs, so it does not appear that we need it.
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We are still considering adding H2O2 and NMN to the protocol.
Before I had removed MSM Sulfur and Selenium from our protocol, we had experimented not taking them for about 3-6 months. Regarding the relative importance in my mind, they had drifted down to the 1-3 range before I finally eliminated them.