DAY 52

Ty was especially giddy this morning, very happy. I went and picked up his 12/14 UTM and UEE today. Again, very few metals. That is 2 UTM's since begining the herbs that have had no mercury. Ty's pre-tea UTM was in early Nov.'08 and had Hg in yellow (elevated), so I am beginning to surmise that the tea, while benefiting many aspects of his biochemistry, is not supporting detox like Yasko's protocol concentrating on the methylation was. However, I am not inclined to add back any supplements at this time for several reasons. One is that Ty's TCM Dr. said the liver support he is working on with the tea is a slow balancing process to get it working efficiently. Second, Ty has excreted so much mercury and other metals the past 2.5 yrs. and very little on IV's this summer, that I feel we were nearing the end of huge pulls anyway. And third, the little guy just looks too good to mess with the current status. If the past two years of excretion is any indication as to why we are seeing such great stuff now, then I am willing to ride it out and see what progresses. Because we saw so few cognitive gains during high excretion, I believe that his body needed a break, possibly to let remylination kick in. I have always wondered if moving metals for 4 straight years hindered this aspect, and my suspicions are leaning toward that conclusion as we see him off of all supps.

On the UEE (urine essential elements) front, it looked the best we have seen in years. Lithium was finally down from triple the reference range in the past year, and the majority of his other essentials were in normal range. His copper has come down, but so has zinc though still holding a higher zinc to copper ratio (explained to TCM dr. about zinc/copper ratios in asd kids to try and address with his new batch of tea). His calcium came down (which per Yasko should be on the low end anyway, and we never even supplemented on her protocol and couldn't get it lower than 100 - this current UEE it was 67). Sulpher decreased one hundred points, and his sodium dropped from 2160 to 1834. Manganese, Molybdenum, Chromium, and Vanadium all pretty much stayed the same (interesting, because we supplemented all of those on Yasko). Cobalt came down, no surprise while not on B12 shots anymore - from .029 to .007

On the UTM front, we did get some Aluminum which we hadn't seen much of the last 3 mos. on Yasko. Could be the resolve of some bacteria issues on the tea releasing it. Arsenic was a 63, mid green, Cadmium a blip at .3, Nickel 4.3, and Thallium, Tin and Tungsten all blips. If we continue to see a decline on random UTM's throughout tea, I will probably schedule an IV to challenge and see what we pull in a month or two. The next unprovoked collection on the tea I have decided will be a 24 hr. collection - the above was a spot urine, first AM only.

I still need to get a Microbiology kit for a stool anaylsis for good and bad bugs! This will be my one true test of the tea on gut healing, and I know many of you following have been waiting on that one, lol. I forgot to have DAN order me the kit over the holidays, and in the interim decided to give the tea just a bit longer to work on healing before testing. I also will be doing a UAA and MAP (when we get tax refund $, lol) to compare pre and post yasko numbers. Ty has high Ammonia issues which we resolved on yasko dealing with his CBS mutation so I am very interested to see w/o those supports if it has remained low, as well as his last MAP (Jun.'08) showed all vitamins within "need range" for the first time ever. If those suckers held steady on the tea, I am a true believer in TCM, lol! DAN dr. advised to wait on the UAA and MAP until we hit at least the 3 mos. mark off all supps. though to give the body a chance to truly reflect what is going on with the tea.
Ty had a BM accident after school, arrgh! Hate that when so many days are filled with success. He has eaten 2 new foods the past few days which is exciting!