Re: nattokinase and abx

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I look forward to your next try of Natto. It is very possible that

the headache you got was a herx reaction. Hopefully it will happen

again, or something along that line. If you find that you again get

a reaction, instead of cutting back on the Natto, try cutting back

on the ABX. It seems that when the Natto works like we hope, then

less ABX might be just as useful as the larger doses you were taking

before Natto. You can really control the amount of herxing you do by

adjusting the ABX dose. Some people like to just let the herx come

on hard and hopefully get it over with sooner. But then there are

those, like at the Road Back Foundation who definetly feel to strong

a herx is counter productive.

Run it by your doc just to make sure if you deceide to decrease the

ABX, just in case. But people at the RBF do it all of the time,

increasing it back up when they can. I'll be watching for you to

post again on this.

> I recently tried an experiment with nattokinase. I had been taking

it for a few months but not being absolutely fussy about food or

other supplements (in fact I would take it with my other supps). A

bit over a week ago I decided to a) be absolutely scrupulous about

taking it as far away as possible from food or anything else,

increased our dose (my husband is also taking it) from 3 to 4 per

day.

>

> After 4 days we both got a strong headache, which lasted a couple

of days at max level then getting less strong as we stopped the

nattokinase (took another couple of days). This was not our first

experience with natto and abx (we are on 100 mg minocycline and

roxithromycin 300 mg), so this time was to confirm that natto does

somehow enhance the effect of abx (breaking down fibrin, exposing

bacteria to abx?).

>

> We are going to resume taking natto in a few days' time, maybe

starting slower this time.

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> To be followed

>

> Nelly