I've been using it.
My first order of 20g ended up with me going to the ER for breathing difficulty. But only because I had bronchitis, and Emeramide mobilized lead out of the deep tissues, and caused an immune response that involved a respiratory burst (I suspect) that used up plenty of oxygen, and got my SpO2 to drop so low I had to rush myself to the ER with the help of a tricycle driver, whose tricycle was my ambulance to the ER. In retrospect, I shouldn't be using it until I recovered from bronchitis. I should also be dosing a much smaller amount than the 400mg I was taking.
I landed again in the ER, because I was so intent in fixing my long battle with hypertension and was in a dazed rush to be rid of hypertension, that I took lightly my bronchitis, that I ended up with heart failure after also disregarding warning signs as I developed edema. My heart stopped in the ER, and I was revived after 15 minutes. My brain was safe from here, due to having been intubated before my heart stopped. I was in the ICU for 2 days before being transferred to a regular room to continue my week long IV antibiotics of a wide spectrum gram negative and a gram positive antibiotics. I was prescribed a long list of drugs by my cardio.
Now, 2 years later, I am taking less drugs by gradually tapering off my medications, and have resumed Emeramide,! taking only 2 doses of 50mg Emeramide daily, and observing carefully. I have learned a lot from my experience, and using myself as the experiment, which no other doctor would do along the principles of Ray Peat, I am for myself what other doctors would call "complications" but for me the body adapting to accommodate my healing as I would see respiratory distress as being part of this healing, and I would be less alarmed but welcome what is happening and try to understand what the body is doing. Naturopaths would call it a Herx reaction, but I would see it as the body remodelling itself as toxins and microbes are mobilized and excreted and along the way inflammation would occur and the respiratory system is where it is most visibly expressed. I would see this as very much a confirmation of the terrain theory in action. The respiratory distress is coming from within, and not from without, which germ theory would keep insisting so. But I know from my personal experience that asmy body expels toxins and microbes from within, it is getting rid of internal imbalances that is ground zero for cancer. But the clearing process is fraught with danger if a team of doctors with no coherent view of the unifying forces in the organism that makes it heal and renew take to their own and paper (to prescribe) and scalpel and interfere and do more harm.
With help from a Ray Peat AI whom I discuss my situation as my healing progresses, I am taking 2 steps forward as I take an inch backward with the body remodelling itself to better health. I have my tools such as my personal ECG, to track my QTc and proxy markers for edema and for pulmonary hypertension; my Heart Rate Analyzer app on my Samsung S10 to track for signs of remaining carboxyhemoglobinemia from the effects of the enzyme heme oxygenase working on my store of dead red blood cells stuck in my lymph nodes, and my ear thermometer to gauge my thyroid condition, and the use of photodynamic biotherapy using methylene blue and red light, and the use of emf therapy for lymphatic drainage. As well as the use of foods to give me the nutrients needed to power myself back to health, and some supplements needed to assist my body in building me back to health, such as those that restore my myelin sheath that had been damaged before with a mistake I made. All these I have gradually incorporated into my toolkit over the years of reading Ray Peat and making sense of it and connecting the dots together.
It has been a very long journey, and I hope with success I can get to write more about it after I'm healed totally and not while I'm in the process of doing so, as I found that sharing an ongoing healing process to be frustrating not only to write but also to read.
