Ampligen 4 ME on “The Ascent”
January 25, 2012
The ME/CFS patient (nicknamed “City Changer”) who wrote the blog Ampligen 4 ME discussed the benefits of hiking to a higher altitude in an article called “The Ascent.”
(The blog name is used because this individual originally was planning to combine Ampligen with mold avoidance, but then experienced enough improvements just from avoidance that he decided not to bother.)
From the article:
A few weeks ago, Lisa suggested that climbing was huge for Erik. When he was still really sick, apparently climbing 300 ft up the hill from his driveway made him feel better — hard to relate to that story but I didn’t quite shelve it either. I was starting to hit a wall somewhere around 4 miles of hiking, which I know sounds ridiculous, but my goal isn’t to hike the longest but to continue pushing my body with exercise as a primary form of detoxification. I knew that at some point I would do what Erik did, but the time had to be right.
Well my family visited me a few weeks ago, and probably due to nothing short of raging machismo and feeding on the fuel that was my family’s happiness that I appeared normal from the outside again, I decided to do a 400 ft ascent as part of a 3 mile hike with them. Yeah logic went out the window here, but then again, the discovery that I could hike 40 minutes within touching down in the desert didn’t happen “logically” either. If all attempts to test our bodies happened logically, Erik would’ve gotten to Mt Whitney when he was 80 years old. Well, imagine my surprise when I started feeling better as I really got into the ascent, almost like my body felt like it could run up the hill. I thought I’d crash for sure, but I didn’t. In fact, my legs weren’t even much more noodly than they were from hiking 4 miles flat. It seems that the noodly legs are a function of exertion and time, not just exertion. Therefore, my body seems to be able to exert more if I cut short the time a little bit, and vice versa. That’s my hypothesis for now anyway.
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