Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker on “What To Expect From Cholestyramine”
Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker provides a page on “What To Expect from Cholestyramine” on the Surviving Mold website.
Note that patients who start out with moderate/severe ME/CFS or other serious illnesses often have major problems taking cholestyramine, however. These individuals may need to take much lower doses than the ones suggested here; to only be able to take the drug if they are in an exceptionally good environment; to need to delay taking the drug until a later point in the recovery process; or to not take the drug at all.
From the article by Dr. Shoemaker:
CSM has been extensively tested in multiple clinical trials involving patients with chronic, biotoxin associated illnesses. The benefit of use of CSM has been confirmed by two double-blinded, placebo-controlled crossover studies. To date we have looked for, but not found benefit from CSM substitutes such as charcoal, chitosan, clay in several forms or any herbal remedy. We will use Welchol as a CSM substitute for those unable to take CSM. It is taken with food in a pill form. It is far easier to take but it is only 25% as effective as CSM.
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