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I have concluded that Mike is not "in detox" because his methylation cycle is not working, and that must be because we are not following Amy Yasko's recommendations to the letter. So I have made some changes.

In particular, I don't have control over what he is eating at school--he is buying his lunch. So I am thinking of making his lunches for him. Also I had been taking a shortcut, not eating yucca every time he ate protein, but just taking one capsule once a day. I am trying to rectify this. It seems to be very important.

What I don't know is whether these things are important: he is guzzling fruit juice, which is very sweet, and he is supposed to be on a low-sugar diet. Also he is drinking a large glass of milk at least once a day, and he is supposed to be going low on calcium.

I guess I need to pose these questions to the forums on her Web site.

I should mention that I put myself on a couple of aspects of this protocol. I believe that I have the same "biggie mutation" gene, C699T (which causes the methylation cycle to produce a lot of ammonia instead of methyl groups). I am not autistic and never have been. Estrogen has protected me most of my life, but now that is ebbing, and I have occasional trouble with brain fog. I am taking the ammonia RNA formula, same as Mike, and also putting yucca on my protein, and the brain fog is improving A LOT.