Dear Lloyd,

Thank you so much for putting the new e-mails and correspondence on the message board - it is so inspirational to hear about how others are doing. I have used your products for over 4 years and finding your book and website totally changed my life - I was so depressed when I first found out I had this thing and you gave me so much hope and real change even though I still get scared about it sometimes.

Anyway,
I was at ALT = 76, AST = 52, PCR = 89,336 copies/ml (31,700 IU/ml) in 12/22/00,
and by 8/10/01 I was ALT = 16, AST = 19, PCR = 1,558 copies/ml (649 IU/ml),
and after that went totally non-detected which was absolutely amazing.

I try to stay on maintenance at least (Milk thiste, dandelion, selenium, lipoic acid, teas,etc.) and have made some lifestyle changes (eating better - more artichokes, less peanuts - I hear there is some evidence of liver cancer from peanuts, yikes!). Also Russell explained to me how to clean the milk thistle seeds - can you believe I was never doing that? Boy it tastes much better now! (I'm not too sharp, I know!). But the viral load has been creeping up lately, last one was at 29,000 and I'm due for another test soon - but I know it will be high because I'm having the weird rashes and the grainy eyeballs like it was when I was up at 89,000 (I never got rid of the red palms by the way). I hope everyone is well and thank you for all you have done for me over the years. God Bless.

Sincerely,
S