Dr Brewer

Dr. Brewer is an ME/CFS specialist in Kansas City. He is one of the good ones, because he listens to his patients and learns from them. He is always on the lookout for the latest treatment that might help his patients. For example, he was one of the first doctors to prescribe Rich Van Konynenberg's simplified methylation protocol.

Apparently a few years ago Dr. Brewer became aware of the patients and doctors who have been saying that they think mycotoxins are involved somehow in ME/CFS. He started asking his patients if they had ever been exposed to a moldy building. He was surprised how many said yes. So he decided to test a group of his patients for mycotoxins in their urine.

Of the group he tested, almost all of them had enough mycotoxins in their urine to register as positive on the test. There were only a few people who were negative. They were not excreting enough mycotoxins to be unusual. Later on he figured out that most of those few people were just really slow detoxers.

He came up with a theory. What if people with ME/CFS have an internal source of mycotoxins? Where in the human body could toxin-producing fungi be hanging out? What if it is living in a bioflim in the sinuses? (a biofilm is like a protective layer of crud)

So he gathered a group of his patients who wanted to be his guinea pigs and who were sure that they were not currently living in a moldy home. You shouldn't do this protocol if you are currently living in a place with a mold issue. He started out by prescribing them three things:

A NasaTouch machine
an antifungal drug (Amphotericin-B or Nystatin)
a chelating agent

A NasaTouch machine is an aerosolizer. It delivers medicine deep into the sinuses. At first he had his patients use the NasaTouch machine to administer a dose of the chelating prescription every morning and a dose of the Ampho-B every evening. The chelating prescription breaks up the biofilm, which has metals in it. Sure enough, it worked. Some people began to feel better in terms of their ME/CFS symptoms.

But right from the beginning he has been tweaking this protocol, using feedback from patients. Ampho-B is a really strong drug, and it can produce intolerable side effects. So he had his patients experiment with taking it every other day, or taking a half-dose of it.

Eventually he tried prescribing his patients Nystatin instead of Ampho-B. They are both drugs that are made out of bacteria which kill fungi. But Nystatin is much easier to tolerate. Again he let his more sensitive patients experiment with taking it less often, or in smaller doses.

When you send bacteria up into your sinuses to kill fungi, it starts a war. Fungi release toxins as they are killed. So the limiting factor of this treatment is how fast a patient can detox the garbage it produces. You can only do it as fast as you can detox.

So Dr. Brewer has been suggesting that his patients use a Far-Infrared Sauna to help them detox more through the skin. He has been using folate and B-12 to help patients detox faster.

In general, his published papers are lagging behind what he is doing currently with his patients. At first he had some patients who felt completely well after a year or two of treatment. But now he is realizing that it is going to take some people longer than that. And now he is saying that maybe the chelating agent is not neccessary for some people. And now he is saying that he thinks Nystatin is just as effective as Ampho-B. It keeps evolving.

You don't have to be a patient of Dr. Brewer to do his protocol. All you have to do is find a doctor who will prescribe you the three things from the Imprimis Pharmacy. (It used to be called the TAG pharmacy) He prescribes 50,000 IU capsules of Nystatin. You will have to ask the pharmacy about the chelating prescription. I'm not sure what the dosage of that is or what it is officially called.

When you take a dose of Nystatin, you do this: Mix up some saline solution. Open the capsule and dissolve the contents in 5 ml of saline solution. Put it in the NasaTouch machine and administer it. Wash the NasaTouch parts that are washable.