A Cell Salt Experiment: Summary, and Going Further

Quite a few of my readers took part in last year's experiment with George W. Carey's cell salt protocol, and many others will at least have read along with varying degrees of interest and bemusement. Those who didn't can find the details here:  

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/81817.html
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/84513.html
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/86784.html
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/105216.html
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/107577.html

A brief overview is that the cell salts are homeopathic remedies made from the twelve mineral salts found in significant quantities in the human body.  The Carey protocol involves taking a daily dose of Bioplasma -- a mix of the twelve cell salts in the proportions in which they're found in the body -- and then, on three days of each month, additional doses of cell salts chosen on the basis of your date of birth. 

Last year, with the enthusiastic help of my readers, I did an exploratory study into the protocol, and collected reports from those who used it. The results showed statistically significant improvements in mental and physical health as a result of the protocol, as well as improved results from spiritual practices such as meditation. The protocol isn't an elixir of perfect health; the improvements noted by participants tended to be in the modest-to-medium range -- but they were consistent.  So it does appear as though Carey was on to something. 

His own goals were considerably more exalted than a general improvement in health.  Carey was part of a broad research program in early 20th century American occultism that aimed at nothing less than the secret of immortality.  It has to be said that the program failed to achieve its primary goal, but like many wide-ranging research projects, it turned up a great deal of value anyway.  The cell salt protocol is one of the useful things that came out of it -- and its health benefits are only part of the potential I'm exploring. 

As noted in the last of the posts linked above, the Carey protocol interfaces with a tradition of esoteric anatomy that was very widespread in early 20th century American occultism -- a tradition that saw the solar plexus, the great cluster of nerves just behind the stomach, and the pineal gland, an endocrine gland in the brain still not well understood by today's scientists, as crucial elements.  There were exercises meant to stimulate the solar plexus and activate the pineal gland, and lengthy passages in the strange essays Carey wrote late in his life suggests to me that he saw the cell salt protocol as having similar effects.  Over the last six months or so I've included some of those exercises in my own daily practice regimen, along with the protocol, and I think he was on to something. I'll be discussing this more as we proceed. 

For the time being, I want to provide a space for others who are still working with the protocol to post their experiences. For my part, my health has remained consistently better than usual.  I have found that a couple of other traditional bits of occult health lore -- drinking a mug of hot water first thing in the morning, on the one hand, and taking a daily multivitamin on the other (you didn't know that that started out as advice from occultists, did you?) -- seem to be even more important while taking the protocol than otherwise.  Other than that -- well, the cognitive shifts I've noticed belong to another post. 

So, fellow mad scientists:  what have you noticed in your ongoing experiments?