Wow! - That is a scary write up Lionheart!
Did you suffer any long-term damaging after-effects from this?
Alan
Not sure. I was reasonably young and healthy, but I did seem to have digestive, stomach problems ever since and increased weight. But who is to say these were not things that I would have got as I moved in to middle age and later.
I have type II Diabetes now, but again many people my age do develop this, still I do sometimes wonder...
I can't remember what I was on in the end, but I remember going through the 100 x 100mg niacin tablets a day threshold. The tablets were quite small, but a hundred of them took some swallowing and left me feeling full. I had to spread taking the other tablets over the whole day because there were so many with all the other vits. I used to eat a small tin of rice pudding to help swallow the pills, but in the end I was too full to eat the pudding so I would just eat the vits neat!
I didn't notice that I had stopped eating, I suppose because I never felt hungry!
Sounds mad!
I can't remember the exact original LRH bulletin advice, but basically you just kept upping ALL the vits, oil and Cal-mag in equal ratios. Oh, no! I think I remember going up to 150 x 100 niacin!
I've just remembered three piles of 50 pills!
Basically, the point I am making is that LRH was reckless with his purif bulletins with little care for his "parishoners". I think he was "being right" asserting his earlier radiation and vitamin theories.
I remember how the bulletins had to quickly have notes added to them by the "Board of Directors" clarifying that the purif handled "restimulative" effects of drugs, because LRH had emphasised the physical flushing out of the drugs.
I think he was just on his fifties hobby-horse and idiots like me were the fall-guys. This was the first hint I got that LRH could possibly be a liabilty to the Church with his extravangant claims and lack of sensitivity to the legal postion he was putting the church in by demanding physical handlings for physical conditions.
So the purif became a fudge between him and the Church.