Exactly--I hear so many contradictory staments from different doctors that it's hard to know who to listen to. But it seems to me that if I lowered that 6.00 to maybe 5.7 or 5.5, would it really hurt anything?

The problem is how do you know if it's doing any good? If the point is to head off further damage, how would you know if you were partially sucessful? Since I don't have a Test Joan and a Control Joan to compare, there's no way to know if any of it helped. Sometimes if feels like that when gulping down all of these supplements too.

But what else can you do? When you get to the point where it's clear the docs are not going to help you, you have to either choose giving up or trying to help yourself.