How did you break your fast? On a fast, metabolism stops. The peristaltic action pauses, the stomach doesn’t produce acid, the liver doesn’t secrete bile or make enzymes. Restarting the metabolism is a slow process. For the first few days, eat foods with high water content, a good mix of vitamins and minerals, but low caloric density. Best are whole fresh fruits and above ground veggies, gently cooked to make them easier to digest. On the first day, simply drink fruit or veggie juice, chewing it to stimulate secretion of digestive juices. On the second day, have a breakfast of f ...
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Headache is usually from dehydration, especially following alcohol. Could also be from a blood sugar swing, alcohol is pure carb, so it causes blood sugar to rise sharply. As the alcohol is eliminated, blood sugar drops. Sugar sensitive people may get headaches from these fluctuations.   [End]
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You really need to use Epsom Salts, not sea salt. The SWF is used to clear the intestines, Epsom Salts are to relax the bile ducts. They are different chemical compounds. Epsom Salts are Magnesium Sulfate, not Sodium Chloride. Some people use Magnesium Citrate instead. That form of Mg is more readily metabolized by people with low stomach acid. Magnesium is used in just about every phase of the detox pathway and is essential for production of over 300 enzymes used in a variety of metabolic pathways. 2.5 grams of Epsom Salts provide the minimum amount of Magnesium one needs per day. ...
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Always use a good oil -- cold pressed virgin oil. If you can’t stand olive, use another good oil. Flax, sesame, whatever. Make sure it is fresh. Rancid oil is not good for you, flushing or eating. Coconut oil is the exception -- it keeps for a long time because it is saturated fat. Not sure how it would work in a liver flush. Have you thougt about taking the ”strange looking stuff” to your doctor for a diagnosis? My mom-in-law was in the hospital. They suspected a bowel problem. In 2 days, she didn’t have a b.m., so they couldn’t test it. They sent her home. Great. Take a ...
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Think High Fiber, Low Fat, light meals. Apples are especially good for their malic acid. Raw is good but not necessary.   [End]
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Interesting that your milk thistle supplement offers beet and radish. The fresh form are potent liver cleansing juices. Might be interesting to make a cleansing radish/beet juice and mix it with some other milder nourishing juice (carrot/celery, cucumber/parsnip, etc) to see if that will help you into sufficient balance to do further cleansing. The other thought is an amino acid called N-Acytl-Cystein (NAC). It is a precursor to the amino acid glutathione, which is what the liver uses to detoxify many substances, including Tylenol, alcohol, poisonous mushrooms, etc. It also eliminat ...
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Did you take all four epsom salt drinks without any effects? That is amazing! Did you change types of Epsom Salts? Make sure they are the type for internal consumption. Drinking the GF/OO drink won’t cause the runs. They will cause the liver and gallbladder to dump lots of bile, but you need the epsom salts to open the bile ducts to let the stones pass, and to clear the bowels so the liver/gall bladder wastes can pass through quickly.   [End]
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Congratulations on a broad scale effort to cleanse, as well as improving your diet for the future. ”Movements aplenty” is a good thing. I think it is best if you increase the psyllium gradually, so you may have accidently done it right. The body does better if you make changes more gradually. Move to 2 tsp for a day or two then to a full Tbsp. Did you start out at the full dose of bentonite? If not, step that up gradually as well. Don’t rush things -- gradual adjustments are more likely to become lifelong habits. SWF would be best tried one Saturday morning. You’ll find out how ...
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I hope you’re not using steriods to help build muscle. They cause all sorts of problems with bloating, skin, etc. They also cause havoc with the liver and reproductive organs. For people with active metabolisms, water and lemonade fasting are difficult. I find that veggie juice fasting better supports the body, offering a variety of nutrients on a calorie restricted regime. It is much easier to go on an extended juice fast and continue an active lifestyle, including excercising and working. I add ground flax seed to my veggie juices to aid absorbtion of the fat soluble nutrients i ...
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I don’t know the colonix product, but I’ve prepared and flushed my liver several times. The basic requirement is to have rapid movements through the digestive tract. If you eat something, it should come out ”the other end” within 24 hours. One way to measure this is to eat something that will pass through relatively unchanged and wait for it to come out. Whole flax seeds works, if you swirl it in water and drink without chewing. Basically, you want your elimination system working well enough to rapidly eliminate everything you flush from your liver, so it isn’t reabsorbed while in t ...
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Looking forward to hearing the results of the cholesterol test! Doctors always give people 3 months to try to improve their diet, then put them on statin drugs. Psyllium husk is insoluble fiber. It cleanses the colon, which improves the effectiveness of liver flushing. Ever wondered how people who are on very low fat diets, with no animal foods, can end up with high cholesterol? The answer is that their livers are producing it. Soluble fiber may reduce the amount of cholesterol produced in the liver. The liver produces cholesterol to bind toxins. If you have enough soluble fiber ...
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If you’re dehydrated, in poor health and fragile, the best thing for you is to re-hydrate yourself, improve your diet and reinforce your mental image of your own healthy body. The liver flush should wait till your bowels and kidneys are functioning well and you have the fortitude to follow the liver flush protocol. The heart itself is not affected by ”good oils”. The body, especially the brain, needs healthy fats. Unhealthy fats build up in the arteries and can cause heart problems. These unhealthy fats also build up in the liver. Eliminate transfats and animal fats. Increase ...
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No, the olive oil will not increase your cholesterol. Animal fats are the chief culprit in dietary cholesterol. Flushing should improve the liver’s ability to handle dietary fats. The liver also generates cholesterol as a means of capturing toxins in the bowels. If you eat enough soluble fiber, the liver need not produce so much cholesterol. Try eating a whole apple before every meal and one before bed. That will provide 50% of your daily fiber. The soluble fiber (pectin) in the apple may improve your cholesterol levels, soften hard bowel movements, and reduce the number of calor ...
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Yes, the meds are the worst for the liver since you take them more regularly than you drink. Alcohol comes next. Make sure to drink lots of water when you drink alcohol. Dehydration exaggerates the problem. Don’t take tylenol -- that is horrible for the liver. The other element to consider is your diet. Are you nourishing your body properly? The liver is very sensitive to vitamin and mineral deficiency. The liver is the bodies’ metabolic powerhouse and every metabolic reaction requires specific ”starter” materials in the form of amino acids, minerals, vitamins, etc. If one vital ...
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For liver detox, you might consider N-A-C, an amino acid precursor to glutahione. Glutathione is what the liver uses to detoxify many wastes, alcohol, tylenol, etc. It is used in the emergency room in cases of tylenol and mushroom poisoning to boost the liver’s ability to process the toxins. N-A-C must be taken with at least 3x the Vitamin C, so taking it when you’re megadosing on C is a good idea.   [End]
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Rather than ”going crazy” with colosan, why don’t you use it to get things moving and go crazy improving your diet, so your bowels don’t get clogged up in the first place? Moderation and consistency are the key to robust health. In case of acute illness, the cure may require a radical change, but more importantly, the cure requires sustained and persistent commitment to yeild lasting benefit. In the two weeks before you try to flush again, eat a whole apple before each meal and one before bed. If you can do that regularly, that one simple change could improve your bowels in a coupl ...
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It is disappointing not to see ”result” after the time and ”yuck” factor of the liver flush, but don’t give up. Many people have reported their best flushes after a ”failed flush”. The other half of the cure is to nourish your body fully. I wonder if you are eating a balanced vegetarian diet. Eating lots of raw is great, but you need to make sure you get enough essential oils (fruit, nut and seed oil), that your diet contains foods that support a rich set of good bacteria, that you have a balance of vitamins and minerals, that you have a balance of amino acids (proteins). Perhaps you ...
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The anus/rectum get quite a workout during a liver flush. If you had a hemorrhoid, it may have bled a bit. Often, people don’t notice internal hemorrhoids until they bleed. The best cure is to increase fiber in the diet. My favorite way to increase fiber, while helping liver flushing, is to eat a whole organic apple 10 minutes before every meal and again before bed. Fresh apples provide malic acid, to soften the stones, as well as soluble fiber and insoluble fiber, and loads of other nutrients. The apples provide about half of the fiber one needs daily. It will be easy to get th ...
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No it is not normal. Please get someone to take you to a doctor for a checkup. Don’t drive -- if you can barely type and can’t walk, you mustn’t drive. Water fasting is serious business. No one should do it without learning about it and understanding what you’re getting into. Always best to have someone around when you’re water fasting. I’m surprised you’d feel it so quickly, however. Generally, water fasts up to three days are considered relatively safe. You could be suffering an electolyte imbalance -- low potassium messes with the body’s electrical system. That could cause ...
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I don’t know the process you describe, but freshly made coconut milk is probably good. You lose the fiber in whole coconut, however. You’re lucky to be in a place where you have easy access to fresh coconut based food products. In the US and Europe, most coconut is dried and sweetened or canned. That is probably what causes the great excitement about Virgin Coconut Oil -- we don’t have convenient access to coconut foods that haven’t been heated.   [End]
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Not sure where jackierr got that idea. Making ghee is a quick low temperature process. The melting point of butter is between 90°F and 95°F (32°C and 35°C). To make ghee, let butter melt slowly. After it melts, let it settle in a warm place so it stays liquid. Skim off any foam (usually from salted butter) and pour the liquid off, leaving the milk solids behind. The liquid is ghee. The best ghee is made with raw butter from GRASS fed animals. It is high in mixed carotenoids and has significant amounts of Omega-3 and CLA fatty acids. You can taste the difference.   [End]
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Then you can take it to your doctor -- after the ultrasound shows your gallbladder clear of stones.   [End]
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Actually, latex is only damaged by Petroleum based oils -- mineral oil, vaseline, etc. Coconut and other plant based oils are not a problem with condoms, diaphrams, etc. If mineral oil damages latex, imagine what it does to our bodies...   [End]
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Canned coconut milk is a refined and processed food. It loses all the fiber, so the carbs that remain are the ”bad carbs”. It has a bit more protein and almost double the fat, but the coconut oil has been heated, so it is no longer ”virgin”. 1 cup canned coconut milk contains 445 calories, 5 grams protein, and 6 grams of carbohydrate. Total fat is 48.2 grams. That fat has been heat processed during canning at least. Probably also during the making of the coconut milk. Canned coconut milk lacks vitamin B2 and B12 but has a good range of other B vitamins including 30 mcg of folic a ...
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Personally, I prefer to eat the whole coconut, drinking the coconut water. It is a whole food, complete with the least processed, most virgin coconut oil. It has a good dose of soluble and insoluble fiber, wonderful nutritional profile. 1 cup of the raw grated meat of a mature coconut has 283 calories, 2.7 grams of protein, 12.2 grams of carbohydrates. The sodium content is low at 16 mg. Coconut is a high fiber food that delivers 7.2 grams for 1 cup of freshly grated meat. 1 cup of grated coconut packs 26.8 grams fat -- about 1 oz of virgin coconut oil in 1 cup of coconut. 1 cup ...
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If you can get (and afford) organic lemons, use them peel and all. The peel has powerful bioflavanoids and essential oils that are good nutritionally and as cleansers. Some people find the whole lemon too stong, however. If this is the case, use one lemon whole and peel the rest as you make your lemonaid. It is all how you respond to the cleanse. Better to take a juice only cleanse than giving up. Take care and listen to your body.   [End]
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I had worked up to high doses of MSM and Vitamin C for detox and nutritional support when I went in for my general physical. All was well, except my ALT/AST enzyme levels. The Doc said it could be a gallstone, and to have it checked again in a month. I hadn’t started flushing yet, so this alarmed me. I did some research and found that MSM could cause artificially high enzyme readings while in detox. So, I discontinued the MSM a week before the next test and all was fine. I believe the MSM was triggering a cleansing reaction in my liver. Certainly, I had headaches, and typical de ...
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I’ve found that the best way to deal with allergies is to flush my nose/eyes at the first hint of a reaction. Once you get ”sensitized”, the histamine reaction keeps going till you ”desensitize” again. Not good news for you, but I thought I’d share my experience.   [End]
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I doubt that lemon caused the problem to flare, but who knows. I’d wonder about your partner. Can he be re-infecting you? Perhaps you should massage his privates with coconut oil before sex. It is antibacterial, anti-viral and a terrific lube. Using garlic as a suppository might also help. Take a lightly crushed clove, wrap it in cheesecloth, dip in olive or coconut oil and insert overnight.   [End]
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You might consider trying digestive enzymes. With a dietary change, the body takes time to adjust. Supplemental enzymes may help you through the adjustment period. A second suggestion is to chew your food more thoroughly. Grandma used to say ”chew your milk”. The saliva starts digestion. I love flax. Making a pudding seems like a tough way to take it. I prefer mine mixed with yogurt, sprinkled on salad, mixed into soup (it thickens the soup nicely), mixed with breakfast cereal, etc. Drink plenty of water with it.   [End]
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A veggie juice cleanse is good, especially for those sensitive to sugar. Make sure to use carrots, beets and other root veggies in moderation. Use a variety of veggies, using different veggies on diffferent days. I spike my veggie juices with organic lemon -- skin and all. Tastes terrific with kale and spinach juice as well as with carrot. Also add small amounts of raw garlic, ginger, radish, cayenne, fresh herbs, seasoning the veggie juice. They are potent in flavor and potent in cleansing effects. The final touch is a dollop of flax or fish oil. You need thosse Omega-3 fatty ...
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You may have a carbohydrate/sugar metabolic sensitivity. Feeling terrible after giving up sugar is a classic symptom. Here’s why: The metabolism gets habituated to the sugar rush, so insulin levels rise around the time you usually have sugar in your tea or some other high glycemic index food. If you don’t have your ”fix” on schedule, you end up hypoglycemic. Mild hypoglycemia can cause the shakes, headaches, dry mouth, etc. A severe case can cause shock, profuse sweating, confusion, disorientation, loss of balance, etc. In this case, one needs to sit down and have a small glass ...
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Green veggie juices are an acquired taste, but I like cabbage, brocoli, celery, cucumber, lettuce, basil, cilantro, etc. Cabbage is surprisingly sweet and especially good for the stomach and digestion. Start slow -- it can cause burping. Kale, spinach, chard and other dark leafy greens are stronger in flavor, but I put a handful into a juice blend. String beans have a medium strong flavor. Parsley is very strong -- don’t drink more than 1/4 cup per day. Adding a whole (skin and all) organic lemon gives a nice tartness as well as terrific bioflavanoids. A knob of ginger gives i ...
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It is hard to get too much B-12. For one thing, it is hard to absorb it. For another, it is water soluble, so if you get more than you need, it will wash out in your urine. Final thing, from deficiency to saturation takes much higher than normal doses for a time. I’d recommend a sub-lingual type, since it absorbs better under the tongue than in the stomach/intestines. You do want to take it along side a regular b-complex. The B’s work togther, so if you’re missing one, the rest don’t work as well. Candida squeezes out the good bacteria in your guts, those that produce small amou ...
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The liver flush stimulates the digestive system. You’d quieted yours down during the Master Cleanse, so this stimulation is more noticeable. Be ravenous, but focus on eating mostly healthy foods or you’re going to gunk up your cleansed guts. The focus on junk food is a mind craving. Substitute healthful alternatives with some similarity to the food you crave. Ice Cream? Could be that your body wants good fats to keep the bile flowing, so your liver doesn’t re-clog.   [End]
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Walnut oil is great stuff, but make sure it is fresh. It is one of the most delicate oils. If it is bitter, throw it out!   [End]
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Good extra virgin olive oil is delicate. If you used a bottle that has been sitting in your cupboard for six months, it may be that the nasty flavor and your body’s reaction to reject it may indicate that the oil has oxidized or gone rancid. I buy a fresh pint sized bottle (dark green glass) of Organic Extra Virgin olive oil and keep it unopened at room temp. at 9:45 I squeeze juice from whole (room temp) grapefruits. I open the olive oil, mix with grapefruit, head for the bedroom and drink. Shaken together, the taste isn’t bad. Fresh olive oil is fruity and the grapefruit juice ...
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Nanana. Vitamin E oil could be good -- or bad. Most of the cosmetic preparations of vit e oil are based on Vitamin E added to a carrier oil. The bad ones add it to mineral oil. You could add Vitamin E to your coconut oil, if you wanted. The problem is that vitamin E is most commonly from unstable seed oils, so it must have added preservatives to keep it from going rancid. An example is wheat germ oil. Good stuff, but you can’t keep it on the bathroom shelf for a month. I believe in putting edible things on my skin when possible -- if I wouldn’t ingest it orally, why would I ...
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I know what you mean about worker’s hands. My fingers felt like sandpaper. Putting it on moist skin helps. When my hands are dry, I sometimes rinse them before dipping into the coconut oil. I don’t believe in eating fats alone -- I use them to accent the flavor or digestibility of other foods. Carbs absorb more slowly when eaten with fats, so I put season with a flavor appropriate Good Fat. This isn’t often coconut oil Somehow, the it just isn’t appealing in most cases. I do use it for high heat sauteing, however. Sweet onions, sauted in coconut oil are lovely! For moisturizi ...
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It has an option to see ”All catawba’s Messages” as a hyperlink. Enjoy your coconuts. I prefer coconut meat to the oil. I would love to live somewhere I can get good fresh nuts.   [End]
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The idea is to eat fats that are good for the body and to eliminate fats that are harmful to the body. Rather than melting coconut oil into tea, use it as you would otherwise use lard, margerine, shortening, butter, corn oil or other fats. A bit on broccoli, a spoonful as you cook your whole grains, etc. It is terrific on popcorn and some people spread it on their toast in the morning. Saute your onions in coconut oil. It is easy to use a few tablespoons in normal meal preparation. The body needs about 30% of its calories from good fats. Coconut oil is one of the good fats. It ...
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I’ve been using coconut oil on my skin for a couple years. The key is to use it generously and frequently. My skin drank it up and asked for more. It started out bad -- my skin felt tight, dry and ROUGH. Even my finger tips felt like they had snags. I kept applying it and eventually, the old rough skin was sloughed off. The new skin was baby smooth! Sun damaged brown areas on my face faded. Smile lines softened. Scars diminished. The undereye area seems to have improved -- shadows not so dark & no puffiness. I find it best to apply coconut oil right after bath or shower. I ...
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Most important first. The kidney issue. Low protein is good for your kidneys but you need to pay lots of attention to potassium and magnesium. When one has weak kidneys, they don’t retain these minerals and the body ends up out of balance. Sodium is balanced by potassium, Calcium by Magnesium. Leafy greens have lots of the vitamins, minerals, etc. that are good for eyes and also have potassium and magnesium. Beta carotene, zinc, lutein, etc. Juice these and you’re doing your eyes and kidneys good. Celery has natural sodium, so if you are on a salt free diet, celery juice supplies ...
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When you mention ”fresh Orange juice and pineapple juice”, I wondered if you were buying juices. That is expensive and limiting. If you must buy juices, get a shot of wheatgrass for every drink. If you have your own juicer, experiment with small amounts of green juices. The weirdest veggies taste good as raw juice. Cabbage is sweet, though in quantity, it can upset the bowels. Broccoli is mellow. Green bean is strong. My method is to use the sweet juices as an accent to the veggies. Cabbage offset by apple. Green bean with carrot and parsely. Kale with beet and lemon. Jui ...
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The liver flush forum is next most popular, so definitely spend some time there. The stones come from you liver & gall bladder into your intestines. They are eliminated through your colon and anus. Not painful coming out, but you need a clean flowing bowel before you flush your liver.   [End]
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Not sure where you live, but in the USA one can get an enema bag at any drug or discount store. It is ”old fashioned”, but still available. The only danger is doing too many enemas and getting ”addicted”. Your colon could get out of practice in normal eliminations if you do them daily for an extended time. It is either time consuming or expensive to do a wheatgrass enema, so I would start with plain water until you get the hang of it. Do the wheatgrass enema when you’re good with the equipment and learned how to hold the liquid internally for 5 minutes or so. Grandma knew how t ...
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Some people (me too) have trouble with bentonite even with psyllium, so if you don’t want to use psyllium, don’t take it internally. It is used to seal well casings and ponds, so it will seal you up as well! Bentonite is a good bath detoxifier, but it is a mess to use in the regular tub. I mixed some up and soaked my feet in it one night. A bit messy, but not as bad as the bathtub.   [End]
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Check the bathing and water treatment forum for recipies. I use 1 cup baking soda and 1 cup epsom salts.   [End]
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You’ve had a second bout of hypoglycemic shock, sounding more severe than the last. You need to break the fast. After shock comes coma. The narrowing vision indicates you were close to slipping under. If you lose consciousness and no one helps you get sugar, you could die. The craving for maple syrup was your body’s way of telling you it was out of balance. If you took the maple syrup straight, it probably caused a blood sugar spike that caused the liver to overproduce insulin. That would cause an even more serious blood sugar low a couple hours later. Very classic pattern for s ...
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When detoxing with MSM, I had no symptoms of liver, gallbladder, or pancreas problems, but I did have classic detox symptoms such as headache. I had a routine blood panel and my ALT was about 50% higher than normal. My doc retested me a few weeks later, after I stopped MSM and it had dropped to normal. The liver is under extra stress during any cleanse, since it has to filter the toxins being dumped by the cells from blood and lymph into the waste system. When the liver is under stress, enzyme levels rise to support detoxification. Giving the liver/kidneys a chance to recover and ...
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