Happy new year, all! A dear friend has been Dx’s with a condition called Plantar Fibromatosis and in pursuing conventional treatments has found no treatments and barely any information. A painful (though benign) tumor on the arch of her foot. Has anyone heard of this/might anyone offer some experience/strength/hope? Thank you, Sandover.   [End]
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Hi -- I usually recommend giving it a couple of weeks to get through the icky detox stuff (my skin broke out in places it never had and with some huge zits and I shared your horror...!). That will go away: you’re having a detox or Herxheimer reaction: it’s kicking stuff out. And that will settle down. I love EVCO for OP although as you do I usually eat it. (I use Sesame most for OP although like walnut and safflower a lot, too. Cocnut oil can normalize weight and consuming healthy fat will give you satiation -- it’s my belief that the cleansing effects of OP contribute to overall be ...
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Hi there, There are some great videos on YouTube regarding reversing dental decay with nutrition: high-quality animal fats, proteins CLO, etc. It’s expensive and time-consuming and requires diligence, but I was pretty convinces when I watched them a few years ago. (The guy has his own protocol, and did not seem too interested then in this forum: you can enter ”reverse dental decay” at YouTube and look at the videos. OP is helpful for mouth/gum health but deeper infections such as yours need to be treated, as others have said, from the inside out. I’d try adding ooo (oil of oregano) t ...
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Well, the pool I grew up swimming in those long summers was creek-fed. OUr town has always been shunned by the country when it has come to providing services like water, and cable more recently -- now I can see some advantages (though back then a well seemed kind of country-mouse, and not having cable was of course the 8th-grade equivalent of having horns on one’s head. People stayed away as they could not watch MTV (also really new then). One net effect, though, has been an adult life free of television. (I must confess I have a weakness for the Sunday political talk shows, HBA series of ...
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Why don’t you go to the drugstore and get one of those two-for-one tests. Mine were never wrong. Then if the line does not appear one or both times, you will know if you are pregnant.   [End]
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Well, when we are more flush, I would love to have an iodine-treated pool. Apparently it turns a brilliant green with iodine rather than brilliant Cl-blue! (Maybe it is just the SSKI or something...how’s that for a way to absorb your iodine?) You all are welcome (way in advance...).   [End]
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Hi Iodinophiles... I posted this on Trapper’s forum then came here to cross-post (I can’t do that from T’s forum...???). I briefly scanned down the forum page here for ”headlines” and saw Supercheetah’s very relevant post and all replies, which were very helpful. However, I actually wonder if my daughters aren’t better off in a pool than I am as their I reserves are probably higher...so decided to post this slightly different question/s to see if anyone had more feedback. Let me say that the total number of days they have gone swimming in their lives is less than 6 so far, and this summer ...
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Hi Trapper and all -- Part of my beliefs these days about the roots of my health problems over the years has to do with iodine depletion, and insufficient supply to begin with, from an early age I should mention that the other slices of this what-went-wrong-early pie include: a largely SAD from an early age in many ways, including being formula-fed (I had jaundice when born, and Mom was told breast feeding was out...); processed milk that probably helped fuel my chronic ear and throat infections; the even relatively few vaccinations I received; and lots of grains -- my mom was in fact a ...
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That’s a good reason for taking morphine or an opiate rather than the newer pain drugs...like Vioxx! In general when I have to take Rx meds, I prefer the older ones as they have been tested via use for years and years.   [End]
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Yikes...I’d go nuts without my dogs and cat. Although I did read that there is truth behond the ”crazy cat lady” idea...I wonder if kitty parasites make cat people nutty. I need to Humapet and Humaworm all of us, although they all get Lugol’s in their water...   [End]
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I had a similar thing happen around oil pulling -- I had some small warts on one of my fingers for a long time, and they went away after I began OP. (culd also have been iodine, or the IMO potent combination of OP and I supplementation.) Maybe they were a fungus? A virus? Whot the heck knows... . But, gone now. I really believe treating some of this stuff and getting it out is important. For so long I believed that an infection would cause fever and other easily identifiable symptoms...now I think the bugs can really cause more problems that can keep us feeling low-energy, foggy, yuc ...
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Glax -- Have your tried oil of oregano for the herpes? I believe that doing some oil pulling with oil of oregano pushed a dormant HSV up and out of me. I was using 4-5 drops of cheap ooo in my sesame oil. Regards, Laura   [End]
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Hey -- Sure! Just get yourself started and refine your practice later...I began with a terrible oil (I think it was toasted black sesame seed oil, ugh) but still felt benefits, and tried lots of different things before settling into a nice routine with regular sesame oil. I think I said on another post recently that it is not even what type of oil I use...it’s the regularity of the practice that I think produces benefits. Oil pulling really is amazing -- both the protocal and the inhabitants of the forum. It is a fun bunch here and very low on drama, which is nice (especially when yo ...
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Hi Lulu, I just got mine today at http://www.allhealthtrends.com -- I am also sure you could get some at a health-food store. What I do with mine is to use several drops (4-6) in whatever oil I am using -- these days, usually sesame (which is also antibiotic). Then just swish per your normal routine. Try to stop sugars while you are working on this as they will a) prevent your immune system from working its hardest and b) will cause inflammation, preventing the gums from healing close to the tooth and keeping the bacteria out from between the tooth and the gums. In addition, st ...
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Hi, One thing about olive oil is that over time, it can temporarily turn your teeth a sort of olive-oil color...I would watch for that and perhaps think about sesame oil. You might want to think about following the original protocol (sesame or sunflower oil 1x per day in the morning for 17-20 minutes) at oilpulling.com in order to see if you have any detox reactions, let your body adjust to the therapy, and so forth, before shaking it up too much. Best, and welcome! Laura   [End]
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Hi -- I am not sure I would be able to stomach straight garlic oil. I think you could mix some garlic oil in with another oil to get benefits, or perhaps chop garlic and let it sit in another oil for a while then strain it out and use the infused oil? You will also get good garlic results just from eating it, and then good antibacterial results from oil pulling, so you can separate the garlic part from the oil part and not miss out on anything if you don’t OP with garlic oil. Best, Laura   [End]
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I will try to call down there (to the store) and see if I can ask my old boss in Bulk about this stuff...and I will report back. I do remember Frontier as being pretty reputable, to the extent that when there was a cayenne shortage they did not stock it until it was up to their quality standards, which I remember because we got so many rude customers about it. There is nowhere like a health-food store for really rude customers. All those health freaks. ;)   [End]
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I thought that Frontier was non-irradiated. I used to work in a HFS in the large bulk section and got that question sometimes, and I seem to remember that our spices and herbs, which came in the large foil bags, were not irradiated. I do trust that product line.   [End]
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Thanks, Trapper -- I really appreciate it. And likewise on the lovely part....   [End]
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Hey! Well, I think I am asking what those things are in relation to Lugol’s, so a very elementary question! I have just read some posts recently and have been confused by the different types (i.e. what is detoxified?) of I mentioned -- so I am not even interested in how much to take but just what the different kinds are in relation to one another, if that makes sense....? Thanks...and, you are right -- I don’t know what I am asking in a way! I will undoubtedly keep taking the rest of my Lugol’s for now, though. Laura   [End]
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Trapper + all, I have not been able to spend a lot of time in the past few weeks/months at the computer and feel like I have missed a bunch of stuff, including the exploration into the non-Lugol’s kind of iodine... Is there a chart with the different types/dosages etc.? (nascent, magnascent, detoxified, SSKI, etc.?) Is Lugol’s deficient compared to the others? I am so confused! Thanks + best to everyone -- Laura   [End]
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Alley -- I have twin 3-year-olds who get iodine a few times a week. I use Lugol’s solution. I add a few drops to their milk, or if they have juice. Hasn’t killed ’em yet. ;) Part of the iodine protocol at the outset was to use Vitamin C and salt, along with selenioum, to transport out of the body the toxins iodine helps release. I sort of do this with my girls -- they drink Emergen-C, and also they actually like to eat salt -- so I hope that produces some sort of good effect! Best, Laura   [End]
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Well, I am pretty convinced that it’s being part of the fun group of oil pullers, for me -- but I too will try to come up with my top favorite results from OP!   [End]
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Hi K -- I got your message and I keep getting this reply: Unfortunately, kebod has specified to block all private messages from forum visitors. At this moment, you can not send email message to kebod. You may try to contact kebod some other day. Page generated on: 7/18/2008 1:57:08 PM in Dallas, Texas when I try to reply to messages in my inbox. It *is* so dead around here! Let’s all post a great OP experience or two and try to attract some more potential OP’ers... Perhaps everyone is at home blissed out w/ OP and so happy they don’t feel like posting! I am as ever ve ...
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It is interesting to me that people question NB’s character -- her integrity, honesty, and clarity around her daughter. I have admired her for her un-angriness, actually, in this onslaught...so perhaps your convictions are actually your perceptions? To wit, I have a completely different reaction to this passage you lifted from an earlier post of NB’s -- it seems to me that she is in a process of examining what was not well about her own experience with childhood in order to make sure the same things don’t happen again with her own daughter. Those who do not remember the past are condemned ...
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Hey -- For some reason whenever I try to respond to a message in my CZ inbox, it says the recipient is not accepting messages -- this has been going on for a while. So I did receive your message but could not reply. Any time I fall into the trap of comparing my insides to other peoples’ outsides, I go nuts. Because I am really being fearful and assuming that they have no problems, difficulties, fears -- which is actually very selfish of me, too. Self-centered fear is a horrible place to be and certainly does not help my children to become secure and stable little people -- I think ...
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Hey NB -- I thought about a book I read called ”The Spirituality of Imperfection” -- you might see if you can find a copy. Essentially it talks about the real growth that occurs around imperfection -- the importance of understanding that we will never be perfect, but that the journey we are on is one of growth in imperfection. It stresses the importance to spiritual growth of shared experience -- the shoulder-to-shoulder path, rather than learning from lessons handed down by a church, authority figure, book, or another source that can provide information or instructions rather than a ...
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That’s interesting, too -- I don’t have eczema problems with my kids but know plenty of people who do with theirs. Good to pass along. You should check out the iodine forum -- part of what is interesting to me about iodine is its relationship to its relatives in the halogen family, which are chlorine, bromine, and fluorine. I think getting to sufficent levels of iodine helps get and keep those others out. I always give my daughters iodine before we go to the pool....   [End]
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Hey -- I just read your post by chance. I wish I could say, ”I had the same thing! It was nothing!” and make you feel better, but I haven’t. However, I don’t think you have HPV. I have friends with warts and I think you would know about it -- also, my strong guess is that they truly are genital warts, and that the genitals provide the atmosphere they need, whereas the anus and colon do not. It’s a totally different environment despite proximity! Please see a post above where I discussed using iodine and oils for growth removal, and where there was some mention of doing a parasite cle ...
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Hi -- I think that Humaworm for warts info is fascinating! I love Humaworm (the man and the product...) but this information is new and I will keep it in mind. I do wonder if warts, even if associated with parasites, are viral in nature. To that end I recommend some things I am sure RG (aka Humaworm) would not discourage: oil of oregano (ooo) and coconut oil. (Ingested.) I believe that ooo can literally ”force” a virus up and out -- just after I started using it in my oil-pulling oil, I had a huge and terrible sore on my tongue -- kind of a 1” x .5” sized canker sore. A lot of canker ...
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NB -- Your post is rich with ideas, even though it is annoying, and somewhat sad, to think that you offer them in your defense (in a way -- I am glad you sound levelheaded and clear here,rather than backed into a corner here, as I don’t think you *sound* defensive.) I am a big believer in Attachment Parenting and have tried to keep the ideas behind it in the forefront of my parenting ideal. One the other hand, my inner skeptic comes out around any zealous movement, which is to some degree, which I notice about the philosophy and even my closest AP friends. (I was able, in my opinion, ...
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Hi, That is really interesting and also really good news. Our water is so chemically treated that you can small it sometimes in the bathroom. I usually put Vitamin C in the bath water. There was a C filter I saw, so I just started adding the powdered C ascorbate you can buy in bulk. Thanks for this post! Best, Laura   [End]
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Hi Kebod, Are you doing an anti-candida diet w/ no or low sugars? I wonder if that has something to do with the cavity not growing...did you ever see that video on YouTube by yourreturn, who healed his daughter’s cavities through diet? Hope your trip north was fun! Best, Laura   [End]
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Hi, You can OP. It will very likely assist in the healing process as it promotes gum growth. I would not think twice about it. Best, Laura   [End]
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Gilda, No_Biz is certainly a poster and a mother on Curezone whom I have admired a great deal, and I think it’s specious to say that she, after her initial post, is ”unconcerned” in any way -- relatively or not. My daughters masturbate, and they have never been to school or otherwise had an opportunity to be molested. When I talked to friends about this, they all had a story or two to tell about themselves and their daughters. (My favorite was my friend Jayne’s, whose boss’s daughter liked to rub against the couch in the living room; when guests came over and she began doing it, her ...
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Hey Sarah -- I was reading about sesame oil the other day on a site which I believe is called http://www.youthingstrategies.com -- and I think sesame is supposed to be helpful for eczema/psoriasis. I use it for oil pulling, and I make a combination of it and iodine for facial cleaning/moisturizing (it also provides a mild sun-protective effect). I am not sure if your little one would take a couple of teaspoons a day, but I know I have read that EFAs can help skin conditions, too. Hope you are (otherwise) doing well! Best, Laura   [End]
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Hi Pjay... Congratulations on your pregnancy! I guess I would stay away from evening primrose oil -- not that I recall anyone ever having mentioned it, but I think that is supposed to be helpful when you want to speed things up at the end of pregnancy. Castor oil for that reason, too. http://www.youthingstrategies.com There’s a site I found recently with lots of sesame information...perhaps it deserves its own post, but I will put it here as there is some mother-child info and product available. Best, Laura   [End]
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Hey -- I have very low blood pressure too. Last summer the doctor wanted me to take Inderal, a BP-lowering medication, for migraine prevention. At the time I was already drinking salt water each day to get my BP high enough to prevent me from nearly faiting every time I stood up, got out of the car, etc., so I desisted. Definitely look at searching on ”barmometric pressure headaches” for information...it happens to a lot of people I know. Best, Laura   [End]
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Hi, The ”original” OP protocol is set forth at http://www.oilpulling.com. It calls for using either sunflower or sesame oil (I use the Spectrum organic unrefined sesame -- about $6 per bottle -- for OP for the most part...you can spend a lot of money on really nice oils and it is fun to do so, but sesame, for me, is the best/most reliable/best price point), and that you swish/move the oil around in your mouth for 20 minutes once per day before eating. When there are newcomers to the site, I usually suggest they follow that protocol for a couple of weeks to acclimate, and then to tr ...
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A-Z -- I have gotten migraines since at least 4th Grade (I’m 40 now, so 30+ years that I can remember). Mostly they were very infrequent and solved by going to sleep. I’d get them before a storm or on a cold fall or spring day with very bright light, as best I can remember. Last summer, I started getting them every day, sometimes 2+ times a day for the most part. I think there were about 10 days in three months I did not have migraine of some degree of intensity or another. I honestly think it’s a barometric-pressure-induced migraine. I did have some during the fall, winter and spron ...
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A-Z -- For painful migraine, one thing that works for me is to take some cayenne pepper and inhale it back up into the nostril on the affected side (for me it’s the right). There is also a cayenne-containing product called Sinus Busters which has been helpful with minor headaches. Of course, nothing which contains cayenne is going to pack quite the punch that sticking 1/8 t. up into your very sensitive membranes does...but the spray has been a little effective for me (it’s got feverfew and a couple of other ingredients). However, the cayenne acts on your opiate receptors much in the ...
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643 -- http://www.magnascent.com/Products.htm There is John B.’s site... Best, Laura   [End]
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Hi, That’s a great story. Someday when I have time I want to print all of these great mouth/tooth healing stories into a book and show it to people -- in the aggregate I think, especially, OP would be so much more powerful than and dentist-visit collection people could come up with! My husband swears he loves getting his teeth cleaned and refuses to OP.... The dental/disease model is even stronger than it is in the world of doctors. These days even the most conventional doctors in Charlottesville and Richmond, VA seem to have heard of this or that protocol or remedy, etc. I have neve ...
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Hey -- Sure! Another thing that came to mind over the holida was to make calcium at home which is very high-quality and easily absorbed: http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/how-to-make-calcium-using-egg-shells Sorry I did not find the remineralization posts for you before (I was in a bit of a time crunch). Actually, there are a lot that are worth reading through just for a better sense of how teeth and bones get built vs. the rest of us -- go to the search window and type in ”remineralization” and read away. I read some of my posts from last summer and realized I ha ...
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no wonder she has depression.   [End]
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Hi, 1. I think you are fine oil pulling. I’d keep doing it. I don’t think it’s the only thing you should look at. 2. If you have PCOS, can’t conceive, etc. you should go to the forum called "Iodine Supplementation" and post a list of your conditions and symptoms, and research the effect of iodine deficiency on the body as well as the benefits of restoring iodine levels via supplementation.  Ovarian/breast/uterine cysts all indicate iodine deficiency. Women need iodine a great deal, as our reproductive systems require a lot of it. 3. I know that if I had to take lon ...
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Hi -- I just saw this! I have not really given my girls anything extra for their immune systems. I read that an umcka supplement is really helpful with that, although when I bought it, they would not take it. They do get a fair amount of Vitamin C, although I did not take as much C when I was nursing -- had not really learned about it yet. We did not vaccinate them, which I believe was helpful, and I did nurse them for 2+ years. They have not gotten any really bad illnesses -- croup at 5 months, and a high fever/vomiting bug at about 9 -- and then we all got the terrible stomach bug ...
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I was just talking to a friend here in Richmond last night about how the real inbreeding goes on in the upper crust, not out in the mountains as so many people think. Charleston, SC is a great example of this.   [End]
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Hey -- I think OP can prevent cavities and periodontal disease. In terms of healing tooth decay, you really have to look at nutrition. I am more and more a believer in the idea that tooth health is an ”inside job” -- based on the work of Weston A. Price (www.westonaprice.org) and others who looked at mouth health and indigenous cultures/diets -- that cleaning teeth on the outside via flossing and brushing is good, but that it’s only as good as what kinds of vitamins and minerals those teeth are getting on the inside, from what we eat. You can search this forum’s archives for informat ...
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Hi, The best thing to do is to go to the site http://www.oilpulling.com and read the descriiption there of the therapy and the process itself. Very easy. Just get sunflower or sesame oil, I use a couple of tablespoons at a time, put in your mouth and swish it around gently for 17-20 mins. The site recommends you OP on an empty stomach in the morning or 4 hours after meals. Don’t worry if you need to spit it out earlier: it’s taken some people a little while to work up to the full 17-20 minutes. I had a lot of sinus drainage at the beginning and often had to spit out the oil/snee ...
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Hey there -- If you go to the LF forum and search on breastfeeding and LF, you’ll get information saying liver flushing is OK, and you’ll get info saying it’s not. I can tell you a few things about my experience/offer some ideas -- -- I did some liver flushing with Ann and Merry were 18-19 months old and they seemed no worse for the wear. I was still nursing them, I think like you at night (or maybe in the early morning and the night). -- It is hard to do the liver flush and need to be near the bathroom that whole morning when you have two toddlers who need attention! -- Your d ...
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You could also use coconut intermittently, or stick with sesame/other oils for a while and add EVCO later. Molly has had a negative experiece with EVCO and I have had positive ones; it sounds like you are more similar to her experience for sure...but it is not necessarily a forever thing if you like the idea in general. Another thing you can do is try it externally, although you may get a reaction from that as well. I mix EVCO, sesame, and a little iodine for skin cleansing/moisturizing/sun protection and that’s been great. Do you get the bumps when you simply ingest coconut oil?   [End]
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Hi there -- I arrived at this forum and began OP when my twins were 16 months, and certainly did not see any problems with them at all. Make sure you are getting a lot of good fats in your diet, which will help the efficacy of OP and also save your mood in general. That can be a tough age...as they all can, of course! Best, Laura   [End]
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What are W-6’s?   [End]
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More sensible brilliance from Larry....! Thanks for this.   [End]
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Scouter -- Now that the little girl has fallen asleep I remembered that I meant to say, if you put the oil-iodine mix in your ear, you could add a couple of drops of the oregano oil, too. I would not use too much (again, you may just be in detox overload here and need to keep it simpler in terms of one thing at a time), but it is a good antibacterial. You want to keep ”stuff” coming out of you for sure, but as one who had a bad detox reaction early on (almost two weeks of a huge canker-esque sore on the bottom of my tongue which was so painful....I resorted to narcotics in a matter o ...
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Scouter, You might want to take a break from OP if that’s been going on for a week or more. You have a lot of ”balls in the air” right now and maybe it’s too much -- oil pulling will be around when you feel better from the intense earache for sure! One thing I would not advise is to take acetominophen (paracemetol) when you are hoping for more good liver function. It is terrible for the liver and impairs function -- ibuprofen or aspirin are better choices for that reason. One thing you might try is to mix some oil and some iodine together (1/2 cup sesame, maybe 10 drops iodine...) ...
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Hey all, I have a friend who has severe skin damage from years of sailing. Always going to the dermatologist to get things dug out and removed (she says, ”Let’s take that off before it reaches the bone” -- eek! how’s that for a scare tactic?) and then of course takes it off. He says his insurance is sky-high because he is considered cancerous. Anyway, is there any concise post that discusses iodine supp, either internal or external, repairing severe sun damage? I did a search and came up with related stuff but thought I would ask you all too. I never seem to be too successful with searc ...
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