Lucinda or anyone,
Lucinda wrote:
Also, you didn’t mention any parasite cleanses, and parasites are
something anyone eating a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables has to
consider. Curezone covers parasites in great detail, so I’m sure
you’ve at least thought about them as a potential cause of your
gallstones.
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I did read quite a bit about parasites as a possible cause for my
gallbladder and intestinal problems. My health food store owner told me I
didn’t need a parasite cleanse, since I wasn’t experiencing unusual weight
loss. I am pretty much maintaining my 145 lbs.( about ideal for my age,
height and bone mass).
I have done 3 Dr. Saul liver cleanses in 8 months. In the past 3 weeks, I
have done a small number of epsom salts solutions and about 4 days of
homozon for colon cleanse. Last week, I tried to add acidopholus, biphidus
to my diet. I had to stop that, as it seems have severely constipated me. I
tried the epsom salts again to get my bowel movements going. It’s not
working as well as it did before Acid. Bifid. Now I have just taken a
teaspoon of psyllium fiber in the form of of Metamucil.
I have incresed my activity level from a fairly sedentary lifestyle, other
than a little gardening and housework - to adding 20 minute walks 2 or 3
times a week, occasional 20 minute swim.
I am reading Dr. Cabot’s Liver Cleanse bestseller, started taking her
Livatone tonic capsules( for about a week so far). and have added more EFA’s
to my diet and am gradually adding more fiber and have increased my water
intake to 8-10 glasses a day. I am still experiencing bloating and
intestinal discomfort.
I have high pain tolerance so can’t really use that as an indicator. If I
start to experience pain, I suspect I will have really gone to far with my
self healing journey. I am trying awfully hard not to be discouraged, since
stress adds to liver discomfort, but I feel like I am fighting a losing
battle.
I have not been very regimented in cutting out bad fats altogether, but have
reduced significantly..especially no more potato chips, candies, soda pop,
cheese, ice cream (previously pretty regular snack foods). I should have
dropped a ton of weight just from this alone, never mind parasites - but I
haven’t noticed any significant weight change.
I have done just about all the reading I can digest. Does anyone have any
suggestions? I don’t know of, or can’t afford to spend a ton of money on, a
homeopath and/or naturopath doctor. I’m thinking I will have to figure out a
way to find and afford one verrry soon.
Or am I expecting results too quickly? I sure do like the soft feel of my
skin with all the EFA’s, but can do without the extra acne I am seeing.
Thanks in advance and God Bless,
Jeanne
Starting my liver health journey.
October 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tags: diseases
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1 Danial Marleen // Oct 1, 2006 at 12:37 pm
I can tell that you are obvioulsy making a lot of changes for the
betterment of your health. You are to be applauded for taking such
good care of yourself!
Y’know, I would have taken the word of the great guy down at my
health food store, too, back before I saw the horrible photos at
CureZone. Since then, I’m taking parasite cleansing herbs — just to
play it safe. My favorite is cayenne capsules, because it also
helps my aching knees and it works as an internal bug spray — as
long as there are others around who don’t eat cayenne, the
mosquitoes will go eat their blood, not mine! From what I read, a
mixture of black walnut, cayenne, and cloves should kill off just
about every known parasite. I take prepared parasite cleanse
capsules as well as the cayenne to get all that — and I don’t take
them all the time — after the initial cleanse I probably take them
one week every other month or so, just to be on the safe side. I’ve
been thinking about just mixing my own herbs and stuffing my own
capsules, but for now I’m too lazy to go to all that bother.
I also try to get more garlic and onions in my diet, as well as
rosemary and basil and sage… and anything else I find in my
cupboard. Parsites aren’t something I want to mess with. In our
journey as parents so far we’ve had lice (that was our welcome to
living in England!) and pin-worms (welcome to Texas) and fleas (more
of Texas) — which is how I learned about the cayenne not being
popular with bugs! I just don’t want to mess with those things any
more! It’s not that hard to take a capsule or two a day and be free
of the worry of parasites.
The other thing I do for my gallbladder and my general health is
take lots of vitamin C. The more I read about vitamin C online the
more of it I take. I’d like to hear from Will and Claudia how much
vitamin C they take and how much they’d recommend for others to
take. My gallbladder has been blessedly quiet since I started taking
about 4,000mg of vitamin C and 500mg of magnesium oxide before bed
along with some flax oil capsules.
That said, I don’t have much pain with my gallbladder anyway. The
only way I knew I had gallstones was because I had an ultra-sound to
check my uterus and the technician told be about the gallstones
while she was touring my abdominal cavity. The doctor told me that
as long as I wasn’t having any pain that he wouldn’t insist I had my
gallbladder removed yet.
I hope your health continues to improve and that you find a
naturopath that you can trust to help you through your journey.
Lucinda
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