NOTE: I've split this topic off from the candida discussion and will be adding to and/or changing some things over the next couple of days as I gather the newest data together.
So, everything is beginning to tie in together: the information from Rogers' "Detoxify or Die," Galland's "The Fat Resistance Diet," and the Candida research. There's no way to deal with one of these issues without considering the others.
So, what looks to me to be the way to go about it is to begin with the heavy metal detox program: supplementation to help the body clean its overload, sweating in the infrared sauna to assist, and rebuilding the system by replenishing the needed nutrients. Then one can approach the candida problem with some hope of permanent success IF one regularly takes care of detox.
Those of you who have read "Detoxify or Die" have a pretty good idea of what we are up against in terms of heavy metals poisoning. You literally cannot avoid it. The only thing to do then is to find out how to help the body cope with it and detox regularly.
At the same time, one has to be reasonable about what approach to take. What is really necessary to detox, what is not? What is just product promotion, and what do you need? If you take all the different views together and try to amalgamate them, you would end up sitting down to the table three times a day and eating a plate full of pills. I think it is better to try to find the common elements in all the approaches and go with that.
Let's face it, a "no carb" diet has its own problems not to mention the fact that you can't feel like you are living at all eating that way!
So, what to do?
Well, I think what is most reasonable is to understand that, yeah, we have an overload of toxins - heavy metals and such - and the body cannot get rid of it without help. Especially not since we get a new dose of toxicity every single day, even in the air we breathe. So we DO need to assist the body to get rid of this built up burden of toxins.
And then, we need to do a little min-detox on a regular basis throughout our lives.
Meanwhile, we ought to be eating more or less the Mediterranean Diet - lots of fresh vegetables, fish and meat and olive oil. Check out the article on sott: Why Andorrans Live Longer The secret seems to be "Lean meat and fresh fruit and vegetables, lots of olive oil - things that are good for the heart, classic Mediterranean fare." AND exercise AND PEACE OF MIND!!!
Notice that they all smoke. We regularly go to Andorra to buy cigarettes and I can testify to the fact that everybody there is smoking!
The Mediterranean Diet places emphasis on a wide variety of minimally processed, seasonally fresh and locally grown foods. I understand that this is actually the principle of the "macrobiotic diet," though macrobiotic diets don't seem to place so much emphasis on "locally grown" since they are all pushing Japanese foods that cost a mint in the foreign foods section of the supermarket.
Here's a blog about the Mediterranean Diet Wikipedia also has an entry on it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet - as well as the similar "French Paradox". Based on observation, I think that the French eat pretty much a "Mediterranean" diet too.
Obviously, if you are also dealing with candida, you will modify this diet somewhat for the duration of your battle, minimizing - but not completely eliminating - carbs.
Getting back to the detox problem, as I noted, if you listen to all of the advice in all of the research, you'd never eat anything except plates full of pills. Based on some experiments we've been doing here with good results, I've come up with a little plan for detoxing that makes it relatively easy to start and stick to such a program for extended periods of time (it can take months to fully detox an overload, maybe a year if you are seriously ill). So, here it is:
Detox Plan
Morning:
Take probiotics first. Follow them with a glass of water.
Then make Shake consisting of:
Berries (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, mix, etc.)
Alternative milk (oat, rice, almond)
1 TBSP Vit C powder
1 TBSP Spirulina or Chlorella
2 scoops amino acids
2 TBSP psyllium husks
1 TBSP Flax seed oil
Stevia if wanted
Blend and drink with two capsules Alpha Lipoic Acid and 1 capsule Glutahione and one high potency B vitamin complex. Take also your magnesium, zinc, and multi-mineral supplement at this time.
If you need to eat something more than the shake, go ahead - oatmeal with stevia and oat milk or almond milk, eggs (don't break the yolks) or whatever. If you are fighting candida too, obviously eliminate the carbs or minimize them keeping in mind that the good bacteria need to eat too! See:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/153880-Gut-Flora-A-Digestible-Account-of-Probiotics
"A substance in porridge oats, known as beta glucans, helps gut microbes to grow"
Lunch and/or dinner
Take whatever additional supplements you favor or need in your specific case that are not already listed.
Have a salad and/or vegetable plate. Perhaps some lentils or other beans with olive oil drizzled on them. A piece of fish, chicken or turkey. Follow the Mediterranean diet (with modifications if necessary) basically.
Next, the infrared sauna: Depending on how fast you want to detox and how ill you are, will determine how often you schedule your sauna treatment. I did it every single day for an entire month. Now I do it three or four times a week and often alternate with gym workouts.
For anybody who is really in a bad way, worry not, the infrared sauna has been used on people who were expected to die within days just to make them feel a bit better and, interestingly, they lived and got better. So, you can't be so weak and disabled that you can't use this therapy! Just start slow and easy and raise the temp and time gradually.
The best thing is the sauna blanket that encloses you completely and allows you to take your therapy lying down. I put mine on the bed and watch movies or TV shows on DVD. You can't read because your arms are supposed to be inside. I'm up to 90 minutes per session at 60 degrees C.
Okay, so here's what you take before and after your sauna:
Before Sauna or Gym Work-out
50 – 100 mg niacin
1 capsule digestive enzymes
Multi-mineral (determine dose by strength of product which varies)
2 calcium
High potency Zinc
High potency Magnesium
After Sauna or Gym Work Out
Vitamin C
Lipoic Acid
Glutathione
Potassium
Hopefully, you will do your sauna in the early to mid-afternoon which is when I usually do mine so that your supplements will have time to go to work before you take the bedtime batch:
Before Bed
Phosphatidyl Choline
Butyric Acid (also found in butter)
Vitamin E
Fish Oil/Omega 3 oils (take 10 or more of whatever combination you like)
Evening Primrose Oil
Liver extract and/or Ox bile
B 6
5 HTP
And, finally:
Two days per week, say on Mondays and Thursdays....
Coffee enema
Now, I know you are all saying YUCK! But hold on a minute! This is really important for a heavy metal detox!
According to the research on the topic, the GI tract has two functions:
1. To extract nutrition from foods so we can use it for growth, repair, and
healing
2. To get rid of waste.
Your stools are full of toxins. However, since many of the toxins can act as neurotoxins and the colon is lined with nerve endings, many of the mobilised toxins are reabsorbed into the body on the way out. (If you suffer from a leaky gut from wheat gluten sensitivity or candida, this can explain why, after having gone to the toilet, you can feel less toxic and lethargic.)
The stool is the most toxic by the time it reaches the last part of the colon. Fortunately, nature has provided us with a system to deal with this:
Entero-hepatic Circulation (ESC).
This system enables toxins to be sent to the liver rather than being allowed to circulate back through the body.
Caffeine is preferentially reabsorbed into the entero-hepatic system and therefore into the liver, where it has a strong detoxifying effect, causing the liver to unload toxins in the bile ducts. This then enables the liver to eliminate the backlog of toxins that have accumulated in organ tissues and the bloodstream.
The caffeine also contains some alkaloids that stimulate the production of glutathathione-s-transferase, an enzyme that helps the liver´s detoxification pathways. This enzyme is crucial in the formation of more glutathione, which, as we now know, binds to metals and toxins, enabling them to be eliminated from the GI tract.
One guy writes about this:
That means that you will want to do your coffee enema not long after you have your shake which contains spirulina or chlorella.
· Use filtered water/bottled water, not chlorinated tap water.
· Flush the bowel first with one to two cups of water.
- Then use the coffee - about a cup and a half. (Boil the coffee in the water: three teaspoons of coffee to one cup of water. Boil for a few minutes, then let cool and strain.)
· Using some old towels, lie down on your back on the floor with the fountain bag hanging about 3 or 4 feet off the floor. Insert the tube and administer the mixture. Try to retain it for 10-15 minutes. You can lie on each side
for three minutes each also.
· Repeat a second time.
Remember, you are not drinking the coffee so even if you can't drink it, as I can't, you can still utilize it this way. (We jokingly refer to the Fountain Syringe outfit as a "coffee buddy".) You may want to take an electrolyte mixture before or after the enema to replace any minerals lost.
- Regularly clean your enema kit by pouring boiling water or peroxide through the bag and tube to stop any bacterial/mold growth.
Finally, after a month of detoxing, you can do a liver flush as follows:
Take 20 Phosphatidyl Choline capsule and 2 ox bile capsules before going to bed. In the morning, do your shake as usual.
A Parasite Cleanse twice a year is also recommended using Wormwood, Cloves, Black Walnut, etc. There are a number of different products available, do some research and pick one you like.
You may also want to have regular deep massages to help move the lymph. I understand that there are special lymphatic stimulating massage techniques nowadays. Do yoga to help with lymphatic drainage also.
Depending on your condition, you might want to follow this program for several months and then repeat it for a week or two every few months for a couple of years, and then twice a year (at least) for general maintenance. If you are in relatively good shape, a month will probably be long enough.
It's not a quick fix. I don't think there are any quick fixes. Our world is just a toxic place as a consequence of human greed and lack of care for the environment. We just have to figure out ways to cope and survive so that we can be at our best and do our best where we are needed, as long as we are needed.
Edit: put the minerals with the morning shake so that those who just have time to do that will get what is most needed.
So, everything is beginning to tie in together: the information from Rogers' "Detoxify or Die," Galland's "The Fat Resistance Diet," and the Candida research. There's no way to deal with one of these issues without considering the others.
So, what looks to me to be the way to go about it is to begin with the heavy metal detox program: supplementation to help the body clean its overload, sweating in the infrared sauna to assist, and rebuilding the system by replenishing the needed nutrients. Then one can approach the candida problem with some hope of permanent success IF one regularly takes care of detox.
Those of you who have read "Detoxify or Die" have a pretty good idea of what we are up against in terms of heavy metals poisoning. You literally cannot avoid it. The only thing to do then is to find out how to help the body cope with it and detox regularly.
At the same time, one has to be reasonable about what approach to take. What is really necessary to detox, what is not? What is just product promotion, and what do you need? If you take all the different views together and try to amalgamate them, you would end up sitting down to the table three times a day and eating a plate full of pills. I think it is better to try to find the common elements in all the approaches and go with that.
Let's face it, a "no carb" diet has its own problems not to mention the fact that you can't feel like you are living at all eating that way!
So, what to do?
Well, I think what is most reasonable is to understand that, yeah, we have an overload of toxins - heavy metals and such - and the body cannot get rid of it without help. Especially not since we get a new dose of toxicity every single day, even in the air we breathe. So we DO need to assist the body to get rid of this built up burden of toxins.
And then, we need to do a little min-detox on a regular basis throughout our lives.
Meanwhile, we ought to be eating more or less the Mediterranean Diet - lots of fresh vegetables, fish and meat and olive oil. Check out the article on sott: Why Andorrans Live Longer The secret seems to be "Lean meat and fresh fruit and vegetables, lots of olive oil - things that are good for the heart, classic Mediterranean fare." AND exercise AND PEACE OF MIND!!!
Notice that they all smoke. We regularly go to Andorra to buy cigarettes and I can testify to the fact that everybody there is smoking!
The Mediterranean Diet places emphasis on a wide variety of minimally processed, seasonally fresh and locally grown foods. I understand that this is actually the principle of the "macrobiotic diet," though macrobiotic diets don't seem to place so much emphasis on "locally grown" since they are all pushing Japanese foods that cost a mint in the foreign foods section of the supermarket.
Here's a blog about the Mediterranean Diet Wikipedia also has an entry on it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet - as well as the similar "French Paradox". Based on observation, I think that the French eat pretty much a "Mediterranean" diet too.
Obviously, if you are also dealing with candida, you will modify this diet somewhat for the duration of your battle, minimizing - but not completely eliminating - carbs.
Getting back to the detox problem, as I noted, if you listen to all of the advice in all of the research, you'd never eat anything except plates full of pills. Based on some experiments we've been doing here with good results, I've come up with a little plan for detoxing that makes it relatively easy to start and stick to such a program for extended periods of time (it can take months to fully detox an overload, maybe a year if you are seriously ill). So, here it is:
Detox Plan
Morning:
Take probiotics first. Follow them with a glass of water.
Then make Shake consisting of:
Berries (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, mix, etc.)
Alternative milk (oat, rice, almond)
1 TBSP Vit C powder
1 TBSP Spirulina or Chlorella
2 scoops amino acids
2 TBSP psyllium husks
1 TBSP Flax seed oil
Stevia if wanted
Blend and drink with two capsules Alpha Lipoic Acid and 1 capsule Glutahione and one high potency B vitamin complex. Take also your magnesium, zinc, and multi-mineral supplement at this time.
If you need to eat something more than the shake, go ahead - oatmeal with stevia and oat milk or almond milk, eggs (don't break the yolks) or whatever. If you are fighting candida too, obviously eliminate the carbs or minimize them keeping in mind that the good bacteria need to eat too! See:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/153880-Gut-Flora-A-Digestible-Account-of-Probiotics
"A substance in porridge oats, known as beta glucans, helps gut microbes to grow"
Lunch and/or dinner
Take whatever additional supplements you favor or need in your specific case that are not already listed.
Have a salad and/or vegetable plate. Perhaps some lentils or other beans with olive oil drizzled on them. A piece of fish, chicken or turkey. Follow the Mediterranean diet (with modifications if necessary) basically.
Next, the infrared sauna: Depending on how fast you want to detox and how ill you are, will determine how often you schedule your sauna treatment. I did it every single day for an entire month. Now I do it three or four times a week and often alternate with gym workouts.
For anybody who is really in a bad way, worry not, the infrared sauna has been used on people who were expected to die within days just to make them feel a bit better and, interestingly, they lived and got better. So, you can't be so weak and disabled that you can't use this therapy! Just start slow and easy and raise the temp and time gradually.
The best thing is the sauna blanket that encloses you completely and allows you to take your therapy lying down. I put mine on the bed and watch movies or TV shows on DVD. You can't read because your arms are supposed to be inside. I'm up to 90 minutes per session at 60 degrees C.
Okay, so here's what you take before and after your sauna:
Before Sauna or Gym Work-out
50 – 100 mg niacin
1 capsule digestive enzymes
Multi-mineral (determine dose by strength of product which varies)
2 calcium
High potency Zinc
High potency Magnesium
After Sauna or Gym Work Out
Vitamin C
Lipoic Acid
Glutathione
Potassium
Hopefully, you will do your sauna in the early to mid-afternoon which is when I usually do mine so that your supplements will have time to go to work before you take the bedtime batch:
Before Bed
Phosphatidyl Choline
Butyric Acid (also found in butter)
Vitamin E
Fish Oil/Omega 3 oils (take 10 or more of whatever combination you like)
Evening Primrose Oil
Liver extract and/or Ox bile
B 6
5 HTP
And, finally:
Two days per week, say on Mondays and Thursdays....
Coffee enema
Now, I know you are all saying YUCK! But hold on a minute! This is really important for a heavy metal detox!
According to the research on the topic, the GI tract has two functions:
1. To extract nutrition from foods so we can use it for growth, repair, and
healing
2. To get rid of waste.
Your stools are full of toxins. However, since many of the toxins can act as neurotoxins and the colon is lined with nerve endings, many of the mobilised toxins are reabsorbed into the body on the way out. (If you suffer from a leaky gut from wheat gluten sensitivity or candida, this can explain why, after having gone to the toilet, you can feel less toxic and lethargic.)
The stool is the most toxic by the time it reaches the last part of the colon. Fortunately, nature has provided us with a system to deal with this:
Entero-hepatic Circulation (ESC).
This system enables toxins to be sent to the liver rather than being allowed to circulate back through the body.
Caffeine is preferentially reabsorbed into the entero-hepatic system and therefore into the liver, where it has a strong detoxifying effect, causing the liver to unload toxins in the bile ducts. This then enables the liver to eliminate the backlog of toxins that have accumulated in organ tissues and the bloodstream.
The caffeine also contains some alkaloids that stimulate the production of glutathathione-s-transferase, an enzyme that helps the liver´s detoxification pathways. This enzyme is crucial in the formation of more glutathione, which, as we now know, binds to metals and toxins, enabling them to be eliminated from the GI tract.
One guy writes about this:
That means that you will want to do your coffee enema not long after you have your shake which contains spirulina or chlorella.
· Use filtered water/bottled water, not chlorinated tap water.
· Flush the bowel first with one to two cups of water.
- Then use the coffee - about a cup and a half. (Boil the coffee in the water: three teaspoons of coffee to one cup of water. Boil for a few minutes, then let cool and strain.)
· Using some old towels, lie down on your back on the floor with the fountain bag hanging about 3 or 4 feet off the floor. Insert the tube and administer the mixture. Try to retain it for 10-15 minutes. You can lie on each side
for three minutes each also.
· Repeat a second time.
Remember, you are not drinking the coffee so even if you can't drink it, as I can't, you can still utilize it this way. (We jokingly refer to the Fountain Syringe outfit as a "coffee buddy".) You may want to take an electrolyte mixture before or after the enema to replace any minerals lost.
- Regularly clean your enema kit by pouring boiling water or peroxide through the bag and tube to stop any bacterial/mold growth.
Finally, after a month of detoxing, you can do a liver flush as follows:
Take 20 Phosphatidyl Choline capsule and 2 ox bile capsules before going to bed. In the morning, do your shake as usual.
A Parasite Cleanse twice a year is also recommended using Wormwood, Cloves, Black Walnut, etc. There are a number of different products available, do some research and pick one you like.
You may also want to have regular deep massages to help move the lymph. I understand that there are special lymphatic stimulating massage techniques nowadays. Do yoga to help with lymphatic drainage also.
Depending on your condition, you might want to follow this program for several months and then repeat it for a week or two every few months for a couple of years, and then twice a year (at least) for general maintenance. If you are in relatively good shape, a month will probably be long enough.
It's not a quick fix. I don't think there are any quick fixes. Our world is just a toxic place as a consequence of human greed and lack of care for the environment. We just have to figure out ways to cope and survive so that we can be at our best and do our best where we are needed, as long as we are needed.
Edit: put the minerals with the morning shake so that those who just have time to do that will get what is most needed.
