Techniques For Cleansing The Body and Detoxifying

Written by Thomas Corriher Thursday, 09 September 2010 13:52

We get lots of questions about cleansing.  We have always treated it as a rainy day topic, and given time to more hard-hitting reports.  This report attempts to answer some basic cleansing questions for all of our readers.

A Gallbladder Cleanse

We have already written a comprehensive report about gallbladder cleanses in the article, Holistically and Naturally Treating Gallstones, Gallbladder Attacks, and What You Can Do About Them Without Getting Butchered by a Surgeon.   Please reference that article for more information about cleansing the gallbladder, because there is too much information to include it here.

A Liver Cleanse

Always begin by cleaning the liver.  The liver works in close partnership with the kidneys to cleanse the blood.  Toxins get stored inside the liver whenever a body is made toxic enough, or it has toxins that it cannot excrete.  In a sense, a liver will self-sacrifice itself to defend the rest of the body when all else fails against antibiotics, heavy metals, chemicals, and etc..  The liver can never effectively expel toxins inside itself, so liver toxicity tends to be permanent for most people.  The eventual result of the onslaught is a crippled liver that cannot properly eliminate future toxins.  This produces a chain reaction of increased toxicity like an avalanche effect, whereby the more toxic the liver becomes, the less a body can prevent the accumulation of toxins, and must therefore store them in the liver.  What is worse is that this sort of partial liver failure is normal for people in the Western world, and it partly explains why Western societies are constantly becoming more sensitive to chemicals and allergens.

These reasons are why animal livers should never be eaten.  Eating animal livers means eating the worst toxins that the animals were exposed to throughout their lives, and no amount of nutrition can compensate for the damage that these toxins will do.

A body will not function optimally whenever a liver becomes burdened, but there is a greater reason for cleaning the liver first.  Until the liver is cleansed, its toxic load will prevent a body from coping with new toxins, or flushing them out.  This is why a liver cleanse is so vital, because no other cleanse will work effectively until the liver is functioning properly again.  Cleansing any part of the body while the liver is crippled is like cleaning a floor with a filthy mop and filthy water.  The crud gets moved around, but no cleaning actually takes place.

There are a wide variety of herbal liver cleanses available that are prepackaged to make the process easy, and there is an equal variety of reasons to choose those commercial turn-key formulas.   There is a massive array of herbs and supplements that must be properly combined and properly administered to effectively flush all impurities from a toxic liver.  Such formulations are exceptionally difficult for any individual to create.  The research alone takes weeks for a skilled researcher.  We can personally vouch for that.  It is even considerably more expensive to purchase all of the ingredients separately.  Eventually, we determined that doing-it-yourself is unwise, so we purchased the Perfect Cleanse brand for ourselves.  As always, we recommend reading the ingredients before purchasing any product, to ensure that it does not contain any toxic additives that may actually make the situation worse, instead of better.

The following herbs are excellent liver tonics:

• Licorice
• Dandelion
• Milk thistle
• St. John's Wort (unless there is a chance of pregnancy)
• Nettle
• Fennel
• Peppermint
• Fenugreek
• Burdock root
• Wild Yam

A Heavy Metal Cleanse

For a healthy person with limited candida growth, we would next recommend a heavy metal cleanse.  However, this does not include the majority of the population.  Heavy metals are toxic to almost all living things, including candida.  Thus, they constantly keep candida (yeast) in the body suppressed, and removing them could result in an immediate massive candida overgrowth.  This would result in general sickness, lethargy, yeast infections, confusion, and mental fogginess.

To first kill the candida colonies, eat a good diet for one to two weeks.  Avoid carbohydrates and all sugars (except honey), get plenty of fruits and vegetables, and organic meats.  Alongside this good diet, get some plain unsweetened yogurt (preferably organic) and eat some each day.  The beneficial bacteria in yogurt will fight the candida in the intestinal tract.  It would be wise to mix this with flax seed oil for extra benefits.  Read about the Budwig Diet for a full explanation of this combination.

Later, a heavy metal cleanse can be done using a variety of substances.  These are our recommendations that are to be taken for about 10 days for a general metal cleanse:

• N.A.C. amino acid supplement (N-Acetyl-Cysteine)
• Selenium
• B complex vitamin (food-based)
• 5-HTP
• Garlic
• Exercise  (Sweating helps to expel toxins, and exercise is the only way that the lymph nodes can expel toxins)
• MSM  (Methylsulfonylmethane)  (Optional)
• DMSA (Optional)

DMSA is particularly helpful for those suffering from the mental effects of heavy metal poisoning, because it crosses the blood-brain barrier.  It is therefore effectively used by those attempting to cure autism.

The following combination was created by a Japanese physician.  While it has an undesirable taste, it is an effective way of cleansing a variety of heavy metals. Our own Andrea uses this daily with selenium to suppress the effects of her dental fillings.  Using it would be wise for anyone else with "silver" dental fillings who wish to avoid routine mental disturbances, lowered intelligence, weakened immunity, and potentially Alzheimer's disease.  One study has proven that cilantro removes mercury, lead, and aluminum.  Despite being studied by the Heart Disease Research Foundation, this study was sadly not printed in any of the major medical journals, because it lent credence to competing nutritional methods.  Blend these together thoroughly, and take one teaspoon of this green paste every day for 10 days:

• 1/2 cup of cold-pressed extra virgin organic olive oil
• 1 large bunch of cilantro
• 4 large cloves of garlic

We suggest having frequent salads containing fresh crushed garlic, cilantro, baby spinach, and a homemade dressing made from cold pressed extra virgin olive oil.

EDTA also chelates metals, including mercury and lead.  It is used by the mainstream medical establishment for metal poisonings.  It also suppresses the formation of benzene.  EDTA should only be used for emergencies, but it is extremely effective.

Men: Do Not Forget to Flush the Iron

Additionally, we highly recommend the regular intake of grapes, raisins, grape juice, or red wine for adult males.  Resveratrol is the active compound in these foods that men require, or it can be expensively obtained in supplement form.  Without regular resveratrol intake, a grown man will accumulate toxic levels of iron in his blood.  This happens to practically all adult men who lack grape products in their diets.  The only men without this problem will be those who have been life-long vegetarians, and it can technically happen to them too.  Grape products are absolutely required for men to live long and healthy lives.  There are few exceptions to this rule.  Resveratrol is critical to men because typical heavy metal cleanses do not remove iron at all.  Without regular resveratrol intake, a man's iron level tends to grow constantly throughout his life.  The fastest way for any man to rid himself of excessive iron is to donate blood, so that his body must create pure blood to replace what is lost.  Otherwise, his blood is typically recycled endlessly.

The toxicity of iron overload in adult males is a huge component of heart disease.  Along with other metal toxicities, it is involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease.  Too much iron can also cause strokes.

Excess iron may be an issue for post-menopausal women too.  We must do more research before we can definitively report about that.

The Big Picture

The procedures outlined above (liver cleanse followed by candida cleanse and then a metal cleanse) should remove most of the unpleasantness from successful cleansing, so that life can continue relatively uneffected.  Nevertheless, even with the best protocol, it will not happen entirely without incident.  In the very least, the person should expect to become moody and to suffer from bouts of fatigue.  These are good and normal signs that the cleanse is working.  These symptoms are a result of the stagnant toxins moving through the body again, which triggers the immune system to activate as if the body were being invaded.  Initially having mild flu-like symptoms means that everything is working like it is supposed to, so maintain a positive attitude throughout the process.

Kidney Cleanse

Having a combination of bad body pH and tiny undetected kidney stones is the most common reason for kidney dysfunction, infections, and toxicity.  Hormone imbalances often cause kidney problems too, but that is another topic.  Everyone knows about using cranberry juice, but it causes acidic body chemistry, so it should always be used in conjunction with lemon juice, pineapple juice, or something else that has a significant alkalizing effect.

• Homemade Lemonade (sweetened with honey)
• Cranberry Juice
• Lots of healthy (ie. spring) water

Lung Cleanse

If you are, or ever have been a smoker, then your lungs could probably use a good cleanse.  This is also true for most asthma suffers.  One way to cleanse the lungs is with harmless and non-addictive Indian tobacco.  If you smoke retail cigarettes, then you are in more danger than you know, for carpet glue is now being added to every brand.

Colon Cleanse

A colon cleanse should not be necessary for anyone having a high fiber diet.  In other words, people who generally eat plenty of fruits and vegetables should never need a colon cleanse.  A lifetime of poor diet may actually merit a colon cleanse, but prevention is always preferred, of course.

There are natural colon cleanse protocols that you can create for yourself, but we do not recommend them.  They generally entail living beside, or on top of a toilet, for days, in a manner reminiscent of having salmonella.  Frankly, it's insanity, and such cleanses give the allopathic doctors justification to laugh at our community.

If you feel that you need a colon cleanse, then we recommend using a commercially formulated product from a reputable health or herbal store.  These products are often the result of years of research and are already perfected.  Also important is the fact that most of the products are "gentle" cleansers, which means that you will not be spending a week on your toilet.  Unfortunately, we cannot recommend any specific brands.  We generally try to avoid that sort of thing, and we have not tested any of the products ourselves.

Activated charcoal is an old do-it-yourself method, but be advised that it can cause malnutrition, constipation, and it neutralizes virtually everything.  Reference our report, Essential First Aid Item: Activated Carbon to learn more information about it.

Parasite Cleanse

We have written another comprehensive report that is specifically about the topic of eliminating parasites, which is entitled, Eliminating The Parasites That You Almost Certainly Have, and Curing Lupus.  Since almost everyone (85%) has health-weakening parasites, this additional article is well worth reading.

Extras

Chlorophyll has been shown to flush a wide variety of substances out of the body.  It is used to aid the removal of dioxin, benzene, and aflatoxin.  All of which are carcinogenic.  Researchers are still studying the detoxifying effects of chlorophyll.  It has the rare property of binding with dangerous chemicals, in such a way that aids a body in excreting them, while simultaneously drawing beneficial nutrients into cells.

Niacin (vitamin B3) is well known for its ability to flush the body of toxins.  We strongly recommend that people read our niacin article before supplementing.

Throughout alternative medicine, there is a drink which many believe to cleanse the blood.  We call it "The Blood Builder".  Current scientific understanding tells us that the resveratrol present in grape juice removes excess iron and copper from the blood, but this drink seems to have particularly unique properties.  We recommend this combination of juices and honey to all.  It is extremely invigorating, and can keep a person awake all night if taken too late in the day.

 

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