Techniques For Cleansing The Body and Detoxifying

Written by Thomas Corriher

We have received lots of questions about cleansing.  We had always treated this as a rainy day topic, and we have historically given time to more hard-hitting reports.  This report attempts to answer 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 here.  A gallbladder cleanse is only necessary if there are ongoing problems that are specific to the gallbladder, and such cleanses should never be utilized as routine preventative care.

A Liver Cleanse

Always begin a cleansing regimen by first cleaning the liver.  The liver works in close partnership with the kidneys to cleanse the blood.  Toxins are stored inside the liver whenever a body becomes too toxic to excrete them, or when the materials are too toxic for the kidneys to manage them.  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 its own toxins, 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 that the liver becomes, the less that a body is able to prevent the accumulation of further toxins, so it must therefore store even more of them inside of the liver.  The resultant partial liver failure is normal for people of the Western world, and it partially explains why Western societies are constantly becoming more sensitive to chemicals and allergens.

Therefore, 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 other part of the body while the liver is crippled is like cleaning a floor with a filthy mop and filthy water.

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 these commercial turn-key formulas.   There is a massive array of herbs and supplements that must be properly combined and properly administered to effectively flush the impurities from a toxic liver.  Such formulations are exceptionally difficult for any individual to create.  The research alone takes weeks for a skilled researcher.  It is even considerably more expensive to purchase all of the ingredients separately.  Eventually, we determined that doing-it-yourself for liver cleanses 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.

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 recommend a heavy metal cleanse after a liver cleanse.  Heavy metals are toxic to almost all living things, including candida.  Metals constantly keep candida (yeast) in the body suppressed, and removing metals can result in an immediate candida overgrowth.  The immediate aftermath of the stimulated candida is general sickness, lethargy, yeast infections, confusion, and mental fogginess.

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

Finally, the actual 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 further helps to expel some toxins, and exercise is the only way that the lymph nodes 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.

"Silver" Dental Fillings

The following combination was created by a Japanese physician.  It is an effective way of cleansing a variety of heavy metals.  Some people may wish to use this formula (below) daily with selenium, in order to suppress the effects of mercury-based ("silver") dental fillings.  Using it to suppress mercury from dental fillings will help 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 never printed in any of the major medical journals, because it lent credence to competing nutritional methods of metal chelation.  Blend the ingredients together thoroughly, and take one teaspoon of the 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.  Avoid all salad dressings that are made commercially.

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 be reserved for emergencies, but it is extremely effective.

Men: Do Not Forget to Flush the Iron

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.  It can alternatively be obtained in supplement form, but the supplement route tends to be expensive.  Without regular resveratrol intake, an adult male will accumulate toxic levels of iron in his blood.  It happens to practically all adult men who lack grape products in their diet.  The only men who are not at risk of having excessive iron are those who have been life-long vegetarians, and it can actually happen to them too.  Grape products are virtually required for men to live long and healthy lives.   Resveratrol is critical to men because typical heavy metal cleanses do not remove iron from the blood.  Without regular resveratrol intake, a man's iron level tends to grow constantly throughout his life.  The fastest way for a man to rid himself of excessive iron is to donate blood, so that his body must create pure blood to replace what is lost.  His blood is otherwise typically recycled endlessly along with its high concentrations of iron.

The toxicity of iron overload in adult males is a huge component of heart disease.  Alongside the truly toxic metals, iron is likewise involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease.  Excessive iron can also cause strokes.

Excessive iron can be an issue for post-menopausal women too.

The staff reminds readers that beef is a critical part of a healthy diet.  Beef provides nutrients that are not found elsewhere, and the very best type of vitamin A.  Therefore, a complete avoidance of beef is a solution worse than the problem in the long term.

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 patient 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 experiencing mild flu-like symptoms means that everything is working like it is supposed to, so the patient should be emotionally supported to maintain a positive attitude throughout the process.

Kidney Cleanse

Having a combination of bad body pH and tiny undetected kidney stones are the most common reasons for kidney dysfunction, alongside infections and toxicity.  Hormone imbalances often cause kidney problems too.  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 have ever 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 commercially-made cigarettes in the U.S., then you are in more danger than you know, because carpet glue is being added to every U.S. brand.

Colon Cleanse

A colon cleanse should not be necessary for anyone having a high fiber diet.  In other words, people who 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, the do-it-yourself solutions are 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 they have been 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 commercial endorsements, and we have not tested any 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 (including medications).  Reference our report, Essential First Aid Item: Activated Carbon to learn more information about using it for poison emergencies.

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 extremely carcinogenic.  Researchers are still studying the detoxifying effects of chlorophyll.  It has the rare property of aiding a body in excreting such chemicals, while simultaneously drawing beneficial nutrients into cells, due to its special effects upon cell membranes.

Niacin (vitamin B3) is well known for its ability to flush the body of various toxins.  We strongly recommend reading our niacin article before supplementing with it.

Throughout alternative medicine, there is a drink which many believe to cleanse the blood.  We call it "The Blood Cleanser".  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 it can keep a person awake all night if taken too late in the day.

 

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