Detox Symptoms
Good day posse!
Cool pix, right? Wish it was mine…
So many of you have been cliff diving, reading, writing, educating and flying (like the magic happy birds)! Most of your ka-splats are just great examples of the retox devils shriveling and cowering in your presense – especially the headaches. Here’s the sitch, poisons, toxins, and garbage drain your energy. When you release them you also release their patterns – including the mental, emotional and spiritual chaos. Crap tend to concentrate in the brain, liver and digestive tract. Unfortuanately in this day and age toxins are abundantly found in our food, environment, air, water, and blood streams. We are so bombarded that our body becomes insufficient in the metabolic ability to rid itself of all that we encounter on a daily basis. Enter you, the twinkie fighting super hero!
Get this, you release about 60% of your accumulated waste in the first 7 days of a cleanse! WOW! No wonder ya’ll feel like crap. Your body uses the enzymes, oxygen, phytonutrients and chlorophyll found in a mostly raw diet to mop up the waste deep within every cell of your temple. If the symptoms are too much, peel back, especially if you are on chemo. Too much too fast will only set you back. Symptoms of illness during a detox can be really frustrating but stay the course. Plain and simple, you won’t reach your goals without a little discomfort. Runny nose, constipation, irritability, colds, pimples etc.
Each day the body rids itself of waste is another day closer to health. Some tricks to smooth out the elimination process: Drink water with lemon upon rising, add a pinch or so of cayenne. This helps to open the circulatory system and alkalize the body. Up your green drink intake. Remember to add sprouts to the mix for a good dose of oxygen and protein! Enemas (with wheatgrass implants if possible) and colonics can really move the junk and relieve your symptoms pretty quickly – especially headaches.
Crank up the rock and roll, play the bongos and dance like you are draped in a red dress and surrounded by spanish hotties and christmas lights. Sweat it out chicas! Your skin is your largest organ and it’s the queen mum of elimination. Lodged poisons are released through low impact aerobics, saunas, rebounding, yoga etc.
Dry brush! Ooh la la you will feel tip-top fantastic! Get this, we dump between two and five pounds of toxins per day out of our skin? Your skin needs to breathe, so dry-brush it with a natural-bristle brush (which you can find at any health food store) or loofah. Dry-brushing (which means you do it outside of the shower when you aren’t wet) helps keep the skin pathway clean and clear so that waste can leave the body easily. It also stimulates the lymph and helps break up my other favorite topic—cellulite. Now I bet you’ll all run out and get one!
Also, sleep, snooze, snore and nap. Your body repairs during slumber so you night owls please try and peel it back and get some more shut eye. Cutting down on the JOE will help with that big time. If you’ve already eliminated my favorite drink (COFFEE, COFFEE, COFFEE…Mmm, did somebody say COFFEE?) then your cleansing process will be easier. Green tea is a better substitute at first then try and move to twig tea then herbal when and if you can. Sometimes the length of your detox depends on how long you’ve been tripping the light fantastic. Have faith, it’s a practice and a process. Again, ease on the brakes if it’s just too much. It’s not a race. And guess what? When you get “there” you’ll have to start again because we live in a damn precious and imperfect world, so don’t make yourself nuts. No matter what you can not fail at this. So relax, release, rejoice and renew.
Peace and peas,
k
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67 Comments
Hi Alix, thanks so much for that info! If i may ask, when Dr. Brian said dangerous, did he elaborate? I have read and heard very conflicting things about kombucha tea. I even read a blog about a 2 year old that is given this tea to drink! Hmmm, i have 2 bottles of the stuff in my fridge. At $3.19 a pop its quite expensive! But, i don’t want to ingest anything thats dangerous either!!!
MichelleJ
Hello All- I hope everyone is great.
Question- Are digestive enzymes supposed to lessen gas in addition to helping me digest? or does it make things more….gassy?
My lower G.I. thanks you…
Bav- Thank you for the D.O. info. i’ll let you know how it goes. Hey, i have some good news, i cut back the avocado and the nuts, checked my food combining and i’ve lost four pounds ! I know it’s vain ,but, that motivates me !
I also added back some cooked food and the poo leaking stopped !
Thank you so much for all your time and support ! It means so much to me !
peace, tina
Goony- Thanx for the deliciouslivingmag.com tip. What a great site ! peace, tina
nicmomma –
Have you tried acidophilus for constipation? I take it everyday and it really works.
Jennifer
alix &
Michelle J~
Kombucha-Safety Issues (copied from a great herb library resource)-
In a set of animal studies, researchers prepared a batch of Kombucha, and found that it was essentially non toxic when taken at appropriate doses.9 However, because Kombucha is a complex and variable mixture of microorganisms, it isn’t clear that any other batch of the tea would be equally safe. In fact, there are case reports, which suggest that Kombucha preparations can cause such problems as nausea, jaundice, shortness of breath, throat tightness, headache, dizziness, liver inflammation, and even unconsciousness.4,5,6 It isn’t clear whether the cause of these symptoms is an unusual reaction to a generally nontoxic substance, or a response to unusual toxins that developed in a particular batch of Kombucha.
In addition, there is one case report of severe lead poisoning caused by regular use of Kombucha brewed in a ceramic pot.7 When brewed or stored in some ceramics, the risk of lead poisoning results because Kombucha tea is acidic. Many ceramic glazes contain a low level of lead that would not make the pottery dangerous for ordinary use; but if an acidic solution like Kombucha is steeped in them for a long time, a dangerous amount of lead may leech into the solution.
There is also one report of Kombucha becoming infected with anthrax and passing along the infection to an individual who rubbed it on his skin to alleviate pain.8 Apparently, anthrax from nearby cows got into the Kombucha mixture and grew luxuriantly.
heres the link-
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goony~ thanks for those great links!
nicmomma~ love your post! hang in there girl! and keep pressin’ on! :) sounds like you are on the right path now with your food, your doing awesome! You kids will apprieciate all your hard work on your health and new outlook on life :)
jennifer- thanks for the tip. can i get acidophilus at WF? in what form does it come?
apoopslinging monkey-
love your name! thanks for the encouragement!
can’t wait to get to know everyone!
Nicole
Hi Apoopslingingmonkey..thanks so much for the info!!! Here’s the thing: I have 2 bottles of http://www.gtskombucha.com tea..should i drink it? I didn’t and probably wouldn’t make it myself after all that i have read. It’s just after i heard that a 2 year old drinks it almost daily i felt better about it…whatcha think?
MichelleJ
I haven’t been to WF yet. It is pretty far for me, so I get mine at a natural health pharmacy. They keep it in a refigerator. It comes in capsules, but I think it comes in a powder too. I’ve seen it at regular drug stores in the vitamins and supps. isle, and I used to purchase it at GNC. The acidophilus from GNC worked fine, but I wanted to support my natural health pharmacy store, so I switched to them. I think the stuff in the fridge is supposed to be better because it has more live cultures. The stuff that sits on a shelf can’t really guarantee how many live cultures are in their product. But like I said, I’ve taken both, and both do the job. You could always call WF or try their website before you go.
Jennifer
nicmomma – Hello! Couldn’t help but notice that (whether I previously expressed myself well enough or not)you feel like a close mirror image of me. A slave to appearances, – addicted to what people “think” I should look like and be … that’s me.
I suffer from great depression and anxiety too (although I don’t want to admit it ~ a weakness, right?). But my husband does so even worse (I think because his family’s never expected anything of him, whereas I could never be perfect enough, or so it felt).
I spent every second of my time worrying about my husband’s physical and mental health that I HAD (“pre-Chris” absolutely no time or energy to think of me).
Kris also FINALLY got my ass in the right gear too. I also find I’m experiencing this “bloated/extended stomach” … hoping it will balance out as my bod’ balances out.
And I think I’m starting to become allergic to beer … God bless Kris and Veggies!!!
NIC – If you’re interested, we could help each other out with this transition (don’t go to Stage 2 yet honey!!!!). I’ve been messing around with this stuff for years and would LOVE to help, listen or partner with you.
Michelle J~
Can’t answer for you personally, but for me, I personally would not use it, just because of the fact-quoting the article-
each batch of Kombucha isn’t equally safe, and unusual toxins that are developed in each particular batch of microorganisms. That kind of makes me uneasy, each tea you drink you never know what your gonna end up with! lol, kinda like Forest Gump LOL “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna end up with” LOL!
also I don’t know the long term side-effects that are possible? I’d never give it to children either- until long term studies of risk/benefit where done.
oh! also because Brian Clement from HHI says to not too! lol! that guy is a genius!
Beautiful words of wisdom!!
I am thinking of starting a juice cleanse soon. Thanks Kris for being you!
Paula
Hi Kris, I didn’t read all of the blog’ cuz the bandwith here sucks (Iraq) but i watched your doc on whatever chickchannel i was watching, and I loved it. Youre very brave, funny, inspiring and hot, Matt
http://lynyrdschuyler.blogspot.com
I’ve finally been able to read your blog after seeing your documentary in October. I was reawakened from your courageous and raw story. I don’t have canSer, but lupus. Your story and all who share on this site give me strength to change. Thanks to all!
alaina
Hey Ya’ll,
Christine wanted to comment on the water. After reading Kris’ book I realized that all the bottled water I was drinking was more acid.. acid bad= akaline Good. so I went on a search for akaline water.. hahah.. water water everywhere and not a drop to drink rang so true. I landed at not the “normal” healthfood store but the hippy one that I love and shop at constantly very expensive btw and asked.. OH sure we have akaline water. Well it does make a difference and I think if you check Brita makes a filter that helps keep tap water clean and akaline. There is a whole chapter in CSC tips about water.. so re-read that.. Amazing how life if set up to make things so unhealthy even though the facts are out there and easy to find. I have a few suggestions on the constipation too… I know Christine didn’t ask about this one but someone did and I wanted to say there is a cure for those grains and gassy tummies.. aloe vera.. it is kind.. doesn’t effect meds. and if you think it is slickery on the outside think of what it does on the inside also load up on those green leafy veggies and wheat grass and green juice smoothies.. it should all calm down.. The first few months are learning the balance. But I Have to say that my husband duncan has ALS and epilpsy and his seizures and depressions and mood swings are gone now that we are totally 80/20 raw cooked all vegan and he will sieze in about 15 minutes if he cheats …. he takes his prozac and hasn’t felt better. You bod may need those little bad babes to feel rocking good.
Now again girls.. thanks for all the support of basicmisisons.com
I cannot tell you Sandra Jospeh had me in the ugly cry and knowing i was loved first thing this morning.. How blessed am I.. Thanks SJ more than you know.
God does wierd things and after closing and getting my little chicks out of the nest and in apartments and set up on thier own. We closed the rooms at the mission because the work goes on … well four women on opening day.. none knew of the opening and showed up on my door no homes.. breast, cll, and luekemia and now we are full again.. so I suppose life isn’t your own to order out sometimes.. thats ok.. they need a place I have one.. plus pray we can get them eating csc and making lifestyle changes while I wrangle some health care up for then and God willing some money from disability. I am far over my head in this one..but the universe will sort it out. pray for them. Callie
Hi michelle j-
I wanted to respond to your question about Kombucha. I have been drinking it for a couple of months now thinking I was doing my body some good. And, I have to admit I think it made me feel good. But, I went to a talk last night given by Dr. Brian Clement from Hippocrates Health Institute. I asked him what he thought of it and I believe his exact words were that he said it was dangerous! Obviously, different people have different opinions and it is so hard to sort through all of the information out there. But, I just wanted to pass along one expert’s opinion.
December 6, 2007