Mon 5 Jul 2010
How to Have Truly, Deeply Clear Complexion That Lasts
Posted by Michael under Body Experiment, Cleansing, Food
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Most people only begin to snap to attention when I mention that I instantly got rid of my “pregnant belly” after one of my cleanses. Or that my face cleared up permanently after some more cleanses. No one educated me about the underlying causes of each, so I had to work it out. Now I can share with you how to do the same and more.
This started as a letter to my Dad, but since so many have been asking me about this recently, I decided to share my experience with cleansing…
The basic idea throughout all of this is: remove the hard, physical deposits. Pretty simple, and that’s the beauty of it. “Stuff” builds up slowly over time, interfering with the body’s digestion, absorption, elimination, and renewing abilities. The solution is to… take out the trash. Got it?
No? Well, let’s work out a deal. If you find yourself rolling your eyes as you read one part, or going into repulsion at the thought of another part, then at least skip to the last paragraph before moving on. Oh, and don’t do any of this if you’re pregnant or have a complex body situation.
Okay, let’s dive in!
The “Last Mile”
The simplest, fastest and most dramatic step is to clear out the large intestines. That’s the “last mile” before the digested food exits the body. Here’s where decades of garbage accumulate, blocking the large intestines from doing its job: absorbing water and vitamins. Accumulated crud also distorts the large intestines and gives us an added sack of dead weight to carry around. Clouds of toxic mucous that are hard to pass also collect here. When this toxic crud comes out, an immediate sense of relief and lightness is felt, sometimes lasting for days. I’m convinced from my own experience, as well as from observing others, that purging this auto-intoxifying crud can completely change one’s mood to be lighter and happier.
One girl I know, who had a lifetime of problem acne, after two cleanses, her face completely cleared up, and her friends kept asking her what she was taking? They wanted it too. She had more energy, her head was clearer, and she was naturally smiling more. Actually, she looked so different, so much more attractive, I wanted to ask her out.
Another friend wrote me after her first colonic, “Immediately I felt lighter… My belly got smaller… And I even look thinner!!! I was even wearing a tight top yesterday! I had not been able to do that for ages.. And something that I really notices immediately is that my desire to eat junk food lowered immediately…..”
The first two times I did this, my head was tingling for days afterward. It was like someone gave me a magic happy pill. After 25 years of continuous pimples, my face permanently cleared up and my skin became softer. I had no idea what it felt like to be clean on the inside; no one taught me. Now I see it similar to flossing. I don’t question why I need to do it; it’s just a part of my hygiene bag-of-tricks.
You’re going to do what to me?
So what you need to look for is a “colon hydro-therapist”–someone who performs colonics. In case you don’t know, a “colonic” is where you pay someone to flush out the decades-old crud out from your butt with a gentle, custom-tailored water machine. As such, you’ll want to find someone with experience, one that has been doing it for at least 3-4 years and uses an Aquanet EC-2000 machine. You don’t want one who uses an enema bag, as that will give inferior results. Preferably, you’ll want a colonicist who won’t try to sell you a package of visits at a discount because how will you know how many you need until you’re done with your first session? An ethical colon hydro-therapist will say, “okay, you’re done,” or, “just one more visit”, depending on what they see. Actually, a good one is like a detective and is more interested in paying attention to what is coming out. Decades old crud? Parasites? Gallstones? Mucous? Undigested food? It’s a story of how your body works and they are “reading” it. Nothing to be squeamish, ashamed, or embarrassed about. In other words, you care more about them seeing your butt than they do.
I found my colonicist by Googling “colonics”. For example, the one I use is at www.avicenna-clinic.ca. Tanya, a cherubic Ukrainian woman, charges $60 for an hour visit, which in my opinion is the best money for the fastest health turn-around in one hour you can buy.
A shotgun approach to cleansing–broad and effective
Now, refining the cleaning process further, it’s a good idea to begin to scrub the stack of your body’s organs that come in contact with this input called food. Food leaves traces, introduces bacteria that need to be contained, and creates by-products like gallstones that accumulate in the liver. There’s also:
- inhaled heavy metals from paints, asbestos, and smoke
- endocrine disruptors from soft plastics in water bottles (Bisphenol A, or BPA)
- parasites in the gut, protozoans in the blood, bacteria everywhere
- neurotoxins from pesticide-soaked food
- food poisons like hydrogenated fats, artificial coloring, excito-toxins of MSG
- inhaled synthetics from laundry detergents, colognes, and anti-flammable retardants
- industrial waste, like water fluoridation
All this is a stress on the body and the mind, as they’re intimately connected. The body wears down, but slowly over time so that we don’t really notice it. I know a cleanse is working when I notice a huge boost in energy and part of my body starts working like I remember from my childhood. I’d say that cleansing is more important that good nutrition because a clogged, toxic body can’t absorb or utilize nutrients when it’s working harder in an auto-intoxication loop.
The best way I’ve found to clean the body from bottom-to-top is a thorough, well thought out kit called the “Blessed Herbs Internal Cleanse“. Don’t let the name throw you off. It literally saved my life right after my 38th birthday, as I was was so tired all the time, and food robbed me of energy rather than giving me energy, that I felt like an old man of 78 about to kick the bucket. A lifetime of poor nutrition was my killer.
This kit does it all: the first phase, lasting 5 days, begins by pulling out this hard, rubbery mucoid plaque that lines the inside of the small intestines (a colonic can’t reach past the large intestines). The plaque comes out looking like a bicycle inner tube! Parasites embed themselves in this mucoid plaque, which prevents nutrients from being absorbed through the walls of the small intestines.
After my second Blessed Herbs cleanse, a 3 foot length of this plaque came out, weighing about 5lbs, and my “pregnant belly” that I was resigned to for most of my adult life vanished. Gone! I couldn’t stop staring at my stomach noticing how flat it was. It became obvious to me that I never would’ve gotten rid of that belly in a million years by exercising. Anyway, this plaque was such a huge toxic burden on me, that the instant it comes out, sometimes in big pieces, most of the time in smaller pieces, my whole body experienced an exhilaration of relief that lasted the rest of the day.
The small intestinal cleanse is just bentonite clay and psyllium husk with some ginger or peppermint combined with lots of apple juice and water. This concoction absorbs 40x its own weight to pull mucoid plaque out. Painless. Simple. But it’s absolutely imperative that you have the right instruction and that’s where this kit shines. It lays out the steps with crystal clarity, answers the questions, and allows you to vary the intensity of the cleanse by choosing what you eat and when.
After the small intestines are cleansed, then-and-only-then does it make sense to do the parasite cleanse part of the kit. That’s a week. Most people have parasites and don’t even know it. They come from pets, from food, from lakes and rivers, and even from walking barefoot. After I came back from Mexico, parasites were a huge problem for me, as they were robbing me of energy, partying in my gut.
After that, the kit spends a week to cleanse the organs of elimination, which are the bladder, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, and lungs. It used to feel like I had to run to the bathroom every 15 minutes, so I purposely wouldn’t drink much water. After the first Blessed Herbs cleanse, that was cleared up, never to return. Funny how I just lived with it, and how simple it was to knock it out.
The last week of the kit is spent cleansing the “rivers of life”, the blood and lymph, and also the skin. The skin is the most noticeable, it’s what everyone wants to be clear, but it has to be done last. When the body is overloaded by a toxin, the body pushes it out to the least critical organ, the skin. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to cosmetically remove a skin condition because the underlying issue hasn’t been addressed. Laser surgery? Not necessary. What I’ve noticed time and again is that the face reflects the inner condition of the organs, especially the digestive system. When the colon isn’t in a toxic state, the face naturally clears up.
My estimation of the Blessed Herbs Internal Cleanse is a mile high. The friend who recommended it to me when I felt like a 78-year old dying man said it was, “worth its weight in gold”, which I fully agree with. This kind of cleanse needs a month to do. Yes, you can still eat as you do it. But don’t put it aside and forget about it. It gave me back my energy, my life. Now when I eat food, I can feel the food flowing through me. I can feel this “thrilling” fire in my belly, the feeling of an efficient digestive process, radiating outward. Very few people experience this because when I talk about it, no one can relate to what I’m saying. I often wonder at what age I lost this feeling. 6? 7? Now I won’t touch dairy, not because of what someone says I shouldn’t eat, but because I know puts out this internal fire. Dairy becomes mucous.
Go to www.blessedherbs.com and check out the “Internal Cleansing Kit”. The company is based in Massachusetts, and has been around a long time. A few times a year, they have a sale, which basically eliminates the shipping charges, but I value this kit so much that I will order it if it’s on sale or not.
The liver and I
I’ll mention two more cleanses that I like. Colonics and a comprehensive cleanse like the Blessed Herbs kit are good heavy-hitters to start with. After that, it’s refining the game.
One is the liver/gallbladder flush, which I’ve come to realize how vital it is to do. Yes, the Blessed Herbs kit has a component that touches the liver & gallbladder, but the flush that I do is more focused and efficient. It’s a simple, inexpensive, week-long process where you can eat. The end of the week requires one night plus half a day to flush out resident gallstones. It’s painless, quick, and you’ll be astounded to see the quantity or size of the bright green bile “stones” that have been blocking the bile ducts of your liver for decades! The liver is master organ, second only in complexity to the brain–you don’t want it blocked up! Its functioning touches every single aspect of the body.
The first time I did my liver/gallbladder flush, about 2,000-3,000 tiny, green stones came out. The second time, nothing. I recently finished my 9th flush and got out about 80 large stones, one bigger than 1cm in width! As the liver is progressively cleaned, the older stuff comes out last, which is why they’re larger. My energy level is up, my right shoulder isn’t so tight (the liver is on the right side of the body), and I can digest fatty foods now. For comparison, a friend got nothing out the first two times, but the third time, about 400 large stones came out, which is not an unusual pattern.
The idea is to keep flushing out the liver every 2-3 months until there’s two consecutive flushes with no stones coming out. For most people, they need about 8-12 flushes to completely clean out the liver & gallbladder. The alternative is that the stones keep building up, backing up into the gallbladder, then calcify, at which point they then show up on X-rays, and a surgeon insists on removing your clogged gallbladder. By the way, removing the gallbladder doesn’t address the stones that are still present in the liver. According the to author of the book, children as young as 6 begin to have gallstones accumulate in their liver due to their a animal-heavy diet. Overeating, eating before bedtime, and the body encapsulating cholesterol and bacteria are other causes for gallstone formation.
This book‘s advice is so thoroughly presented that I keep coming back to it over and over. I’m still astounded at how thoughtful it is. I was nervous the first time I did it because everyone I spoke with wanted to talk me out of it, but I felt comforted that the author had assisted thousands of people successfully. His personal story fascinated me as he had excruciating gallstone attacks since he was a child but refused to have surgery, insisting on knowing how to remedy it naturally. The best healers seem to walk their talk. There’s other flushes floating around on the Internet for free, but I wouldn’t trust them. No way. It’s this book that I highly recommended:
Heavy Metal used to be a cool movie
The last little cleanse I’m experimenting with is something that’s actually improving my eyesight! A doctor noticed that when one of his patients ate cilantro, heavy metals like mercury, lead, and aluminum, were being expelled out with urine. This cleanse is simple and very tasty to do. It’s a cilantro pesto, and the back-story is short, and fascinating, at least to me.
A thought experiment
Okay, so I have one final question for you: what would your mouth feel like if you stopped brushing your teeth? Gross, huh? The plaque would build and build, the food particles would clog your teeth. So why wouldn’t that happen further inside? Does it make sense that our internal machinery somehow stays magically clean? There’s this unexamined belief that 100% of what we eat passes through us, but as it turns out is not the case. Not in my experience.
So I invite you to try it for yourself. Think of it as an experiment where you get to see if it works or not. Start with a colonic, as that’s was fastest way to experience such a night-and-day contrast. And then tell me what you notice.