October, 2018
With the availability of local vegetables and fruits comes a great opportunity to cleanse the body of any build up in the digestive tract caused by eating refined flours, sugars, and poorly digested foods caused by a lack of enzymes. It was a digestive cleanse that turned my health around in the 1990's. I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome after struggling for eleven months with flu like symptoms like body ache, heavy limbs, brain fog and extreme fatigue even after sleeping for 12-14 hours. The medical system was able to diagnose the problem based on symptoms and blood testing that revealed a lack of many key vitamins and minerals. But the prognosis was that it was a Chronic disease that I would live with indefinitely. So, I stocked up on vitamin supplements and started to read and pray and search for knowledge that would help me to heal.
A friend shared a group of products that included a digestive cleanse, a parasite cleanse and a rebuilding nutritional supplement. When on the digestive cleanse I felt like toxins were being pulled out and eliminated from my body tissues. I would feel really ill just before a bowel movement and then a lightening afterwards. My head became clearer, my skin eczema began to clear up, my muscles were able to handle more activity allowing me to lose the extra weight I had gained from ill health, and my immune system and energy improved. Lance and I have continued to use the Pure Trim Digestive Cleanse every year or two to maintain regularity and better health. I have had persistent food allergies and headaches that I wonder if a different cleanse might help with.
I have been reading a book called "Inner Transformations Using Essential Oils" by Dr. LeAnne Deardeuff & Dr. David Deardeuff. In it, the author traces her own path to health by learning about herbal remedies first and then hearing a lecturer explain that even more potent than the dried herb is the lifeblood of the plant - the essential oil. She bought a grocery store bottle of essential oil and was disappointed in her results and so dismissed oils as helpful for awhile. When a friend introduced her to the therapeutic Young Living oils, she found an oil that delivered on its claims. She began incorporating essential oils in her chiropractic care practice. She has seen restored health in patients with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, infertility, yeast overgrowth, scoliosis, emotional upsets and everything in between.
I have been seeing a naturopath, Dr. Laura Margaritis, for a year now and found adding bone broth, Carlson's Cod Liver Oil, and a variety of Probiotics to a homeopathic regimen. I'd like to add a cleanse to the mix to see if I can get more out of my supplements.
The colon is lined with small villi that absorb nutrients and create a great environment for friendly bacteria which keep yeast and unfriendly bacteria from overpopulating the digestive tract. Problems with digestion occur when the villi get coated with refined processed food that prevents them from absorbing the nutrients we ingest. Have you ever seen a recipe to make Christmas ornaments with white flour and water or milk. They harden when baked. Now imagine the white flour, white sugar hardening in the oven of our 100 degree bodies effectively immobilizing the villi which are meant to help move food along when the muscles contract in natural peristalsis. If this isn't cleaned out, it builds and starts to back up and retain toxins in the body - overloading the cleansing systems and lining the walls of the colon with thicker build up. The muscles of the bowel have a harder time moving food along and everything slows down. I have one friend who used to only have a bowel movement once a month! This was normal for her. That is frightening.
Clearly, we need effective ways to cleanse the colon of build up and restore peristalsis. Young Living has a product called Comforcleanse that works to nourish and restore natural muscle tone to the bowel. I have been using this for a week to begin my cleanse. It is doing a good job of promoting regularity and beginning to change my cravings and sense of wellness. I have also added Essentialzymes-4 with my largest meal of the day. It is full of digestive enzymes that help the body break down food effectively. As we age we make less digestive enzymes and so supplementing is a good idea. Once the bowel is functioning well, adding ICP is like scrubbing the walls of the digestive tract with a high fibre nutrient dense powder. I am liking the gentle action of this combination so far. I have had mild cleansing symptoms, but have been able to carry on with life as normal. I'll update this post as I finish the fall digestive cleanse.
If you'd like to do a Fall Cleanse with companions, touch base with me and we can set up a group to cleanse together!
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