Hey everyone! After all the holiday pies, cookies, etc., I want to do a big ole' cleanse. What is your favorite method for detoxifying? I can't do a water fast as I get all shakey and terribly weak after the first day, but I can juice fast with no troubles. I just want to start the New Year out all clean! Thanks!!

-- Doreen (bisquit@here.com), December 13, 2001

Answers

I just tried flor Esence and like anyting else I try, I start detoxing too fast and then I'm shut down from 1 to 3 to too many days. I used to fruit fast-fruit juice and nut-one day a week(for over two years), and I would do other fasting, lost a lot of weight, but the migraines, and I do mean migraines, got worse and worse. Now I have a name for it, chemical poisoning, environmental illness or multiple chemical sensitivities. So I don't fast right now. I wish I had a way to detox gradually without getting sick or turning orange, I just don't have the courage to be sick for days nor the time.

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 13, 2001.

Cindy, Turning orange?

-- John in S. IN (jsmengel@oldfart.com), December 13, 2001.

Doreen, milk thistle is supposed to be good for detoxing.

-- Barb in Ky. (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), December 13, 2001.

John, if I do the Ultra cleanse I literally turn orange, stop taking and I'm back to normal. Guess it effects my liver, but then again, I am very toxic.

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 13, 2001.

Cindy, I don't know anything about how to detox or what's involved. I do know that orange is a BAD thing. Sounds like what we say in the ER. "We cured 'em to death" (ER humor isn't for everyone).

Anything that causes jaundice has to put a tremendous strain on the liver, unless there is already underlying disease. If that's the case, you don't want to stress it anyway. The liver is pretty forgiving up to a point. This orange thing really worries me for you.

I have Hepatitis C myself and watch everything that may put the hammer to my liver. Like I said, it's forgiving up to a point. When it does go sour on you it's a real bad thing. We're not famous celebreties and won't get another (or 2 like Mickey Mantle) so we have to be nice to the ones we have. Get in touch w/ me about this. Email or phone.

-- JOhn (jsmengel@oldfart.com), December 13, 2001.

You could always try a liver flush/cleanse first, then a detox program juicing mixed with bentonite and pysllium seed to move all of the dying bacteria/toxins through your system more quickly.

-- Cynthia Van Der Kooi (vanderkc@bellsouth.net), September 18, 2002.

DRink lots of beet juice and i garrentte ya if you eat a candy bar youll still feel the clensing!!Most people thinks it detoxs them to fast But I like fast! IT clenses ya real good if your up for it!

-- Jt (wildcat98538@aol.com), September 18, 2002.

Dear Friends: I am a mexican doctor who does "alternative medicine" and who used to have problems with some of my patients since many of the therapies that we were providing them with were not helping as we wanted. Most of the patients that I'm used to treat knows many things about detoxification and usually do some before coming here; I have to say that all of them often choose the easiest ways in their effort for such thing, maybe things that they hear from friends, in magazines (vanity, etc.) which in a way are good, I mean much better than nothing, right?. Detoxifying is not just water fasting nor liver flushes, nor any of those "easy" things that sometimes we hear from. I totally agree with John about the "orange" color. You know, many times in theese magazines they don't advise people to go and see their doctors before starting any of these "harmless" procedures at home. What peopple should really do is to communicate with their doctors about their fears and beliefs about detox. In conventional medicine hardly any doctor really knows what detox means but you can try, at least maybe you can have some lab tests done before you continue or start with it. It's upmost important that people is aware of potential harm with this "inofensive" home therapies if not supervised by someone with experience, even more people with such side effects. I don't want to sound stupid, but I wonder if while you detoxify you drink lots of carrot or tomatoe juice for example. You know people often ignore that some things like carrots, may temporarily pigmentate the skin (some drugs also) and that scares our patients if we don't tell them of such posibilities, so. Also, conventional doctors and dentists are not aware of the extreme harm that having metals in our mouth causes (and I'm not a dentist). This is what we have been looking at since a while ago. Our patients do much better with their treatments of any illness if they take the metals out (mainly mercury, without diminishing the importance of other heavy metals). Look for a biologic dentist, it's upmost important. We have had people with all kind of trouble (please, don't think that I'm advertising anything) and they feel much better after removing those things from their mouth and going for intense detoxification with some treatments and supplements that we provide them with, but you could do the same with your biologic dentist and naturopath over there. Please apologize my english, but I'm a spanish speaking person. Hopefully this may help. God bless.

-- Alberto Santa Cruz, MD (dr.santacruz@yahoo.com), November 15, 2002.

The orange pigmentation of the skin which occurs when drinking large amounts of carrot juice is completely harmless. It is the result of the carrot juice purging out and detoxifing exess bile. After all the exess is gone the skin pigmentation will go back to normal. SO PLEASE DONT STOP DRINKING CARROT JUICE JUST BECAUSE IT'S TURNING YOU ORANGE! ITS ACTUALLY VERY BENEFICIAL!!!!!

-- Louisa Clarke (eaT_Static_@Hotmail.com), December 29, 2002.

Skin turns orange from overindulging in carrot juice (unless you are jaundiced, then get thee to a physician, something I almost never say) because the liver cannot process the carotene it is receiving fast enough. There is nothing 'beneficial' about turning orange. Although it is not harmful to turn orange, and is temporary, it is also the body's way of asking you to back off on the carrot juice. Have a little less, a little less often.

-- Earthmama (earthmama48@yahoo.com), December 30, 2002.

Carrot juice only turned my ballz yo Orange. Now I GOT KINGS HUNG BIG BALLIE BALLZ!!!! Orange too. Any of you fine ladies wanna lick my ballz????

-- Richard Ramirez (rman@yahoo.com), February 08, 2003.

Dude ,you got you own forum now. Stay there.That alcohol seems to rot your brain more and more every day.

Remember alcohol is not a drug and should not be used as an intoxicant.

Drugs make the brain cells numb for a short periodof time .But the brain cells recover .

Alcohol destoys and kills the brain cells. Which can never be replaced.

Although a hospital will frequently give a patient in pain morphine.

They will never give their patients alcohol.Except for external use.

Peyote catus has been used to successfully cure alcoholism.

When first eaten by a new comer ,a peyote button will taste so bitter most will vomit from it's taste alone.

After the purification of the blood and mind has been complete, the peyote button will taste like the Earth.

And alcohol and toxic foods will have a bitter taste , that will cause the body to reject them.

It is the medicine that can heal our sick and toxic nation.

It is not a recreational intoxicant.

But a mind and body purifier.

-- Steve (unreal@home.com), February 08, 2003.

The mind and body work as one.

And need to be in balance.

There is no point in detoxifying the body , with out detoxifying the mind also.

After all ,

It was the mind that led one to ingest the toxins .

-- Steve (unreal@h.com), February 08, 2003.