- Day 3: Feeling SKEPTICAL by #25671
16 y
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Blog: Cleaning Up My Act
To keep myself motivated this afternoon I've been reading around on the Internet about detoxing, flushing, fasting and cleansing and I'm starting to wonder if some of these ideas are indeed quackery:
A pathologist quoted on Quackwatch about "Mucoid Plaque"
Wikipedia on 'Mucoid Plaque'
Skeptoid on 'The Detoxification Myth'
Montreal Gazette article on April 5, 2008
Come to think of it, even as I've browsed the Curezone.com forums over the last few years, I don't recall seeing any posts from people who passed "mucoid plaque" without using bentonite and psyllium "kits" they ordered online. The last time I fasted, some interesting things came out of me, but they might have just been stragglers from whatever I'd eaten most recently and, in my vain search for MP, wondered if it were age-old toxins loosened from the walls of my bowels.
Most disturbing was this article from Quackwatch.com: The Truth about Gallbladder and Liver "Flushes", which cites Curezone.com's photos of flushed gallstones as not real gallstones, since they could be cut with a knife. The article did acknowledge that oil and Epsom salt do have an effect on bile ducts, just as "whole milk and a Mars bar" would, but the likelihood of passing stones from this method is extremely rare, and that most people aren't full of stones anyway. And I'd just spent a pretty penny on a big bottle of expensive Extra Virgin Olive Oil this afternoon!
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- Re: Day 3: Feeling SKEPTICAL by ausjulie
16 y
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I was the biggerst skeptic of all time when i did my first juice fast. i wasnt doing it for cleansing just purely weight loss. and if i got any added bonus well that was great. after 3 days i was sleeping better than i ever had in my life. after 7 days all of my eszema cleared up and my skin was soft and clear. after 12 days i had more energy than i ever had in my life. after 21 days i passed something rather large stinky and abnormal "mucoid plaque" or not i dont know but i know i felt better after it. after 30 days i cannot tell you how wonderfully clean i felt...and i lost the weigth. now 2.5 years later i know that 30 day fast/cleanse has changed my life. i am healthier for it. i have changed my eating habits, i have regular BM's everyday, and there are so many other benefits...emotionally i am more me i am stronger. during i was clearer and calmer some of which still lingers today.
so my message i really dont care what anyone says is or isnt true i know it worked for me. try it with an open mind and see what happens. honestly, the simple fact that you are not putting anything bad in your body for 1,3,10,40of however many days.... its gotta to be good for you!
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