Day 37 and the Pickle Juice Experiment... by LivingWater Blog entry

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Day 37 and the Pickle Juice Experiment...

Yep, you heard me right!

Date: 6/28/2011 11:00:11 AM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 42717 times

Two days ago I decided to take in a tablespoon of pickle juice. I can't give you the exact reason why except that it had been a very rough day, my veggie juice wasn't mentally satisfactory and for some weird reason the pickle juice looked GOOD. Sooo... I opened up the new extra large jar and drank a tablespoon of it.

Then, I had a little more... and a little more... by the time I'd finished my near alcoholic binge I'd probably ingested about 1 cup of pickle juice. I know, gross, right? Heck no, this stuff was amazing! I hadn't had any type of TASTE in over 30 days!

Then it hit me... Instantly I was tired. My eyes drooped and I felt heavy. I began to retain water and my stomach was churning. I went to bed and although I was physically tired, I couldn't get my mind to shut up. It was a sleepless night...

I awoke the next morning, still retaining water but feeling good. I did my coffee enema and was shocked, no disgusted frankly, to see the volume of junk that was eliminated! It must have been a cup worth of bile or feces or you-name-it, but it had been in my body after 36 days of fasting! Yuck!

So, intrigued by this little discovery (and also craving my pickle juice), I drank another cup yesterday evening. This time I didn't get tired, but I did begin to retain water again and it was another sleepless night.

Upon waking I rushed to the restroom immediately to go to the bathroom, unassisted by anything. No enema, no lax tea, just the pickle juice from last night. It must of been another 1/2 cup of fecal matter! So, I did my coffee enema and must have lost another 3/4 cup of fecal matter! Seriously? 37 days of no food, very strained juices and water, and this crap was still hanging around? Gross...

So, here I sit wondering what could be the reason of the amazing eliminations, this far into the fast, with the only change in my diet being pickle juice? So I did some research...

Here's a story about pickle juice and it's uses for athletes from an average Joe on Associate Content-
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/581083/the_benefits_of_drinking_pick...

Here's a website that sells a pickle juice sports drink (no I'm not kidding!) - http://www.goldenpicklejuice.com/?pjsid=3

A very interesting study regarding legs cramps in athletes and the effects of pickle juice, where the salt is not the helper, but the vinegar is...

"What, then, does probably cause athletes to cramp? The pickle-juice experiment provides some intriguing clues. “The pickle juice did not have time” to leave the men’s stomachs during the experiment, Dr. Miller points out. So the liquid itself could not have been replenishing lost fluids and salt in the affected muscles. Instead some other mechanism must have initiated the cramps and been stymied by the pickle juice.

Dr. Miller suspects that that mechanism is exhaustion, either directly or through biochemical processes that accompany fatigue. Certain mechanisms within muscles have been found, in animal and limited human studies, he says, to start misfiring when a muscle is extremely tired. Small nerves that should keep the muscle from overcontracting malfunction, and the muscle bunches when it should relax. Pickle juice may work, Dr. Miller says, by countermanding the malfunction. Something in the acidic juice, perhaps even a specific molecule of some kind, may be lighting up specialized nervous-system receptors in the throat or stomach, he says, which, in turn, send out nerve signals that somehow disrupt the reflex melee in the muscles. Dr. Miller suspects that ultimately, it’s the vinegar in the pickle juice that activates the receptors. In a recent case report by other researchers, a single athlete’s cramping was relieved more quickly when he drank pure vinegar (without much pleasure, I’m sure) than when he drank pickle juice."

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/phys-ed-can-pickle-juice-stop-muscle...

Now, do I recommend drinking pickle juice while fasting? Of course not! Especially in the quanity I did. The level of salt alone should deter you, especially if you have cholesterol or heart problems (which I don't). Drinking vinegar might actually be productive and I might spend a few days exploring this possibility, since I suspect it was the vinegar which led to my putrid release...

More later... Got to run, family life calling... Best of health to you!