Hi 125618,
I just got off the phone with Uny, she asked me to tell you that she got your PM but she has been in crisis mode for many days now trying to help save someone's life. She will get back to you as soon as she can but she would prefer that you ask your questions on the forum if you don't mind so that everyone will benefit from the healing information she provides.
Uny also wanted me to tell you that orange juice fasting is the worst thing you could do for your health and I agree with her. Drinking nothing but orange juice will erode the enamel on your teeth and if it is acidic enough to do that then I can only imagine what it would do to a persons internal organs.
Orange juice and other acidic fruit juices are more harmful for teeth than using whitening products, according to researchers at Eastman Institute for Oral Health.
Dr. YanFang Ren has found that the effects of 6 percent hydrogen peroxide, the common ingredient in professional and over-the-counter whitening products, are insignificant as compared to acidic fruit juices.
In fact, he and his colleagues have discovered that orange juice markedly decreases hardness and increases roughness of tooth enamel.
Using a new focus-variation vertical scanning microscope, the researchers could see extensive surface detail like never before.
"The acid is so strong that the tooth is literally washed away. The orange juice decreased enamel hardness by 84 percent," said Ren.
However, the researchers found no significant change in hardness or surface enamel from whitening.
Weakened and eroded enamel may speed up the wear of the tooth and increase the risk for tooth decay to quickly develop and spread.
"Most soft drinks, including sodas and fruit juices, are acidic in nature. Our studies demonstrated that the orange juice, as an example, can potentially cause significant erosion of teeth," said Ren.
Blessings,
Willow
Just so that everybody knows why I posted the link I did. Uny asked me to do a search and post the link to all the links that came up in the search so that we could all see how harmful an OJ fast is. I went back to work full-time recently and am trying to get adjusted to keeping up with all the responsibilities as a wife and forum moderator and not being home all day that I just didn't have the time to read through hundreds if not thousands of links to find just the right one to post. I realize the one l posted leans towards allopathic but hey, we wanted to make a point that OJ fasting is bad for the body for a plethora of reasons.
"It seems to me that this orange juice study would have been looking at processed, dead orange juice rather than the fresh- squeezed that someone doing a juice fast would be using. I think that that kind of juice is definitely not beneficial to the body."
I agree that this study might have looked at processed OJ but the fact is that fresh squeezed OJ when consumed in abundant amounts without anything else on a daily basis as when doing an orange juice fast would be equally as harmful as the processed OJ to the enamel on the teeth.
"I think that reading something like that might scare some people away from what is a healthy juice but not one that you would want to use to excess. As part of a healthy array of fruits and veggies, citrus has its place."
I agree that citrus has it's place as part of a healthy array of fruits and veggies when doing a juice fast. In fact I love grapefruit juice and when I'm doing a juice fast I drink a pint of it everyday but that is not the only thing I drink, I include lots of other fresh squeezed fruits and veggies.
The problem is that there is a forum here on CZ that is promoting an orange juice fast with no other fruits or veggies at all. Strictly an orange juice fast. That forum is touting an OJ fast as a be all end all cure for all things and that is just plain crazy and very dangerous.
The OPs question was about an OJ fast that he/she had learned about on the forum that is promoting it. Uny and I both wanted him/her to be very clear that we do not promote an OJ only juice fast because it is very harmful to the body.
I didn't perceive the article as scaring people but then we all see things differently. ;) I saw it as a warning not to consume too many acidic things.
Juice fasting rocks on many different levels when we have a balance of difference fruits and veggies but we should just say no to orange juice fasting.
Blessings,
Willow
I just wanted to add something to what I've already said. We all have to listen to our 'doctor within' and make the choice as to what we are going to do to heal our bodies.
I don't have the right to tell anyone what they should choose but I have the RESPONSIBILITY to tell someone when I think they are about to do something dangerous. If I did anything less I don't think I could live with myself but ultimately they have to make the choice that is right for them.
Willow
I want to personally thank you for having the courage to post your questions. You can't believe how many thousands of people will read this post and out of those thousands there will surely be those who are suffering from the same thing and once Uny answers they will know how to heal themselves. Be assured you've blessed countless numbers of people by posting!
When you did the colon cleanses did you do 30 day cleanses? I think that is something Uny will want to know. And you are right, we should all have at least 3 bowel movements a day or one for each meal we eat.
About the budget and organic food. If you can't always afford organic food you could make a bentonite clay slurry and soak the food for 8 -12 hours to pull out the toxins, rinse it off and you're good to go. That is better than eating non-organic.
Regarding what doctors do and do not know, don't even get me started lol! The medical field is nothing but a premeditated racket (fraud) to keep us sick, they manage our illness, prolonging our lives (sometimes) but never do their drugs heal our bodies, NEVER!!!!
I'm glad you read the fasting interview, lots of great info there. What Dr. Schulze says is true in my experience. After about the third day I always feel so energetic, that doesn't seem to adequately explain it but I feel better when I'm juice fasting than I ever feel when I'm eating. You can't go wrong with a long juice fast (fruits & veggies of all kinds) to heal your body and give you clarity on many levels.
Taking supplements with echinacea in them is not anything like taking the pure echinacea root tincture, you really can't even compare the two. Pure organic echinacea root will numb your mouth within about 30-40 seconds if you hold it in your mouth. If you don't feel this with the supplement that has echinacea in it then you aren't getting real echinacea or you're only getting a tiny bit of it. Here is a great article about echinacea: Echinacea, Have Mercy!
I'm so glad that you found our forum, I agree with Teresa, we're a pretty awesome bunch if I do say so myself lol! You deserve HUGE kudos for what you've already accomplished and I have no doubt you'll heal this problem too.
Blessings,
Willow
P.S. Almost forgot to say WOW, 2000 stones gone? Simply amazing!!