CONS:
- this is obviously the cause of fungus in the mouth caused by the sugar in the maple syrup.
Not true as this will also happen on a water fast
ABOUT THE TONGUE:
I am very suspect of the tongue as a gauge for when the MC is over.
I kinda agree but don't really know for sure. It has never been any kind of "a goal" for me though it was kinda neat at around day 35 of a 40 day fast my tongue did turn a nice rosy pink. I have never read of anyone getting the PT in under 20 or more days so it's highly unlikely that anyone will get the PT on a minimum 10 day MC.
REGARDING LIVER FLUSHES:
He believes the "stones" are not gallstones, but coagulated cholesterol, bile, and the olive oil you just drank.
One very simple gauge that this is not so is that as you keep doing the liver flushes the size and amount of stones will diminish to none. If the above was true you would have stones no matter how many liver flushes you do. It took me around 18 but I finally stopped passing stones what ever they were made out of. So bottom line is "BOTI!" (better out than in) what ever they're made of.
There are just too many folks on this site that will tell you some amazing stories of their results from doing liver flushes to simply discount them as "hocus pocus" whatever you and Doc Hass think the stones are made of. There is a forum specifically to document results from liver flushes. http://www.curezone.com/forums/f.asp?f=565&t=39930 So do yourself a favor and browse that forum before coming to any conclusions. This is even more relevant since you have never even tried doing a flush at all.
As far as you feeling the same from the MC, well, that's kinda of expected if you weren't addressing any maladies and you are as fit and eat as healthy as you say. Add to that your age. At 5'10" 171 lbs you hafta be a pretty lean dude with not a whole lot of body fat which is where most toxins are stored. Also a 10 day MC is the "Minimum" recomended and your body doesn't even begin to get into the deeper cleansing cycle till around day 8 so no one should really expect any earth shaking changes on a minimum 10 day MC. Read the Detox Stages in the FAQs for an idea of the cleansing timeline.
I have often read in this forum of folks with sinus problems getting good results from the MC but the skin thing is the most commonly written about noticeable results. I'm a guy and got unsolicited comments from one of my gilrfriends about how soft and smooth my skin felt when I was on the MC.
Since you did some good for your sinuses I would take that further and do some research regarding mucous forming foods and experiment with cutting down or eliminating them from your diet altogether.
Thanks for the kind words. Like I stated before in another post that my hanging here is my own reminder that helps keep me focused and not straying too far from healthy life style. Just about anything I have written here has been just plain ole common sense tempered by my personal experience and that of the many hundreds of folks that have passed through these forums in the last 3 years.
I was into Macrobiotics for around 7-8 years but that was at least 10 to 12 years ago. I was in a situation where I had macro restaurants near by and I would also attend these macro dinner/lectures twice a week. At the end of the night they always had leftovers and between that and the restaurants and a little cooking I would do at home I was able to maintain a pretty durn tight Macro diet. It also helped that my social circle and the women I dated were mostly folks that were also macro. I was years younger but it certainly agreed with me and it was one of the healthiest times in my life. I then moved to another state and just didn't have the convenience and availability so I fell of the Macro bus. In the winter I still favor the macro diet since the raw foods don't seem to satisfy me as well as the temps drop.
Macro agrees with me since I do love brown rice, miso and all the sea veggies. Macro is not a easy diet for anyone leading a busy lifestyle since there's a lot of food prep involved. Being single at the moment and just cooking for myself kinda makes it even harder so what I do is cook up enough grains for 3 or 4 days at a time I'll also cook up a batch of legumes. When I make miso soup I'll make enought for 2 meals. I always keep some kind of pickled or fermemted foods like saurkraut, pickled daikon or cultured vegies since fermented foods play an important part in the macro diet. For vegies I'll do stir fries or steamed . Another macro staple is Gomasio. I tell ya I could just about live on pressure cooked brown rice with a little Gomasio sprinkled on it. I love that stuff!
The biggest thing that folks need to understand and come to terms with is that none of the cleanses on this site cure anything. They are simply tool that help you get rid of the acculated toxins on the system to uburden the body so the body can heal itself.
Some of these protocols will "relieve" the symptoms of many maladies but that will only be temporary. If you keep ingesting and putting back in the junk that cause it to begin with you will keep having the same problems over and over. Bottom line is that he can drink all the sea salt and ACV in the universe but if he does not change his eating and lifestyle habits he will continue to have problems no matter what he does. Tain't rocket science just plain ole common sense.
All that being said from what I have read in this froum over the last 3 years many folks have gotten relief from sinus issues with the MC. That will only be temporary unless one changes the old eating and habit paterns. All these cleanses do is cleanse out the accumulated junk so the body can operate more efficiently. When the body is not burdened by all these toxins it will revert to it's natural state of health and true "healing will occur. Nothing will be cured it you keep putting the same stuff that caused it back in.
There is absolultly nothing in the human body that works independent of anything else so one must look and address all maladies from the prescpective of total health. It is the only sure way to affect any permanent cures irregardless of the malady.