1. A minimum of 4 ounces of oil is necessary for flushing. You can increase this amount, but should not reduce it, or the flush may fail. I wouldn't worry about it hindering weight loss. I'd worry more about carbohydrates, especially refined carbohydrates.

2. The Liver Flush has the potential to empty the gallbladder, although this process can take some time for certain individuals. In my case, I started seeing gallbladder Gallstones after my 16th liver flush.

3. Telman may want to weigh in on this, as he'll have a more detailed description. Generally speaking, the waxy stones are cholesterol stones and are formed in the liver. The gallbladder tends to precipitate stones that are opaque, off-white or beige, calcified, sometimes hard as rock, or like hard putty. They look very different from the cholesterol stones typically seen when liver flushing.

Taking into consideration that on the day of the flush you should not be consuming anything more than a light breakfast and lunch. Consequently the calories in the oil are your calorie intake for that day. Often in the early flushes the oil isn't always fully digested. The amount of oil and type is important because if the amount of bile is limited which is often the case then the bile will be cycled during the flush. As the amount of bile you have store (the bile bank) increases the time for the flush potion to be digested decreases, less indigestion, less nausea, etc.

I share the opinion that carbs are the guilty party in our diets as they allow the digestive system to become lazy, hasten diabetes and contribute to biliary stasis.

The liver does exercise the gallbladder. The Epson salts will cause it to contract each time it is consumed causing saturated bile and stones to be ejected into the bile ducts and the Olive oil/ citric acid cause an tidal wave through the liver which clears the bile ducts.

In respects of stones types: with a lazy liver and gallbladder the bile tends to become thick and form clumps in the liver gallbladder and bile ducts. These are all very similar. When you flush these make up the stones you see with the addition that thick glutinous bile may also be formed into stones in the last part on the small intestines; these also appear as stones.

Wishing you the very best with you endeavour

Telman

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1. A better question is what can you do to make your bile more soluble so that you don't have to flush. I'm on a rant this week on this issue. Beet protocol, taurine supplementation or tudca, if your constitution is amenable (pitta) then bitters included in the diet or as herbs will increase bile flow. Caveat on bitters: this will only be helpful if you are not far gone into a very congested stoned biliary system, otherwise you will be pushing on a brick wall and cause pain, turmeric was mentioned in another post - it is a bitter herb but also has some fat dissolving properties. Usually anything bitter in the diet only works long term for pitta or kapha types. Good herbal bitters are gentian, artichoke, and dandelion. There are scores and scores of bitter herbs that can all have benefit. coffee enemas work well for a lot of people as a substitute for flushes. Moritz was big on the herb chanca piedra to break up stones (phylanthus niruri or amarus / Bhumiamla)


I do not think the issue of weight gain is calories. However it is a valid point and I have experienced this as the oil mix slowed down my metabolism a lot. To counter this I would take extra Iodine on the day or days after a flush to speed things back up. 4 ounces of oil every 2-3 weeks I don't think will be a big issue though. Especially if you restore your bile flow, then the benefits start to outweigh any negatives by a large margin.

To answer your question as briefly as possible I would say try tudca first. If it does not pan out then go to coffee enemas and then flushes last.