Re: Your hypothesis on the liver flush….

I beg to differ.

You have basically stated that those of us who have gall stones, seen them, identified them, claimed to have sent them to labs and had the result "gall stones" come back, are all some how confused and don't know what's going on.

Basically, you've come up with a neat method of thinking about how these alleged gall stones could be falsely generated by the process itself, and the hypothesis might even have some merit.

But that is a far cry from having enough evidence to make the sweeping generalizations that you made in your post.

Allow me to give you the benefit of the doubt for a moment, and that what appear to me as veiled scare tactics really are just your attempts to add value to this forum.

You formulated a hypothesis (or perhaps several) based on your observations. Step One, Check. Then you drew conclusions from your hypothesis(-es). Step Two, Flunk. You should have attempted to test your hypothesis, not draw conclusions from it.

This is basic science, Mark. It has nothing to do with God or common sense. It's a cycle of formulation of hypotheses and then testing the hypotheses to demonstrate or disprove them.

Look at what physicists do. While they have their theorists coming up with some of the strangest ideas ever, they convince Congress or some rich benefactor or some coalition of contries to build multi-billion dollar machines to test their ideas. And then, they test some more. And, sometimes, they have to toss their ideas out because the test shows some completely unexpected result. And that's the best time of all, because that's when they really progress.

You've gone nowhere near this. And there is nothing requiring you to do so. And you are welcome to your opinion, and how dangerous the process is. But I am equally welcome to mine, and just as welcome to express it.

To me, all you've done is come to a board which is intended for the support of individuals who seek to assume responsibility for themselves and their health, and covertly hijacked it to corrupt the intent of the owners. Ooooh, let's all be afraid of the stretching of the biliary duct, because it's impossible for it to open that widely.

Nice try, Mr. Touchy-Feely, but you don't fool me.

=-John-=