Yesss! It is working!!! Now, I have not followed the instructions exactly but it is working. I did not see the point in pouring dish soap into a dish, which itself could be contaminated, before using. I also did not clean the sink and surrounding area. I am using the soap straight from the bottle in a less than antiseptic bathroom. I did buy a new tube of Vaseline. And I scrubbed under my nails with the dish soap and a nail brush. And today my mouth corners are definitely feeling and looking better. I am going to pick up some Monostat today for insurance. But you know what? This is k ...
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Is Monostat the same as Micreme? Maybe OTC strength of the same thing? Anyone know? I am doing the dish soap/vasaline treatment with less success than I had hoped...   [End]
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I feel pretty good, not too hungry, lighter, but a little weak. The only slight problem is that my sense of smell has never been so acute. And taste, too. I drank a glass of tap water and it was full of taste-- not so good. My soon cooked a frozen pizza and I smelled it in my bedroom for hours. But I feel confident I can continue for 18 days as planned. The fast takes on a kind of momentum at this point. Thank god for the Chinese juice cart man outside my office!   [End]
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Feeling pretty good on Day 5. I was home (vacation from work) for 2 days which is harder for me since I am around more food and cooking things for my son, but I have stayed on the fast so that feels good. I need to drop about 10 pounds. Last time I fasted was for 18 days and besides the weight loss, I felt wonderful for quite a while. My digestion was less of a problem. I guess over time I screwed that up again with my love of sweets, carbs, and crap. I hope to stay cleaner this time. Not sure how long I will go, but it might be 3 weeks or so. I’ll see how it goes.   [End]
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That must be very frightening. I feel for you. Best wishes in finding what you seek.   [End]
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Jess- see my message below about a website that can get you started and maybe help you evaluate the books. They recommend a very reasonably priced juicer, which I bought at KMart, only $40 bucks, but you will want to squeeze your pulp through a net bag to get all the juice.   [End]
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Jess- I found this website very helpful: http://www.freedomyou.com/fasting_book/juice%20recipes.htm I am not into the religious aspect but I found a lot of other good information there to get me started. I am currently in day four of a juice-fast and, as I hoped, my hunger has mostly left me now. I feel good, a little empty, moving a little slower but not at all weak. When I take one of my 2-4 servings of juice I feel very satisfied. You have to be willing to make the juice, which is an effort, but as you are not doing any other cooking, it’s not too bad. Drink a lot of water to ...
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My favorite juice combo is carrot-watermelon. Just cut off the green skin of the melon but use the white rind. Watermelon is supposed to be good for getting rid of retained water and of course carrot is a power-house. This combo is yummy.   [End]
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You want to do the MC for 90 days? I would advise a juice-fast instead. Depending on the fruits and vegetables you use, it is very healing and good to your system and will give as good results as a MC fast. I think you will feel much better day-to-day on a juice fast. I did one for 18 days and lost almost a pound a day and felt fantastic.   [End]
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Hi. Not much action on this thread, is there? I am not one of the experts but I can tell you about my recent juice-fast. It worked! I stopped all solid food and drank only freshly made fruit and vegetable juice, water, teas (and a bit of coffee). I was rarely hungry and lost almost a pound a day. I did it for 18 days. My understanding is that raw fruit and veggies only yield like 30-35% of their nutrients if you just eat them, but when you juice them you get 90% and it is absorbed right into your system. You don’t want to ingest the pulp of any matter that must be digested because then ...
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Could not ”reply” for some reason, and I am not Leah, but anyway, I know how you feel on just liquids. It’s great, isn’t it? I was so high on my juice-fast and my insides were all quiet and not demanding meals or anything. But, although I have heard of people doing it for 60 days, I don’t think logically that you could do it for *always.* You would be missing out on some vital nutrition, I would think. Just want to add that I did an 18-day juice-fast about 6 weeks ago, lost about 15 pounds and have kept off every bit of it without much effort. I feel that it really did heal my digestive ...
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Hi all. I recently completed an 18-day juice fast. I felt great and had almost no hunger and lost about 13-15 pounds. HOWEVER, now that I am eating food again, I am not comfortable. Almost everything I eat gives me horrendous gas pain. Last night I was in quite a lot of pain and drinking club soda which was forcing burps and relieving the pain somewhat. But what’s up with that? I am really tired of getting bloated and gassy every time I eat. I had hoped that the juice fast would have some healing effect but not a bit! I am worse off than ever. Thank you for any suggestions or insight!   [End]
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WOW!60 days. And yet, I can see it-- I have really lost the feeling that I *have* to eat meals. Funny. Today is my 16th day and my pants are falling off! I never thought I could without eating for this long, but man, it is easier than a 1000-calorie diet. MUCH easier.   [End]
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Weekends are harder than work days. I was really hungry last night. I reminded myself that if I can just get through Sunday, I will sail through the work-week and break-fast on Saturday. I am starting to reaaaaaallllly look forward to that, planning my first meal of fruit salad topped with yogurt, maybe some sunflower seeds and raisins on top. But today I was down 2 pounds, so that positive feedback will keep me going, hopefully.   [End]
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Oh, no. How disappointing. As I said, I already have a net bag I bought at a pet store for $1.99, the kind that is used on an aquarium vacuum device. It has worked quite well. The mesh is very small and it filters well. The drawback is that it is tall and a bit narrow so I have to spoon in the pulp. But on the other hand, the narrow shape is kind of good for squeezing out juice. I ordered a nut bag online (sorry, I just like to say nut bag) but perhaps my aquarium bag will have been the answer.   [End]
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I am peeing fine, drinking plenty of water and juicing plenty of watermelon (delicious combo- carrot and watermelon). Maybe I pulled something.   [End]
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Yeah, I just ordered a nut bag from ebay. Since watching that video I have used my juicer and my mini food processor depending on what I am juicing and how I feel about cleaning up. Even when I use the juicer, it throws off such juicy pulp that I bag and squeeze it. I hate wasting all that good stuff. Again, though, I’m not sure that a way expensive blender is any better at this task than a fairly cheap food processor. That’s all I’m saying. Whatever works. I am glad to have alternatives that I can afford.   [End]
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I am having trouble with the chair at my new job and my back has been killing me for a few days, but this evening the pain is in my lower back on the right and it’s unbearable. Any thoughts?   [End]
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Thanks! Yes, I am going to keep weighing and not be discouraged. Some people don’t weigh themselves and that’s fine. My plan is to keep weighing myself daily especially after I lose this weight because I need that check on myself so as not to regain it. Apparently ”outgrowing” my clothes is not in itself enough of a check. he he   [End]
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Yes, I should stop weighing myself. The fact is, I can feel my clothes get looser every day, so I know I’m losing. Odd that there is food all around me and I see people eating but I do not feel like I need to eat until the entire 19 days is up. I admit I am looking forward to eating on that day, but this fast (my first of more than 3 days) has been very interesting. I can live without eating!   [End]
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For the past 3 days, no weight-loss according to my scale. WHY? I’m a little bummed but determined to continue for the whole 19 days. Was I naive to think that a pound a day would continue? Any ideas on how can I make the losses start again? I am only having juice, water, tea, and a bit of coffee.   [End]
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Wow, it seems so long since I’ve had a meal or a snack that wasn’t juice. But one thing I am accomplishing with this is breaking a dependence/ addiction/ compulsion to eat mindlessly all day long. I see good things to eat (there are always free food and goodies at the office fr’instance) and I say to myself, when I am ready to eat there will be food. There’s no rush. I didn’t see the scale move the last two days (so took a big dose of senna tea) but my clothes are falling off me. I had put all the clothes I had ”outgrown” into a big trash bag so I wouldn’t have them in my closet mocking m ...
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Hi all. Down another pound every day, and feeling great, and experiencing very little hunger. It is so easy when I am at work. Before I go in I make my watermelon, apple, beet, carrot juice, then in the late morning I buy a 24 oz. juice at the cart outside my work, then I’m good till I get home. Yesterday, there was food available all over the office, left over from meetings and whatnot but instead of eating, I reminded myself of how I would see the scale go down another notch in the morning. A pound a day from around my middle where it was driving me crazy. I could never stick with ...
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Hi all! Am I bad girl for putting a dash of olive oil in my gazpacho juice? I thought it would be good for me and I don’t see how it would harm my fast but please, someone, kindly educate me if I am wrong.   [End]
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It’s great to step on the scale every morning and be down another pound, isn’t it? I am starting day 8 of my juice-fast and I’m losing a pound a day. Losing weight this quickly, my goal of 20 pounds is actually within my reach. I know the current ”wisdom” says to lose 1-2 pounds per WEEK, but honestly, who can stick to that? Plus, your weight fluctuates over a week so it becomes very hard to see any progress, so you get discouraged and fall off your diet. I was a bit hungry over the weekend but stuck to fasting because I was looking forward to stepping on the scale in the morning. Whoo-hoo ...
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No I don’t keep pulp in my juices. I don’t really see olive oil, especially a small amount, as contrary to juice fasting. It is pressed out of an oil and not pulpy, but whatevs.   [End]
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I am in day 7 too. I am finding it harder on the weekend because of the leisure and the availability of food-- I am fasting while cooking for my hubs and son! I am dealing with the greater hunger by having smaller, more frequent, servings of juice and of course lots of water and tea. I am shooting for 19 days total. I am amazed at myself- I have never done this before. I am afraid if I stop it will be hard to start again, so I am trying to lose all my excess weight (about 20 very stubborn pounds)in one go. Good luck!   [End]
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I am in my 7th day of a juice fast. Most of my juices are combinations of fruit and vegetable, like carrot and watermelon (YUM!), or carrot-beet-apple-carrot, but this weekend I have been making what I call gazpacho juice, tomatoes, red peppers, cuke, garlic, onion, parsley, and olive oil. The weekend has been more difficult since I am at home, not that busy, and cooking for my family, but I’ve kept with it and have lost about 8 pounds altogether. During the work week, I juice once in the morning, then at work I buy a fresh combo juice from a cart outside the building (lucky, right?) and m ...
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I just made my favorite juice combo using my $25 mini food processor and an aquarium vacuum filter bag. I blended up watermelon chunks, including rind, then added chunks of carrot. Slight problem, too much water from the watermelon at first. Spooned out some pulp and proceed to puree the carrots in remainder of melon juice. Squeezed through the bag and voila! Delicious and non-pulpy!   [End]
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The following is only my humble opinion: Yesterday I read on the forum about videos on YouTube of BlindGuru demonstrating how you can use a blender to make carrot juice and you don’t in fact need a juicer. Now, my take on this was, oh, I already have a blender that’s looks kind of like one of the four he is shown using-- maybe I can use my blender in the same way! Then I checked out another video and it turns out that the blenders he uses cost from $300-$500. So I posted here that that seems like a lot of money and you might as well buy a nice juicer (mine cost me $40, BTW). A gentleman ...
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Yesterday, Saturday, was a bit difficult because of hunger, which I had not had at all during the work week. I am so fortunate-- at work there is a cart right outside my building that makes fresh fruit and veggie juices in 30 combinations, including ginger, parsley, beet, you name it. Four bucks for 24 oz. I cannot believe my luck. It would be very difficult to do this otherwise. I generally juice at home for breakfast, then get a 24-ouncer at the cart, then juice again when I get home at 7:30-8:00pm. In between, water and tea. Yesterday I had some hunger and coped with it by drinking m ...
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Thanks for the info about nut bags. Today I went to a pet store and bought a fine mesh plastic bag of the kind used for cleaning fish tanks. (You attach it to a vacuum device.) It cost me $1.99, worked great and rinsed clean. It made me very happy to squeeze so much juice out of the pulp bin of my $40 Hamilton Beach juicer, which has a few deficiencies but overall was an excellent investment. Hope I’m not this hungry tomorrow. I’m not going to break the fast, though. I am determined to lose the extra 20 pounds that’s been plaguing me all in one shot. I am positive that something was ...
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Mostly I have been using carrots, beets, cukes, watermelon, apples, grapes. I haven’t done much with greens (more about that below). I made a delicious juice today from tomatoes and red peppers, cuke, a clove of garlic and some onion. Then I added a dash of olive oil. I was trying to make a ”juice” version of gazpacho. It was yummy! Later, I bought some kale. I have done much green juice and thought it would be good for me. So I juiced up the kale with a raw potato a clove of garlic and a bit of onion, and it was NASTY but I drank it anyway. I am in my 6th day and having trouble w ...
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Wait a second. I spent 40 bucks on my juicer and I’m pretty happy with it but I need a mesh bag to further drain the pulp. But Blindguru just said, ”If you’re gonna spend 3, 4, 5 hundred dollars on a blender...” SAY WHAT? I don’t really see the advantage at those prices!   [End]
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Yeah, I was gonna say, what kind of bag is that and where can I get one? My juicer was a good deal at 40 bucks. But the pulp container always has a lot of juice in it which I have been squeezing out with my hands. I wonder if a food processor would grind the carrots faster and easier. And where can I get that bag? Health food store? Anyone know?   [End]
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This morning I juiced a pear, some red grapes and some blueberries. Boy was that good! My mouth had an orgasm. Another favorite of mine is watermelon and carrot.   [End]
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Watermelon, flesh and rind, plus carrot is a delicious combination! I think it is good for bloat, too. What do you mean though, Yogi, about considering watermelon part of the juice-fast? Do you just eat it, not juice it?   [End]
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Thanks, guys, for the encouraging words. Starting day six today. I stepped on the scale yesterday and was 5 pound lighter than I imagined. Today, another pound gone. I know the ”experts” say to shoot for 1-2 pounds per week but I do not have the kind of patience to deprive myself day in and day out for such slow results. PLUS, I feel that what I am doing with this juice-fast is NOT deprivation and is in fact healing a liver and digestive organs that were not working properly. Because why else was I unable to lose weight no matter what healthy food I ate in moderate amounts? It just wasn’t ...
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Hi all! Is something wrong with me? because I feel fantastic. I haven’t had a single problem so far. I am drinking 2-3 large servings of fruit and vegetable juice a day, plus water and tea (and a little coffee). I am hardly ever hungry. I think I have dropped 8 pounds or so. But the thing I LOVE about this is how I feel inside. It is like my insides are totally at rest. Very peaceful. Nothing is going on in there, except, I hope, some healing. It feels very very good. I was originally planning to do this for just the five days, during my work week. I am VERY fortunate to have a fresh juice ...
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Hi all. Just stumbled on this forum while looking for something else. What kind of fasts are you guys doing? I have been trying to get my liver toned up so that I can rid of some stubborm fat. Fasting might be the way to go, as nothing else seems to work. Is there some ”master post” you guys could direct me to? Thanks.   [End]
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Thanks for all the info. This sounds inane but I was really going by the packaging of epsom salts which usually cautions against using it as a laxative frequently. I can see where some magnesium might be helpful, especially if what you don’t need washes away. I can deal with swallowing things that taste bad, along with handfuls of supps. My family thinks I’m nuts of course. My husband advised me last night that the ache on my right side under my rib cage couldn’t possibly be my liver (”which is, like, down around here”) and that I should just get a job with health insurance and go to th ...
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That is my question. Can they be used regularly, or as needed? Or should one try to limit their use to only when very necessary? I don’t mean in baths, BTW, but taken in liquid. Thanks.   [End]
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I read in Dr. Cabot’s book that another approach to clensing the liver is to take fresh-squeezed lemon juice with 1 oz. OO overy night before bed for 30 nights. So far, I have notice severe pain in my liver/back region that almost made me break down yesterday. Today it is still there, that nagging pain that you squirm to try to get away from but you can’t. Anyone out there do 30 days of lemon/OO with similar experience? Is it a good way to cleanse the liver? I am taking lecithin and a dozen other supps.   [End]
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I took epsom salts as recommended and got some *relief* but the pain came back, tho’ not as bad. I was lying on a warming pad, which helped. It was very hard to get to sleep since the pain was/is still there more or less. I sure would like to know what the heck is going on in there. Do you suppose my nightly lemon/OO tonic is causing the pain because of stirring up stones? I am very uncomfortable and have been for several weeks. I have Dr. Cabot’s book about people who are unable to lose weight no matter what, because of a screwed up liver. I figured I might’ve screwed mine up eating a kin ...
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Thanks. I will try the epsom.   [End]
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Hello- I am in agony. I have no health insurance at the moment so I am not going anywhere with my agony. I need to solve this myself- or with your help. It has seemed to me that I fit the description of someone with fatty liver or clogged liver and a week ago I did a flush with moderate results and some relief in annoying right-side (upper back under ribcage) pain. I have been doing fresh vegetable juice, eating carefully, and recently started taking an ounce of olive oil in fresh lemon juice befor bed. Today I am in so much pain I am about to break down and just cry. I cannot get away fr ...
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Is there anyone reading these posts who has actually LOST weight? If so, could that person post something so that the rest of us may know that it is possible??????? BTW, my husband lost 100 pounds following his gastric bypass last summer, but I am not nearly heavy enough to qualify, nor would I want it. I used to be able to lose with Atkins (don’t flame me!) but it no longer works for me. So I recently bought Weight Loss for Dummies online. It promises to take off 9 pounds in 11 days by rotating ridiculous meals, based on selections you chose from two lists. I have followed it now fo ...
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Cravings for carbs/sugar will go away after three days of going without. The 3 days are hard, yes, but then you should have some relief, without the need to ”take” anything. That is why trying to slowly wean yourself off carbs/sugar is a loser’s game. Do the three days. Drink lots of water, and know that this too shall pass... in three days!   [End]
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And the thoughtful response. I have got to get my bowel cleansed, most probably...   [End]
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I did do a second liver flush about 2 weeks later but got much much less in the way of stones. Then I did a bowel clense and got a small amount of what could be termed impacted material. But that is a good poin about where gas comes from. Why would it be so stimulated by ingestion of new food, however?   [End]
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I just found a Candida website with diet advice that includes FRUIT! Like that’s not sugar!   [End]
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Oooo, I know that one! Immediately upon awakening, before putting anything in your mouth or rinsing or anything, work up some saliva and spit into a glass of water. Candida infected people’s spit with quickly show up as long strings dangling down from the spittle into the water. Normal spit will not. You can google this if you don’t believe me.   [End]
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Hi, all! (Hi, Trilby!) About a year ago I was having tremendous awful pain under my right rib cage for about 3 weeks which, it finally dawned on me, was probably gallstones. I found Cure Zone and did the liver flush. The pain abated immediately and never returned. Now here’s the thing: it was right about then that I started having IBS problems that I never had in my life before: bloating after eating ANYTHING, and embarrassing vast quantities of gas. Is it possible that a successful cleansing liver flush flushed the good bacrteria out of my intestinal tract? The timing of this pro ...
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Or maybe it’s just me. No one ever responds to my posts.   [End]
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In my humble opinion (based on life experience) trying to wean yourself slowly off sugar and carbs is a losers game. It will be harder and will probably not work. The truth is, after the first 3 difficult days of avoiding sugar and carbs you will be presantly surprised that you then CAN resist them easily. Say to yourself: Carbs and sweets are only fit food for fungus and yeast. When you look at them and want them, try imagining them covered with hungry MOLD.   [End]
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I am a recovering sugar addict. Recently I made the connection between continuing to eat sugar and carbs and feeling like I’m 200 years old. Then I realized it was a Candida overgrowth problem, all my symptoms fit the profile. I hadn’t done Atkins-dieting in a while, but recalled that whenever I di it, I felt 1000x better physically and clear-headed. So first off, the revulsion at the thought of this yeast/fungus invading me from inside my body helped me to quit eating sugar and carbs. Next, when confronted with a plate of cookies at work, I looked right at them and said ”That is foo ...
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There is nothing left to eat. How depressing.   [End]
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It wasn’t hard to find ’em. A yahoo search turned them up on this website: http://www.pureprescriptions.com/products/product_view.asp?ProductsID=150&Pro... Reasonably priced too.   [End]
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Frankly, theological discussions bore me, so I’m going to leave the Muslim thing alone. However, I have been fermenting kefir from grains for the last four months. Well fermented kefir contains only a trace amount of lactose. Futher, kefir brewed from grains contains about 30 benefical microrganisms, lactic acid, a number of ”B” vitamins, and is easy to digest. What’s not to like? The MOST important thing about grain fermented kefir is this: it only looks disgusting, it actually tastes pretty darn good. Fizzy bubbles and alcohol, put a minature umbrella in the glass if it makes you feel an ...
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Somebody’s post here (can’t find it now) mentioned ”seeing” the dead yeasties in the toilet. Could someone please elaborate on that? I would love to be able to see the little demons dead in my toilet!   [End]
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And yet I seem to have a whooping case of cadida. Why? I felt really good a few years ago when I was Atkins-dieting, smart and healthy. Then I had a problem with gallstones and after three weeks of contant pain under my right ribcage, I did the liver flush and felt better immediately. But because I connected the gallstones with the amount of nuts I had been eating, I cut out the nuts and soon fell off the Atkins-wagon. My health then spiralled downward pretty quick. What happened to me? Is overindulging in refined carbohydrates, by itself, enough to cause this? I almost never take an ...
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Brain fog- YES!!! It is awful. I have started a very intellectually demanding job and I’m pathetic at it. I cannot read with any comprehension any more. It causes me to make major mistakes. Even typing is slow now because I hit letters in the wrong order. This is not me! I just figured out that my problem is Candida less than a week ago, but I have stocked up on most of the recommended supplements, and I’m following a very low-carb, but maybe not low enough, diet. How can I get my intelligence back? I am open to suggestions. I am reading the board, but would also like to hear from ...
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