Liver – The Detox Depot

I have been an absentee blogger for months as all of my time and energy has been poured into doctoring one of ours back to health, again.

I still can’t believe he could tank so low after we had recovered so high. This upheaval was unbearable after achieving a doable level of life.

In addition to improved physical health, we had gained a degree of emotional healing as the final visuals of property damage were getting sorted alongside the heavy emotions surrounding the PANDAS/PANS trauma we’d lived for so many years.

We had healing. I was happy. I was helping others along the same treacherous path.

And out of nowhere, we were rudely side-swiped with organ problems. Gall bladder and liver were the issue at first; kidneys and bladder were to follow. The organs were clogged, full of stones, and basically a rat’s nest of dysfunction and intolerable pain on top of the leaky gut, full blown eczema, and parasite problems that were already obvious.

In the very moment when our doctor was identifying the problems of our backslide, I instantly dissolved into a puddle of anxiety and grief. I felt alone and medically deserted, once again. A migraine overtook me so bad that I was not cohesive, and I could no longer speak. I was in shock. An appointment for my son suddenly became mine. The doctor gave me some pressure points to compress and after about twenty minutes, my head pain along with the panic drained like rushing water from my brain. I cried, uncontrollably, for two hours while my shivering body craved sunlight so desperately that, like a cat, I followed the sun around the windows of our home to stay in it’s beams.

Once the migraine pain was gone and my emotions settled, I immediately braced myself to carefully prod along, one step at a time, to solve these gargantuan organ problems. My resolve became stronger than ever.

I’m happy and proud to say that five months later this roller coaster ride of medical complications has taken me on a journey, once again, that may provide insight for others.

I’m going to be writing about how we are solving our gall bladder, liver, and urinary tract problems including liver and kidney stones which I hope others find helpful and mind blowing. These posts will be soon to follow as I’m still gathering my overwhelming thoughts and every day of success is another brick of proof. I will include resources and supplements we used.

I want to address what caused the downward plunge so others can maybe avoid the same pitfalls. Why did we go down so hard and so dramatically after gaining so much ground? What happened? After all, we spent years and thousands of dollars on healing. Was it a complete waste?

The answers here are many, so I’m just going to list them.

First, detoxing too fast with organs that are weak is a no-no. How fast is too fast? That’s individual. For one of my family members even slow is too fast. He needs ultra-micro slow. In my opinion, needing to add bile salts is a red flag that you are moving too fast. Some may indeed just need the support. However, if auto-immunity is why you’re detoxing (PANDAS, PANS, ASD included), I’d proceed with caution.

Second, binders. We used doctor prescribed binders that you can get from Microbe Formulas. We’ve successfully used them all, but one particular binder that binds viruses, radiation, and chemicals has a formula that has recently changed. We were using the old formula and people were complaining about urinary problems like we were….a year ago. They have since changed the formula, so hopefully others do not have issue like we did., but to say that I’m upset about using a binder that was causing urinary problems is an understatement, because this is what started clogging the whole system. When using binders it is very important to drink a ton of water. Microbe Formulas recommends three times the amount of water normally consumed.

Third. Without our permission or knowledge, our electric company trespassed onto our property and installed a smart meter which I have vehemently refused for years because of the sensitivity my family has to EMF, WiFi, and radiation. This installation aligns perfectly with our decline in health.

In conclusion, this is just an update to where I’ve been and a short list of stumbling blocks. My next posts are going to outline the amazing journey we have been on recovering from some major organ disorders.

I will give you a little hint and mention that we have been using Biofeedback the last four months with incredible results. A trusted bestie in the trenches recommended it to me. I will write more specifically about how we have eczema all clear (again), leaky gut healed, ulcers healing, liver and kidney stones on their way out and so much more from just four short months of biofeedback.

I’ll be back soon to write about healing the gall bladder and liver. See you then!

These organs hold the keys to a successful detox yet they are often overlooked. We have been through some pretty hairy kidney and liver issues and even though we have not needed dialysis, I don’t think we were far from that stage. Now that we have a better grip on the kidneys and liver, I will share what we did to achieve it.

The short version of how the kidneys work is that blood flows into the kidney via the large renal artery, divides into smaller vessels, and travels to a huge network of millions of nephrons. Each nephron houses a filtering unit called a glomerulus, which traps the bad stuff, plus a tubule which works twofold sending the good stuff back into the blood via the renal vein and dispatching the bad away as urine. Kidney filters are the same as all filters, they can get clogged causing toxicity, stones, organ failure, and pre-mature death. The agony of a dysfunctional kidney will bring a grown man to his knees, instantly.

The liver is not exactly a filter because it doesn’t filter toxins from the blood. Instead, it makes toxins less toxic and easier to excrete by first oxidizing the molecules, then conjugating those molecules to make them less metabolically active and more water-soluble, and finally, exporting the conjugate into the bile and into the intestines. From there, it either leaves in the feces, or is reabsorbed into the bloodstream and exits the body through the urine so that toxins leave the body. They don’t stay in the liver, like in the filters of the kidneys. Nevertheless, the liver is complex, playing a huge role in all metabolic processes of fats, sugars, and proteins, blood-clotting and detox.

We’ve had kidney issues present as irritated kidneys, excruciating oxalates, painful ureters, and urinary discomfort as well as liver dysfunction as determined by a weakened immune system, very low energy levels, digestive problems, pain by the lower right rib cage, mood swings, difficulty concentrating and poor memory, yellowing of the eyes, severe eczema, and gall bladder pain.

Any amount of detox, even natural detox, in this state without proper healing first plus proper support was detrimental to us and it will be for most. A good practitioner will understand the importance that the gut, kidneys, liver, and gallbladder all play in detox and make sure they are healing, healed, and supported. You can’t just go after parasites or pathogens without these checks in place. I know it sounds obvious reading it here on this blog, but daily, in the real world, I see people treating PANDAS, PANS, and Lyme without any consideration of these things! They don’t connect antibiotic use to detox. I see this mistake mostly with allopathy, but I have personally experienced this in homeopathy as well.

First, we desperately needed gut healing. For us, that took a few months to get to a place where I could finally add previous food allergens back in. Our doctor used products from Apex Energetics called Repair Vite, which achieved some basic gut healing. Because leaky gut renders us allergic to everything and prevents the proper absorption of vital nutrition, the gut must absolutely be healed. Supplemental vitamins are okay, even necessary, but the number one source of nutrition the body craves is that from food. Organic meats, veggies, fruits, and filtered water offer healing and support to those organs so that you can detox.

Foods such as cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, cucumber, grapes, apples and watermelons are good for the kidneys. Berries are good too, but if you are a stone former, they are often high in oxalates, which we steer away from. Drinking plenty of filtered water is important to keep the kidney filters clean and many say that distilled water will literally remove build-up on all those glomoruluses. Be sure to supplement with plenty of minerals because distilled water will absorb those too.

In addition to an organic, clean diet, we used a variety of supports like Castor Oil Liver Packs, which we used daily at first, then gradually reduced; essential oils from Vibrant Blue Oils, Cell Core Biosciences Kidney and Liver Detox which contains milk thistle for the liver and all the top herbs to clean those filters in our kidneys, N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine to help an overburdened liver, and reflexology was incredibly helpful because I could massage tender organs like the kidneys, bladder, ureters, liver, and gall bladder via the feet. I also used a handful of homeopathics for support: cheliodonium, berberis vulgaris, and china for liver, kidneys, and gall bladder. There are others available, but those were specific for us.

Most importantly, we had a doctor very skilled with detox to help us. He was able to orchestrate the killers, the binders, the healers, and the supporters using kinesiology enabling us to regain health while detoxing. At every appointment he would check the organs and make sure they were truly healing and well supported. We are still a work in progress, but over the last 18 months we are overcoming leaky gut, allergies, eczema, parasite and pathogen infections, PANS, PANDAS, severe ASD, Lyme and co-infections.