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.
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