A Diary of a Liver and Gallbladder Flush. The first salad after the flush. The “stones” that you excrete during the cleanse can’t really be stones. If my cholesterol was low (in the past), why would I want to excrete more bile and cholesterol? There are two main types of lung cancer: non-small cell and small-cell. Learn about how these lung cancers are caused, your treatment options, and more.I’ll address the first concern, now post- flush at the end of my flushing timeline here. In this article, I’m going to break down the flush that I did so you can see just how it transpired – my hope is to inspire you to take action on your health as well as dispel some of the myths about the flush being an awful experience. Let’s get going. April 2. AM: Decide to do a liver and gallbladder flush. ![]()
I’m still not fully convinced by Andreas that the body is storing all of these pre- formed “stones” in the liver and gallbladder, but I am convinced that if you overstimulate your liver and gallbladder you can create a cleansing effect. I decide that if I do a cleanse like this, it may help further my quest for even better digestion and better skin. But first I need to get the exact protocol together so I search the bookshelf to reference my Amazing Liver and Gallbladder flush book to get the cleanse right. I don’t have it with me in Berkeley, so I do a Google search and the protocol comes up on thousands of sites. Wed. April 2. 7th – 2: 3. PM: When to do it? In the book (I remember) as well as the Internet, Andreas explains that you might want to do the flush on a weekend because it isn’t exactly pleasant. ![]() April 2. 7th – 9: 3. PM: At Whole Foods. Peptic ulcer disease is a problem of the gastrointestinal tract characterized by mucosal damage secondary to pepsin and gastric acid secretion. At this time, Whole Foods is the only place open to buy what I need for the cleanse.(Work ran a little longer than expected.)I wonder where I’ll find Epsom Salts since I’ve never bought them before. April 2. 7th – 1. ![]() PM: Kev’s at it again. Annmarie comes home from a friend’s house, looks at the counter and says, “what the heck are you up to now?!”. April 2. 8th – 1: 4. PM: Eat lunch later than I should have. I’m not supposed to eat after 1: 0. ![]() PM, but I got caught up putting together the second half of the Howard Lyman interview on the blog. I get a salad from an awesome place here in Berkeley called Venus. Thurs. April 2. 8th – 3: 3. PM: Mixing the Epsom salts and water. As I’m mixing 4 tablespoons with 2. I’m wondering – based on some of the accounts of the flush – why on earth I would want to voluntarily spend a day on the toilet. I decide that the reward of even greater health is far better than a day of agony (if that was even the case.)Thurs. And that is constipation. All kidding. April 2. 8th – 3: 3. PM: I ask Annmarie how her experience was when she did the flush. She reminds me it was awful. Thurs. April 2. 8th – 3: 3. PM: Questioning. I question my decision again. Thurs. April 2. 8th – 3: 4. PM: Leave to go for a run with a friend on the Bay. I wonder if running before the cleanse is a good idea, but I figure as long as I drink a lot of water it will start the detoxification process nicely. Thurs. April 2. 8th – 5: 4. PM: I can’t wait. I know I’m supposed to drink 6 oz of the Epsom Salts at 6: 0. I want to get on with it. So I drink 6 oz of the mixture. It doesn’t taste as bad as some have said it would. April 2. 8th – 7: 5. PM: Back on schedule. I drink 6 oz of Epsom Salts. Tastes the same as it did last time. I am getting hungry now. I tell Annmarie, I’m just going to eat and forget about the whole thing. She knows I’m half joking, but tells me I can’t back out now. She’s right. Thurs. April 2. 8th – 9: 3. PM: Teamwork! Annmarie is kind enough to juice the grapefruits for me. I realize I only needed two, not the 6 that I bought. I also have a small headache. April 2. 8th – 9: 4. PM: Bedtime. I get ready for bed. You’re supposed to lie down immediately after drinking the olive oil and grapefruit mixture, so I get ready for bed. I know that if I don’t get ready for bed before I drink it, I probably would check email one more time (which is not a 2 minute event) and do other things that are not allowed in the protocol. Thurs. April 2. 8th – 1. PM: Almost on time. I mix 5 oz of grapefruit juice with 5 ounces of olive oil. The book says 4 ounces of each, but I figure I’m not an average sized person, so a little more won’t hurt and may even be a little more effective. April 2. 8th – 1. PM: Not tired, but. April 2. 8th – 1. PM: My stomach starts to gurgle. April 2. 8th – Maybe 1. PM: Nighty, night. I fall asleep. Friday, April 2. Somewhere around 3: 0. AM: A weird pinching. I wake up. I know it’s about 3: 0. I’m still tired. Just underneath the bottom of my rib cage on my right side, I feel a pretty strong pinching sensation. This is right where my liver and gallbladder are, so I assume this is the liver or gallbladder (or both) working to push out as much bile as possible. It doesn’t hurt, it actually feels pretty good, because – again – I assume that the flush is really flushing. April 2. 9th – 6: 3. AM: First morning drink. I get up to use the bathroom (only #1) and drink the third 6 oz of Epsom Salts and water. I’m really tired. April 2. 9th – 8: 4. AM: Second morning drink. I get up again two hours later (I set an alarm) and drink the final 6 oz of Epsom salts. April 2. 9th – 1. AM: First #2. Finally, I feel like I have to use the bathroom. I grab my i. Phone so I can play Sudoku while I’m on the throne. I play two easy games and I’m done. For those of you who aren’t aware of the process, when you #2 the day after, you are supposed to pass greenish, floating stones that are presumably gallstones and bile that has been sitting in your liver clogging it up. Some people only pass a few, while others pass “thousands.”I was hoping to see a bunch, but when I examined everything, I only saw 3- 5 stones floating. April 2. 9th – 1: 1. PM: Second #2. I opted to not do an enema to get everything moving. This is recommended so the “toxins” from the cleanse won’t be absorbed back into your body. Again, I understand what is being said here, but at the same time as long as there is transit (and believe me there was) the absorption would be minimal. This time, I play 4- 5 games of Sudoku and it becomes very evident to me that Epsom salts really do their job. I’m excited again to examine my flush, but find that there are only a dozen or so “stones.”Fri. April 2. 9th – 1: 4. Lunch time. I’m super hungry. April 2. 9th – 2: 5. PM: Back playing Sudoku. This time again I pass about two dozen or so stones. Fri. April 2. 9th – 3: 0. PM: I take a nap. This process has worn me down. April 2. 9th – 6: 2. Final round of Sudoku. This round was shorter and it seems like everything is out. April 3. 0th – 8: 1. Confirmed. After a morning juice, I use the bathroom and confirm no stones and officially end my cleanse and this journal. Total Stones: 4 dozen (+ or - )Total Bathroom Trips: 5 Rounds. Clean Liver: . If you’re going to do a flush, do it on a day off. Not as bad as I thought. Based on Annmarie’s experience, I thought the liver and gallbladder flush was going to be awful. Annmarie was up all night, had pains in her stomach and was miserable the entire next day. This shows me that clearly everyone will have a different experience. I’ve heard similar things from others. Don’t exercise before you drink the salts. I knew when I was going out to exercise it wasn’t a good idea. I fought my intuition here and it beat me up. My headache wasn’t that bad, but it was a headache that I didn’t need to have. Do it again if you feel like you didn’t cleanse. I will do this again. I don’t necessarily feel that I didn’t cleanse – the feeling in my side was evidence that something was doing something – I just want to make sure I do a few rounds of this before I make any further decision about the protocol. Andreas recommends (depending on your situation) that you start with a few every month or so, then do a maintenance flush once or twice a year. I think this is reasonable. I still am not convinced that all the “stones” are stones or even all bile. Even after listening to Andreas explain the “stones” and seeing my own, I’m still not convinced that they’re all stones that have been stored in the liver and gallbladder. Based on what I’ve read – and short of sending them off for lab testing – I’m convinced that they’re a mixture of oil, citrus and bile. The good news for those that support the cleanse is regardless of what they are, there is a cleansing effect that is brought on by the excessive release of bile. Also, there MAY be real stones excreted. Did it work? This is a challenging question. Did everything happen as the book said they would? Yes. Did it transform my health? I don’t know yet. I don’t have a serious health issue that could have been helped immediately by this cleanse, so I may never know. I’ve heard many fantastic stories of gallbladder attacks ending after doing this cleanse. I’ve also heard stories of skin clearing up and other digestive issues getting better. This to me seems like at the very least some real success. As for you, it’s up to you and a trusted health practitioner to guide you through the process (if you even need it at all.)So back to my experience, I’ll be monitoring my skin and my digestion to tell you if I notice anything of note. So it likely the flush may have helped, but it’s only one part of the puzzle. I also will repeat the flush when we return from Peru in late June. For those who have more serious issues that this may help alleviate, I’d like to hear your stories, since that will help me be more sure of my thoughts around this protocol. If you’re interested in trying this or you want more information on the liver and gallbladder flush, please listen to the interview I did with Andreas Moritz, he clarifies many things I didn’t discuss. He started seriously researching personal and preventative natural health therapies in 2. 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