Ted's Remedies
Some people have low tolerance to any oily foods, including oil pulling. What is not mentioned is the enormous effects of health it has on eating foods with vegetable oils. While oil pulling do in few cases cause a person to be sick, if a person has low tolerance to oils in general. This happens sometimes for certain oils or an entire range of oils, including olive oil. Although I report the least problems from olive oil use, however current oil pulling use is sunflower oil. In case it doesn't work, for sunflower oil, it might work for olive oil. However, some people get a skin allergy response just applying olive oil to their skin or the use on their hair. Certain imbalances in higher chain oil is possible and a condition might be reduced by eating a small amount of beeswax, or another form, octacosanol where these very long chain fatty alcohols reduces LDL, low density lipoprotein, and other substances responsible for the negative reaction from vegetable oil use. It seems to help reduce cholesterol too. If an alternative oil pulling is used without the resultant side effects, adding some peppermint oil may reduce the problem, or if the liver has low tolerance to oil, it also helps if granulated lecithin is used instead. Granulated lecithin taken at one tablespoon per day preferably before meal. It should be noted that oil soluble compounds, including benzene, and toxic chemicals that are oil soluble recirculates in our body for the rest of our life and accumulates in the liver. There's no way out, except granulated lecithin which are a fat emulsifer, that helps the fat become water soluble so the body can rid of them much easier. It's the same thing when we take too much vitamin A or vitamin E and is stored by the liver. I have seen instances where long term used of ANY oils, whether they be aloe vera oil, olive oil, causes allergic and body's negative response. The cause is that the liver simply can't hold any more oils that's being accumulated and has to find a way out. One here I mentioned is granulated lecithin, but there's a limited extend of possible removal with the use of drinking ACV apple cider vinegar, which is also solubilizes the oil, as well as borax remedy, and alkalization remedy. They are all surfactants. The French Paradox where they consume more cholesterol then the U.S, but had less maybe due to the fact that a small amount of alcohol in wine may have helped the liver remove excessive oils and fats. However, other avenues in reducing other oils, such as triglycerides exists in drinking unsugared no artificial flavoring, no artificial sweetners such as green tea also. However, I always add a tiny pinch of borax, as some green tea may have fluoride and this aids in the removal.
While I can't say oil pulling using vegetable oil is the best, the one with the least problem is the use of oil pulling by literally pulling the accumulate oils (and bad oils) out of the system using granulated lecithin. In fish pathology, using rancid oils is about the worse things you can do to cause teh fish to be sick, but rancid oils exists in human diets to much greater extent owing to their being long on the shelf, and cooing of vegetable oils further worsen the oil tolerances, whenever the liver can no longer take any more oils from the system.
Ted
P.S. This second form of oil pulling might be named Pulling Oil instead of Oil Pulling. It's the second type of detoxification using lecithin.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
12/09/2010
I have a question about Ted's Remedy for using Lecithin. I have been quite ill for the last 6 months. Initially thought I had a sinus infection (headaches and dizziness/ fogginess) which hasn't left me. I went to a homeopathic doctor who thought my liver was causing my sinus issues. I have been using ACV for 5 months (1 tsp in a glass of water 4x/day). For the last month- dandelion root, slippery elm, propolis. I was also oil pulling 5-6 days a week (switching b/w sunflower and VCO). I learned that my detox may have been too much, so cut out oil pulling, not knowing what else to do. I know my body needs a break to detox, but not sure exactly how to 'break' successfully, so I just stopped. The only thing that seems to be giving me relief now is to drink 2tbsp of lime juice and sprinkle 1/4 to 1/2 tsp of cayenne (and sweeten with Stevia)... This gets me through the day, but I'm not cured. I'm thinking about trying Lecithin now to help with my liver and general detox.
I really don't know what to do and only what to feel healthy again. Is Lecithin a good choice for me right now? I don't really understand how detox of the liver works. Will this make my liver work harder before it gets better? Am I only hurting my body? I didn't notice any change in my health when I stopped oil pulling, so I don't really know if this alternative to oil pulling will work. I'm desperate for relief but I also know that I didn't get to this condition over night, so I'm not expecting to be better overnight either. I just don't know how to proceed. Please let me know any thoughts on how to best proceed. Many many thanks to the earth clinic community."
02/26/2011: Bridget from Okc, Ok replies: "Hi, Have you tried reading any of Brenda Watson's books?? Either 'The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps' or 'Essential Cleansing for Perfect Health'. I have read them both and found them to be very helpful in helping me to learn how to detox from a chemical overload from when we were building a house. I became very sick from the chemicals in the paint we were using, I too had what I thought was a sinus infection with many of the symptoms you described. After many frustrating Dr. Visits I decided to do my own research. I think the second book, Essential Cleansing for Perfect Health, is the better of the two, it is more concise and to the point. I have also found great help from a book titled "Toxic Overload" by Paula Baillie-Hamilton, I ordered and tried the list of supplements in her book and within 2 days felt a great sense of relief from the debilitating migraines and mental fogginess that had plagued me daily for over a year. Good luck, I hope you too will find relief soon.
Europe
05/15/2012
Hi Ted, Thank you very much for posting this as well as other things, it's been of great value.
In this post you made, there are some things that are kind of completely new to me, and I'd appreciate a lot if you'd want to give further references for a deeper study. The points where I'd appreciate if you wanted to provide this are:
* Oil soluble compounds, including benzene and rancid oils, and toxic chemicals that are oil soluble recirculates in our body for the rest of our life and accumulates in the liver - more on which are accumulated, how much, what damage do they do
* These can be rid of with lecithin - more on what kind of things lecithin actually takes out (heavy metals? bad proteins? bad carbohydrogens such as benzene and rancid oils?) and how effectively
* The liquid lecithin is oily and not effective - what kind of oil is it, soy oil? why not effective, bc that oil in the liquid lecithin makes it an ineffective emulsifier or what? Is liquid lecithin effective at all, if so how much?
Thanks!! Mikael
Europe
05/16/2012
Ah - sth more -
* If this Lecithin treatment is taken as per what you said above and any clarifications you'll add in additional responses now, would it interfere with consumption of Coconut oil?
I. E. , I take a raw virgin coconut oil cure concurrently with the lecithin treatment. Can I throw both into the blender and eat them in the same smoothie, or should I rather try to keep them separate so eat the Lecithin in the morning and the Coconut oil in the evening?
Basically it's real important that both the Coconut oil and the Lecithin have their full treating effect on me, as the Coconut oil is to kill candida and stuff and the Lecithin would be a detox - both very important, I better alternate weeks or sth if needed, in case they would interfere with each other.
* Do you view taking Lecithin rather as a liver detox or as a whole-body detox?
Thanks and blessings again :)
Mikael
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