Tired all the time

[Guest guest]

is being tired all the time part of Detox?

[Guest guest]

Yes.....I was fatigued during detox and it slowely

went away. Then I discovered Primal Defense, and it

seemed to make a lot of sense. I started to take

huge doses of the stuff, and my energy level went WAY

up. I have not EVER had this level of energy, and I

was in my mid 30's when I went raw.

 

For years I took antibiotics, drank clorinated tap

water, and ate a lot of sugar. All of these things

kill the good bacteria in our digestive system, which

is needed for countless reasons.

 

Primal defense is the best probiotic I have found it

comes from a company called Garden of Life. The

owner's story is very interesting, and writen about in

a book he sells (or gives away most of the time).

 

I have not been sick since I started on the Primal

defense, and feel dramatically better.

 

Rufus

[Guest guest]

Dr. Herbert Shelton said that most, if not all, healing occurs

during sleep. So the body clearly needs sleep to accomplish its

healing. And most of us have led lives of non-optimal eating, and

habits. And most of our bodies have a lot of healing and cleansing

to do, so the more we need to heal and cleanse, the more sleep we

need. What we actually have is a huge chronic sleep deficit, and the

body tries to make it up whenever it can.

 

Most of us are also very enervated. The word enervation consists

of " e- " , meaning out, " nerv- " , meaning nerve energy, and " -ation " ,

the process of--it is talking about the depletion of our nerve

energy. Our bodies' nervous systems can be likened to that of the

electrical systems of cars, and it's not just the fuel we put into

them that makes them run, but the electrical system has to be

functioning efficiently too. We don't get too far on a dead battery!

 

So the body needs to recharge its electrical system. We have had

such hectic lives, most of us, and such stress, as well as the

strain that non-optimal diets and habits put on our bodies. We find

chronic enervation and what even the medics often recognize as sleep

deficits, in so much of the population. I would almost tend to

believe it exists in everyone, I just can't see how anyone can have

escaped it unless they were living in the rainforest all their lives.

 

Also, when we go raw vegan, the greatest benefit is not from what we

eat, but what we don't eat, the toxins we no longer put into our

bodies. The toxic foods that we've consumed all our lives have been

greatly stimulating and enervating to the body. When one goes raw

vegan, one stops beating the tired horse, so what one is left with

is—a tired horse! One that needs and assertively demands a lot of

rest.

 

What is referred to as detox is the very insistent house cleaning

and repair, rebuilding, revitalizing, healing, that the body does,

when it suddenly finds that it is not being so deluged with toxins.

The body is a miraculous self-healing, self-cleaning, self-repairing

organism and system, with an incredible intelligence, and is always,

no matter what, throughout our lives, seeking to make us as healthy

as possible and to keep us healthy, and make us even healthier. The

body always seeks the absolute optimal health, and assertively

strives for it. Thus we have the seemingly paradoxical phenomenon of

feeling so weak and tired we can't move, yet it is a manifestation

of the tremendous and increasing vigor of the body—the body is

absolutely demanding sleep, and that is why it is literally forcing

us to lie down and stay there until it finishes its work. People

panic when someone faints or goes into a coma, thinking it's a sign

that something is terribly wrong, there is some horrible deficiency,

they need to wake up, etc. Yet it's nothing but the body forcing us

to rest if we don't heed it any other way.

 

Here are a couple of excellent articles, one by Dr. Herbert Shelton,

and one series of articles by Dr. Bernarr Zovluck, on the importance

of rest and sleep, and how the body accomplishes its healing thereby:

 

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020125shelton.pristine/

020125ch34.htm

 

rawfood/message/10403

 

When the overwhelming influx of toxins as a result of the SAD diet

ceases to be consumed, and a raw vegan dietary embarked upon, the

body will very assertively begin to throw off the toxins, and it is

accompanied by symptoms. There may be acute conditions, dramatic and

uncomfortable, which are extraordinary methods of elimination of

toxins that the body uses. That shows the vigor of the body—it takes

a lot of life force to embark on extraordinary cleansing, and the

body will not tolerate toxins a moment longer than it has to, so it

will seize the opportunity if the life energy is sufficient, to do

some very dramatic cleansing and healing. Also, all chronic,

degenerative conditions, in order to heal, must go through an acute

stage. In chronic conditions, various parts of the body have

degenerated as a result of their having to store the accumulated

toxins from unhealthful diet and habits. The body will launch an

acute condition, often in the form of an inflammation (sometimes

erroneously called " infection " ), in order to cleanse and heal those

parts of the body, and the body in general. There may be times that

the body will require a fast. Fasting is complete rest of the body,

including the digestive organs, and is usually indicated when there

are acute symptoms, and an absence of hunger.

 

For more info on fasting, here again are works by Dr. Herbert

Shelton and Dr. Bernarr Zovluck:

 

Here is a chapter on fasting:

 

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020125shelton.pristine/

020125ch28.htm

 

Here is the table of contents of the book—it would be helpful to

read the entire book, which you can do free on-line:

 

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020125shelton.pristine/

020125toc.htm

 

And here is another excellent book on fasting by Dr. Shelton, which

you can read free in its entirety on-line:

 

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/02012

7.toc.htm

 

Here are invaluable articles by Dr. Bernarr Zovluck on fasting and

on sickness/detox:

 

http://www.healself.org/FAST.html

 

http://www.healself.org/detox.html

 

Zsuzsa