Oil Pulling, Liver Cancer, Adrenal Fatigue

1. I have tried daily oil pulling with coconut oil for a week. Three days into it my lymph nodes swelled, perhaps from flushing toxins and bad bacteria out of my system, or the salivary glands performing excess saliva secretion. Yesterday I had my semiannual dental visit, and the hygienist remarked that the ample production of saliva had resulted in relatively low tartar collection on my teeth, and that my gums were healthy.

However, my night sweats/insomnia have resurfaced. I must be more mindful of the sugars I ingest, stop using the computer by 8 pm, and/or exercise.

2. I was told in a dream to eat as if I had liver cancer. Here are some links to liver cancer diet suggestions:

suggestion #1
suggestion #2

I don't have any risk factors for liver cancer. I believe that if I properly flush out my liver and heal it, it will help my body recuperate from adrenal fatigue.

My Energy Boosting Regimen

Here's my diet:
• Vegetables: Garlic and onion, sprouts, leafy greens, kale, chard, artichokes, and asparagus.
• Seeds and Nut butters: Sesame (tahini), sunflower, almond.
• Legumes: Lentils, adzuki, black bean, and split pea.
• Poultry or Meats (raised organically): Chicken, turkey, duck, beef, lamb.
• Fish (ocean-caught): Wild salmon, halibut, sardines, herring, and albacore tuna.
• Cultured foods: Yogurt and kefir with acidophilus.
• Healthy Oils: Extra virgin coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, flaxseed oil.
• Whole grains: Basmati rice (rinse well), wild rice, quinoa, millet. They tend to be lower in starch than other grains.
• Spices: Garlic, oregano, ginger, chives, cilantro, turmeric (curry powder), basil, thyme, rosemary, cinnamon.
• Other: High omega-3 eggs (poached or soft-boiled) with DHA, B12, and Vitamin E.

I am cheating with the non-organic meats until the tax bill is taken care of. I'm also taking astragalus root tincture and Renew-U Tea, thanks to some herbal energy testing I did at a great alternative healing/health care/therapy retail joint today. I may get "Adapt to Life." Pau d'Arco and astragalus I tested VERY STRONG for, so instead of getting Pau d'Arco bark there, I researched TheHerbalist.com and found I still had two boxes of Renew-U Tea, where the first ingredient listed is Pau d'Arco bark. So I'm brewing that.

I cheated today for it was pi day March 14, but I had only Perrier with my chocolate cream pie. I'll probably not be able to attend any more debt group breakfast meetings -- every restaurant insists on sugars, dairy, fruit and grains. I'm going to be like the Japanese and eat fish and rice and drink green tea in the morning.

My laptop is back but I won't get sucked into it. The Progressive Tech people told me a miracle happened in that the spill did not get into the motherboard.

As I read more of Caroline Sutherland's The Body Knows How to Stay Young the more I understand how it is I came to lose my parents at an early age and how to prevent dying before I'm ready to. I have knowledge now, which they didn't have. I thank the Lord for the gifts of intellectual curiosity and fortitude to withstand detoxification crises from caffeine and sugar, and for the gift of time and the Internet where I can look up this information. Certainly eating pie as a mid-afternoon snack was not the healthiest, but it was a great way to spend some time with my favourite math geek!

I also want to thank my godmother/aunt for sharing her health condition news with me: I can pray for her healing, and I have shared with her some resources she may find helpful if she wanted to try healing on her own terms.

I don't understand the U.S. at all: "here, have lots of grains, but don't soak them to reduce their phytates which inhibit absorption. Then get celiac disease, Crohn's, or irritable bowel syndrome when you get a gluten allergy or food sensitivity once your hormones start changing in your 40s. Then with the hormone imbalances and endocrine disruptors in your environment, mindset and food, you can get cancer and we can hike up your insurance as you get treatment or deny you claims, and big pharma gets paid off. Industrial agriculture, who gets subsidies for producing wheat cheaply, thanks you as well. US Citizens exist only to make food processors, banks, insurance agencies, doctors, pharmaceutical companies rich." So guess where I'm putting my US money as I eat non-processed, natural and whole foods?

Major discovery of the week/month/year

My adrenal glands are burned out, and so am I. I'm sugar-sensitive, and addicted to caffeine. I don't drink alcohol now, although a glass of wine a week wasn't immediately harmful. It takes about six months to two years to properly heal the adrenal glands, and doing so means eliminating substances so omnipresent in American foods: sugar, alcohol, caffeine. For over a year I've noticed fat stored around my midsection, although my body mass index is 21.4, and my weight is normal. I could lose seven to thirteen pounds to be closer to where it should be for my body frame. It'd be best if those pounds came from the midsection.

But yeah: lack of motivation, needing caffeine/sugar to get going, depression, brain fog, irritability -- all signs of adrenal burnout. What causes adrenal fatigue: stress. Stress has many faces: worry, anger, finances, job, living beyond your means, trauma, surgery, chronic illness, chronic pain, diet, lack of or too much exercise – anything that is negative or feels negative. It's not just me who's experienced this: this is very common in the United States.

I'm trying a juice fast: I am on the third day, and am noting the following healing crises: increased saliva and coated tongue. Juicing has been fun: yesterday I did parsley/carrot/celery/broccoli/kale/tomato, and this morning was pear/cucumber/ginger. Looking forward to trying more juice combinations. I may go buy a greens supplement of wheatgrass: the chlorophyll may be useful for detoxifying my liver.
My liver'd been sending signals that I'm overloaded from stress but I ignored them, and that's easy to do until a tsunami of stressful situations and negative factors hits the system.

Am hoping/expecting that acupressure, energy medicine, diet, and exercise will put me back on the path to wellness. Energy medicine helped me localize the issue, Dr. Diana Schwarzbein's book helped me establish what state my adrenal glands are in, Dr. Robert Lustig's fascinating 89-minute videotaped lecture "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" showed me how fructose and sucrose are metabolized in the body, and the Internet, along with Steve Meyerowitz's book on Juice Fasting and Detoxification helped identify ways of healing.

How Much _______ Should I take?

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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/10/Vitamin-D-Experts-Reveal-the-Truth.aspx

http://www.grassrootshealth.net

Vitamin D, for pale-skinned people living +/- 2 degrees from the US/Canada border
how much Vitamin D should I take?

Depends on 25-hydroxyvitamin D serum level
Enough to get serum level to 40-60 ng/ml (100-150 nmol/L)
Increase of approximately 7-10 ng/ml with each 1000 IU


400 IU = 28 ng/ml
3400 IU = 58 ng/ml


Cancer Patients take Vitamin D
get to 100-150 nmol/L
test for ionized calcium

test for Vitamin D
establish a baseline
Test until in protective range
then test in March each year (lowest level), then August/September

http://www.healingdaily.com/oral-chelation/chlorella-dosage.htm
Chlorella
5-7 grams per day is quite common and at this level you will notice significant changes in digestion, energy and overall health.

If you have not been eating many fresh raw vegetables in your diet, it is probably a good idea to start out with one 1/16 of a teaspoon with each meal and increase by 1/16 of a teaspoon every 2-3 days.

It is estimated that 25 to 50 percent of any healthcare budget could be saved with adequate vitamin D serum levels.


As long as you are not showing an allergic reaction (such as hives) or throwing up, you can safely continue the chlorella. In a couple of months, the reaction should decrease. And as it decreases, you can increase the dose.

Spirulina: Amounts in tablets vs. powder:
- 6 tablets of Spirulina is the equivalent of 1 teaspoon of powder (3 g). When dealing with tablets, this amount (6 tabs) is usually considered 1 "serving".
(Note: These equivalence formulas do NOT take into account any reduction of actual Spirulina in tablets caused by the use of binders/fillers, because that effect varies greatly from manufacturer to manufacturer.)

- One "serving" of Spirulina powder = 2 teaspoons (6 g). So -- one would have to take TWO "servings" of tablets to equal ONE "serving" of powder.

- There are 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon. Therefore, it would take 18 tablets to get the equivalent of 1 tablespoon of Spirulina.

- The equivalent to 2-3 tablespoons of powdered Spirulina -- the amount recommended to comprise a "meal" of sorts (see second paragraph above) -- is 36 to 54 tablets. This is, obviously, a ridiculous number of tablets to take.