Detox (retracing)
People who stop eating “junk food” and go on a daily regime of eating healthy foods, using Young Living essential oils and taking food supplements, may run into an opportunity they’ve been putting off for years…the detoxification of toxins, heavy metals and poisons from within their bodies.
Just imagine all those pizza’s, McGrease burgers, french fries, crispy fried chicken, soft drinks, potato chips, candy bars and highly processed and prepared “convenience” foods you’ve eaten all your life. Add to that list the polluted air many of us breathe and the oily looking, smelly water we drink and…Ee-yucko!
Now you are at “mid-life” and are finding your body is beginning to pay the price (Yes, Alice, there is no free lunch) for all that “non-food” you’ve been putting into your mouth and digestive system. The ole body just doesn’t seem to want to run like it used to, it’s gotten pudgy and the knee joints are talking back. Wonder why? Well the simple answer is…You haven’t been eating right, and your body is telling you about it.
Without eating the right foods, the body has no way of expelling all those toxins. Eventually, the body begins to suffer and displays the chronic systems of poisoning, from acne and wrinkles, allergies and arthritis, to high blood pressure and chronic fatigue.
So when people learn about good health and begin the use of oils and supplements, they expect results. And for many that’s what happens. But for others, what they experience are skin afflictions, sleepiness, loose bowels, and a host of other strange symptoms.
Why?
Simply, all that “gunk” is being expelled from the body.
It’s called detoxification “detox” for short. It has to go
somewhere, doesn’t it, to get out of the body? So that sudden
appearance of acne or skin rash is nothing more than your
body ridding itself of toxins through the skin, your body’s
largest organ.
It’s important to understand the process of detoxification.
It just doesn’t happen all at once and then it’s over. No, to
the contrary, it could go on for many months, or longer.
But the reward of healing your body has no price. Detoxing
can add many years of disease free living to your life.
So that you know what detox is and how it works, I am enclosing
an article by Dr. Stanley Bass you’ll find very helpful.
“Symptoms to Expect When You Improve Your Diet.”
Dr. Stanley S. Bass
As one continues on the improved diet and gradually raises the food
quality, interesting symptoms begin to appear. The body begins a
process called retracing. It says to itself, `Now we have a chance
to get rid of this old garbage and build a beautiful new house.
Let’s get started immediately.
‘Let’s get this excess bile out of the liver and gall bladder and
send it to the intestines for elimination. Let’s get the sludge moving
out of the arteries, veins, and capillaries. These smelly, gassy,
brain-stupefying masses have been here too long — out with them!
These arthritic deposits in the joints need cleaning up. Let’s get
these irritating food preservatives, aspirins, sleeping pills, and
drugs out of the way, along with these other masses of fat which have
made life so burdensome for us for so long. Let’s get going till the
job is done — till we have a beautiful house — and from there on
we’ll keep it a beautiful ideal model house.’
Returning to the symptoms which occur on a superior nutritional
program, people who have had tendencies in the past to recurring skin rashes or eruptions will frequently tend to eliminate poisons and
harmful drugs through the skin with new rashes or eruptions. If they
go to a doctor now who is not familiar with this aspect of nutrition,
he will diagnose it as an allergy.
They ask, `How come? I’m eating better now than I ever did before,
and instead I’m getting worse.’ They don’t understand that the body is retracing. The skin is getting more alive and active. It’s throwing out more poisons more rapidly now that the body is building more power which is saved from those hard-to-ingest meals which have been discontinued. These toxins being discarded are saving you from more serious disease which will result if you keep them in your body too much longer — possibly hepatitis, kidney disorders, blood disease, heart disease, arthritis, nerve degeneration or even cancer — depending upon your hereditary or structural weaknesses. Be happy you’re paying your bills now in an easy-payment plan.
With some colds, which haven’t appeared for a long time, may occur,
or even fevers. This is nature’s way of housecleaning. Understand that these actions are constructive, even though unpleasant at the moment. Don’t, but don’t, try to stop these symptoms by the use of certain drugs, or even massive doses of vitamins which will act as drugs in huge concentrations. These symptoms are part of a curing process, and don’t try to cure a cure. These are not deficiency conditions or allergic manifestations — not if you’re eating properly in quality, quantity, combination and sequence…
You may be eating perfectly in regard to quantity, quality, and
observing all the correct rules, and still symptoms will occur.
Those who have lived better lives in the past — who have eaten
better foods and who have abused their bodies less with over-eating
will have reactions ranging from almost none at all or very mild
symptoms which may be uncomfortable or acute. Those who have lived worse lives and poisoned themselves more will experience more severe symptoms if their liver, kidneys, or other important eliminating
organs have been damaged. When they have been renovated to the point of fair working order, they will no longer produce symptoms.
“Headaches may occur at the beginning; fever and/or colds may also
appear; the skin may break out; there may be a short interval of bowel sluggishness, occasional diarrhea, feelings of tiredness and weakness, disinclination to exercise, nervousness, irritability, negativity or mental depression, frequent urination, etc. However, the great majority of people find their reactions tolerable and are encouraged to bear with them because of the many improvements which have already occurred and are becoming more evident with each day. This acts as an inspirational force to them.
The symptoms will vary according to the materials being discarded,
the conditions of the organs involved in the elimination, and the
amount of energy you have available. The more you rest and sleep when symptoms are present, the milder they are and the more quickly they are terminated. Be happy you are having symptoms. Realize deeply that your body is becoming younger and healthier every day because you are throwing off more and more wastes which would eventually have brought pain, disease, and much suffering. Those who have the worst symptom-reactions and follow through to their successful termination are thus avoiding some of the worst diseases which would eventually have developed had they continued their careless eating habits.
Don’t expect to go on an ascending scale of quality, that improving
your diet will make you feel better and better each day until you
reach perfection. The body is cyclical in nature, and health returns
in a series of gradually-diminishing cycles. For example, you start a
better diet and for a while you feel much better. After some time, a
symptom occurs — you feel nauseous for a day and have diarrhea with a foul-smelling stool. After a day, you feel even better than before and all goes fine for awhile. Then you suddenly develop a cold, feel chills and lose your appetite. After about two or three days (assuming you don’t take drugs or do anything else about it), you suddenly recover and feel better than you did for years.
Let us say this well-being continues for two months, when you
suddenly develop an itch or rash. You don’t take anything special for
it. This rash flares up, gets worse and continues for ten days, and
suddenly subsides, immediately after this you find that your hepatitis
is gone and your energy has increased more than ever before. The rash became an outlet for the poisons in the liver which produced the
hepatitis. This is how recovery occurs — like the cycles in the
Dow-Jones Average at the beginning of a bull market recovery. You feel better, a reaction occurs and you don’t feel as well for a short
while. You recover and go even higher. Then another reaction occurs,
milder than the last. You recover and go even higher. And so it goes,
each reaction milder than the last as the body becomes pure — each
becoming shorter in duration and being followed by a longer period of
feeling better than ever before, until you reach a level plateau of
vibrant health. Here you become relatively disease -free.
We must learn to obey the laws of Nature. We must learn to eat
simple, pure, and natural foods, properly prepared and combined, and our bodies in return will cast off all the poisons we have taken in
during our lives. The mysteries of the body, the operations of nature,
the vital forces working in nature are far beyond what our minds are
prepared to understand at present. Every great physician or scientist
who ever lived marveled in awe and humility at the wonders of nature.
Yes — we are “fearfully and wonderfully made!”
