I didn't want to click on this, I really didn't but I couldn't help myself. The first post or the one with the pic made me cringe: co-sign Jackstar's reaction. Then read North's and thought eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww but finally MrSweden made me want to find this tea and find out if it will work. I just wonder if it causes cramping?

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I just can't help myself. Risk it all with me.

i couldn't find that tea MrSweden, which was wierd because it's made in Colorado right? and that's where i live and they had no clue what it was.

i went with my friend and we both purchased a "Whole Body Cleanse." we decided to jump right in and we took our first set of bedtime pills tonight.

i'm actually horrified of the process. it requires us to take about 13 pills a day. i have a gag reflex when it comes to pills. =(

so i took about 8 pills and i guess we'll see what happens. i want something that's going to make me poo alot! this has a mild laxative, which is good but bad at the same time.

don't worry, i won't post and pictures of my stool. hahaha

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cramming a latte

Heheheheh haahahahaha hahehahahehaheahee

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http://www.wiserearth.org

i'm on my third day and so far so good. i have to take my pills with a strawberry smoothie i make at home. it helps me not feel the pills going down. i take 4 fiber blends in the morning and 1 milk thistle, 3 laxatives, and 4 more fiber blends before going to bed. it really sucks but i feel like i have more energy and i feel much lighter than before.

my friend is already seeing wierd stuff but not me.
i'm quite excited for week 2. thats when it should REALLY kick in.

i also picked up rebounding this week, which is trampoline exercises, as well as working out on a HUGE fitness ball.

did you know that you can burn 15 calories a minute jumping on a trampoline? it's so much fun. i just jump while watching tv.

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Wow! Here's a link to the kombucha drink in Colorado. It's called High Country Kombucha.

High Country Kombucha Home Page

GT Dave's Kombucha

Millennium

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Jag är en miljardären

Jag älskar varma kvinnor

Just a reminder

Swede's Blonde Angels!

My favorite one is the blonde one on the far right!

I love them all!!

A lot of the things discussed in this thread, like enjoi's mention of "weight gain, feeling sluggish, and depression" describe a lot of the problems (plus a host of others... which eventually lead to me quiting grad school and later quiting my job *ugh*... but that's another story ) that seems related to what I've experienced for years. It took me 8 years to figure out what was wrong with me, Candida overgrowth (google for more info .)

Conventional doctors were of no help to me. It was through a lot of personal research and trial+error that I found the solution. 8 years ago I had surgery to remove kidney stones. Surgery, of course, requires powerful antibiotics. Some of the contributing factors for Candida overgrowth are antibiotics, birth control pills, high sugar diet (or typical crappy modern diet in general) and corticosteroid use. I was never the same after the operation. For one thing, I gained 50 lbs.!!!

I pretty much felt horrible for the last 8 years but there were 2 periods of time where I felt *great*. The first experience was from being on Atkins (lost 30 lbs.) and the second from doing the Master Cleanse (TheMasterCleanse.com aka lemonade diet, losing 20 lbs.) The low carbs of the Atkins program starved the Candida and the Master Cleanse alkalinized my body which is also antagonistic to the Candida. The problem was, when I was off these regimes, reverting to eating "normally" again I went back to feeling horrible (with the weight lost returning .) I've done the herbal colon cleanse program as well but that didn't solve my problems. The Master Cleanse, I believe, is a lot better at achieving this.

It was after doing the Master Cleanse earlier this year (made it through 26 days) that lead me to the righteous path. One of the things you have to do after doing the cleanse is to take probiotics to replenish all that's lost during the cleanse. You effectively have none in your system when you're done. Researching this, I discovered kefir. Kefir is yogurt-like but it totally puts yogurt to shame in terms of shear bacterial count and variety (3 cultures in yogurt vs. about 40 varieties of bacterial and yeast in kefir.) I started with store bought kefir... but the problem with that is that it's expensive and it's not "real" kefir in that it doen't contain the full spectrum of beneficial microbes as real kefir. The good news is that it's easy to make your own .

Googling lead me to Dom's Kefir-making in-site This site has a ton of good info for those that wish to explore further . After discovering how great I felt after using kefir, I was on a microbial mission. This lead me (like MrSweden) to kombucha. I'd describe kefir as the king of probiotics but what kombucha offers that kefir doesn't is gluconic acid. Gluconic acid binds with toxins in your body which is then flushed out of your body in your urine. While the commercially available kombucha products are good, it can get *very* expensive (about $3 US per bottle) to drink every day. But luckily, like kefir, is very easy to make yourself (for about $2 US a *gallon*, see attached pic.) I bought the kefir "grains" off of ebay and I found a kombucha SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) free locally off of craigslist. For those that want to explore further, the "Kefir_making" and "original_kombucha" Yahoo groups, are amazing resources.

Oh, before I end, I should mention "Herxheimer reaction":

The Herxheimer Reaction

Because of the Herx, there were times when I felt the cure was worse than the ailment but I made it through. It can take a year (or longer) to be "cured" of Candida overgrowth but I can honestly say I feel better now (long term, since May of this year) than I have in the last 8 years .

I hope someone else can find this info helpful. I left a lot of "holes" in my story to make for a (relatively) short forum post but with enough crumbs for people to find if they wish to explore further.

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Who put the goat in there?

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OMG, how grossssss! I've seen those kinds of images before and, each time, they make me wanna spew!

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