Re: Have any clinical studies been carried out on liver/gb flushing?

[Guest guest]

From the referenced site - written by Weil:

<<.....This folk remedy, known as a " liver flush, " requires drinking apple

juice, Epsom salts, and a half-cup of olive oil with lemon juice. The day after

you manage to down the olive oil, you pass green globs that you may think are

dissolved gallstones but are actually the residue of the olive oil you've

consumed....>>

I have a lot of respect for Weil too, but he's still a Harvard trained MD and he

still holds onto a lot of standard beliefs unless he has invented or discovered

something different. Here he is making the same assumption that many others

make without lab testing. There are even folks on this list who don't believe

what is flushed are gallstones. Yet Dr. at his curezone flush site

reports that he sent the flush output to an independent lab which analyzed them

as gallstones, and - even more importantly, a person on this list took her

liver/gallbladder flush output to her MD who sent them to a lab which verified

they were gallstones.

I have done 29 flushes, many with the same input and almost all with different

output. If in fact the output is the residue of the oil as Weil (and many

others) claim, then the output would look identical each time. It doesn't. I

have done flushes with 2 cups of oil along with citrus juice that produced close

to zero output and others with 1/3 cup of oil that produced hundreds of stones.

In this case Weil has no results to back up his statement.

Jay

n wrote:

" .....Is anyone here aware of any clinical trials that have been done regarding

liver flushing? If so, what were the results of their findings? ... "

[Guest guest]

Hi Jay,

Jay wrote:

>>>In this case Weil has no results to back up his statement.<<<

Thanks Jay for all your comments. It's wonderful to connect with a seasoned

flusher, but also to hear that no clinical trials, as far as anyone knows, have

been done to discredit this regime.

To my knowledge, it's almost unheard of for a mainstream doctor to recommend

a particular practice without clinical trials having been done, first.

They're just not willing to put their necks on the line. Case in point - my 17

year

old daughter was in a car accident and suffered whiplash. Her pediatrician

could only recommend painkillers and cold packs. When I asked if chiropractic

may

help, she was absolutely aghast at the suggestion and said no clinical trials

had been conducted on children, because their growth plates were not fully

formed and it was more likely to do harm than good. So, basically, she was

saying, " On your head be it if you take this route with your beloved child " .

Hmmmm...buzzers went off in my head! How could she absolutely know that growth

plates would be affected, if, as she was saying, no clinical studies had been

conducted on pediatric chiropratic???

So, I must say, I did feel the same sense about Dr Weil's comments. How would

he absolutely know that liver flushes were useless unless there were studies,

or he'd tried it himself?

Thanks, again!

Blessings, n

[Guest guest]

>>>Weil has a big belly full of gallstones.<<<

, you're a hoot! If I hear anything back from Dr Weil on this subject

of " clinical trials " , I will let everyone know.

Thanks for the laugh! I'm a little nervous about my first flush tomorrow, I

will admit, so the hoot was just the right medicine.

Blessings, n