mercury - liver - carrots - Christa

[Guest guest]

> From: chris bennett <lochmabon@...>

> I am wondering if the mercury exposure may be the cause of my " plugged "

liver...that my body,

going into protective mode, bound the mercury in some fashion, which lead to the

liver get

clogged up? Your theory makes sense to me...and fits my experiences.

Christa,

I'd like to hear more about your raw/vegan diet. I am vegan too and often but

not always

totally raw.

When I was little and in grade school there were all kinds of sources of mercury

abounding

around me. My mom routinely put mercury solutions on my cuts and I remember

seeing and handling

free mercury on a number of occasions. From my earliest memories my mom was

taking me to

doctors.

I had asthma when I was age 3 to 5, all kinds of childhood diseases, allergies

to everything,

plugged up sinuses, and my eyes would swell shut so it was hard to see. I don't

remember the

asthma but I remember the humidifiers which made it so uncomfortable and hard to

breathe, made

me soaking wet and miserable. And I remember my parents trying to hold me down

trying to give

me shots, and me running round and round the kitchen, dining room, living room,

and back round

and round again screaming trying to get away from them. This is when I was 3.

One time I

knocked the syringe off the table and it broke. My mom says the doctor told her

to try without

them for awhile and see what happened. By this time I was practicing blowing my

air out and

holding my breath. No surprise, the asthma went away!

The doctors were always telling her I had a high white cell count and a couple

of them said I

had an enlarged liver, whatever that is. By the time of the last visit to one,

which were

becoming rare because I was becoming more obtuse, I was in high school and

getting to where I

just refused to go to them any more. I wish I'd had that much sense when I was

much younger.

In 1974 I was fortunate to find Dr. Norman 's book, Diet & Salad, which

I'm sure has saved

my life. I went totally on raw freshly made vegetable juices and nothing else

for four months.

Before that I ate meat every day but couldn't tolerate it after that and haven't

eaten it

sense. I am age 56 now (just had a birthday). Wish I would get a year younger

each time but it

doesn't seem to work that way although Dr. , who lived to be age 118, also

wrote the book

" Becoming Younger " . I still have six of his books and these lists are inspiring

me to get back

to making the potassium drink daily again, which is carrot, celery, parsley, and

spinach.

Although I don't care for spinach but have other herbs and veggies that I use

instead. Also, I

much prefer the flat leaf (itlalian) spinach and don't care for the curly kind.

Among some quotes from " Diet & Salad " pertaining to health and the liver:

" Raw carrots contain all the elements and all the vitamins that are required by

the human body. "

" Raw carrot juice stands supreme, always provided that it is strictly fresh [use

the best

organic juice carrots you can find, they vary greatly in quality] and has been

property made.

It is a particularly wnderful cleanser of bile and waste matter coagulated in

the liver as a

result of years of wrong eating. "

" In some instances the skin becomes discolored ... I have found this to be the

result of the

coagulated bile in the liver dissolving so fast that sluggish kidneys and bowels

were not able

to take care of it's elimination quickly enough resulting in the lymph carrying

this excress

debris to the surface for elimination through the pores of the skin. "

" This discoloration disappears sooner or later. " When I was totally on the

juices, my hands did

have a slight discoloration but nowhere else and it wasn't bad at all. To the

contrary I

considered it a sign of great health and that my system was pure. I felt great

and wonderfully

healthy and everyone around me was kind of amazed at what was happening.

Especially running. I

was racing every week and taking minutes off my times, every week. I took 45

minutes off my

marathon time in a matter of months that I'd been trying to do for a couple of

years. And

another 12 minutes in the two years after that. A guy who'd not seem me for a

year said I

looked great and thought I'd lost 30 pounds. I'd only lost 5 but had lost much

excess body

tissue and become much leaner.

To summarize, I think the juices cleaned out my liver and gall stones and not

only that but much

more.

On another list they are talking about coral calcium, which is evidently only

found one place in

the world, which is Okinawa. This powdered coral calcium is $98 a pound plus

shipping. I

checked. Well it sounds great and I want to live a long time but $98 a pound is

expensive and

I'm skeptical of something that comes from only one place in the world but there

are

alternatives.

One of these alternatives and one of the foods very highest in calcium are

CARROTS. I used to

get 25 pound bags of fresh organic juice carrots for $7.50. I'm not sure the

price now but

let's say they are $15. At $.60 a pound that's more than 130 pounds of fresh

organic juice

carrots for $98! Well I think 130 pounds of fresh organic juice carrots will do

me as much or

much more good than 1 pound of powdered coral reef.

I will think of this the next time I'm getting carrots and thinking of the cost.

[Guest guest]

-----I'd like to hear more about your raw/vegan diet. I am vegan too

and often but not always totally raw.-----

Currently, I am about 90% vegan and about 70%-80% raw. Before the

flushes I was about 70% vegan and about 50% raw. I do eat free range

eggs that are fed flax seed (about once a week) and I will

occasionally buy some " gourmet " cheese without rennet (usually goat

cheese - about once or twice a month). When I eat out, depending on

the quality of the place I am eating at, I may eat a bit more dairy

than usual...and it hard to avoid the omega 6 oils that they put in

everything. I rarely cook at home. The most cooked food I eat is

when I eat out. I am working on transitioning to 90%-100%

raw/vegan. I don't know if I socially manage 100%. On my own I know

I could...but it is the eating out part that makes it hard.

Christa