Mauritio
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Interesting point about the iron. I too get dark circles and pale skin only minutes after I ingest the charcoal . I always thought my kidneys are more stresses or something , but In the light of the latest conversations on iron ,it might very well be iron chelating !For around 3 months I was on 2 tablespoons activated charcoal daily. I then switched to 1 tbsp bentonite + 1 tbsp activated charcoal, daily, and did that for around 3 months. I eventually ran out of charcoal, and had a lot of bentonite and would still take maybe a few times a week for around a year. Looking back I think I liked the combination of the 2 the best. And I think taking daily was more effective than just once or twice a week, I would say 4 days a week would be ideal. If I had to pick one, it would be charcoal, but honestly both are not that different... clay acts a little more like insoluble fiber... charcoal has the benefit of possibly being more sterile, though I'm not sure it really matters much... I would usually take these before bed, a couple hours after food / supplements. The healing effects were most profound in the first couple of months. Mainly reduced bloating, reduced pain and inflammation, healthy bowel movements. After years of living a low iron lifestyle, and taking a lot of iron chelators, doing intense physical work, and living with a nasal staph infection, towards the end of 2017 I basically pushed myself in to iron deficiency anemia - at the start of this year I tried clay and charcoal again - in hopes it might help me feel more energetic (which it had helped me with a couple years before) - but instead I felt like total crap after. I tried 4 different times, each a week apart, and each time I was left feeling extremely low energy the following day, I now believe that charcoal / and or bentonite are strong chelators of iron, and likely other minerals as well. My opinion is they are best to pulse, e.g. 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, more than that could be risking mineral depletion / malabsorption. Despite RP's anti-iron stance, my experience has shown me that iron has a sweet spot, too much feeds bad bacteria and speeds up aging, too little and I was left in a state of extreme physical weakness, lethargy, and low dopamine .... it was hell, also I was no longer able to keep a tan, fortunately I perked back up after a couple months on ferrous sulfate. I am still a little wary of taking any clay right now, though I miss the benefits, I am afraid it will wipe me out again like it did earlier this year - it was really uncomfortable, I had dilligently been taking iron and was starting to feel alive again - and just 2 tablespoons of charcoal+clay wiped out several weeks worth of progress I had made on iron. Not only did I feel the change overnight, the redness of my inner eyelids (which slowly had returned after taking daily iron) went all the way back to anemic pale.