When I first began to experiment with the low vitamin A/low toxin diet ideas I slowly changed my diet. This was partly due to skepticism (despite having turned orange and having all the signs of hypervitaminosis A after 10 years of Peat-inspired eating) and partly in order to help my body adjust smoothly. I think the slow transition was crucial to the early good results I got. Very quickly I lost quite a bit of fat (30 pounds or more in 3 months while maintaining strength) and my constant snotty nose was gone within a month. My lifelong cat allergy disappeared in the same time frame. I had much more energy overall. Itchiness and pain in my liver area were going away. My digestion was improving. After 10 years of intermittent insomnia my sleep was better than ever. I had been very EMF sensitive for at least 2 years and this was already greatly improved.
I basically had around 4 months of a honeymoon phase, where I had taken most of the toxin intake away, but my bile ducts were still damaged so the level of detoxification from my liver was still suppressed. Possibly if I had kept going low and slow with all changes I could have smoothly stayed in this pleasant phase of detox and very slowly brought more of my liver detox capacity back to full function.
I did not think I was pushing that hard or being that reckless, but I think I had a really toxic liver and very damaged bile ducts and really needed to be careful increasing supplements like niacin. I happened to double my niacin dose to 300mg during a major solar flare/solar proton radiation storm event and I was instantly very sick with a major bile dump/flu/covid-type illness for about a week, after which I felt like I had been endogenously poisoned with Accutane, with major anhedonia and depression. My intestines seemed to be swollen shut with major constipation. These symptoms also lasted over a week and the thing that really pulled me out of this was fasting with minerals and high dose lactoferrin for 2.5 days. My intestines and mood improved dramatically and the fast was a bit of a mystical experience as well. But a few days after breaking the fast, detox came back online and I think the lactoferrin really healed my bile ducts because I had never had this kind of toxic bile flow before. I had severe copper toxicity symptoms with anxiety, near total insomnia, and major brain fog for over a week. It was truly humbling.
It seems like I came out of both of these detox phases stronger than before in a number of ways but I think that I could have achieved the same results more gradually without the acute detox misery had I continued being a bit slower to make changes. I wanted to share this experience because it truly showed me why Garrett Smith repeats these cheesy phrases: this is a marathon not a sprint, and this is not a game. They may be corny but I would take the sentiment very seriously because during these accelerated detox events I could not work or get much of anything productive done, which could have very difficult consequences for many people depending on their obligations. Granted, eating "Peaty" I had not been sick at all in decade, so maybe there was a toll to pay for this but I do think it could have gone smoother.
I basically had around 4 months of a honeymoon phase, where I had taken most of the toxin intake away, but my bile ducts were still damaged so the level of detoxification from my liver was still suppressed. Possibly if I had kept going low and slow with all changes I could have smoothly stayed in this pleasant phase of detox and very slowly brought more of my liver detox capacity back to full function.
I did not think I was pushing that hard or being that reckless, but I think I had a really toxic liver and very damaged bile ducts and really needed to be careful increasing supplements like niacin. I happened to double my niacin dose to 300mg during a major solar flare/solar proton radiation storm event and I was instantly very sick with a major bile dump/flu/covid-type illness for about a week, after which I felt like I had been endogenously poisoned with Accutane, with major anhedonia and depression. My intestines seemed to be swollen shut with major constipation. These symptoms also lasted over a week and the thing that really pulled me out of this was fasting with minerals and high dose lactoferrin for 2.5 days. My intestines and mood improved dramatically and the fast was a bit of a mystical experience as well. But a few days after breaking the fast, detox came back online and I think the lactoferrin really healed my bile ducts because I had never had this kind of toxic bile flow before. I had severe copper toxicity symptoms with anxiety, near total insomnia, and major brain fog for over a week. It was truly humbling.
It seems like I came out of both of these detox phases stronger than before in a number of ways but I think that I could have achieved the same results more gradually without the acute detox misery had I continued being a bit slower to make changes. I wanted to share this experience because it truly showed me why Garrett Smith repeats these cheesy phrases: this is a marathon not a sprint, and this is not a game. They may be corny but I would take the sentiment very seriously because during these accelerated detox events I could not work or get much of anything productive done, which could have very difficult consequences for many people depending on their obligations. Granted, eating "Peaty" I had not been sick at all in decade, so maybe there was a toll to pay for this but I do think it could have gone smoother.