** A holy sht experience, literally*
Today and in Part 2, I’m sharing about my deep gut detox journey. What I experienced, the benefits and some tips for getting through it.
First off, it changed my life! It healed this mild yet persistent ezcema on my hands that I’d had for YEARS. It also improved my digestion massively, everything moves more quickly and easily and I’m less bloated. I can also tolerate more delicious foods without having sensitivity reactions. Overall, I generally feel healthier, lighter, clearer. I highly recommend this experience.
Aside from some birth trauma, I was born healthy. Unfortunately due to way too many unnecessary antibiotics as a baby and as a teenager and a terrible experience being on the pill as a teen, and other traumas from western medical doctors, my gut health was severely compromised.
Babies are born without much of a microbiome. We develop healthy gut flora as good bacteria colonizes our little bellies, starting with the bacteria in the vaginal canal and on the skin surrounding a mother’s nipple. This process of developing a healthy microbiome takes time. Mine, like so many people in our society, didn’t have a fair chance to develop. Once a holistic doctor told me that without proper probiotic gut flora restoration after a single 10-day course of antibiotics, it can take over a year to rebuild the gut. And I was on antibiotics for YEARS!!
I did a 6 month candida diet years ago, it helped immensely! I could exist in my body again after suffering terribly. I’ve maintained a good diet since, but I knew I needed a deeper level of detox.
After leaving my 9-5 NYC-grind job earlier this year, leaving a moldy building in Brooklyn, I took the summer and created the space in my life to re-set and deep detox with the Bio Cleanse Detox.
I choose the Bio Cleanse Organic Detox kit because my friend was doing it and right when she told me about it, and I saw the box, my body said a profound YES, this is the one!
The “Full Strength” version of the cleanse is 10 days on herbs and bentonite clay + psyllium husk shakes, including 5 days of liquid fasting. I had eaten a prep detox diet leading up to the start of the cleanse to limit the intensity of detox reaction.
When we began, I was nervous...How would it feel? What would I face? What deep emotions would arise? What would come out of me?!?!? I’ve done cleanses, detox diets, short fasts, mono diets, plant medicine dietas and Ayahuasca ceremonies...but I’d never done this before!
Stay tuned for Part 2, much love and happy belly vibes to you!