Healing Type 1 Diabetes

Friday - Professional Colonics can be Awesome

Right before the holidays, I was invited for a courtesy professional colonic at Intestinal Fitness. They had stumbled onto my blog and saw that I was pro-colonics and invited me to give them a try.

I have had several professional colonics done before. Most of them were when I lived in Oklahoma with a colon hydrotherapist that I really liked. Since our move to North Carolina in 2001, I had mostly relied on home colonics with my Bib Kit. I had tried two colon hydrotherapists, one with an open system in Durham and one that everyone raved about in Cary. I did not find the open system any better than me doing it at home and did not like the hydrotherapist (she just couldn't get over that fact that I was raw vegan). The one in Cary was okay, but I suspect her water pressure was low or something because she kept having to turn something to unblock the hose and that made it kind of uncomfortable.

Now with this newly opened clinic in Raleigh, I have finally found a local colon hydrotherapist that I like and the facilities are great too. Before and after the colonic you have complete privacy as there is a private bathroom right next to your treatment room. Gabrielle Diamante was my hydrotherapist and she was great! Very knowledgeable, sweet, and supportive of the raw vegan diet. They have the latest in colon hydrotherapy gadgetry and the water is triple filtered before it even goes into you. Check out their great FAQs on their website. For those who don't know much about colonics, these are very helpful.

Gabrielle pointed out what was coming out and there were tiny, tiny starters to stones, orange vitamin powders that I wasn't absorbing (maybe my Vitamin C powder that I just finished up - I won't be buying more of that!), some feces of course, and lots of gas. She suggested I should switch to liquid vitamins - less stress on the pancreas and since I have Diabetes that is a great idea. She sells some and I will consider it when I finish up vitamins that I have.

I felt much better after the colonic and then for the next few days I had very large bms. I think that was because all that gas got cleared out and now my body was playing catch up, now that there was room in the colon to be able to do so. I will probably still do some colonics at home on occasion with my bib kit, but I expect I will be back to Intestinal Fitness and I highly recommend them to anyone else who lives in this area.

• 6:45 am - 147 - after eating 2 raw bars last night (due to my sugar levels crashing) without insulin, I feared my blood sugars would be very high. So this isn't bad, considering...
• 12:30 pm - 195 - I guess this is my normal rise in bs after getting up - 2 bananas - 5 units (1 for being high)
• 2:45 pm - 190
• 3:20 pm - 20 oz of veggie juice - 3 units (1 for being high)
• 5:00 pm - 76

Thursday - Feel Refreshed Today

I had a horrible morning yesterday. I drove my daughter to school and I gave her my cellphone to call me later to pick her up. So then sans cellphone (my fault, I have bought another Tracfone but I haven't set it up to use yet) my van broke down. I was driving 45 miles per hour and it suddenly quit like if I had turned it off. I turned on the flashers and went inside a business and called AAA. Then I went back to sit in my car and wait for the tow truck and a car nearly ran into me. What was weird was that the guy in that car started yelling and waving his arms at me, like I had pulled over and turned on the flashers for the fun of it? Road rage, I guess. Maybe he needs a better diet...

Then a motorcycle policeman came by and told me to put my van in neutral and roll backwards down the hill into a parking lot across the street while he blocked traffic. At first I protested, because I am not a good backer and I was scared I would miss the opening to the parking lot, but he intimidated me into doing it and so I did. Now my van has power steering so without it being on it was very hard to turn the wheel and I pull something under my left arm. I felt like crying. The policeman asked me if I was okay. I told him I pulled something and it hurt but I would live. And then guess what? Within 5 minutes the tow truck showed up! Turns out this was all caused by some sort of sensor going out. Just $250 worth of damage, so not too bad.

Anyway, the stress and pain upset my stomach and I left work a little early yesterday afternoon. I hadn't done a colonic in over a month and I had gotten to the chapter on colonics in Matt Monarch's book "Raw Success" so I decided to do a colonic. I know, sounds weird. My side is hurting so I do a colonic? But I knew if I dumped my buildup of toxic waste that my body would have more energy to deal with my pulled muscle and heal it quicker. I used my Bib kit. It took about 15 or so minutes to clean up the 5 gallon bucket & the piping (I clean them after I use them & then before I use them too because mold sometimes starts growing in the bucket & piping after sitting around for a few weeks) and then an hour to do the colonic.

Boy, do I feel refreshed today! I dumped so much stuff! Lots of black specks and gas, along with the regular stuff. My side just feels sore now. I know, it might have felt just sore today even if I hadn't done a colonic but there are other benefits. I feel lighter and any subtle cravings are gone. Norman Walker lived to 118 and did colonics and required all his clients to do regular colonics also.

There are other ways to detox and I have tried many of them. I used to belong to a small gym that has since gone out of business and use their Far Infrared Sauna weekly. I have used and will probably continue to use the Foot Detox Patches. I have done the foot baths at a local clinic. I jump on my mini-tramp that helps move stuff through your lymph nodes. I go for regular massages, acupuncture, and chiropractic work which all helps. Most of these methods eliminate toxins through our skin, which is great but our colon is our biggest elimination system and it get so much more out at once. Like the Nobel laureate Ilya Mechnikov said: “Death begins in the colon.”

Matt thinks colonics (or enemas) are essential for success on a longterm raw food lifestyle and I agree. So many people yo-yo from raw foods to cooked foods because of the cravings or because they run into problems. If you don't do regular colonics, toxins buildup because you are eliminating so fast on the raw food diet and some of them get recirculated and set off cravings - maybe for foods you haven't eaten in years because that is the toxin your body is trying to get rid of. This buildup of toxins can also lead to other problems that cause people to give up on the raw food diet.

If one cannot do regular colonics, then a high raw diet is probably best to slow down the rate of detox.

The time was not set right on my new meter, so here are a few readings from my old meter & then my new meter after I reset it. Yesterday I had a couple of raw bars for supper after the stress of the day. I like this Raw Food Bar and another green/raspberry/chocolate bar. Today I ate bananas, apples, and nuts at work and a salad for supper - dandelion greens, red leaf lettuce, tomatoe, mushrooms, thyme, cucumber with a dressing of coconut oil, black tahini, water, and the non-green veggies. Then one square of raw chocolate at bedtime.

Yesterday:

• 6:30am - 115

Today:

• 12:45pm - 85
• 9:15 pm - 111
• 11:30 pm - 104