What Symptoms To Expect When You Improve Your Diet Part 2

WHAT SYMPTOMS TO EXPECT WHEN YOU IMPROVE YOUR DIET
Healing Crisis by Dr. Stanley S. Bass, ND, DC. PHC

I get asked this question all of the time so need to post it in my Blog. Andrea

As one continues on the improved diet and gradually raises the food quality, interesting symptoms begin to appear. The body begins a process called “retracing”. The cellular intelligence reasons something like this: “Oh! Look at all those fine materials coming in. How wonderful, now we have a chance to get rid of this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let’s get started immediately. Let’s get this excess bile out of the liver and the gall bladder and send it to the intestines for elimination. Let’s get this sludge moving out of the arteries, veins, and capillaries. These smelly, gassy, brain stupefying masses have been there too long— out with them! These arthritic deposits on the joints need cleaning up. Let’s get these irritating food preservatives, aspirins, sleeping pills and drugs out of the way, along with these other masses of fat that have made life so burdensome for us for so long.”

During the first phase (called catabolism), the accent is on elimination or breaking down of tissue. The body begins to clean house– in short, to remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues. Wastes are discarded more rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food. This becomes evident as weight loss. This persists for awhile, then is followed by the second phase— stabilization.

Here, the weight remains more or less stable. During this phase, the amount of waste material being discarded daily is equal to the amount of tissue that is being formed and replaced by the newer, more vital foods. This occurs after the excess of obstructing material in the tissues has been removed. This stage persists for awhile and is then followed by a third phase— a build up period (called anabolism) wherein weight starts to go up, even though the diet is lower in calories than it was before. At this point, much or more of the interfering wastes have been discarded.

Returning to the symptoms that occur on a superior nutritional program— people who have had tendencies in the past to recurring skin rashes or eruptions will
frequently tend to eliminate poisons and harmful drugs through the skin with new rashes or eruptions. If they go to a doctor now who is not familiar with this aspect of nutrition, he will diagnose it as an allergy. They ask, “How come I’m eating better than I ever did before, and instead I’m getting worse?” they don’t understand that the body is “retracing.” The skin is getting more alive and active. It’s throwing out more poisons more rapidly.

Headaches may occur at the beginning, fever and/or colds may also appear, the skin may break out, there may be a short interval of bowel sluggishness, diarrhea, feelings of tiredness and weakness, disinclination to exercise, nervousness, irritability, negativity, mental depression,frequent urination, etc. However, the great majority of people find their reactions tolerable and are encouraged to bear with them. With some, colds that haven’t appeared for a long time may occur, or even fevers. THIS IS NATURE’S WAY OF HOUSECLEANING.

Understand that these actions are constructive, even though unpleasant at the moment. DON’T, but DON’T try to stop these symptoms by the use of certain drugs. These symptoms are part of a curing process, so don’t try to cure a cure. These are NOT deficiency problems or allergic manifestations.

The symptoms will vary according to the materials being discarded, the condition of the organs involved in the elimination, and the amount of energy you have available. The more you rest and sleep when the symptoms are present, the milder they are and the more quickly they are terminated. Be happy you are having symptoms. REALZE DEEPLY that your body is becoming younger and healthier every day, because you are throwing off more and more wastes that would eventually have bought pain, disease, and much suffering. Those who have the worst symptoms or reactions, and follow through to their successful termination, are thus avoiding some of the worst diseases that would eventually have developed had they continued their careless eating habits.

Don’t expect to go on an ascending scale of quality; that improving your diet will make you feel better and better each day until you reach perfection. The body is cyclical in nature, and health returns in a series of gradually diminishing cycles. For example, you start a better diet, and for a while you feel much better. After some time, a symptom occurs–you may feel nauseous for a day and have diarrhea with a foul smelling stool. After a day, you feel better than ever before, and all goes fine for a while.

Then you suddenly develop a cold, feel chills, and lose your appetite. After about two or three days (assuming you don’t take drugs or do anything else about it), you
suddenly recover and feel better than you did for years. Let us say this well-being continues for two months when you suddenly develop an itch or rash. You still don’t take anything special for it. This rash flares up, gets worse, and continues for ten days, and immediately subsides. Immediately after this, you find your hepatitis is gone and your energy has increased more than ever before. The rash became an outlet for the poisons in the liver, which produced the hepatitis. This is how recovery occurs. You recover and go even higher. And so it goes–each reaction milder than the last as the body becomes purer, each becoming shorter in duration and being followed by alonger and longer period of feeling better than ever before, until you reach a level plateau of vibrant health.

Let us give ourselves a chance to experience what it means to be really healthy and fully alive!

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