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Welcome back to Chasing Eden, Rediscovering your Body's divine design.
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I'm your host, Carolyn Thompson. I'm so glad you're here
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with me today because we're diving into a topic that
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is genuinely life changing. One of the simplest, most affordable,
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yet most powerful remedies God has placed in creation activated charcoal. Now,
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you might know activated charcoal from detox kits, or you
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may have taken it during food poisoning. You may have
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seen it in toothpaste or beauty products, or even water filters.
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But what we're going to talk about today goes far deeper,
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because activated charcoal is a gut healer, a toxin binder,
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a travel life saver, a mold detox tool, a poison antidote,
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a beauty remedy, a cleansing agent going back nearly four
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thousand years, and one of the most studied natural absorbents
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on Earth. This is one of the episodes you'll want
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to save, share, and refer back to, because after today,
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you will never look at charcoal the same way again.
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We'll also be pulling multiple credible voices in the natural
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health world, like doctor Josh Acts, doctor Eric Berg, biohacker
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Dave Aspbury, doctor and Hooperman and doctor Barbara O'Neil, as
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well as some information from traditional herbal medicine and modern
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clinical detox research. This will be a rich and deep episode.
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Let's get started. So what is activated charcoal and how
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does it work? It's a remedy older than Moses. Most
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people don't know this, but charcoal is mentioned in Egyptian
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medical papery, ancient Greek medical writings, Native American healing traditions,
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iervitic medicine, and early Christian natural remedy texts. The Egyptians
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used charcoal to preserve corpses and purify wounds. Hippocrates used
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it for epilepsy, infections and digestive issues. Native Americans used
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charcoal poultices for snake bites and spider bites, and early
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Christian monks use charcoal to neutralize quote unquote unwholesome humors.
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This is a remedy that has stood the test of time.
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So what makes it activated? Regular charcoal is simply burnt
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wood or coconut shell. Activated charcoal is charcoal that has
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been superheated, steam treated, expanded at the molecular level. Now,
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this process creates millions of microscopic pores, making it highly absorbent,
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negatively charged, and able to bind toxins magnetically. It's also
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able to hold up to one hundred to two times
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two hundred times times its own weight and contaminants. The
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adsorption process, well, this is like magic. So we're not
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talking about absorption. We're talking about something called adsorption. Doctor
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As explains it beautifully. Quote. Activated charcoal works through adsorption,
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meaning toxins stick to it like a magnet. This is
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different than absorption. Absorption is soaking something up like a sponge.
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Adsorption is bonding. It is much stronger. Charcoal attracts and binds.
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It binds toxins, chemicals, bacterial waste, mold byproducts, metabolic waste, alcohol, residues, pesticides,
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and food borne pathogens. Once bound, these toxins exit the
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body through the digestive tract. So there are a few
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types of activated charcoal. Now this is the one I take.
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I actually have a bunch of capsules of the coconut
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shell charcoal. This is the gold standard because coconut shells, well,
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they're clean, they have a low toxin level, they're naturally dense,
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and they're environmentally sustainable. Coconut charcoal has the highest poor volume,
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the best absorption capacity, and the cleanest internal profile. This
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is the form that human biohacker dave Asprey uses in
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his detox protocols, and it's the one that doctor X
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recommends for internal use. There's also hardwood charcoal. Now, traditional
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American and European charcoal comes from hardwoods like oak, birch,
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and maple. Now it's effective, but not as porous as
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the coconut. There's also a bamboo charcoal which is highly renewable,
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environmentally friendly, and excellent for external use like as in
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water filters, air purification, shoe and closet deodorizing, and facial masks.
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Some brands use it internally, but coconut is preferred for
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the ingestion. So this is a little bit, just a
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little bit of the science without getting too wordy about
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how charcoal binds to toxins, which I find absolutely fascinating.
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So let's go deeper into the biochemistry. Activated charcoal is
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negatively charged. Toxins, chemicals and pathogens carry positive charges. Opposites attract,
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as you know, so the charcoal binds them electrostatically like
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static cling on a sweater, except on a microscopic scale.
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This means that charcoal can bind things like the mold, micotoxins,
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oquatoxin and aflatoxin, VOCs which you may have heard about
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on social media, ammonia, soul fites, heavy metals, metabolic waste
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from parasites, and in case you didn't know this, this
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is something that you know you may consider TMI. But
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if you're looking into apply this to yourself as far
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as a health concern, and if you think you may
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have parasites, which you know, we believe most people do. Parasites.
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Actually they poop in your gut, and so a lot
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of the poop you poop out comes from parasites. So
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what a great application to and a good reason to
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take to take the charcoal capsules. So getting back to
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the things that charcoal binds too, besides the metabolic waste
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from parasites, bacterial endo toxins, excess histamine, chemical additives in
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processed food. So it's good to know that it binds
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to excess histamine because a lot of people out there
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are dealing with inflammation and highly allergic reactions to things
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that they can't explain, they don't understand what's going on.
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Oftentimes they will take a supplement. There's a supplement that
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you can take for that that's natural that I've been taking.
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I'm trying to remember the name of it. However, as
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far as the histamines are concerned, there's also concern about
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histamines and leftovers. And since we're dealing with the holidays
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and a lot of people are eating leftover turkey, and
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at Christmas time, they're going to be eating maybe more
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leftover turkey or ham, or just leftovers. In general. The
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histamines tend to increase in your food even while it's
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in the fridge over the course of two three days,
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and so you're going to be ingesting more histamine, perhaps
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maybe more than normal for yourself this time of year.
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So you might consider perhaps taking some charcoal capsules after
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the meal or before the meal, depends on how you
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feel about it. I personally like to take them a
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little bit after the meal, because I kind of I
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want to absorb any of the healthy parts of my meal,
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but then I like it to sweep up behind anything
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that might have might not be good. My main thing
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is that I take it before bed at night. If
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I'm going to be doing some type of a detox protocol,
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or if I ate a lot of leftovers, I ate
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too much. Sometimes I will just pop two or three
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charcoal capsules before bed, just in case, because I don't
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want my stomach to be upset. I don't want to
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be kept up, you know, that night because I ate
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too much. The charcoal also binds two chemical additives in
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processed foods, and this is important because so many of
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us in our hurry and rush lives, we will take
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processed foods. We'll just eat them. We'll go through a
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drive through and think, oh, this one time won't hurt.
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So having charcoal capsules in your purse, that might be
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a good thing to pop and say, you know what,
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I had to eat this meal. I'm on the go,
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or I'm traveling. I have to get to family for
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the holidays. But charcoal to the rescue. That can cover
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up some things that you know you might not want.
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So this makes charcoal one of the few remedies that
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works on multiple categories of toxins simultaneously. Coming up after
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the break, we're going to talk about the medicinal uses
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of activated charcoal and how to use it for food poisoning,
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gas and bloating, viral stomach infections, detox protocols, and even
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for energy and mental clarity. Stay with me. This next
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part is powerful. Let's start with the big one, food poisoning. Now,
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food poisoning affects forty eight million Americans every single year.
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Travel is the number one cause. Bad restaurant meals, improper refrigeration,
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contaminated buffets, street food abroad. Activated charcoal can bind to
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things like salmonilla E. Coli, campillobacter, or campylobacter. Not sure
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how to pronounce that one claustritium, bacterial toxins, histamines from fish,
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micotoxins from grains, pesticides, and alcohol poisons. People often report
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relief within twenty to forty five minutes. Now, Doctor Berg says,
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quote charcoal can dramatically reduce gas and bloating within the
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hour because it pulls toxins out of the digestive tract. Unquote.
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Doctor Axe writes, quote vote for food poisoning or stomach bugs.
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Activated charcoal can trap toxins so the body can eliminate
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them safely unquote. So in regard to gas, bloating and indigestion,
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why does charcoal work so well? Because gas is produced
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by bacteria, and bacteria feed on toxins and formidable foods.
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Charcoal binds those toxins. Without fuel, bacteria produce less gas.
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This makes charcoal one of the fastest remedies for pressure,
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stomach hardness, rotten egg smelling gas UH, and digestive fermentation.
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Doctor Axe points to studies showing charcoal decreasing gas volume
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significantly in clinical tests. So as far as a viral
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stomach illness, charcoal does not kill viruses, but it binds
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viral byproducts and inflammatory waste, so that means less vomiting,
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less diarrhea, less nausea, less stomach cramping, faster recovery. It's
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one of the best remedies for neurovirus or stomach flu Now,
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charcoal can be used for an alcohol detox It can
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bind to acydtyldehyde, is it acidyl d hyde, a toxic
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product of alcohol metabolism. It can bind two histamines in
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the wine, to sulfite in alcohol and fermentation byproducts. Dave
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Aspery recommends charcoal quote take activated charcoal after drinking to
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reduce toxins that cause the morning hangover unquote. Many people
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say charcoal cuts their hangover by fifty to eighty percent.
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Now with all of the talk about mold poisoning these days,
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people are on the search for mold detoxes because not
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everybody can afford to go to a natural doctor, a
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nature path or even their their normal their regular doctor.
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Their insurance may not even be they might not even
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have insurance right. It can be very expensive. So in
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regard to mold detox, if you think you might have
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mold poisoning, this could be helpful or this might help
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you manage it until you can get a more medical
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solution from somebody. I do have a podcast on mold
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poisoning and Dave Aspery goes over a prescription that he
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had to get from mold poisoning or mold. Yeah, he
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had mold and even though he thought he'd cleared up
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most of it, he had a test and discovered he
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hadn't cleared up all of it. So there is a
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prescription you can get that is the actual, true, definitive
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remedy for it. So I don't want to overstate what
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charcoal can do for mold without mentioning that to you.
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So in regard to molt detox, this is a big
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deal because mold toxins micotoxins. They're fat soluble, highly inflammatory,
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and difficult to remove. So the charcoal it will bind
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to aflatoxin, ogra toxin, and sit as well as trichothescines.
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And this is why mold doctors often use charcoal as
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part of the detox okay, so not the whole detox
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part of it. Barbara O'Neill uses charcoal to help bind mold,
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bind pesticide exposure, bind chemicals from cleaning supplies, and to
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bind drug residues. The activated charcoal people use it for
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parasite cleansing. Because of this, parasites release ammonia and toxic metabolites,
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and the charcoal it binds to parasite waste. As we
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discussed earlier, ammonia die off toxins. In regard to die
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off toxins, if you are doing a cleanse, say you
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do like a seven D a juice cleanse or something,
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or you're fasting, you can have the side effects of
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the cleansing. You can get sick from the dieof toxins,
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and the activated charcoal can help to reduce some of
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that effect, some of that nausea and some of the
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side effects of the cleansing. Parasite cleanses. In regard to this,
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chemicals are released during the cleansing, So again another reason
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why you want to be taking activated charcoal during this
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process so you can reduce nausea, the headaches, the rashes,
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the cognitive fog, and the bloating during a cleanse. It
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is one of the best ways to support a parasite cleanse. Now,
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you might not have thought of activated charcoal in regard
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to beauty and skin uses, but it draws impurities out
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from your pores. It helps with acne, blackheads, infected wounds,
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insect bites. Like Barbara O'Neil, she uses them for spider
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bites and insect bites beastings. Now, Barbara O'Neil teaches how
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to make a charcoal poultice. She uses charcoal, flaxeed and
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hot water. She applies it to a wound and lets
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it sit for four to six hours. You could find
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her talking about this protocol on social media platforms like
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YouTube and Instagram. If you want more details, Activated charcoal
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pulls out venoms, pus, infection, poison ivy, reason and deep splinters.
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If only I knew about the poison ivy remedy, of
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activated charcoal when we were living up in the mountains
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near Santa Cruz in Mount Hermon, California, and our son
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was playing in the woods by the little cabin that
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we were renting, and he came home with poison ivy.
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It was horrible. It was absolutely awful, And I didn't
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know a lot about natural remedies back then, so we
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had to go the conventional way. And if I had
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known about this at the time, it would have been great,
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it would have been great. So luckily, nowadays we've got
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information all over the place, and we were able to
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research and we're able to discover these things so we
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can arm ourselves with these fabulous remedies. After the break,
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we're going to discuss the travel benefits of activated charcoal,
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including how to use it to avoid getting sick on airplanes, cruises,
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road trips, and overseas. Stay tuned travelers swear by charcoal,
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and here's why. The number one travel problem new bacteria.
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If you've ever been overseas and you've gotten sick, well,
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let me tell you. We went to the Middle East
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and we were in Jordan, and everybody told my husband
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not to drink the water. Well, he didn't drink the water.
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But he wanted ice in his bottled water. And everybody
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looked at him and said, you know, when the ice melts,
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that's that water that bacteria is going to get in
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your water. And he just kind of smiled and winked
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and he said he didn't mind. Well, I am sure
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you can predict what happened to him. He became very
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ill and at a very inopportune time. So when you
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travel to places like Mexico, Asia, the Caribbean, cruise ships, airports, buffets,