I Will Not Suffer In Silence

So I did the horrible nasty gallstone flush last night, which consists of 2/3 cup of olive oil (slowly warmed to body temp in a pot) and 1/3 cup of fresh squeezed lemon juice (slowy stirred into the heated oil).

As I was sipping the concoction, it started to cool and therefore congeal, faster than I could drink the nasty stuff. I thought I might vomit, then had to remind myself that this was actually somewhat tastier than the DXM I used to take willingly and for recreation (read: a 4oz bottle of Vicks 44 cough syrup, to get high) years ago.

I had gotten through a third of the concoction when a fellow Cabal member whom I’d been corresponding with on IRC about the gallstone flush discovered an article. She had been considering doing the flush after all my talk about it, but decided to research it a bit further, first.
Now, this is what I normally do, so why didn’t I? The answer is that I’m paying a woman $150/month to do this research for me and present me with health counseling and advice. That woman gave me an article detailing the gallstone flush, approved by her.

However, what this fellow Cabal member, who is a graduate in cell & molecular biology from San Francisco State University, found, was an article by a doctor with UCSF credentials, which goes into detail as to why the olive oil/lemon juice remedy is bunk.

I was already over a third of the way into the nasty drink, so I braved it to the halfway point and dumped the rest, which was rapidly congealing, anyway, and I didn’t feel like re-warming the crap.

Thankfully, I didn’t puke.

I went to bed immediately and lay on my right side as instructed, and began to fume about the article I’d just read, and fume about my health counselor.

This is not the first time my health counselor has done this to me. The first time was right after I told her about all of my gluten issues, and she went and bought me a bag of oats to make for breakfast. Oats cross-react with wheat, (tried and tested for me) and if she was paying attention in her classes, she’d have known that.
She’s fresh out of a certificate program for health counseling - not even a credentialed 4-year university.

I took her on because 1) she’s my neighbor, which lends extreme convenience and 2) I was desperate for help.
With convenience there’s always a price. Here it is.

I’ve just finished a bowl of millet - also a gift from my health counselor. She’d given me a cup of millet to make porridge out of. It took getting used to the consistency but adding a banana and some vanilla rice milk helped a lot. I’m feeling a bit light headed but that’s likely because I’ve had no protein.

I really have to figure out how to do protein in the morning without eating eggs or meat, because of the gallstone issue. I can’t do the flax shake every day - I’ll get sick of it too quickly.

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