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Coconut water - miracle food number 1
Our miracle food for the week is:
Coconut Water ! The natural electrolyte!
Coconut water happens to be one of the purest liquids known to man, and the health benefits of coconut water are numerous. Don't bother with those sachets of manmade electrolytes when you have a runny tummy; this is what you should be drinking as it's packed with organic electrolytes, sodium, potassium, magnesium. When you need rehydrating, or a sports drink - THIS is the one to pick, don't let any of that fake artificial Lucozade stuff go near you.
Drinking coconut water helps in breaking down and eliminating all forms of kidney and bladder stones. It is also known to calm nervous and emotional imbalances. Coconut water aids in flushing the liver, since it contains lauric acid, which gives it anti-microbial properties and makes it suitable for treatment of some liver ailments like hepatitis. And it contains glucose, which acts as sugar for energy in the body when taken, vitamin B's, for replenishment of worn out cells and tissues, and vitamin c, for the immune system
etc.
Of course, Polynesians, Asians, Brasilians, etc have known this for centuries. And now Madonna & Demi Moore and co are investing in the Vita Coco brand. If I had any money and knew how to invest, I would too!
Although - I have to say - it's far nicer out of a chilled and freshly macheted coconut on the beach than out of my fridge in freezing London.
see more on electrolytes and why they could be the key to understanding your body under the tag "electrolyte" .
Day 6, Detox and Fast on Koh Samui
I just want to write this to myself and make sure I never forget it. What IS this stuff??? I can't believe it's coming out of my body!?! How long has it been there? Will it all have come out by tomorrow? (when the fasting ends). It's like pondweed. And that's the more palatable description...and some of it is really quite hard. And it definitely takes on the form of a sheath - I can put a stick right through it. It's just like Rich Anderson's book says!
The fact it is coming out of its own accord - this morning before the enema as well - is a good thing I suppose. Those herbs must be doing their job. Dying to find out what the white bits are. Definitely fatty deposits. So odd.
Anyway - I feel really weak now. Looking forward to eating again in 2 days time. My body is beginning to ache , especially my legs - I have been walking a LOT - like miles up and down the beach and climbing the mountain to my hut 8 times a day. My body feels as if I have done a really intense gym or heavyweight lifting session and not cooled down afterwards.It's not surprising as I haven't eaten for 6 days. But in another sense I feel SO much lighter and clearer. I can see why people might get addicted to this. It is a spiritual experience as well as a physical one!
I can't quite picture myself giving up alcohol, eating a raw food diet, and giving up all acid-forming foods though. But knowing i can do this makes me feel a great weight has been off my shoulders!
Click here for Day 7
PS: Watched the Secret - had read it 3 yrs ago but had nothing else to do so watched the film: click here for notes on it!
Day 3, Fast and Detox at Koh Samui
Day 3, morning colema.
Kind of beginning to get the hang of it, finding it fascinating. Here's how it works.
You MUST put a kitchen colander in the loo, with the seat up.This is because you want to SEE what's coming out of you! You rig up your bucket to a hook on the ceiling.
Make sure the tube is at the bottom of the bucket, fill the rest of the bucket with some filtered warm water to the top. Not too warm. Then put the colema board - basically a fibreglass board with a whole in it - over the loo and balanced on a chair. Make sure all hoses attached correctly ( a level of detail I can't be bothered with here, sorry) and lie down, with towels and ipod. You put the pipe up yer bum, take the clamp off, and the water starts flowing in. Sooner or later (sooner, in my case) the water wants to burst out again, but you have to massage it up the colon and try to hold it in for a bit. After practice, you should be able to get about a 6th of the bucket inside you without letting any out. Reattach the clamp to stop water flowing in, and wait. Once it does come out, squirting around the sides of the little hose that's that bringing the water in, then you'll feel rather a sense of release, to put it mildly, and you release the clamp and let it flow in again.
here's a rather satisfying animation:
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Here's an instructive video on what happens when you swallow food:
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We can see from this video that we are supposed to have somewhat of a mucus lining in our small intestine.
Click here for Day 4
Day 2, Fast and detox Koh Samui
Oh dear. Had to get up with tummy troubles 4 times in the night... there certainly won't be anything to come out of me now. Also got woken up by the wierdest sounding animal I have EVER heard! I had to record it on my iphone. Turned out to be a 1 foot long gecko-y type thing.
Got up at 6.45am, went to the detox bar to collect my bucket and pills and have my first detox drink of the day. Geez, there are so many thin brown healthy-looking Ozzy girls here. And giant fat old men with walking sticks. Jolly strange. Pity it's pouring with rain since I arrived - absolutely typical of my luck, destined to be white..
It's becoming clear that I am going to be very busy with this routine!
7am detox drink - psyllium husks and bentonite clay to absorb toxins from gut and provide bulk for the Gunk to adhere to, with a nice pineapple flavour. Drink quickly, or you cant drink it at all. Pick up my designated bucket with coffee solution in it. Go back to room and start "rigging up" the bathroom!
7.30 to about 8.30 (except it took much longer!) give myself a colema - more here.
8.30 pills - herbs to loosen the Gut Gunk
Optional yoga / chi gung
10am detox drink number 2. Take bucket from room back to colema bar.
11.30 - 6 more pills and liver flush drink or a carrot juice or a coconut water or a veg broth
1pm - another detox drink number 3
2.30pm - 6 more pills
4pm another detox drink
5.30 6 more pills and liver flush drink or a carrot juice or a coconut water or a veg broth. Collect Bucket and prepare bathroom for evening colema...
7pm last detox drink . Take bucket back to detox bar.
8.30 pm 6 more pills
9pm 1 white pill for good bacteria
And this routine is basically repeated every single day. You can get takeaway detox drinks if you want to go off an do stuff.. but everything takes a lot of energy!
First colema I did was wierd, ok, not very satisfying, but interesting. Second one - Oh. My. God. This is the first time I really believed. Just wierd as hell that this stuff was coming out of me. It wasn't poo. I resolved to keep photographic records logged and catalogued with date and time...
To see what happens when you give yourself a colema, click here.
Click here for Day 3

