In a video I posted in the distilled water thread (youtube.com/watch?v=O3xGOXtUoE4), something said by Andrew Norton Webber caught my attention. Apparently, in order to deal with a problem, you can use things to bring the body into an emergency detox mode:
“There’s people who are all about these Kangen machines, these alkalizing, ionizing machines. This stuff is total death and it’s not even water. In Japan, where these machines originated, they never have people drinking in large volumes. It is only administered a shot at the time, an once at the time because it’s deadly. They give it to chemo patients over there who are getting radiation treatments. Because it’s deadly, it forces the body to have a detox reaction. It must go into emergency detox to push out the poison you just ingested. And as this happens, they hope, and it does, that emergency push out detox also helps the cancer patient to push out the radiations. So that’s why they give it to them over there. And in Japan, it’s not listed as water, Kangen water is listed as a drug. But over here you have multilevel marketing people selling these machines for 4000 dollars. (…) The reason the Kangen machines sellers are telling people that people start having miraculous healings or signs that they are getting healthier when they drink Kangen water is because it’s forcing the body to go into emergency detox, because they start drinking loads of it. Now, what happens is, if they slowly… It can be after six months to a year, to two years, the body finally starts to give out from this amazing ongoing onslaught of death water being consumed, and finally, in truth, people actually start to be really sick from drinking Kangen water or alkaline water.” (note: the transcriptions may not be 100% perfect because English is not my language)
I think he also says that the idea of taking mineral water for some ailments is in fact to provoke this emergency detox. And the high you get from caffeine would actually be explained by the fact that it puts the body in emergency detox mode:
“Caffeine is poisonous to the body. And people think that the caffeine is giving them energy, but actually caffeine is poisonous, and just like the Kangen water it forces the body to go into emergency detox or else you would die. And its route to rout out this particular poison called caffeine is to release adrenaline. It is the adrenaline that makes you think you’re feeling energy, but caffeine is poisonous and you are not getting energy from the caffeine, you are actually drawing from your own precious life reserves to battle that poison.”
So I was thinking: what if PFS was caused by the body entering into that emergency detox mode and releasing in your system a huge toxic load that was stored in a way that wasn’t doing any harm until then? What’s very striking about what people report taking distilled water is that it reverses problems that we consider caused by aging, like vision or hearing problems, or arthritis, or even the whitening of the hair or wrinkles, which are all problems that sufferers mention and that are difficult to relate to the action of finasteride blocking DHT. Of course, all the mental symptoms might be explained by the release of toxins in the brain. Something like Peyronie’s disease seems to result from hormonal change, but we also know that it is calcium deposit that causes the penile curvature, so it might also be related to the release of stored inorganic calcium that deposits itself there. So, one day you’re 25 and the next you feel like an 80 year old man because your body has to function with the toxic load of an 80 year old man.
One pill might be enough to provoke this disastrous emergency detox or it might take years. You might see a gradual degradation as you keep taking the pill and the body releases more and more toxins in your system. I don’t know enough on detoxification to explain the crash after discontinuation of the drug, but I’m sure it can be related to it. Maybe the body gradually deals with the toxic load and that would be why the people tend to get better over time, although very slowly.
This theory would explain why fasting and healthy living is helpful and why there’s no supplement or drug that will fix everything. Maybe you can stimulate some body functions, but it doesn’t fix the toxicity problem.
I don’t know much about the problems people get from using accutane, but my understanding is that they are more or less the same as the ones of PFS sufferers. It could be because their problem is the same.
