Supposedly a good way to promote excretion of fat-stored xenobiotics is sauna, particularly infrared sauna.
A good overview of this
http://www.balancedc..._FIRT_DETOX.pdfThis comes from a FIR sauna seller so take it with a pinch of salt, but it seems well researched and have a lot of references which you can asess wether they are of quality or not
Also look at this
Elimination of persistent toxicants from the human body This pdf cost me 32usd so please take advantage
Excellent review of science-based "detox", from
Human & Experimental Toxicology journal (NOT some quack naturopath journal... "
Human & Experimental Toxicology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes preclinical and clinical pharmacology and toxicology original research and review articles on experimental and clinical studies of functional, biochemical and structural disorders. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)" )
An excellent read, especially for the "detox-skeptic" scientists and MDs out here (unfortunately the majority, and even the most brilliant minds) whom have been brainwashed by the powerful lobbying of the pharmaceutical and other "chemicals" industries that the fear of "toxins" is irrational and stem from paranoid conspiracists tin foil hat bearers minds.
Basically the experts in toxicology absolutely recognize that chronic toxicity (persistence of toxic xenobiotics in the body) is a real, widespread problem that we should aim to adress, and that effective tools already exist for this goal although further research is still needed to validate more therapies, expand the toolkit, and scientifically determine effective protocols.... But mainstream medecine still ignores the problem and will only try to adress acute toxicity/poisoning. I really cannot explain why that is so without starting to go all tinfoil-hat conspiracist that "big pharma" would rather have us sick and toxic and taking drugs to mitatigate this rather than adressing the root issue that would render their drugs useless (and prove them more harmful than beneficial). My father is a doctor so I always was educated to trust medecine AND the pharmaceutical industry. Always pretty much looked down on ppl scared of antibiotics and medications in general, nd laughed at paranoid (so i thought) ppl scared of vaccines. I think very, very differently now.,
Actually Im now starting to beleive that many "auto-immune diseases" stem from chronic toxicity. (ive been poisoned by fluoroquinolone antibiotics which are still in my body 1 and a half year later and causing symptoms - doctors have all wanted to negate the role of the FQ in my issues saying they had been long eliminated, and have been looking at autoimmune markers without success - until HPLC of my blood looking for the drugs found them in high quantities... Of course I had to order this test myself, could never have a prescription for it)I have taken iboga quite a few times and I don't really understand why you're experiencing such effects.
We all have widely different metabolisms...
Let me share my story :
Ive been given 2 pills of levofloxacin 500mg then 14 pills of cirpofloxacin 1000mg. I had an immediate reaction to levo (intense joint pains) so got switched to cipro which I tolerated much better. Then other quinolones to avoid bacterial resistance. Joint pains and neuropathies appeared slowly while on the drugs (6 weeks total duration), but it was only 2 weeks after cessation that the bomb exploded in my body (including incredibly heavy brain fog, confusion, and derealization)
Now, I think its interesting to
observe that i reacted much more intensely to levofloxacin than to cipro, and to relate it with the fact that I have much more levo than cipro in my body now 1.5 year out (0.30mg/l levo vs 0.01mg/l cipro ), although I took much, much more cipro than levo!! (14g cipro vs 1g levo!!)My theory is that I am most probably a poor levofloxacin excreter, and thats where lie the different susceptibilities (or not) of different ppl to different quinolones. Thats why one of the hottest fields in medical research now is pharmacogenomics, actually its extremely irresponsible to administer potentially toxic drugs at the same standard dosage to different ppl with widely different metabolisms/enzymes etc. (I plan to take this coursera course from Upenn
https://www.coursera...course/pharm101 which tackles pharmacogenomics, check out the video)
See, I was getting treated with a bunch of guys simultaneously at the same doc, and
check this out :
- I reacted intensely to levaquin but was fine with cipro, relatively fine (at the time), with regular dose pruli and moxi (avelox) too. (I only realize now how the doc got medieval on me)
- A friend of mine reacted intensely to cipro, switched to prulifloxacin and he was fine with it. (he didnt get no levo)
- Another firend (yeah we all friends now) reacted intensely to prulifloxacin, so switched to cipro and was fine with it! (no levo for him either)
Look at the pharmacokinetics of these quins (pubmed or wikipedia is good enough), and see how they are all very differently metabolized and excreted, with different enzyme systems interviening or not.
Levaquin seems to be one that ppl react the most to (by looking at the amount of complaint on the web compared to the fact that its much less prescribed than cipro). And it also seems that its one that has the less metabolic pathways, being largely (80% or so) excreted intact by the kidney with negligible liver metabolism. Cipro can undergo extensive liver metabolism.
Edited by daouda, 12 January 2013 - 06:27 PM.
