Turpentine Cure Day 3

It was another wonderful day in Paradise.  First thing after I woke up I took one teaspoon  of gum spirits of turpentine dissolved in a tablespoon of sugar.  I watched a video on Youtube yesterday about a man that used turpentine to rid himself of parasites and candida.  In the comments he had given other people his email address, so I sent him an email and asked how long he took turpentine every day.  He said 4 months!!  What!??  I was thinking 4 days...  Besides that, he said that he continues to take turpentine for a week every month so he never has to deal with the horrors of parasites again.  Amazing. 

Well, it's not that bad.  It seems like I buzz for about an hour, but not in a bad way.  My brain seems to be wondering what just happened.  

I don't care what you do to improve your diet, you will hear lectures about how you must do better or you'll have only yourself to blame when horrible things happen to you.  And yet, there's only so much one can do.  You decide, OK, no more sugar.  Low carbohydrate.  I did this and immediately noticed a big improvement in my health and teeth.  But the nagging continued. Not enough.  

Once again, with the "turpentine protocol," there's all this advice on the internet about how one absolutely must become a vegan or don't even think about turpentine.  Oh bull.   This vegan stuff isn't really about one's health.  It's about "the planet,"  "the animals," anything but what's actually best for one's health.  It's invariably high starch, which doesn't work for me.  I like to float along through life in ketosis, where the waters of blood sugar are calm.   Besides that, vegans call non vegans "meat eaters," as if that's a bad thing.  Why do they care?  They get mad about my diet.  Why?  I don't eat an inordinate amount  of protein.  I eat about 70 grams of protein a day, and fill in the rest of my diet with vegetables and fat.  In fact, I eat a lot of fat, but not salad oil.  Avocado, coconut, butter.  

So anyway, that's as far as I'm willing to go with diet, other than outright fasting.  I even tried "dry fasting" for a day.  It seemed to do some good, but I had a hard time pinning down what good.  

What has the turpentine detox done for me?  Am I a bundle of energy?  Well, I went to the gym today and did pretty much all I could manage for one day.  I have rheumatoid arthritis, and if I can find a way out of that I intend to do it.  So, yes, the pain levels are way down.  I suppose it's going to take four months.  Did the parasites go away?  I haven't seen anything.  The theory is that candida causes all sorts of havoc.  We'll see.  I don't think candida likes turpentine.   

I saw another video, or part of one, about pine needle oil from Korea.  There was a man talking about it.  He didn't look like the poster child of health, and didn't sound like the poster child of public speaking.  He included some of the benefits of this therapy briefly.  You'll have to do better than that my boy.  "It helps arthritis..."  End of story.  How?  Pain?  Rebuilding tissues?  Getting rid of toxins? He didn't have any idea.  He didn't seem to know anything at all about pine needle oil or why one would consider it.  Then he invited questions.  Oh?  Question....how is pine needle oil different from turpentine?  I bought the expensive turpentine.  Not "food grade."  There is no such thing as food grade turpentine.  But the least toxic to people.  This was $14 on Amazon. The pine needle oil is fabulously expensive.  I seemed to be watching an ad for it.  No, I'll stick with turpentine.  BTW don't take more than a teaspoon if you ever do this.  Some poor soul was taking a tablespoon a day, and he kept asking all the Youtubers why he was getting so sick.  Oh, keep it up, they said, it's the parasites dying off.  The Herxheimer effect.  Oh really?  No, he was taking a sometimes lethal dose of about a tablespoon a day.  He thought a tablespoon was a teaspoon.  

One final thought.  I mentioned that I like to be in ketosis because it prevents the ups and downs of blood sugar and I think is a more stable source of energy, at least for me.  I found out a few months ago that one could actually buy ketones and enhance ketosis.  My body is very stubborn about going into ketosis, short of fasting for several days.  A low carb diet doesn't do it most of the time.  I saw videos and read articles about how silly it is to take "exogenous ketones" because ... because.  ??  Because the person speaking thought that ketosis wasn't that important to ...  to what?  I suppose they assume this is strictly for weight loss.  No, my diet is for optimal health and feeling my best, and that is definitely ketosis.  I sleep a lot better and feel a lot better.  The speakers appear to believe that anyone that takes exogenous ketones does so in order to eat all the carbs they please, remain in ketosis, and continue to lose weight.  That's cheating! No cheating! That was never what I was trying to do.  Ketosis can prevent seizures and all sorts of mischief.  It is recommended for polycystic ovarian syndrome, and lots of other health issues.  These are not small issues.  They aren't uncommon issues either.  Try as I might, not eating a single carb day after day, I usually am not in ketosis, and don't reap all the benefits of a low carb diet.  So voila!  Problem solved.