The benefits of Activated Charcoal
Very few health practitioners realize that Activated Charcoal is the best single supplement for enhancing detoxification. Detoxification is an on-going biological process that prevents toxins (from infectious agents, food, air, water, and substances that contact the skin) from destroying health. Chronic exposure to toxins produces cellular damage, diverse diseases, allergic like reactions, compromised immunity and premature aging.
The tricky part about taking activated charcoal is that it can absorb other vitamins or medicines that you are taking at the time, so it has to be taken 2 hours completely separate than anything else that you are taking. I will take 1 or 2 capsules first thing in the morning as I am usually up for a couple hours before I eat.
ANTI-AGING & LIFE EXTENSION
Dr. V. V. Frolkis, a famous Russian Gerontologist, and his colleagues have discovered that Activated Charcoal is a potent life-extending agent. Activated Charcoal has been found to increase the mean lifespan of older test animals by approximately 50% and their maximum lifespan by approximately 34%.
1. Activated Charcoal decreases the age-related increase in the brain's sensitivity to drugs and toxins.
2. Activated Charcoal keeps cholesterol and lipid metabolism under proper control.
3. The regular use of Activated Charcoal improves the adaptive functioning of essential organs (the liver, kidneys, and adrenals). That translates into better defense mechanism.
Microscopic tissue analysis shows that Activated Charcoal prevents many cellular changes associated with aging-decreased protein synthesis, lower RNA activity, atherosclerosis, and organ fibrosis. So the cumulative effects from Activated Charcoal are longer life and improved overall health. The recommended protocol for anti-aging and life extension benefits is the same as for general detoxification.
REDUCING CHOLESTEROL AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
You can help your heart and circulatory system by taking Activated Charcoal. Activated Charcoal lowers the concentration of total lipids, cholesterol, and triglycerides in the blood serum, liver, heart and brain. In one study that was reported in the British journal Lancet on patients with high cholesterol, 8 gm.. of Activated Charcoal taken three times a day lowered total cholesterol 25%, lowered LDL cholesterol 41% and doubled their HDL/LDL (high-density lipoprotein/low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol ratio. Microscopic tissue examination studies have shown that a daily dose of Activated Charcoal may prevent sclerotic changes in the heart and coronary blood vessels.
COUNTERACTING PATHOGENS
Activated Charcoal reduces the activity of some viruses. So if you catch a cold or the flu, try activated charcoal. You may suffer less and heal faster. I have personally noticed that activated charcoal will stop a runny nose pretty quickly. I carry activated charcoal in the car. There are about 5 things that I carry in my car emergency kit and activated charcoal is one of them.
Activated Charcoal also prevents the poisonous activity of many harmful bacteria in the human body by absorbing the toxins and enzymes that they generate.
Studies have shown that Activated Charcoal is an effective treatment for dysentery, cholera, and many infectious conditions of the digestive tract.
SYSTEMIC CANDIDIASIS
Activated Charcoal can be an effective adjunct to any regimen for the treatment of systemic Candida albicans infections.
1. Activated Charcoal adsorbs much of the toxins that Candida produces that otherwise would be absorbed by the blood and carried throughout the body. These toxins produce pathological changes in tissues and organs and interfere with proper immune function. Candida toxins cause allergic reactions and are responsible for the debilitating symptoms of Candidiasis. There are about 7 different products that we use in our office for the treatment of candidiasis and you need to go with the one that you muscle test for, but activated charcoal can be quite effective in the treatment of candida and yeast overgrowth.
2. Activated Charcoal suppresses the growth of intestinal-based yeasts.
3. Activated Charcoal counteracts the Herxheimer reaction - a severe, short-term exacerbation of Candida symptoms caused by the copious amount of toxins produced by dying yeast cells as a result of a successful treatment. The Herxheimer reaction is often so unpleasant that patients abandon treatment before completion. Activated Charcoal is one method for alleviating the symptoms of yeast die-off so people can continue their treatment and not suffer.
INTESTINAL COMPLAINTS
Activated Charcoal has been used by physicians since the last century to treat various intestinal complaints. Abdominal distension (bloating) and flatulence respond favorably to treatment with Activated Charcoal.
Diarrhea caused by food poisoning, bacteria, nervousness and other factors is usually alleviated by taking Activated Charcoal. Some physicians have used Activated Charcoal to stop bleeding from ulcerative colitis and calm spastic colons. We have personally had success in our offices with this treatment method, again we use it, if the client muscle tests for it.
CHARCOAL IS SAFE
Toxicology studies have proven that Activated Charcoal is basically harmless. Ingesting high dosages does not interfere with sleep, appetite or well being - or cause problems.
Charcoal is something that every medicine cabinet should have. I take it with me when I go on any trips in case of food poisoning or any other type of toxicity. It is actually what is used when individuals come into the emergency rooms with drug and alcohol overdose as well.
