The body must go through an elimination process to achieve good health. There will be ups and downs. You do not go immediately from disease to good health.
This elimination process is what we call the "healing crisis".

The healing crisis is the result of every body-system working to eliminate waste
products through all elimination channels and set the stage for regeneration.
The end result: old tissues are replaced with new.

There are three distinct categories of Cleansing Reaction

1. When any treatment or cleansing program causes a large scale die-off of bacteria, a significant amount of endotoxins (toxins within the bacteria itself) are released into the body. The more bacteria present, and the stronger their endotoxins, the stronger the cleansing reaction.
2. When any treatment or detox causes the organs of the body (particularly the liver, which is a storehouse of drug and poison
   residues) to release their stored poisons and toxins, a cleansing reaction may occur.
3. Any program, such as fasting which causes a rapid breakdown of fat cells (which are a storehouse for toxins), can be accompanied by a detox reaction.

Specifically, we can now see that a variety of cleanses and/or products can initiate a detox reaction.

Category 1

• Intestinal Cleansing and Detox Programs can obviously trigger a die-off of bad
  bacteria in the intestinal tract and colon.
• Likewise, use of the probiotics will cause a die-off of bad intestinal bacteria (as much as 2 kg worth) as new beneficial bacteria take their place.
• Digestive enzymes when first introduced can literally eat up colonies of bad bacteria, thereby releasing their endotoxins.
• And use of immune enhancers and pathogen destroyers can produce die-off, not only in the intestinal tract, but throughout the entire body.

Category 2

• The liver is the primary processing and storage organ for drug residues, heavy metals and poisons in the body. The primary purpose of this detox program is to flush those toxins out of the body. The bottom line is that this makes the use of this program one of THE most important for improving your baseline of health, but also the program most likely to cause a healing crisis.
• Use of an herbal blood cleansing program can likewise initiate a Healing Crisis.

Category 3

• Rapid weight loss, when fasting for example, can also produce a healing crisis as toxins previously lodged in the fat cells are released into the blood stream

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