> I just purchased the homozon and I started using it two days ago.
How much are you taking, and how often?
As someone else posted, you should also make sure you are drinking
enough water, and I agree with the recommendation to drink a large
amount first thing in the morning - but you also have to be careful not
to drink too much - imnsho, the '8 glasses a day' rule is very
questionable (google on it).
If you have a serious case of constipation, then you can increase the
amounts as much as it takes to get them moving, then back off to just
under 'bowel tolerance' (aka 'diarrhea'). Homozon is extremely safe -
you could take the entire bottle in one glass, and the worst that would
happen is you'd spend a bit of time on the toilet.
> I'll keep you posted on the results. My constipation problem in my
> opinion is bad. I've tried some other things and while I was using
> them it seemed to work. I'm looking for something that will unclog me
> so I can become regular. I've changed my diet to keep it up but
> nothing I've tried so far has worked beyond me taking or using
> whatever I was on. Hopefully the homozon will be different. I'll
> probably get the book as well because I really want the constipation
> to go away.
Then I strongly urge you to learn about Dr. Schulze's formulas and
techniques. As far as I'm concerned, he's the bowel 'Master'...
Here's a good page describing his formulas and program:
http://www.curezone.com/schulze/herbal_colon_cleanse_1_2.asp
And here is where you get his stuff - you can find cheaper, but the
quality is unsurpassed - buy some of his cayenne, or echinacea, or
anything else, and see what I mean...
http://www.800herbdoc.com/
As for 'becoming regular' - it is always possible that there is some
kind of physical damage or problem that will require you to 'take'
something for an extended period of time (maybe even years) while your
body repairs itself. It is also within the realm of possibility - though
highly unlikely - that whatever the damage is is unrepairable. In this
case, it may be necessary to just resign yourself to living with having
to 'take' something for the rest of your life, but this is a worst case
scenario, and as I said, highly unlikely... but even if it were, it
could be worse - you could have a colostomy...
As for what I meant by 'bowel tolerance' above, here is an excerpt from
a website discussing Dr. Cathcarts technique for determining 'bowel
tolerance' for therapeutic doses of Vitamin C (also highly
recommended)... this is from:
http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Nutrition/vitc12.htm
or http://tinyurl.com/325e3r
(remember, this is talking specifically about Vitamin C, not homozon - I
posted it to give you some ideas)
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The Bowel Tolerance Technique
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This method takes advantage of the body's way of showing you when you
have taken enough Vitamin C, i.e. diarrhea occurs. This is because when
there is a concentrated solution (say of Vitamin C) in the intestinal
cells, this pulls water in from the surrounding cells, loosening the
stool and producing diarrhea(28). Diarrhea only occurs in response to
the excess Vitamin C that reaches the intestines and is not absorbed by
the body(46). In other words, when you have exceeded the level of how
much Vitamin C you need at a particular time, your body lets you know by
producing diarrhea. Therefore, the optimum level of Vitamin C to take
is just short of this "bowel tolerance" or diarrhea causing level.
The bowel tolerance level of your body will shift quite dramatically,
depending upon how stressed your body is. It may range from 1 g or less
when you are perfectly healthy to 20 or even 50 g when you have a very
bad cold or influenza, or even 150-200 g for mononucleoses. It would be
difficult to orally take 200 g; these high doses are achieved with both
oral and intravenous doses of Vitamin C, administered by physicians such
as Dr. Cathcart. Table 8 lists various conditions and their Vitamin C
doses recommended by Dr. Cathcart:
Table 8: Usual Bowel Tolerance Doses
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Condition; Grams per 24 hours; # Doses per 24 hours
[I reformatted this to make it more readable]
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Normal; 4-15; 4
Mild Cold; 30-60; 6-10
Severe Cold; 60-100; 8-15
Influenza; 100-150; 8-20
ECHO, coxsackievirus; 100-150; 8-20
Mononucleosis; 150-200; 12-25
Viral Pneumonia; 100-200; 12-25
Hay Fever, Asthma; 15-50; 4-8
Environmental & Food Allergy; 0.5-50; 4-8
Burn, Injury, Surgery; 25-150; 6-20
Anxiety, Exercise, Mild Stresses; 15-25; 4-6
Cancer; 15-100; 4-15
Ankylosing Spondylitis; 15-100; 4-15
Reiter's Syndrome; 15-60; 4-10
Acute Anterior Uveitis; 30-100; 4-15
Rheumatoid Arthritis; 15-100; 4-15
Bacterial Infections; 30-200; 10-25
Infectious Hepatitis; 30-100; 6-15
Candida Infections; 15-200; 6-25
>From Cathcart: "Vitamin C, Titrating to Bowel Tolerance, Anascorbemia
and Acute Induced Scurvy". Medical Hypotheses: 7: 1359-76. 1981(46) .
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How to Achieve Bowel Tolerance
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Bowel tolerance level is that level where "maximum relief of symptoms
which can be expected with oral doses of ascorbic acid is obtained at a
point just short of the amount which produces diarrhoea". Dr. Cathcart
notes that effects upon acute symptoms do not occur until doses of
80-90% of bowel tolerance are reached. This means that if you take less
Vitamin C than what your body actually needs, you may not notice
dramatic or even any effects upon your symptoms. The small doses
prescribed in many of clinical trials with colds did exert some effect,
but probably not the optimal effect which could have been achieved with
subjects being "pushed" to bowel tolerance.
It is relatively easy to determine your own bowel tolerance level. You
may need to start gradually and build up to this level. Many people can
absorb up to 10 g Vitamin C without diarrhoea; others have diarrhoea
with only 1 g. Start taking 1-2 g Vitamin C 3 times per day, for a total
daily dose of 3-6 g. After 1 week, slowly increase this amount to 4
daily doses, then 5, until you reach the point when cramps and loose
stools occur. This will be very easy to notice. The amount that you have
taken represents your bowel tolerance of Vitamin C at that particular
time. It is important to take Vitamin C regularly throughout the day, at
least 3 times daily. When you are ill, it may be necessary to take 1-2
gm each hour to experience relief. With some experience, you will be
able to instinctively know how much Vitamin C to take, somewhere in
between the amount that makes you feel good and the amount that causes
diarrhoea. And you will surely notice that this level will increase
dramatically when you are sick, and then return to normal when you are
well. Taking Vitamin C to bowel tolerance level will mean that you will
always be giving your body its optimum requirement of this vital nutrient.
The majority of people, perhaps 80-85%, tolerate Vitamin C without any
difficulties; however a significant minority do suffer gastrointestinal
upsets, including gas and diarrhoea. It should be borne in mind that
often the underlying problem behind such gastric upsets is an unbalanced
ecological flora, especially the overgrowth of organisms such as Candida
albicans. Attention to, and restoration of the correct balance of
intestinal flora will often enhance many aspects of a person's health,
not merely their tolerance of Vitamin C.
The producers of buffered mineral ascorbates, including Ester-CR
ascorbate, claim one of the advantages of their Vitamin C is that it
produces less stomach and intestinal upset than ascorbic acid due to its
buffered nature. The acidity of Vitamin C in the intestines, where
absorption occurs, causes Vitamin C to be pushed out rapidly due to
irritation of mucous membranes. Buffered Vitamin C does not produce this
effect, although it does produce CO2 gas. Ester-CR ascorbate does not
produce CO2 gas, since it has been bonded and pre-reacted during its
synthesis.
Dr. Cathcart uses ascorbic acid, rather than buffered Vitamin C,
initially in crystals rather than capsules, because he feels it has a
stronger "punch"(49). Once experienced with crystals, patients
"graduate" to capsules or tablets. Other physicians prefer buffered
ascorbates such as Ester-CR ascorbate because of these digestive
attributes. Because of the biochemical individual
