¶ Coffee Enemas
There's a vein in our intestines called the portal vein , that goes from the intestines to the liver , which helps with the detoxification process , and our bile duct gets dilated so the little tube opens a little farther and is able to function a little better to detoxify the body , because the bile duct contains bile , which contains bile acids which bind to toxins ,
and so when you get the toxins combining with the bile , which gets dumped into the small intestine and then travels down the large intestine and out of the body when you go to the bathroom after holding the coffee , that's how you get extra toxins out , from my understanding , from the coffee enemas .
You're listening to the I Am Healing Strong podcast , a part of the Healing Strong organization , the number one network of holistic cancer support groups in the world . Each week we bring you stories of hope , real stories that will encourage you as you navigate your way on your own journey to health . Now here's your host , stage 4 cancer thriver , Jim Mann .
It is my privilege to talk to my mellohomey , Bailey O'Brien . How you doing , Bailey ?
I'm doing great Jim .
Are you sure ?
I'm just I'm beside myself excited to talk about this subject today .
Yeah , it's everyone's favorite subject enemas . Now , for people who have already experienced enemas , they're like what's the problem ? It's not a big deal , but those of us who have not done it , like myself , it's like oh my gosh , I don't think I can do that . And obviously it's not rocket science .
It's something that you would do if you need that in your healing process . Fortunately , I didn't really need that .
But if I did ?
I would do it , but you have experienced it and you know what you're talking about . If you haven't listened to Bailey's podcast , which was the second one in our series , how exciting is that ? I don't know where we are right now we're in the 60s or 70s . But you were the second one , Chris Wark was the first one , and then you all the big dogs up front .
I don't know about that . No comment . Huh , If you don't know , Bailey's .
Trying to talk with something clever to say , but I'm not as quick as you .
I'm sure you are . You're probably quicker because you live in New York , an hour north of New York City , but still up there in cold country . Is this no one yet ?
Yeah , it's no one yesterday or the day before . It was very pretty .
Man , we didn't get any snow last year , so I'm hoping we get snow like every other year . Our one inch or two inch blizzard should come this year , shut us down . Yeah , I mean , I grew up in Maryland so I'm used to snow Not so much here in South Carolina , but anyway , that's not what this podcast is about Snowstorms . It is about animals , right .
Glorious coffee animals yes .
And , like I was saying before I interrupted myself , if you didn't hear Bailey's story , you can go back and listen to that podcast and find out your amazing story . It's such a young person . I mean , cancer is for old people like me , right ? You were in college and here you are a thriver .
So you need to go back and listen to that podcast if you're not familiar with that . But no way , we're talking about animus today . I just cannot wait . You'll see the immature side of me , which worked out well in radio because you know people expected me to say kind of off the wall stuff . But I'll try to be serious during this time . Okay , bailey .
No , I'm good with jokes .
Especially with this subject .
We gotta break the ice a little bit .
Yeah , gotta lighten it up there .
Especially not your first timers .
Yeah , yeah , or not first timers yet . So why animus ? I mean , first of all , who in the world came up with that ? Who thought , hey , this might be a good idea , let's go up this direction ? I mean , who was that ?
Well , actually I think there are a couple different origin stories . One is that there were soldiers on the battlefield I forget which war , but they , I guess they were very . I have to please forgive my poor memory , but I think they were not .
They were so sick they weren't able to drink fluids , and so the nurses inserted the fluids the other way and they got better , they felt better . That's that's one of those origin stories . It was coffee .
Animas were in the Merck manual until again there's another couple versions of the story , either the 70s or the 80s , and then they were excised from the Merck manual . You know , guess why . But you know our society is not so much in supportive natural and holistic healing methods , unfortunately .
But you know Nicholas Gonzalez , who healing strong , you know his friends with his foundation , his life , he .
He used coffee animas for detoxification in his protocol , which was based off of his mentor , dr Kelly's protocol , which he just came up with after he got pancreatic cancer and used different foods and supplements and an individualized diet to heal from cancer .
And then he he ended up getting sick from his body being overloaded with toxins from the juicing and and the healing , that he needed something to help his body detoxify .
So that's when he , I believe , discovered or , you know , not invented , but first heard about coffee animas and then he started doing them himself and he healed completely and then taught others to do the same . But also Dr Gersin , max Gersin , who came up with the protocol that I followed .
He also used coffee animas to help with detoxification because there's so many juices on the Gersin therapy , even modified Gersin therapy , that animas were needed as well . They help with well might be taken some of your questions from you , but they can help with pain as well as detoxification .
Okay , well , so why would we or why would someone need to do an anima ? What's the advantage , I mean , from passing it through the other way ? What is the advantage of going directly there ?
Okay , so it interestingly has the opposite effect on our body compared to drinking it . So when we drink coffee , the caffeine stimulates our sympathetic nervous system , which is fight or flight .
Fight or flight mode , like you know , running from danger , you need all your muscles and your , your skeletal muscles , and your heart to beat really fast and move really fast .
But then when you do coffee animas , taking the coffee and caffeine , and all that rectally , then your parasympathetic nervous system is activated which helps us to rest and digest and so our , our body slows down , although we can feel interestingly more energetic after we express the coffee and get the toxins out . So it's interesting .
Yeah , yeah , it is . I mean it's . It's something that most of us have to really think through and say , okay , it's starting to make sense . Now , when you first had to do that , was that like ? Were you like thinking , okay , I don't know if I can do that , it seems so weird .
Yeah , I remember I was . I was at home with my mom at my parents house , home from college , you know , with the stage four cancer diagnosis , and we were preparing for a trip to Mexico to a clinic a cancer clinic to do the gerson therapy as well as some other things .
And my mom made a batch of coffee this special blend Starbucks no association with Starbucks and she was like laughing , ha ha ha . She's on the phone with her friend thinking that I was going to do a coffee enema , and I actually got very angry with her and I stored upstairs to my room and I said I'm not doing that .
Not until I absolutely have to avoid it as long as possible . So , yeah , I was really not looking forward to it . And even the first , the first couple or few enemas , I needed assistance from a nurse and it was very difficult .
I was not able to successfully complete a coffee enema or hold the coffee as long as was prescribed for me , which was 12 to 15 minutes . And I continued to struggle , actually for about three months , with coffee and was doing them three times per day . But in a funny , funny way , this is actually part of my faith story .
I didn't know what I believed about God , but I had prayed for a miracle . God , if you're there , please give me a miracle . And then I was so frustrated with not being able to hold the coffee for the full amount of time and having this , like you know , my stomach , my bowels , were like get it out , get it out .
I was so desperate .
I . In my mind , I said God help me , and in an instant my stomach was settled and I was able to hold the coffee and I've had little trouble since then . You know here and there , but Wow . Overall , it's been a miracle .
That's not funny .
Sorry . No , it is funny To me yeah .
Yeah , I do make light of most things . It's not that I think it's like I've made light of my own cancer and but obviously it's a serious subject . So you have to hold the coffee in for 12 to 15 minutes . I mean , how do you do that ? You stand in your head or what do you do ? What's your good at ? I see on instagram .
Well , in reality You're lying on your right side . Um , I don't know . We can edit . You can edit this out if you want to , but One of my , my roommates in college . She said you must have really strong butt muscles Junked about that . Um , but no it's . You know anyone can do it . Uh , yeah , so you're .
It's really just the best thing to do is go to the bathroom prior , if you can um . So you have like the room and you're not gonna have any extra urgency to go to the bathroom while you're holding the coffee . But it's really like um , it fits .
You know , the prescribed amount Is a quart of coffee , but I actually ended up um on average holding about 28 ounces . So I did a less , a little less than a quart , and even now I've been Um . You know , sometimes it's 24 ounces , which is only three cups compared to four . Yeah , I think you know it depends on the size of the person mm-hmm .
Now , did you notice a difference after doing doing this ? I mean , to your health , is it like right away , or is it just Right ? Well , what was the result ?
well , um , I remember being at home and , um , I was doing coli's toxins as part of my treatment protocol , which is an alternative treatment that's not legal in the united states but it is legal in in Mexico , where I went for treatment and I like the coli's toxins treatments made me feel tired and , um , I would get fevers from them and then just like Generally
is like not feeling well , kind of flu like symptoms sometimes . Um , so after doing a coffee enema , I would feel um relief , like in my , in my head , in my mind , in my overall , um , you know how my body felt , like I would feel more Clear my mind and I would feel a little bit more energy and lightness um yeah .
Yeah , I was just talking to linda murphy . She's talking about the flu . Like symptoms is basically your body , you know , detoxifying , so I mean that would make sense . I mean it's working right .
Yeah , yeah , I believe it means your immune system is working .
¶ Coffee Enemas and Health Conversations
Yeah , now what ? What kind of other than starbucks ?
What kind of coffee do you need to use for this , like a latte or I think chris work uh rose , his sweet social media gal , put out a A story on his instagram that said like which how do you prefer coffee ? There were four options , and letter d was the bucket with the coffee . Um , but it's . It is a special blend .
It's a very light roast , a blonde roast , so it's not . It's not um , I don't know the word . The word that comes to mind is charred . Um , but it's not dark , it's not something that you would . It doesn't taste like , you know , your typical coffee that you buy from the store or a coffee shop it's . It smells more like peanuts um .
And , yeah , it's like a tan color . So the brand that I have been using is s a wilson's , s like sam , a like apple wilson's , and that's from canada . And there are other Brands you can get , like a cafe man , I think is one that's pretty common . Um , and it's . I've never seen it in a in a store locally .
Um , I think you can only mostly get them online , but , um , yeah , that's the fun .
Wow , okay . So basically , um , you have to lay on on the bathroom floor to do this right for 15 minutes or whatever yeah , um , I did it in the bathroom for the longest time , until a couple years ago .
Then , um , I found myself in a situation with a very , very dirty bathroom floor . So I did it in the bedroom , on the bedroom floor uh which , you know , being able to fold it Um more comfortably , um was not an issue . I've , uh , you know , known people who've done it on the bed , you know , with a towel or a couple towels , um .
So any flat surface , I think um , although I know , as the rock star coffee animal holder who did it on an airplane once . Whoa , you're a man , girl you actually have to get the full story how it was actually administered . I don't know how it had to have been back .
Well , obviously back before , like 9 11 , when you weren't allowed to have liquids more than like three ounces on the plane . Okay but he probably had a bag . I would imagine it was a bag and not a bucket that Was pre-filled with coffee .
So I mean , how are you doing yourself physically ?
I'm doing very well .
Okay , you look spectacular , or so I'm assuming you're healthy .
Thank you um looks can be deceiving , but I trust that I am . I'm well and Um . It is funny . This morning I told someone it was 15 years since my diagnosis as of next month and actually it was Thanksgiving weekend when I first um showed my mom the mole in my right temple .
That was Diagnosis melanoma , but it was it's actually 16 years ago that Cancer survivor .
Yeah , you're not supposed to be with us , right ? Yeah it was day four in 2011 to 12 .
Uh , coming up on 13 years From that man , I'm just a baby .
I've only had seven years . There were several years make practices at my position .
Yeah . So I went off the therapy , kind of off the diet and lifestyle with Gerson and you know , was eating things I shouldn't . Always , you know , it was something I thought about and knew I shouldn't be doing .
But in the last I don't know , 14 , 15 months I got more serious about what I was eating and taking care of my body and doing the exercise that I believe I was built for . You know which is less or more intense than others , but yeah , and so I've worked back up to essentially the full therapy .
You know , lots of juices and I'm doing three coffee animals per day now and doing the exercise but also resting and not allowing too much stress into my life .
Yeah , wow , you're like a pro at animals then .
I'm getting better than I used to be .
Now , is there too many times that you can do it a day ? Is there like a limit ?
Well it does , you know , clear your lower intestines , and the intestines are for nutrient and water absorption , so you don't want to do too many . I believe Gerson's patients sometimes they would . I think if I recall correctly in his literature it could have been less than two hours apart . But that's only for someone who felt really , really sick .
For the average person it would not nearly be as frequent . Some people on the Gerson therapy do five a day some four . I did three , with doing 13 juices per day , and then sometimes , you know , people could do them once a day or once a week , or once a month , depending on their needs and convictions .
Yeah , I do it . I don't do it at all , so I feel bad .
That's all right , not yet .
You're not looking down at me , are you ? Oh ?
what no ? And I have friends who avoided it and avoided it , and avoided it , and avoided it , and they're like oh my gosh , I didn't want to do it , Then they did it , and then they like me . It's their favorite part of the day .
Wow , okay , yeah , that's good . I guess that's a good thing for those of us who have not done that and thinking , oh , it's going to be terrible . But most people who have gotten into it they're like no big deal .
In fact it's fun , yeah , and some people don't have any trouble the first time , especially if they've , like some people , like maybe around your generation , grown up as kids . Their parents would make them do like an enema for , whether it's prevention or if they were feeling sick , to help them heal and feel better .
So for some people it's not a big deal at all . For others , like myself , it was more challenging , but you can get there . It can become your favorite part of the day .
I've never . You know , I never got medicine that way , not that I remember I had a colonoscopy , oh yeah .
I've had that too . That was way , way worse than a carcinoma , really . Oh yeah , for me , yeah .
Weren't you asleep ?
Actually I woke up . Well , okay , we need to not talk about that , but for most of it I was asleep . My doctor's claim that my doctor claimed that I was not awake for any of it . But I distinctly recall gripping the side of the bed , the railing , oh yeah , that sounds like a nightmare .
Now I have a different situation because you know , being in radio and I had my colonoscopy and I remember I was about dozing out and all of a sudden one of the it seemed like 25 people down at that end , but one lady , a nurse , whatever she goes , I listen to you every morning . That's not what I need to hear . Just staring at my back end .
That is so funny . Now I know things that you didn't know . Yeah , maybe she shouldn't have said that .
Well , at least you knew you had a friend .
Yeah , yeah , she knew more about me than I wanted her to , yeah , so , anyway , that's a that's a unique story , isn't it ? Yes ?
Very unique to him . You have a very interesting life .
Yeah , Now here's a practical question what do you do while while the enema is going on ? You just like read , or yeah , yeah . I do you clean the floor .
Well , I , I use my phone , I have a Bible app I use in the morning that for my my morning quiet time . Okay , he doesn't hear me for saying this , but my boyfriend does the gerson therapy as well and he has a little mini Bible in the drawer in the bathroom that he reads when he does his enema .
Nice .
What else do I do ? I don't know . I think I might have read other books and texted and . I've recorded voice messages , listen to music , maybe watch you know YouTube video I don't know stuff like that . Pray , just sat and prayed , dozed off maybe a couple of times and you know , just relaxed .
Okay , hey , now your boyfriend . Why ? Why is he going through this ? Just for health ?
Well , he's a mellow homie also .
Oh , okay , yep .
He's in remission , by the grace of God , but he's not so far out now that he's not doing the protocol . With three coffees per day Gosh , he does even more than 13 juices per day , Really . He is so oh gosh .
He's done the tremendous job on the therapy and he's just done it very , very intensely and I think that's If I could figure out why he's a survivor . I would say that's one of the factors is how serious he's taken it and gone above and beyond what was prescribed .
That's a good sign . Sounds like a good man .
I don't have enough words . He's amazing yeah .
What's his name ?
Well , I don't know if I can say that much this time around .
We'll just say Frank .
But he is a gift from God , okay .
We'll keep it on the down low .
For now .
¶ Encouraging and Explaining Coffee Enemas
What would you say to somebody who has been told that they need to be doing this , but are very hesitant ? How would you encourage them ?
Well , first I would say don't be afraid . Second , if your body totally rejects it and you absolutely cannot do it , then you modify the protocol and you don't do it . I think the most important thing is to try and if this already sounds like a cliche , but if it doesn't work or you're not able to do it in a satisfactory way the first time , don't give up .
You can . If you reach the end of your rope and or you're desperate for help , you can cry out to God , just like I did , and God will hear and give you some help . And there are ways to modify it . There's a . I have a friend . She and I met recently and I was trying to go back and find in our conversations .
I didn't get to it , it was actually in our text messages , I think . She said she actually struggled for 10 years with coffee enemas and then we talked about it and she said maybe try just making it a bit weaker , the coffee Do I forget what I told her , but maybe half the dose or one-sixth the dose of coffee , and try that .
And she said she was able to hold the enema for comfortably for the first time in 10 years . So there are things that you can do to make it easier , like doing either less liquid or less coffee to make it a weaker coffee , or do it multiple times through or start with water only . I don't know if I said that already , but I don't know .
I didn't say that yet .
No .
So there's , hope .
Don't use cream and sugar .
Well , yeah , don't do that , Okay , good .
I thought I'd throw that in for you .
Yes , you're already a wise master of coffee and black .
Yes , I am Now . When you first start , is there a place you can go to have like a nurse , help you with it , or oh , that's a really good question .
Maybe I don't know I mean , it's not a common place here in the US , more common in Mexico . Even going there , you may not have a nurse to help you . I don't know . Maybe a friend or if you know of a nurse who might be willing to come to your house and help you out with that , or there must be resources that I just haven't heard of yet .
Maybe they wouldn't listen to me every morning would help . Yeah , I don't want to see you again .
There are videos on YouTube to learn how to do it yourself .
Oh , really yeah Okay .
And they're appropriate .
They're the EG rated Wow .
And I have written instructions on my website . I have a coffee and my ebook somewhere , I think it's on the website . You can go to BayleahBrandtcom and search in the search bar coffeeanimas . There should be a coffee and my guide , yeah .
Okay , I'll download that . Here's a question how does it actually work ? I mean , why does it detox your body better than other procedures ?
That's a great question , thank you Couple ? questions . Okay , so I'm sure there are so many like plant chemical compounds in coffee that we haven't even that scientists haven't even discovered yet . But there are a few that , oh gosh , I don't even know how to pronounce them , probably .
But cat , well , caffeine I know how to pronounce , but cow and palmitic acid are a couple components of coffee that are higher in the light roast , the blonde roast of coffee , which is why we use that one which help with the detoxification .
And so there's a vein in our intestines , called the portal vein , that goes from the intestines to the liver , which helps with the detoxification process , and our bile duct gets dilated , so the little tube opens a little farther and is able to function a little better to detoxify the body , because the bile duct contains bile , which contains bile acids which bind
to toxins .
And so when you get the toxins combining with the bile , you know , which gets dumped into the small intestine and then travels down the large intestine and out of the body , when you go to the bathroom after holding the coffee , yeah , that's how you get extra toxins out , from my understanding , from the coffee enemas there's also I've read that the volume is
important , you know , to have a certain amount of coffee and water as you hold the enema , because that activates peristalsis , which is the movement or the contraction of the I guess it's smooth muscles along the intestines to kind of like squeeze the stuff out of your body .
Also , there was an article or I don't know if Gar wrote the article , but he was interviewed or put forth this information . Gar Holdenbrand is my Gerson practitioner who I worked with in Mexico and I'm actually going to see him really soon . It's the first time in like almost 10 years but he's so . He's a Gerson expert .
He's translated a lot of Gerson's work and is still translating the super , super long document that's over 600 pages long about tuberculosis . But it's super connected to cancer and anyway , some more than half of Gerson's patients who are in Gerson's book A Cancer Therapy results of 50 cases were on this diet , his tuberculosis diet .
So fun fact you didn't ask for , but anyway my crazy brain goes in all these different directions to get to the final destination . So anyway , Gar Gerson expert wrote an article or was interviewed for the Townsend Blutter about coffee enemas .
Dr Linda Isaacs is an expert on coffee enemas too and I believe she wrote an article in the same publication about it , but maybe not . Coffee enemas may actually help kill cancer cells and I don't know the specifics .
But coffee enemas may create danger signals , which is another like rabbit trail about the danger , danger theory or danger model of the immune system , which explains why cancer can grow basically undetected by the body in the immune system , Basically because the cancer does not look dangerous .
So with these dangerous signals alerting the immune system through coffee enemas , that may explain why Dr Gerson had success treating people with cancer with just like a diet and detox protocol .
Hey , just a side note here . My youngest daughter is in college for nursing and she told me that her professor said that the coffee enemas don't work . Oh well , that's unfortunate and thank goodness .
Well , I don't know if your daughter believes that or not .
No no .
I I'm thankful for the up and coming generation of doctors and and healthcare workers who are more open to holistic methods of healing and prevention .
Yeah , yeah , my daughter , I mean . She told me that because she thought that was kind of funny . But that's how the medical community teaches things , of course , because they don't really make a lot of money off of coffee enemas . Starbucks maybe , but not the medical community .
Yes , although it would save , save people , a lot of insurance companies , a lot of money if coffee enemas were incorporated into yeah .
Don't . Don't think logically Okay , that's terrible , oh gosh , okay . Well , hey , you know what we got through talking about enemas without me giggling the whole time .
We've made it through , jim , both of us .
Maybe I'm growing up .
I don't know if I would go that far .
Yeah , okay , that's true , growing up is boring . In fact it's kind of funny . All my life people have always said oh they , after they laugh at something stupid . I said they was going , when are you going to grow up ? And so I tried , I tried being serious , and then no one listens to me . I said , well , forget that .
You have a great way of making light of things , jim , because gosh , I don't know . I I grew up being a really serious kid .
I was always very serious , like in sports , and when I got into diving in high school and I got this crazy coach who was the most amazing coach , he always told me to smile and he said , when he smiled like even if you don't feel like it , like your body will , will change once your face changes . And he was right .
And I've learned from people since then that you know enjoying yourself , like in college , my teammates , they would laugh , and then I would laugh and then I was like , oh , this is great , like we're still doing the same work . It's still the same level of seriousness . You know competing , but but there's no harm in having fun , it only can help .
And laughter is , we know , the best medicine . And like I'm like going to cry right now , like it's one of the ways that I was able to get through cancers , through being able to laugh and , whether it's inappropriate or appropriate laughing at myself .
Like I lost half my ear and I was home with my dad and I heard something that he didn't even hear and he said wow , you have a good ear . It was like two days after I got half my ear chopped off and I laughed at my my ears .
So yeah , I wouldn't suggest laughing at other people's cancer , but yes , right .
Laugh if they laugh .
Yes , laughing at yourself is is great , as long as you're not putting yourself down with just making light of things that are serious . And I see you as a very lighthearted person , so apparently I called you after you got more joyful . How about that ?
Yes , you did .
Okay , good , yeah , cause serious people don't really like hanging around me cause ? Well , because I'm not serious .
They . They haven't been lightened up yet , but that's right , they're just wrong , that's all .
I'll pay for them Well , as usual , it's always a pleasure talking to you , and even if the subject is envious .
It's you're such a ray of hope . Like you know , we all have have troubled days and moments and and you and your , I'm healing strong podcast , healing strong podcast and been a light in my life . So thank you for doing what you do .
Sure have a huge impact . Do you live at a train station ? Oh , do you hear ?
the train . I live pretty close to one , not that close Like I don't know , maybe a mile and a half or so .
Wow , okay , I thought maybe you're about to catch one and I didn't know .
Could be in front of my window , all right .
Well , Bailey , well , thank you so much , and I have a . I have a new insight on animals .
Thanks to you . Oh , thank you , jim , thanks for the privilege and the joy of hanging out with you , and I pray that those who hear this podcast are encouraged and hopeful , and and joyful and and healed .
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