Focus:
On our intuition (or “instincts” if you like that word better) and allowing it to guide us and releasing the desire to follow the urgent directions of our dysregulated nervous system.
Repetition:
I was gifted intuition (or instincts).
I KNOW the voice that was placed so lovingly within me to help guide me through my day.
I will learn to listen to my gifted voice instead of the voice of urgency which is in opposition to love and healing.
Six Months In — Celebrate!
Can you believe we are 6 months in?!?! This week, I demand you celebrate!! I want you to approach this celebration differently than we typically approach celebration. We were handed down a “treat yourself” mentality and it was often mistakenly taught to celebrate with a high dopamine experience and food/drink. I want you to teach yourself a soft and gentle celebration that has nothing to do with food or drink and if you have children, no matter what age, teach them, invite them and share the new way to reward yourself.
Plan a day for yourself in nature. Leave your cell phone at home, take no pictures, no games or anything but your boredom and curiosity. Take your regular food that you have eaten daily with you and revel in every beautiful healing bite. Tell yourself this is the best food that you could possibly have on your special day, it has zero harm AND it is rebuilding your gut lining for you.
Take the slowest walk you have ever taken, stop often to notice things along the way, pick things up and feel them, audibly express gratitude for everything your senses are taking in. Sing to the trees, appreciate the clouds, take in your surroundings like you never have before. Take off your shoes, lie in a clear spot, truly become one with nature for a few hours or the whole day or even a camping trip!
If you are housebound or bedbound, ask for help with this, ask to be taken outside on a blanket or have pictures of nature and houseplants brought to your bedside, a soundtrack of nature sounds played and imagine walking through the forest, swimming in the ocean, etc. Get creative!
Celebrate by being proud of yourself and by seeing the world around you as a delicious, safe and inviting presence that stays with you the entire time. Journal, paint, write a song, etc. about your experience.
Muscle Testing and Body Conversation
At this time, you can bring in muscle testing or intuition conversations. You can use a simple sway test. Stand up straight and ask your body to show you which lean is “yes” and which one is “no.” Allow your body to fall a bit forward or backward, do not force but allow. Once you have the choice of “yes” and “no,” you can ask other questions.
You may also choose to just have a conversation with your body. “What is it that you need? How can I support you?” It may take some practice and that is ok. You can look up more ways to muscle test and utilise the way that feels the best to you.
Die-Off and Healing Waves
You may experience die-off at this point, at 9 months and at 12 months. After that, you should be mostly done with die-off symptoms and most of your overgrowths should be in balance. You are halfway there!
But the great news is, at this point, you have had major die-offs of pathogenic families and you should notice some beautiful changes in your body! Do not be discouraged at any point if you still just feel rough sometimes, you will experience layers of healing for a long time, it is not always die-off. Just remember that we always welcome these times because it means we have gifted our bodies enough resilience to be able to heal a long-standing issue inside our bodies.
OMAD and Macros
You may feel drawn to OMAD at this point in the journey or even in the future. It is not necessary to switch to one meal a day, but if your body is asking for it, please do so! I would personally still eat after 10 am and before 6 pm. Remember to always have at least 60 grams of protein.
If you find that you are consistently in ketosis, you can now begin to add in more protein and approved carbs to see what your personal macros are. You can eat as much protein and carbs as your body allows without going below 2.0 in ketones, keeping glucose around 60 to 90.
If you have coffee in the morning, add a bite of protein with it (bite of leftover meat, bite of yoghurt, etc.) to encourage dopamine. Just keep it at a bite, under 50 calories will not break your fast in the medical sense.
If you want to lose weight, you can drop your fat to 70 grams per day and stay there for a while to encourage weight loss. If you are underweight, do not be discouraged. Your body is working on things! You may eat as much fat as your body asks for and just wait for it to do what it needs to do.
If you are having dandelion root tea, please take a break at this time as it has phytoestrogens.
Liver and the Three Phases of Detox
Eating liver may not be appropriate for everyone right away, and that has everything to do with how your liver is currently handling detox. Your liver detoxes in three phases, and it helps to understand them before you add liver back in.
Phase I is called functionalization. This is where your liver takes a toxin and modifies it chemically — through oxidation, reduction or hydrolysis — using enzyme families like cytochrome P450, so the toxin becomes more water-soluble and easier to move along. Think of this as your liver breaking a big, unwieldy toxin down into something more manageable.
Phase II is conjugation. Here your liver attaches other molecules onto that partially processed toxin — through processes like glucuronidation, sulfation, acetylation, glycine conjugation, glutathione conjugation and methylation — to make it fully water-soluble and ready to leave the body.
Phase III is excretion, and it is really just the delivery step. Transporter proteins (you may see these called MRP2, P-gp or BCRP) physically move the finished, conjugated toxin out of the liver cell and into either the bile or the bloodstream, where it can finally exit through the stool or urine.
All three phases have to work together, and this is exactly why liver can be a lot for a sluggish or congested liver to handle early on.
Liver is one of the most nutrient-dense foods there is — loaded with preformed vitamin A (retinol), B vitamins (especially B12, folate and B2), iron, copper and choline. That is a wonderful thing once your liver is ready for it, but if your liver is inflamed, congested or dealing with toxins, oestrogens, infections, mould or gut dysbiosis, it can struggle to process, store or detoxify all of that richness. You may notice nausea, fatigue, rashes, mood swings or joint pain even from a small amount of liver if this is the case.
The retinol in liver is a good example of why timing matters. It needs efficient liver enzymes and good bile flow to be converted and safely excreted when you have more than you need — if your bile flow is slow or your methylation pathways are struggling, that retinol can turn from beneficial to toxic instead. The copper and iron in liver work the same way; they are wonderfully therapeutic when your liver can properly bind, transport and excrete them, but in an overloaded liver they can feed pathogens, create oxidative stress or worsen oestrogen dominance. And because liver is so rich in the fat-soluble vitamins A, D and K2, a liver that is not making enough bile or taurine may not be able to break those down and absorb them well, which just wastes the nutrients or triggers a reaction. Liver also asks a lot of your methylation and detox capacity — it is rich in methionine, choline and B12, which support methylation beautifully in a balanced system, but if you are low in glycine or already overloaded with toxins, that same nutrient density can push detoxification faster than your body can keep up, leading to fatigue, brain fog or histamine flares.
So how do you know your liver is ready? Look for regular bowel movements with good bile flow (ideally a golden-brown, well-formed stool), no signs of ammonia overload like brain fog, insomnia or bad breath, low histamine symptoms, and good tolerance to eggs, collagen or meat stock without skin issues or mood crashes.
Gentler Alternatives to Liver
While you wait, there are gentler ways to get some of what liver offers.
- Egg yolks give you a gentler source of choline, vitamin A and B12.
- Beef heart or kidney carry less retinol but are still rich in key micronutrients.
- Cod liver oil in microdoses can offer vitamin A and D in a pre-digested form if you tolerate it.
- Grass-fed butter gives you a little vitamin K2 and retinol.
- Chicken liver pâté, kept to about a teaspoon, tends to be better tolerated than beef liver.
Once your liver is ready, this incredible food will reward you generously — you are just giving your body time to catch up first. Pate can always be made from other organs as well!
Excellent work and I am so proud of you!