I love chocolate, it is my favourite treat. The darker the better, I love the bitterness, and I love coffee for that reason. Now I try not eat as much or even buy any form of chocolate, as I will eat it all. So I avoid it as much as possible, apart when I go in a country where the chocolate is pure and thick, and when you ask for the hot chocolate you will need a spoon to actually eat it, rather than drink it. So when my friend suggested to go a check an Italian chocolate bar, I was very keen to go, and in the hope that I would not suffer of headache afterwards. I was prepared with my glutathione, liver support so that I could detoxifying the chocolate by the night time. Aheme, that did not happen, as when we got there, the chocolate was so divine, dark, triple chocolate, so I ordered a hot chocolate and we share a triple chocolate piece of cake, which was so big. Plus, there were complementary chocolate tear drops on the table for us to eat even more chocolate. Boy it was heaven for me! Till I got home, and night time and morning I had such a strong headache, I could not get up. It became a migraine and hence had to take up to 4 capsule of glutathione complex to detoxifying. I felt like I had drunk a bottle of Vodka and felt so sick with. So, yes it was my amazing treat, but obviously that cannot be repeated again.
Now I know that dogs will die if they eat chocolate or garlic and onions, and that is all about the liver detox, and mainly the second part Phase II liver detox, which is the rubbish bin collectors taking the rubbish from the bins away. Click here to understand the liver detox.
The reason I had such a hard time detoxifying chocolate is that I have Gilbert Syndrome, which is a defective or slow liver pathway that is genetic, my father has it and I am the only one in the family who has it. Many people have a liver snip either quite severe or mild. My one can be dealt with the glutathione pathway taking up extra rubbish to eliminate; others might have the Gilbert’s Syndrome with the glutathione snip as well, and that is where problems will be even worse, if they do not keep taking the liver support to support the other pathways of elimination.
Now in babies, quite often they have jaundice, which also with Gilbert Syndrome you would get, and that means that the liver is not functioning still in his full capacity. Remember that the mother’s hormones needs to be also detoxified by the baby, up to few weeks after birth, and also that the liver needs a bit of time to grow and eliminate more things.
So if you eat are a mother that is breastfeeding, and you eat a lot of garlic, onions, chocolate, coffee or normal tea, the baby might not detoxifying it very well and hence possible have a form of headache or inflammation which will cause them to cry and feel sick a bit. So do be aware if you also have a lot of cake and sugary food which you are breastfeeding as for some babies, they need more time for the digestive system to function at their optimal level.
I managed to deal with my Gilbert’s Syndrome and taught my father to do the same, since I went to started my Nutritional Therapy degree about 26 years ago. I remember that at that time, my liver had signs of lupus or the antibodies for that. I was referred to a liver specialist, and at that time I started also to take the glutathione. The specialist said that it was a placebo effect. Well sometimes specialist do not think out of the box, and hence look at alternative way of healing. My father often does get the total bilirubin test to check that it does not get too high. After taking the glutathione as recommended his bilirubin was back to normal more often than not, with the surprise of the medical doctors 25 years ago.
Breastfeeding mothers and pregnant women cannot take any high dosage glutathione, but asparagus has got some natural glutathione, and hence they can eat that.
© Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) R-Nutritional Therapist – NAET for allergies – R-Craniosacral Therapist – NLP – Angel Guide Certified – Mindfulness Meditation teacher- Resilient heart (heart-Math)
Craniosacral Healing /Nutrition NAET/Mindfulness living/ NlP health coach /mind body and soul 