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158 // Coffee Enemas. What?! Really?? [Hashimoto's Health Lab] · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Today's episode is the weirdest one of the Health with Hashimoto's Lab series.
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  Absolutely weird. I was 100% skeptical, and I understand if you are too.
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  Today we're talking about coffee enemas. Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's
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  podcast. Our summer series is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  This series is going to be 10-minute episodes.
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  Every week we'll talk about a specific tool or practice.
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  We're going to cover everything from environmental detox to stress reduction,
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  energy boosters, biohacks, and all of it is going to be designed to give you
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  tools for better health with Hashimoto's.
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  I'm your host, Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse helping women uncover their
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  root causes and regain energy.
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  So these episodes are going to be short. If you are ready for a deeper transformation,
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  matters for your health.
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  Are you ready to explore a new strategy for thriving with Hashimoto's?
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  Let's dive in. This is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  Yes, at the beginning, I really did say a coffee enema.
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  I know, completely weird and out there, right?
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  Last week, I warned you that this week is going to be the weirdest one. And it is.
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  Why would you put coffee up an exit-only hole, right?
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  I know, weird. So let me backtrack with some history.
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  Coffee enemas started in the 1800s, or at least that's when we have documentation of them starting.
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  In medical literature, people were using them for post-operative care and to relieve discomfort.
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  In 1966, there was a case where a child was poisoned accidentally,
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  and the child was treated with coffee enemas.
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  Early in the 20th century, it was made more famous through a doctor, Max Gerson.
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  And this is the most widely cited thing that I have seen when I'm looking at
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  information on coffee enemas.
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  The Gerson protocol or Gerson therapy is using coffee enemas.
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  And then he also used like a vegetarian diet and raw juices,
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  very organic, and it was to help people detox. And I believe he also used it for cancer.
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  So when he was doing his protocol, he had up to five coffee enemas a day,
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  which is, in my mind, still crazy.
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  Like, you know, we're already on the far end of the spectrum of crazy when we're
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  talking about coffee enemas. And then you want to do five a day?
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  No, that's just too much for me. But I did dig into this topic a lot because
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  it comes up quite frequently in like crunchy or holistic or natural circles.
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  And at first, like I said, I was incredibly skeptical.
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  I wanted all of the research. I wanted to know why does it work?
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  Why do people suggest this? What are the goals?
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  And then of course, how to do it. So why?
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  Why? Why? I mean, like I said, exit only whole, right?
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  That is what I thought. And I want to preface this by saying I I have given
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  hundreds of enemas over my career as a nurse. I have given salt,
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  water, you know, saline enemas. I have given soap suds enemas.
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  I have given milk and molasses enemas. So I have given some weird enemas in
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  my career as a nurse. They all have a purpose.
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  So I did believe that when people are talking about coffee enemas, there was a purpose.
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  So the purpose is this, or the intention. The coffee goes in and you hold it in your colon.
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  And then as it's in there, some of it does get absorbed and specific chemicals
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  in the coffee trigger the liver.
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  And this is really all about liver health. And then it downstream affects the
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  things that the liver impacts.
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  So if you are helping the liver do a better job, you're helping it detoxify,
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  you're stimulating glutathione.
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  And glutathione is like sticky fly paper. It sticks to all of the stuff in your
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  body that you don't want.
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  It's like the master detox antioxidant that your body creates.
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  Glutathione is amazing. We're going to talk about it in another episode of the
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  Hashimoto's Health Lab this summer. And so you're stimulating glutathione.
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  Potentially, you're also aiding clearance of some of the things in your liver.
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  You're helping it do its job of
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  getting rid of the stuff that it's trying to get rid of. Because your liver
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  is a very, very, very hard-working organ, and it does get backed up.
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  I mean, like, its list of things to do is too long.
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  And so that's why it sends estrogen back around in the blood circulation,
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  because it doesn't have time and resources to get to it.
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  So it's like, okay, estrogen, go back around.
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  I'll get to you next time you come through. And the next time the estrogen comes
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  through for detox to get rid of, the liver is like, oh, nope,
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  still don't have time, go through again.
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  And that's why you build up estrogens, why you can have some estrogen dominance.
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  And estrogen dominance seems to be a root cause or a trigger of Hashimoto's
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  and other autoimmune problems.
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  So that is one thing that a coffee enema does. It helps the liver.
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  There is good written information about coffee enemas, but a lot of the information
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  about coffee enemas is anecdotal. It is stories.
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  And let me tell you my story. I started out super, super skeptical, obviously.
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  Exit only whole, right? But I also started out with the knowledge of I've given
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  so many enemas and they do have a purpose.
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  So when I was looking at the liver and I knew that, you know,
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  pretty much everybody, at least every woman has a liver component to their autoimmune problem.
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  You probably have estrogen dominance. And I knew I did.
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  So over the last couple years, I have been getting monthly migraines.
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  They happen on the first day of my period, roundabout then, sometimes with ovulation.
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  So I knew that my migraines had a hormonal component.
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  And finally, I was so like, just, I just didn't know what else to do.
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  So I was like, okay, I'm going to try a coffee enema. And do you know what?
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  The coffee enemas work for my migraines better than anything else I have tried.
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  And I have tried everything.
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  I have spent thousands of dollars on chiropractic and supplements and so many different tools.
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  And I haven't been able to make much progress.
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  Everything will move me a little bit, but nothing was really helping.
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  And that is why I finally decided to try a coffee enema.
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  So I went on Amazon, I got an enema kit, I got a stainless steel bucket,
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  and I got coffee that's for this.
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  So you want light roast coffee and you want it clean. You do not want to have
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  any molds or toxins in it, obviously, and you want it to have caffeine.
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  And so I read up on it and I'm going to tell you how to do it in just a second.
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  And I tried it and it was really not as bad as I expected.
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  I don't know if I have like a really strong gut and colon or something,
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  but it really was not as bad as I expected.
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  And so I held it in, went to the bathroom. I was like, okay,
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  whatever. But as I did them, probably about once a month with my period and with that migraine, I
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  it helped everything else work. So I went from periods where I would get a 7
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  out of 10 migraine, I was throwing up, and nothing would work.
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  The coffee enema would allow my medications to work. And so I could finally get some relief.
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  And then, if you listen to episode 146, where I share my six-month experience
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  trying the MindBody GLP-1 system, that really turned things around because it's
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  helping my hormones and my gut on a whole nother level.
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  So I haven't needed to use the coffee enemas as much.
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  But that is my personal story from crazy skeptical to looking at the information,
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  looking at the written research and, you know, documentation and hearing stories,
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  and then finally being curious, and then finally trying it, and then getting
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  to the point where it's one of the first things I do when I get a migraine.
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  Because I know that my liver is involved. I know that my hormones are involved.
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  I know that those two things go together. And I know that the coffee enemas
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  seem to help my situation.
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  Your health is unique and nobody can tell you this is 100% going to work for you.
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  And for sure as something as weird as this, I'm not going to say jump in with
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  this with both feet. I'm saying.
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  Explore it. Maybe it's the right choice for you. Maybe you're like,
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  absolutely not, Esther.
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  You completely lost me on this one. I totally understand.
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  So if you want to try one, you're going to get an enema kit.
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  Like I said, mine is a stainless steel bucket because I don't want plastics.
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  You're going to brew the coffee and let it cool down.
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  You do not have heat receptors in the base of your intestines and in your colon
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  because they're not designed for input.
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  So you have to let it cool down.
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  Test it like you would a baby bottle. Test the temperature on the inside of your wrist.
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  And then you're going to follow the enema instructions.
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  Let the coffee go in. You can control the speed at which it goes in.
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  Do not overwhelm your intestines and your colon.
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  Go slow. And then you want to lay on. Okay, so this is where I'm going to differ
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  from a lot of the information out there.
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  You're going to lay on your left side when you're putting that coffee in because
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  that's how your physiology is.
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  It's going to go up into your colon and then it's going to go down into your large intestine.
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  And so you're laying on your left side. And then once you're holding the enema,
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  you're going to hold it for ideally 15 to 20 minutes.
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  You can lay on your back or even your right side, but you're going to lay on
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  your left side because that's the side that you lay on when you're doing an enema.
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  And then once you're done holding it or once your body is saying,
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  okay, we're done, you're going to go up to the toilet and expel all of it and
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  clean everything, clean all of your equipment and everything so that it's ready for the next time.
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  It's pretty simple and it's pretty weird. I get it. So let me know.
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  Come over to our school community. It is private. People cannot see our conversations
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  over there unless they're in the group, come on over and let me know if this
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  is something that you're curious about, or maybe something that you have tried before.
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