Hi everyone. I wanted to share my experience thus far with oil pulling. I've been visiting this site for a few years now and mostly focused on liver flushing, colon cleansing and a little bit of parasite cleansing. Out of curiosity, I started visiting the OP forum and reading up on the cleanse and the benefits, etc so decided to give it a try. I'm not having any major problems but I had a baby two years ago and haven't done any cleansing since getting pregnant so I feel my body needs this right now. I need more energy and I remember how great I felt after a few Liver Flushes when I was doing them regularly.

I've been oil pulling with refined sunflower oil for 4 days - once a day for approx 15 minutes. My teeth and gums are already in pretty good shape but I have already noticed that my teeth are whiter and my gums look healthier. They feel like they do when I just had a cleaning done. I'm amazed! Also, my skin looks healthier - almost like I just had a facial and my nails are shinier. The calluses and dry skin on my feet is way softer. It's just incredible to see changes so quickly. I feel that some sinus congestion is breaking up. I'm able to breathe out of my nose easier. Two things I noticed and didn't expect at all - terrible insomnia. I can not fall asleep. I was up until 3:30 this morning and finally fell asleep for a few hours but was up with the kids at 7. It's been like this for the past few nights so I think it has something to do with the oil pulling. Has anyone had a problem with this?

The second thing I didn't expect and sorry if TMI - It appeared that I passed a Tapeworm this morning. It appeared to be about 5 inches long (again, so sorry if TMI). I was hoping to do a parasite cleanse in the next couple of weeks but did not at all expect this from oil pulling. I don't know what else it could be. I take Primal Defense once/day, but not even every day and I don't know if that would cleanse for parasites! Gosh, I guess I really need to do a thorough parasite cleanse now. Have any of you experienced this? I should also mention that I did a Liver Flush two weeks ago and got a lot of stones and bile sludge out. Maybe the combination of these things is pushing parasites out? Yuck.

Well, I'm going to keep up with it and hope that the insomnia subsides soon. Oh, and I do the oil swishing first thing in the morning or around noon at the latest.

Thanks,