2 dumb questions, unrelated

[Titan]

I figure this is disgusting and dumb so I may as well link 2 questions together.

My first is: what can you do if you get a bit of food in your sinuses? I was eating something in a rush the other day, or maybe I coughed, I don't remember. But a food particle made it's way in through the back of my mouth into my sinuses. Blowing my nose has not helped. I may go borrow a Neti pot, which I have used before but if the particle is too big, can anything be done? I assume my body's immune system will break it down over time. But I can feel it, sometimes it hurts but it's usually ok.

I think this happened to me once before. I was drinking pepsi and eating cheetos when a friend made me laugh and pepsi shot out my nose along with a good sized chunk of cheeto. I was 14 at the time but holy hell did that burn.



Second question: you ever feel your liver twitch? I feel it all the time, since I do things that focus on liver health, like take milk thistle, also dandelion root and burdock. I had my last beer saturday (fell off the wagon for 1 week) and just now I felt my liver "wake up" with a dull cramping sensation in my right side, just below my ribs. Like it is shifting gears. I am told you have no pain receptors in your liver, which I believe. But you do have nerves there, and I believe I can feel something there. I am taking a lot of supplements, drinking a lot of water, and in fat-burning mode. So maybe my liver is ramping up bile production? Could I be feeling my gall bladder?

The worst I ever noticed this was over a year ago before I started my job I did a protein sparing fast for 4 days, where I akalized my system. I got about 700 calories a day with a protein shake, an orange, and parsley, all things that alkalize you. On the fifth day as an experiment, I shifted to the acidic foods, I had some walnuts. Then I decided to take a big gulp of cranberry juice concentrate, and it almost immediately felt like a bomb went off in my liver. Same sensation I have now, but 20 times worse. I laid down and thought I might have to go to the ER, but after 30 minutes it subsided.

I am wondering if the fructose I am getting is affecting my liver at all. I eat 2 real organic oranges a day, big navel ones. And I do a little cranberry, while eating a healthy diet. I am speculating these foods are bad, but my instinct tells me my liver is just kicking it into high gear now that the toxins are cleared out.

You ever feel your liver twitch?

Oh and yes I know I am crazy for trying this stuff, but I experiment, that's the only way to find out what works.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

I've gotten food stuck in my nose after sneezing with a mouthful of food. Luckily, I was able to blow it out or swallow it after a day. If you're having problems with your sinuses and feel you still have something occluding them, you should go to the doctor. Try the Neti pot first. It can't hurt.

Secondly, your liver can't twitch. The only muscle in your liver is in the vascularity's smooth muscle. There is a such thing as liver pain. I'm not well specialized on the liver so I don't know if what you say is true - that there aren't any free nerve endings. However, there are a ton of other receptors on the liver. Perhaps what you're doing - all the supplements, fasts, alternative medicine - is actually the CAUSE of this discomfort. Many traditional roots are actually detrimental to the liver, especially in conjunction with others and in large amounts. The fructose you're getting isn't doing anything to your liver. You're eating low levels of it and it's from fruit, which has extensive amounts of fiber to negate the ill effects of glucose. Processed sucrose and high proportions of fructose are things you need to worry about.

 

[Titan]

Thanks SC, I forgot to mention I only notice this with diet changes. (from good to bad or vice versa). This usually is only noticeable once per change.

When I started drinking again the next day my liver felt congested, hard to explain. I've gone on and off drinking multiple times in the past few years and I've noticed especially that alcohol is the worst for this, but refined sugar is also similar. I take long breaks from alcohol, and when I cheat and have one beer I notice my liver feels congested for a day until it feels better again. In general, I just feel sluggish, like my body has to take 1 full day to process a single beer.

I'm pretty sure since I did my diet clean yesterday, and resumed exercise today and am still clean, and I am running a serious caloric deficit now, that my body is adjusting. My last beer 2 days ago was part of a lifestyle for a month where my body was about equal, maybe in fat storing mode, and now it is clear back into fat burning mode. I cut out a lot diet wise - wheat, sugars, dairy, alcohol, and I'm back to all organic. So it is a bit of a sudden shift for me which is why I think this has caught up to me, since it's happened before. I had been eating a lot of that crap until now.

Perhaps gradual changes are better, but I just wanted to jump straight from bad diet to good diet. Experience tells me that my liver is better now and is in fat burning mode. I feel better overall.

I might try to find a liver doctor (toxicologist?) to discuss further. A friend of mine is up in a couple weeks getting her PhD in toxicology and she owes me dinner so I might pick her brain a bit.

I think when done properly fasting has a place, not necessarily for fat loss but for mental clarity and possibly spiritual, which are other areas of health. I was mainly experimenting with the alkalizing/acidifying foods and learned that alkaline was great, but acid made me feel like crap. But it might have been simply that I made the transition too fast, shouldn't have pounded that juice. Just like I changed my diet drastically yesterday.