Parasites
Once you pay attention to the lunar calendar, you may notice certain behavior and mood changes every month around the full moon. You suddenly are crankier than usual, or spend a restless night tossing and turning in bed.
What could be the cause for unexpected changes in your body?
Serotonin, Melatonin, and the Full Moon
The full moon has an interesting impact on your hormones and chemical balance.
Melatonin levels naturally drop every full moon. Melatonin is a neurotransmitter that sends critical messages within your brain and nervous system. It impacts both your sleep and immunity. During this time, your immune system is more vulnerable.
While melatonin naturally decreases, your serotonin levels increase during the full moon. Low levels of serotonin are typically associated with anxiety, depression, and insomnia. But a sudden spike in normally healthy levels — like during a full moon — might also offset your behavioral and mental state.
In addition, serotonin impacts parasitic behavior. Parasites have serotonin receptors. An increase of serotonin during the full moon helps increase parasites’ mobility. Parasites can also use this neurotransmitter to communicate with each other.
When you hear “parasites,” you may think of traveling. World travelers are frequently warned to watch what they eat and drink, depending on their location.
But parasites are not only a concern when you’re traveling. Parasites exist all around us. You could pick up an unwelcome critter from cuddling your dog, eating sushi, swimming in a lake, walking barefoot outside, eating pork and more.
The truth is we all have parasites. But if our immune systems are working properly, we may remove them naturally and not even notice anything.
Overtime, however, more and more parasites can build up in the body. And a full moon is the perfect time for these insidious critters to come out to play.
As already mentioned, melatonin levels decrease and serotonin levels increase in your body during a full moon. Since parasites thrive off serotonin, they become more active. While you may not have noticed these unwelcome house guests before, you may experience sudden symptoms spikes around a full moon.
Here’s some of the additional ways the full moon — and parasites — could affect you and your health.
Parasites are looking out for themselves. To survive, they need to inhibit your body’s essential functions. As part of this, researchers have found parasites can interfere with neurotransmitters like acetylcholine, dopamine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and serotonin.
These neurotransmitters impact essential areas, including mental health and mood.
For example, GABA calms your body and helps prevent anxiety. While it's a calming agent for you, it paralyzes parasites. To protect themselves, parasites release chemicals to hinder your GABA production. Low GABA levels can trigger anger, anxiety, depression, headaches, panic attacks, and more.
So why might you feel suddenly anxious, down, or irritable during a full moon? The answer could very well be parasitic infections.
Much like your emotional and mental states, parasites can also interfere with sleep. Since they are more active during the full moon, you may experience an uptake in parasite-related symptoms like stomach upset. These symptoms might keep you up at night.
Plus, parasite can alter neurotransmitters critical for sleep. For example, low levels of acetylcholine may lead to less REM sleep. This can contribute to fatigue, as well as learning and memory issues.
The Full Moon Challenge starts shortly before a full moon and completes shortly after, ranging from 3 to 7 days depending on your sensitivity level. During this time, your taking parasitical herbs such as
Black walnut hulls
Clove
Holarrhena (kutaj)
Holy basil
Mimosa pudica seed
Neem
Sage
Tansy
Thyme
Triphala
Vidanga
Wormseed (epazote)
You may also want to eat pumpkin seeds as parasites hate those
Alongside parasite-killing herbs, you may also consider taking a binder such as fulvic to help effectively remove these critters and their toxins from the body. These acts like a super powerful magnet to grab and hold onto toxins to safely remove them through your stools. Make sure your staying hydrated as well.
Here’s some common high-sugar foods to avoid:
Applesauce
Bagels and muffins
BBQ sauce
Chocolate
Dried fruit
Flavored coffee
Flavored oatmeal
Frozen meals
Fruit juice
Ketchup
Granola bars
Jams
Processed meats
Protein bars
Smoothies
Sports drinks
Parasite Cleanse Protocol
Full moon is coming up on August 22. I like to start a parasite cleanse about a week before full moon time and carry it through for 2 weeks but this time I'm starting a little late. There is no law that says you have to do it at any exact time. It is important to make sure our pathways are clear, meaning you should not be constipated, meaning you have 1 BM per meal per day.
Most people don't realize that 99% of people, if not 100% have some form of parasites. Yes that means you too. You can get them from simple things like eating raw produce. That's right, from parasite eggs on produce, but also from sushi, pork, pets, and even walking on grass with bare feet you can get hookworms.
Before you start any detox or parasite cleanse make sure your pathways are open as it can be very hard on a body, and even dangerous, to detox toxins or parasites when there isn't a quick exit route for them. It is best to start with a colon and liver cleanse, especially if you have slow digestion.
TO SUMMARIZE
Eat 1 cup of raw organic pumpkin seeds. (morning or evening, I prefer evening)
Close to bedtime (or 1 - 2 hours after pumpkin seeds) take 2 mimosa pudica capsules.
I take those with apple cider vinegar in water with 1/16th of a tsp of Borax powder (but I started with 1/64th of a tsp.!) You don't have to use the borax.
1 tbsp black seed oil (optional).
You will get parasites out even just with the pumpkin seeds and mimosa pudica.
Remember, the majority of parasites are microscopic so just because you didn’t see something doesn’t mean it wasn’t there. And don’t be afraid to add things like diatomaceous earth to personalize the protocol for you. I use that and often clay water to help carry toxins out that you get when you kill anything.
Try different things, but start out slowly with anything new, and always remember to make sure your pathways are open first. Imagine a toilet that you only flush once a week. Your colon is your toilet!