Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

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I recently purchased LTU6 and am in the process of running Stage 1. I was wondering if someone could clarify about the program removing toxins from the body. 

I have been taking some nootropics, aka "smart drugs" prior to starting LTU. I don't really consider them toxins, but I notice you said that caffeine and nicotine, which many people also regularly use for brain enhancement will be detoxed. That leads me to believe any exogenous chemical whether it be actual medication or just supplements should be avoided.

So I am wondering if I should discontinue supplements/drugs all together as I proceed with the program for the best results. Of course, I have permission from my doctor to wean off the prescription drugs I have been taking.

The detox module relies on the subconscious and the body to define what a toxin is.  If it is something your subconscious defines as a toxin, it will be affected; likewise, if it is something that your body works to remove from your system via it's natural detoxification organs (liver, mainly) then it's likely going to be flushed out.

Beyond that, I can't tell you how nootropics will be affected.  I do know that it affects caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and a number of other things.  Nicotine is literally a toxin created by a plant to prevent bugs from eating it, and is (was?) used by farmers as an insecticide.  That's a pretty clear sign it's a toxin, as is how your body reacts when you try to start smoking.  It takes effort across the board to get yourself addicted.  

Nicotine isn't a "brain enhancer", by the way.  From what I have come to understand, its effects are almost entirely limited to countering its own withdrawal symptoms; in other words, it slowly lowers you during withdrawal, and another dose brings you back to where you were before you started smoking in the first place.  But because you were lowered so slowly, you don't notice that; only the rapid return to a better place.  Which is where you are all the time, before you start smoking.

Alcohol is also a poison, which is why you can kill yourself in a single day by drinking too much of it.  It's why your body will prioritize removal of it over even the survival of your most protected organ, the brain, by using up all the moisture necessary in your body to metabolize it.  When you drink so much that it causes your brain to dehydrate, you get what is known as a "hangover".  In a life threatening situation, your body will sacrifice almost anything else in your body to keep your brain safe and alive, but it will even prioritize the removal of alcohol above this.  That's a poison.

Caffeine can cause addiction and it can be overdosed on, and in a state of overdose it can cause poisoning symptoms.  

Basically, again, is it something that either your body or your subconscious considers a toxin?  And I can't tell you specifically what the complete list of substances that includes is.

Thanks for your response, Sharon. I already don't use the drugs you mentioned like alcohol, nicotine, or caffeine and I will try to gradually cut out the nootropics I do take and test the difference between running LTU with and without them.