First off, if someone accidentally stumbles across my blog I want to clarify that I'm not tree hugger. I'm not one of those people who go crazy of whole food, going green or any similar thing. I find some of it interesting and probably really good for us, but I usually get lost in all of their reasons for why it's better for us and the planet. Now having said that I do periodically visit such sites because blogs that I follow lead me there. So oil pulling, was something that my sister stumbled across in her reading. She read the process and was kind of interested, and grossed out at the same time. But we had in our house a jar of coconut oil to make homemade lotion as a Christmas gift. As we made up the lotion, we realized that we would try it out first before giving it away. We also had a lot leftover in our mixing bowl, after mixing it up I stumbled on a site talking about oil pulling with coconut oil and why coconut oil is good for you. Well that night we had a little left on the whip we had started with, so I took my finger and wiped some of and started oil pulling. Yes, it's a little different, okay a lot different but I figured why not try it. If the only benefit I get from it is a brighter smile and healthier teeth, then it's a start.
So that was five days ago, what has changed my teeth feel clean, I've had phlegm in the back of my throat for the last four years, that seems to be leaving my body, finally!!! My throat has also felt tighter as if the muscles were to tight around it, but may it was that the phlegm was blocking flow of food and water into my body, I really don't know but what I do know is that when I swallow my throat isn't tight anymore. So I hope to keep noticing the changes of what is going on in my body since I started oil pulling. This is website I found on oil pulling.
http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/article%20oil%20pulling.htm
I've download the book Oil Pulling Therapy by Bruce Fife. I find it to be an educational read for the science behind why oil pulling works.
