I first heard about Plexus et al from a friend that mentioned it balances out sugar levels, which lead me to ask "would that help with hypoglycemia?" All the girls in my family struggle (or have struggled) with hypoglycemia and as a mom, remembering to feed myself is something I also struggle with on a daily basis. She didn't know the answer at the time, so Plexus faded from my consciousness.
My gallbladder has been an unhappy little back-stabber since I was pregnant with my third kid (three years ago) and I wake up most days feeling a little bit nauseated. Every day I have to make the decision about which symptoms I feel up to dealing with: achy gallbladder/liver or dizzy spells and weakness from low blood sugar?
Most people don't even know this is my daily struggle because it's just something I handle. I handle it because I have to. I have four little childruns that need me to be happy, willing, enthusiastic, and physically able to pick them up and put them down forty million times a day. It is what it is.
I took beet enzymes for my gallbladder for around a year, which is much too long, and felt like I couldn't live without them. Then we moved to my in-laws property and my control over our diets was just *poof* gone. I stopped taking beet enzymes. I shouldn't have taken them for longer then two or three months anyway, so I took the opportunity presented and stopped taking them. I tried to limit how many eggs and oranges I ate (two of my achy gallbladder trigger foods). I started drinking lemon water in the morning every morning. It wasn't enough. Then every time my gallbladder felt achy I drank lemon water.
Then Christmas came. *dun dun duuuuuun!* Ahhhh, Christmas. Time of happiness and cheer. Time of TREATS. Treats in every direction. Treats all day long. Cinnamon rolls, cookies, brownies, cakes and pies. Chocolate, chocolate and MORE chocolate! It tasted good and I craved it all day like clockwork. Don't imagine you know where this is going. I DIDN'T gain five hundred pounds. I stayed the exact same size. If you saw me on the street you would think I was a normal, healthy twenty-something-year-old. BUT my equilibrium was off. My inner emotions were all over the place. I couldn't think straight. I was getting dizzy spells all throughout the day. My hands and feet were feeling constantly inflamed. My joints and back were sore. I'm only 31 years old. I don't think I'm just "getting older." Something in this body is not right.
I prayed for God to send me help. I'd take any kind of help. I just couldn't, can't, live like that anymore.
Right after Christmas a new friend mentioned Plexus in passing. I saw it in a blog post. I read again that it balanced blood sugar levels. Then she posted the ingredient list for the three products that work best together to bring balance to the body and I saw many of the ingredients I had tried already individually. I read through every ingredient and thought, "there isn't really anything in here that I'm hard-core against..." And I am a serious label-reader. There are worse ingredients in a store-bought bagel than in the Plexus Triplex. I was desperate. I thought maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
Three years of suffering with my gallbladder and I had tried many herbs and natural remedies trying to find homeostasis. My husband joked about me being a hypochondriac. Which I get. Those invisible illnesses. I tell ya. I was desperate, so I decided to try it.
noun: homeostasis
- the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
1.
the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
I.e. BALANCE.
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