Often, to make it more easily understandable, I use a metaphor. I compare mitochondrial energy production with a combustion engine and how different fuel impacts the engine and our bodies.
This article was written by our friend and family member, Froya.
I hope that it resonates with you and brings you a clear understanding.
Preface:
This text is written for those who are already familiar with this work. For those of you who are not: the Self Healers Protocol is a method developed by Darko Velcek (you can find him on Rumble and on his blog, link below). It is based on maximum hydration and minimizing toxins, and it heals all the layers of your body, fully and naturally. I myself healed from severe anxiety, depression, hyperthyroidism, and ME/CFS with this method, in just one year. I strongly recommend it ❤️
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Self Healers Protocol
That’s what we’re doing here. Detox. Salt, water, amounts up, amounts down. We have symptoms. Okay –
And sometimes the solution to how to handle the symptoms is to slow down. Cut back on salt and cut back on water. While other times, the solution is to increase. Increase salt, increase water.
And sometimes the solution is to cut back on salt but keep/increase the amount of water, while other times the solution is to increase the amount of salt but keep the amount of water! Lowering the water while increasing the salt isn’t used as often. (Did you get lost there? Me too!)
Confusing? Yes!
Ever since I first started learning this method, I’ve been trying to figure out how to explain this mechanism, and to sketch out a pedagogical and easy-to-grasp picture of how it works. How it can be that the solution to handling fluctuating symptom pressure can point in opposite directions.
And now I’ve been brewing on a model, a metaphor, for a long time, one that I hope can make it easier to understand how it works, and that can help you feel more self-sufficient and confident in how to operate the levers in the detox process—by understanding how, why, and when to increase or decrease salt and/or water.
Okay, so let’s get to it:
The Metaphor
Imagine that the body is like a house. Or rather, a home. With people who live in it.
When the home is tidy, with clean surfaces, no visible clutter or dirt, we feel healthy. But when it’s messy—the dishes have piled up on the kitchen counter, dirty clothes are scattered everywhere, unsorted papers, ads and old mail lie around in heaps, it’s dusty and dirty—then we feel sick. That’s when we get various degrees of various symptoms.
The people living in the house work steadily every single day to maintain order in the home, so that we feel good. They clear the kitchen counter after each meal, do the laundry, sort papers and clutter. Take out the trash, recycle cardboard. Fold clothes, empty the dishwasher. The people in the house here represent the body’s own self-cleansing mechanism. The body runs self-cleaning steadily and mostly at night, while we sleep.
And let’s say that the people’s hands—the ones with fine motor skills to actually grab the dirt and handle it locally—represent the salt. While the people’s legs, which move things and carry the clutter and dirt where it belongs, whether it’s to be put back in its place or carried out of the house, represent the water. You with me?
Normally, this cooperation works well. The people walk around doing their thing, living their lives. The home is maintained steadily at a sufficiently satisfying level, everything’s fine, everyone feels well, and we generally feel healthy.
But what happens if there’s an imbalance in this dynamic? Either more junk, trash, and clutter comes in than the people can manage to clean up during their busy daily lives—or there are fewer people cleaning the house, maybe some of them are missing arms or legs? Then the result is that stuff, clutter, and dirt pile up. And we get symptoms.
Meet the “Cleaning Crew” – The Plasma
What can be difficult is tackling a messy home where clutter has built up for many years. There’s so much mess that the people living in the house are completely paralyzed by overwhelm and can’t manage to tackle it alone. They’re busy just keeping up with daily tasks, and don’t have the capacity to do the deep-cleaning job that’s needed.
So what do they do? They know what to do: they call in a cleaning company. The cleaning crew represents the plasma we take in. Their hands/arms represent the salt, and their legs represent the water, in the same way as for the people living in the house. The rescue is here, and the pro cleaners go at the mess with fresh energy and efficiency!
You can also add more arms to them, increasing their ability to handle waste. That’s what happens when you increase salt. In addition, you can add more legs to them, so they can move more easily over distances—this is increasing the amount of water.
A lot of salt:
Imagine you’ve got a whole crew in your house, maxed out with as many hands and arms as possible so they can handle a huge amount of trash quickly. But they have no legs. That doesn’t help, because transporting stuff to the right place, or out of the body, is half the job. They need enough legs to carry everything the hands handle.
A lot of water:
But imagine if they’ve got lots of legs, but no hands. They can run through your house as many times as they want, but they can’t carry anything. That doesn’t help either.
Emotional Detox and Resistance
Back to the cleaning job: while the cleaning crew works, the people in the house watch as piles of long-standing clutter are dragged out, sorted, cleaned, and tidied.
Suddenly something comes up from a pile that triggers memories for the people in the house—they become overwhelmed with emotions and suddenly get cold feet. Now they want the cleaning crew to pack up their stuff and leave, letting their house, with their belongings and memories, stay untouched! After all, it’s theirs, and no one should just come and take it away like that. It feels brutal, upsetting, and invasive to have strangers messing with their things. And they’re not even sure they want the help. No thank you.
Integration, Landing, and Time
But after sleeping on it and getting back on their feet, the people decide once again to call in the experts. And the cleaners come back. But just one short session a day is enough. Otherwise, it’s too much. Because at the end of the day, it’s absolutely essential that the people living there are involved in the work the cleaners are doing. They’re the ones who know where things belong, who have to decide what to throw away, what to sort, what to keep, and in which drawer. As we mentioned earlier, the people in the house represent the body’s innate ability to maintain, repair, and heal itself. Therefore, the process has to go on the house’s and the residents’ terms, at their pace.
Once everyone understands this and feels safe, the process can move forward. And the people actually decide to subscribe to the cleaning crew. They realize it’s really a genius invention, getting a little extra help with all that needs to be done. Unfortunately, they had gotten themselves into this messy situation, and doing the job on their own would be biting off more than they can chew. It will take time to get through all the clutter, but with steady, stable help, they feel more confident they’ll make it within a reasonable timeframe.
As the relationship between the people in the house and the cleaning crew develops, the people start to relax while the cleaners are at work. They don’t always watch as closely anymore. They let them work in peace and actually find it pretty pleasant. They trust that they know what they’re doing.
Deep Cleaning – Deep Detox
Then one day, something terrible happens. The cleaners went home for the day, and usually it’s pure joy to come home after they’ve been there, because everything is shiny and clean. But this day it looks like a tornado just swept through! Things from drawers and cupboards that normally aren’t touched, things from the attic, garage, and basement—they’re all dragged out and dumped in the middle of the living room floor! ???????? And you feel worse than before—your symptoms have escalated, maybe even worse than before!
This can happen overnight, or it can build up over time. Then it’s harder to see the connection.
So what happened? The cleaning crew, in addition to tidying away surface clutter, started opening drawers and cupboards, going into the basement and attic, dragging things out from there. But they didn’t have time to clean it up before their shift ended and they went home. So you’re left with high symptom pressure and feeling really sick!
Increasing
Now the people in the house panic and call the cleaning crew, begging them to please come back right away and clean up after themselves! It can’t look like this, it’s total chaos! And determined as they are, they show up after hours and get back to work. You increase your plasma intake, with plenty of salt, so there are lots of hands at work to clear as much as possible in a short time.
But it takes time to clean this up. How long depends partly on how many cleaners you put on the job. One challenge with these folks is that they don’t necessarily follow the order sheet. Even if they were ordered to clean up the mess on the floor, don’t be surprised if some of them wander into the basement or up to the attic again and can’t resist—they open a chest and start poking around in there.
So the more of them you’ve got at the same time, the more overwhelming and chaotic your home can get, and the stronger your symptoms can be. That’s why you often have to take it bit by bit, living with some increased symptom pressure over time. It could be days, weeks, or months, depending on what you can handle.
Slowing Down
The key is understanding how these cleaners operate. If you don’t stop them once they’ve finished tidying the surfaces, they’ll darn well just start opening messy drawers and attics again, and then trouble’s back! So you need to keep a close eye on them and send them home at just the right time. Slowing down is therefore one solution to avoid further upheaval of cluttered drawers.
It’s also the case that those with stronger legs but fewer arms will focus on carrying things out, not sneaking up to the attic when no one’s looking. In that way, having more water and less salt can be a way to avoid flare-ups. While those with lots of hands available but weak legs will take the opportunity to tinker with a messy drawer.
So this is a fine balance, a razor’s edge you have to learn to walk—you need cleaners to handle the active and visible mess that causes our symptoms. And you probably also want the messy drawers, attic, and basement to get cleared out eventually. But preferably in peace and order.
Feeling Good vs. Being Healed
The visible surfaces in the house here represent our bloodstream. It’s when toxins are floating around in our bloodstream that we get symptoms. And the stuff stored in drawers, cupboards, the basement, and attic—that represents the places where the body stores toxins when it doesn’t have the chance to get rid of them. That could be in fat tissue, under the skin, joints, cysts. Places that don’t have as good blood supply as other vital organs.
Because of this, we can feel good and appear healthy, because the toxins are tucked away in the attic, in a messy drawer or the garage, and not in the way in the middle of the living room—not floating around in our bloodstream. So we don’t have active symptoms.
But—it’s only a matter of time. When things are crammed into every drawer and cupboard, and all the storage spaces are filled to the brim, eventually it spills out onto the surfaces. Usually this comes as we age. Bit by bit, one symptom after another shows up—and “age” gets the blame. But it’s not age itself that’s to blame. It’s the lack of functioning cleaners, the lack of the body’s ability to maintain, repair, and heal. Not age.
Frequency-Shift-Triggered Detox
It’s not just an eager cleaning crew that can cause chaos in the living room. People who aren’t on the protocol also get sick with flu and other things. That’s because the people living in the house actually do have the ability to open that attic chest. And what makes them do it can be that they’re “moved by the spirit.” That can be triggered by frequency shifts.
And what does that mean? Well, the season changes, for example. Or you move into another phase of your cycle. Or you’ve had a session with a good therapist—acupuncture, massage, craniosacral therapy, etc. Maybe you’ve gone through something emotional, or something personal—that too can be a frequency shift. Or maybe something astrological happens, like a full moon or similar, which affects you and triggers a detox.
Summary
So it’s a symbiosis—hands and legs, salt and water—they work together. In our blood, the ratio is 9 grams of salt per liter of fluid. That’s why we generally stay below (and some well below) this level, if we don’t want to stir up too much from old storage. But if things have already flared up and it’s about putting out a fire, then we can pull out the firehose and work around this level or higher, even up to 15–20 grams per liter. That’s for the toughest guys who’ve read and watched Darko and/or Heidi Opsanger (Norwegian expert on this) inside and out, and who know what they’re doing.
I actually say “guys” on purpose, because I have a feeling it’s more suitable for women to take it more gently. John Shore, for example, a prominent and competent figure in the international SHP group on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/374534828627446), has read and watched most of Darko’s work, and I consider him to have a solid understanding of the body and its detox mechanisms. I think he can guide you if you reach out to him. And he’s not afraid to recommend increasing. But he also may not have dealt much with chronically ill people, or older ones. For himself, though, he drinks very strong plasma daily, which for most would be far too much.
Personally, I’ve only been up to 20 g/L on a few occasions. At those times I was really sick and desperate, and 20 grams per liter was brutal—but it actually worked very effectively too. Then again, I’m pretty tough (maybe too tough for my own good), extremely impatient, and I had quite a bit of knowledge, plus close follow-up from Darko himself, Heidi, and my partner, who’s a veteran fan of Darko’s work and knows a lot about this too.
Know what you’re doing, or get close guidance from someone who does. I recommend reading up on Darko and getting guidance from Heidi.
Good luck to all of you—I’m cheering for you!! ❤️