VERY IMPORTANT - START THIS PROTOCOL ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE FOLLOWING STEPS:
>>>Read my article and watched my video on Surprising Symptoms Linked to Poor Digestion.
Continue with this Trikatu Protocol only after you have accomplished the following goals for at least 2-3 weeks and are able to tolerate foods that are typically hard for you to digest (such as fatty or fried foods, gluten or dairy). If you cannot tolerate these foods after 2-3 weeks of the below protocol, consider scheduling a consult with Dr. Douillard for a customized plan to strengthen your digestion:
- Take Liver Repair or another herbal formula that cleanses the liver and thins the bile:
1-2 capsules, 2 times per day after food.
- Eat one raw beet per day and follow the guidelines for Gallbladder Health: Foods & Recipes.
- Hydrate!
- Eat 3 meals per day without snacking. >>>Learn More.
- You may do this Trikatu Protocol 2 - 3 times per year, as needed.
Summary: You are going to take increasing numbers of Trikatu capsules before each meal until you feel a warmth around your belly. Then you will slowly decrease each dose by one capsule while maintaining the sensation of warmth. Here are the details:
1. Take Increasing Capsules of Trikatu Until You Feel Warmth:
a. Take 1 Trikatu capsule before breakfast.
b. Take 2 Trikatu capsules before the next meal: lunch.
c. Take 3 capsules of Trikatu before supper.
d. Take 4 capsules of Trikatu the next day before breakfast.
e. Continue until you find your Maximum Dose (details below). Do not take more than 7.
2. Find Your Maximum Dose: Keep adding 1 capsule before each meal until you begin to feel some warmth around your belly either before, during or after the meal. This is your Maximum Dose. You may feel warmth after 2 capsules or after 7. Do not take more than 7 capsules.
If there is any burning or loose stools but no warmth around your belly, consider this the limit and stop increasing the Trikatu.
3. Start Decreasing While Maintaining the Warmth: Once you feel the warmth in or around your belly begin to decrease your dose by 1 capsule at the next meal. Continue taking this dose of Trikatu capsules until you feel heat again. This may take 1 or 2 meals or even a few days.
Once you feel warmth again, decrease by 1 capsule at the next meal and continue this dose until you feel warmth again. Continue this protocol until you have weaned down to 1 capsule and then to no capsules at all. You may need to stay at 1 capsule for a few weeks.
4. Example Patient: “Sally” began to feel warmth on the 2nd day after breakfast while taking 4 capsules of Trikatu. This is her maximum dose.
a. At her next meal – lunch – she decreased to 3 capsules and took this dose until she felt warmth again the next day (also at lunch).
b. She then decreased to two capsules before each meal until she felt warmth again the following day at breakfast
c. At breakfast, she decreased to 1 capsule and continued that dose for 3 days until she felt warmth.
This protocol is designed to reset your digestive furnace, which is often too low due to stress or other digestive imbalances. When you feel warmth around your belly that is a sign that the Trikatu is helping your stomach increase production of hydrochloric acid (HCL ). By slowly decreasing the dose of Trikatu based on when you feel warmth, this ensures that your stomach continues to produce HCL and your digestive fire stays abundant even when you wean down to 1 capsule before meals and finally completely stop taking Trikatu.
This protocol is helpful only when we have already identified and treated the reason why your body has turned down the digestive furnace. If we were to turn the furnace back on before treating your digestive imbalance, then the HCL acid production could burn the stomach and intestinal wall, causing reactive mucus production, mal-absorption and poor detoxification of fat soluble toxins.
Please see my free video “Detox Dangerous Toxins” at www.lifespa.com/toxins for more details on this process.