May 4, 2018

"Epperly’s off-the-wall theory says that the root of all disease is a gut parasite called 'candida,' and the solution is 'Jilly Juice.'"

"The beverage is made by combining salt, water, and kale or cabbage in a blender and allowing it to ferment at room temperature over a few days. She advocates consuming up to a gallon a day — the juice would rid the gut of the fungus, expelled in bouts of diarrhea that she refers to as 'waterfalls.' 'I'm proud of being a leader of a poop cult,' she joked in a post on her Facebook page, adopting a moniker from her critics.... For $30 annually, customers have access to private forums to share experiences and ask questions. Epperly also conducts phone consults for $70 an hour...."

From "The Ohio Attorney General Is Demanding Answers From The Woman Who Started A Facebook Cabbage Juice Cult/Jillian Epperly preached to thousands about a homebrew cabbage juice, claiming that explosive diarrhea expels dangerous parasites" (Buzzfeed).

Too bad this story wasn't around in December 2004 when I was deliberately cabbage-blogging and promoting cabbage-blogging.

From that old post:
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
Also:
Speaking of ugly, did you know you can get a Donald Trump Cabbage Patch Doll?
ADDED: Isn't Epperly just carrying on the folk tradition of sauerkraut juice?

43 comments:

Bob Boyd said...

Alaska: "Why don't you come up and fuck me in the ass sometime?"

Jillian: "Explosive diarrhea expels dangerous parasites."

rhhardin said...

We need a bunch of cabbage to purge the NYPost autoplay video from the front page too.

Hey Skipper said...

Any bets on whether the customer base is almost exclusively female?

buwaya said...

About the same as any number of health and treatment cults.
There have been mad (or effective) claims about health regimes since prehistory. Its been a favorite human activity everywhere and forever.

Think of every diet book ever written, just to start.

Why is she harrassed for this, and none of these others?

LCB said...

kimchi

buwaya said...

If they can sue her they can sue anyone pushing such a thing.

Instapundit for instance, on low-carb and weight training and any number of nutritional supplements.

And of course every ladies magazine thats ever existed.

Ann Althouse said...

Alaska: "Why don't you come up and fuck me in the ass sometime?"

Jillian: "Explosive diarrhea expels dangerous parasites."

Don't forget the rest of this morning's theme:

Kilauea: ""It sounded like there were rocks in a dryer that were being tumbled around. You could hear the power it of it pushing out of the ground."

rhhardin said...

Jilling is female masturbation, according to Urban Dictionary.

From Jack and Jill. One jacks off, the other jills.

buwaya said...

My wife dyes her hair with henna, has been doing that since the "Whole Earth Catalog" still existed. Yes I married a hippie. One day they will say this could kill someone. Will an AG start suing henna-pushers?

The Whole Earth Catalog was filled with "natural" solutions for everything.

buwaya said...

In the end, this episode just goes to show that there are any number of reasons to kill all the lawyers.

Sydney said...

It's a food. How is this any different than any other food fad? Paleo diet, Forks over Knives. The Ohio AG is running for governor and he is over the top power hungry. He recently sued medical supply companies for selling narcotics to pharmacies and physician offices. He claims they caused the opioid epidemic.

alan markus said...

Oh my Candida...We could make it together...

The further from here girl the better....

Where the air is fresh and clean


Not so sure about the fresh and clean air.



traditionalguy said...

The Health Foodstores have always sold Cleanses that empty the gut. This dealer just uses a "Look, It's New" schtick.

Etienne said...

A strong beautiful independent woman who doesn't need a mans help because she can do it all. Has amazing curves that even gets both male and females attention.

A total milf.

If you are loved by Jill she will do anything for you, neglecting her own needs. She lives in her own world. She only notices people she finds interesting, everyone else gets the cold shoulder. Tends to keep to herself. Straight forward, and down to the point. No patience for people who lack common sense. An open minded individual who seeks understanding and spiritual enlightenment.

Very sensual and passionate that she may even resemble a succubus. Because one night with Jill will take every ounce of energy you have. She will suck the life force out of you. Hates people but loves animals.

Chorus:

If you are with a Jill treat her right
and she will be the most precious person in your life.

Quaestor said...

Candida? Didn't she traipse around Europe with Professor Pangloss in search of the best of all possible worlds and get nekkid with Walther Matthau, or am I confused again?

Caligula said...

And here I was thinking daily doses of cider vinegar would keep me practically forever.

And now I learn it's a fermented cabbage drink? Well, maybe, but I bet that's just because the fermentation produces vinegar (or something).

BTW, if you ever receive a pitch for some improbably effective diet or supplement, a positive response will provide years of amusement from the avalanche of quackalogs (often tarted-up to look like a science journal) you will receive.

Perhaps Big Pharma may die(*), but quacks offering miraculous cures are eternal.

* See "Pharma’s broken business model: An industry on the brink of terminal decline at:
https://endpts.com/pharmas-broken-business-model-an-industry-on-the-brink-of-terminal-decline/

Caldwell P. Titcomb IV said...

Hey Skipper said...
Any bets on whether the customer base is almost exclusively female?


As are my customers.

At sciencedaily.com:

"Most Popular Stories this week
HEALTH

Drinking Baking Soda Could Be an Inexpensive, Safe Way to Combat Autoimmune Disease

Dark Chocolate Consumption Reduces Stress and Inflammation

Novel Antioxidant [pic of Broccoli**] Makes Old Blood Vessels Seem Young Again"


** Supposedly a bad taste makes a placebo more effective.

SayAahh said...

Frank's Sauerkraut Juice. 14 oz.
A satisfying cleanse for the Chuck/Inga and perennial counter-provocateurs spoiling the comment section of this blog.
Available as a six pack.

donald said...

Hard, extremely hard pass.

rhhardin said...

Lindt 90% chocolate is good, for what disease I don't know.

Break each square into four squares, for the proper snack dose. Otherwise the bitterness overwhelms an unaccustomed mouth.

It grows on you. Milk chocolate becomes intolerably sweet.

William said...

Calling diarrhea a waterfall demonstrates an impressive facility for creating euphemisms. If the fermented cabbage thing doesn't work out, there's a place for her on Hillary's team.

Big Mike said...

I won’t believe it’s a Donald Trump doll unless you open the jacket and show me that the tie comes well below the belt buckle.

Sydney said...

I agree with rhhardin. 90% chocolate in small doses is just the thing for curbing a sweet tooth, and it's healthy, supposedly. Lindt is a good brand. Some of the free trade brands aren't as palatable. I tried 100% baking chocolate once and couldn't stand it. But it did cure me of my desire for chocolate for a while.

Caldwell P. Titcomb IV said...

rhhardin said...
Lindt 90% chocolate is good, for what disease I don't know.


My studies have shown that tequila prevented all the diseases that I don't have.

Bay Area Guy said...

I think an occasional serving of sauerkraut to supplement my steady diet of steak and cheeseburgers would be acceptable.

But I think I’d draw the line with having Jilly juice, diarrhea-inducing shots with sexually weird, aging Hippie chicks soon to be multiple cat-owners.

Big Mike said...

If you want “waterfall” diarrhea, a Fleet enema costs less than $4.00, and won’t cause flatulence as a side effect. Gastroenterologists have even stronger stuff they can prescribe before s colonoscopy.

wildswan said...

A gallon a day of sauerkraut juice!! With a goal of 'waterfalls'!! I think she should be prosecuted also. Or just ban her from the internet as if she were a conservative.

But why drink sauerkraut juice? A careful study of "studies" will allow you to have an excellent diet. Paleo; along with a careful classifying such that coffee and chocolate list as fruit seeds; along with a few personalized diet selections based on genetics, e.g. Nordics can eat dairy especially custard ice cream, Irish can eat french fries; along with convenient lapses as advocated by personal trainers who say that rigid diet guidelines result in binge chocolate chip cookie eating "I feel a lapse coming on, gimmie that gummie bear"; along with a well trained memory almost leftist in its ability to forget errors and to propagate spin on events. e.g. "The way I do beets ... [if I do beets, which I don't]" With these handy kitchen aids, you can have it all and overtalk health nuts as well.

N.B. to Golden Years Americans. Use cash for candy/potato chips, NO loyalty cards, in a few years there will be diet police going back over purchases and making death-panel decisions based on your shopping right now.

Ron Winkleheimer said...

There have been mad (or effective) claims about health regimes since prehistory. Its been a favorite human activity everywhere and forever.

The "Iceman" discovered in the Tyrolean Alps is covered with tattoos thought to be therapeutic, not decorative.

"Ă–tzi is covered with more than 50 tattoos in the form of lines and crosses made up of small incisions in his skin into which charcoal was rubbed. Because they are all found on parts of the body that show evidence of a lifetime of wear and tear—the ankles, wrists, knees, Achilles tendon, and lower back, for example—it’s thought that Ă–tzi’s tattoos were therapeutic, not decorative or symbolic. When Ă–tzi was first studied, archaeologists were shocked because they had never before seen Copper Age tattoos, and because acupuncture as a treatment for joint distress, rheumatism, and arthritis was thought to have originated in Asia more than 2,000 years later."

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/109-1311/features/1351-oetzi-copper-age-alps-iceman-tattoos

Trumpit said...

I've had persistent gut issues for decades causing all kinds of serious health problems. This is not bad science, or a tasteless joke about diarrhea, a word I always forget how to spell. Doctors have been useless to help me; persistent parasites are a real problem. Cabbage, garlic, ginger, oregano, etc. have medicinal properties. A Korea staple called Kimchi is made from these ingredients, as is sauerkraut, another word I have trouble spelling. Some people even take a purified form of turpentine, if you can believe it, to rid their gut of candida. Meade takes a garlic clove daily because he believes it has health benefits, and he's right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi

Ron Winkleheimer said...

There is evidence of hominids in the Philippines 700,000 years ago. Homo Sapiens only emerged 300,000 years ago. One wonders, did those distant cousins also practice colon cleansing? Perhaps they taught it to our ancient ancestors.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/stone-tools-rhinoceros-luzon-philippines-ancient-hominins-science/

Ron Winkleheimer said...

Why would Trumpit post this?

Meade takes a garlic clove daily because he believes it has health benefits, and he's right.

Was this published somewhere previously, or is the jig up?

Trumpit said...

Alaska: "Why don't you come up and fuck me in the ass sometime?"
How about with a hot poker? I just felt like saying "hot poker."

Jillian: "Explosive diarrhea expels dangerous parasites." Combined with other "agents" such as herbs, vitamin C, etc. parasites may be expelled. Vitamin C powder can cause diarrhea if taken in dosages referred to as "bowel tolerance" amounts. It may be beneficial to reach that level if you are treating a disease, such as cancer.

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1981/pdf/1981-v10n02-p125.pdf

Kyzer SoSay said...

"Was this published somewhere previously, or is the jig up?"

I've long suspected Trumpit was a sock puppet, as have others on this forum. Not sure if this is proof, as it might have been mentioned by Althouse sometime earlier, but if it was I don't recall it. I only post sporadically but I read here just about every day except on vacation, and I think this is strange enough that it would jog my memory.

Trumpit said...

Meade commented that he consumes a clove of garlic, and pomegranate juice daily (I forget how much). I started doing the same after he posted that. A parasite by definition is something that lives in body and "leeches" off of you. And it stands to reason, they would not want to leave once they find a home inside of you. So they are generally hard to get rid of.

buwaya said...

"One wonders, did those distant cousins also practice colon cleansing?"

A constant diet of rhinoceros will do that to you. Needs must.

Rae said...

To save time, you can combine this with a coffee enema and colloidal silver.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“Frank's Sauerkraut Juice. 14 oz.
A satisfying cleanse for the Chuck/Inga and perennial counter-provocateurs spoiling the comment section of this blog.
Available as a six pack.”

I guess if you like echo chambers then by all means drink the Jilly Juice. Bottoms up!

Howard said...

Like I said, fuck the law and kill the lawyers. They are hell-bent on making freedom illegal.

JML said...

Apparently that shit causes you to lose weight.

JackOfClubs said...

Did anyone else think of the ending of Day of the Triffids? Salt water and runny vegetation...

Meade said...

"Meade commented that he consumes a clove of garlic, and pomegranate juice daily (I forget how much)."

Half right. I commented that the only supplements I take are garlic and Montmorency Tart Cherry juice. I chop up 1 clove of raw garlic and drink it down with a glass of cherry juice. Down the hatch, no chewing — which means no garlic breath and no separate beds for sleeping. Etienne, I think it was, made a funny wisecrack about that but Mrs. Meade still seems to enjoy sleeping with me. So far. Of course, she suffers from anosmia so I do have that going for me. So far. Hey, maybe if she followed my garlic/cherry protocol, she'd cure her anosmia. Worth a try I think.

As for pomegranate juice — I sip it because I like it. I like it better much more than wine or beer, neither of which I care for very much. Generally, alcohol makes me dull and sleepy and makes people around me seem ugly an' I have no sense of time. So I eschew it. On the rare occasions I consume alcohol, I prefer gin or vodka. Straight, down the hatch, sort of like garlic, Only, the idea that alcohol has health benefits is mostly bullshit I think.

Anyway, Trumpit was mostly right about what I said.

Bob Boyd said...

MAGA - Meade Ate Garlic Again

Bad Lieutenant said...

Big Mike (I eschew BM especially in this instance),
available without a prescription:

http://m.arizonadigestivehealth.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arizonadigestivehealth.com%2Fcolonoscopy-miralax-gatorade-prep%2F&utm_referrer=#2543