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Carao: Has Anyone Ever Tried This Product?
olivia mary:
Hi LLoyd,
I would love to try the carao with Olivia I will send you our e-mail and I will let everyone how she is doing and if I feel there is any change in her. I am very sensitive to Olivia's behavior, color, growth everything about her I am usually on the money so I feel I will be able to tell the difference if there is one after she begins the carao.
Thanks Kathleen
healinglights:
Hi all:
I am a participant in Llyod's caroa informal trials.
I woke up this morning shaky and dizzy and really feeling out of sorts, well, God didn't forget me, 20 minutes ago my son went out side and at least one packet of my tiral caroa bottles had arrived. Just knowing that lifted my spirits. It got here in just over a week. OF course I already took my first dose. I took it straight because after smelling it, I figured if I extended the amount to drink by dilution I would have a hard time taking it. It surely smells foul. We call it Stinktoe in the Caribbean, so that will give you an indication of the smell.
Anyways, it was not that hard to swallow, but it did taste and sting my throat as if it contains alcohol. I read the bottle after I swallowed and it said 100% pure caroa. Llyod, I'm taking your word that it has no alcohol in it cause that would drop my counts like a bomb, in a major hurry.
I'm the type that has to take half of any medication or less, I have fast reactions both good and bad, so If this thing works, I will know pretty quickly. I am also taking into account the placebo effect, cause i am so excited about finally getting some 'natural' relief. Anyway, I am keeping positive. Right now my counts are hovering around 8, dipped below that for the first time in my life recently.
I am looking forward to reporting that caroa works, I know nothing works the same way for everyone, so I will let you guys know if it works what my diet is and anything else I took at the same time as well as my blood type, as I do believe blood type plays a major part in treatment. I also think whether the Beta or Alpha chain is affected makes a major difference to how thals are affected, and therefore also to any treatment modality.
Stay Strong.
Lloyd Standish:
In my 6 years of providing carao to folks all over the world, you're the first person who thinks carao tastes like it might have alcohol. (Note the spelling, "carao," not "caroa.") It is pronounced ka-rah-oh
Since I frequently get reports about how good it tastes, I'm pretty sure that at least one of the participants in this study will say they love (not just like) the taste. As I've mentioned before, it does not taste anything like it smells. For it to taste delicious, it is usually mixed in milk or milk substitute. In milk it tastes very much like cocoa. (By the way, cocoa, which most people like, tastes pretty awful if you eat straight dry cocoa powder. And pure bees' honey taken off the spoon will often cause a stinging sensation in your throat, too. Do you see my point? Actually, straight carao tastes a lot better than straight cocoa.)
Taken straight, carao tastes strong. In fact, we recommend it never be given straight to infants because of the very strong taste. (For infants it should always be mixed in some sort of milk.)
To those who are waiting for your carao to arrive: Take my word for it, mixed in milk it is delicious to not just a few, but most people. Also, after it is mixed in any beverage, there will be NO smell. If you are giving it to a child, please don't tell the child first that you are going to give him something that tastes awful. For the record, Dr. Attahiru Sokoto, Nigerian pediatrician, resports that ALL his child patients like it in milk.
To those who can't take milk, you can try mixing in rice milk, or soy milk. For those who really want to wipe out the chocolaty taste, it can be mixed in blackstrap molasses, or in coffee.
Healinglights, I hope you are sensitive to its effects the way you are to medications. I think you will start to feel better in a couple of weeks.
The informal study is about to close, so any last-minute participants should post their interest here very soon.
Regards,
Lloyd
Manal:
Hi
I too received the first two bottles yesterday. Thank you Lloyd.
It is true the smell and the taste are really difficult, but my boy is brave and when he knew that i will be taking it with him sometime later he was encourged. He just close his nose and quickly after taking it he drinks a cold glass of water. The taste remains a little bit but keeps drinking any other thing to change the taste. I will try to offer it to himin milk as you advised
I give him two spoons ( 5 ml each ). Lloyd, i made a full CBC, HPLC, ferritin and bilirubin tests before starting in order to able to compare the effect later on when i finish the four bottles.
Hoping for positive results to all of us
manal
healinglights:
Hey LLoyd thanks for the good wishes.
Don't get me wrong, it doesn't taste bad as such, hope I did not give that impression to anyone who maybe interested in trying it. Its just the smell. Perhaps that stinging after taste like alcohol is probably because I took it straight. I tend not to want to prolong things I think might be unpleasant, and I did wash it down afterwards with coconut milk smoothee.
It was just my way to swallow, and then follow. I don't know if I will continue to take it that way now I know it won't taste as bad as it smells.
It's surprisingly sweet, and nothing at all like the smell, I should have mentioned that. And i don't advice anyone else to try it the way i did. So in summary for anyone thinking of trying it, the bark is worse than the bite, namely the smell is nothing like the taste, so try not to be put off by the smell.
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