I love the taste of licorice tea, I could drink it all day. Problem is, Andy mentions this in his book - as an adrenal stimulant. It loosens mucus and helps with asthma and upper respitory infections. It should not be taken continuously. Licorice accelerates liver phase 1 metabolism. One week per month is appropriate.

Now the problem with him mentioning the speeding up of liver phase 1 is the fact that I have fast liver phase I and underactive liver phase II. This can be genetic uniqueness or long term exposure to toxins/mercury can cause it. Not sure what came first.... So I cannot afford to take anything that encourages that even more. Fast liver phase 1 is not a good thing, any toxins that come in, are made even MORE toxic and usually liver phase II, is unable to keep up, so they build up.

This is something that is quite typical in mercury toxic people and why it's a wise move to take things that support and help speed up phase II, so that it can keep up a bit more and take things that suppress phase I a little. Andy mentions that in his book. If anybody's interested, I can type it out a few nutrients/supplements that supposedly help these problems.

I only found out I had this from proper urine testing.