3712: "Crunchy" Feeling on Face, Essiac Tea & Soursop, Blood in Urine, Surgery & Erectile Dysfunction, Detox & Binging (HouseCall)

The Cabral Concept

Dr. Stephen Cabral

Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Thank you for joining us for our 2nd Cabral HouseCall of the weekend!

I'm looking forward to sharing with you some of our community's questions that have come in over the past few weeks…

Sarah: Hey doc! Ive been regularly gua sha'ing my face and I noticed that my face feels 'crunchy' especially at my jawline and at my lymph nodes by my ear. It doesnt seem to be improving despite regular use, is this normal or anything to be concerned? I feel it more in my left side which I seem to get more breakouts on my cheek/jawline/neck. Thank you!

Margie: I just read all your cancer information because of a recent diagnosis. I have a Naturopathic doctor in addition to conventional oncologist. I'm curious your take on Esaic tea and or soursop? I told not to take it during treatment because it's a detox and we want the targeted chemo and immunotherapy to work… this is from my ND, however, research on both suggest otherwise. I'm very curious your thoughts. Thank you!

Alicja: Hello Dr.Cabral, I recently run by blood work and urine test. I have pretty good results from my blood work (except high cholesterol) but I am concern about results from my urine test. It shows I have trace amount of blood in my urine and also albumin in my urine was detected (slightly above the optimal cut-off) My urine albumin is 0.3 mg/dL What can I do about this? Does that indicate early kidney damage? (BTW test was done on day 16th of my cycle) Thank you for answering my question. I appreciate all you do.

Tyler: I'm a 37 year old male and I was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumor in my hypothalamus in December 2022. It was a benign tumor the size of a large egg, and I had a 15 hour surgery to remove 90% of it. 3 years later, I still have erectile dysfunction and low libido. Why is that and what can I do to fix it? I'm on Clomid for my testosterone, which is now around 500. I was on testosterone gel for a couple months but quit because of sperm impact. I test my sodium level every other week because it was low at times after my surgeries. I have a programmable shunt to help drain CSF. I don't have morning erections. Could this be from damage during the brain surgeries? Is it hormonal-related even though I'm on Clomid? Is it psychological? Please help. I listen to your podcast daily.

Trish: Hi Dr C. - hoping to get some advice on your 7-day detox. I'm in my 50's and most of my life my weight has gone up and down by 30lbs. I have a problem with binging. As I've gotten older, I've learned how to control it and my triggers. I've tried the detox 3 times and I have found that it causes me to binge. Becoming too strict it throws me for a loop. I don't do the two fasting days. I fast 20 hours. I avoid all the inflammatory foods gluten, dairy, corns, eggs & nuts as I do this on a daily basis so that isn't hard for me. Giving up berries/fruit in my smoothie & some quinoa or brown rice is what starts to create me wanting to binge. I usually eat 1 sq a day 90% cacao choc too. Any advice on making the detox beneficial without following the guidelines 100%? Hope this makes sense

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cabral Concept, where board certified doctor of naturopathy, Dr. Stephen Cabral,
0:05.8	shares with you exactly how you can reverse aging, take back your health, and live a life
0:10.9	full of energy and passion with new 20-minute episodes every single day to keep you healthy and
0:16.7	engaged. Now, here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.
0:22.0	Welcome back, everybody. Looking forward to our second Cabral host call of the weekend,
0:26.9	getting to your questions, the community's questions, just like we do every Saturday and Sunday,
0:31.9	every weekend. This is episode 3712. If you want to tune in to see what the questions are,
0:37.1	read right along at stephencabral.com slash 371, if you want to tune in to see what the questions are, read right along at
0:38.2	stephencabral.com slash 3.7.1, 2. Let's dive right in. First question today is from Sarah.
0:45.6	Sarah says, hey, doc. I've been regularly guashing my face, and I notice that my face feels
0:51.1	crunchy, especially at my jaw line and at my lymph nodes by my ear.
0:56.6	It doesn't seem to be improving despite my regular use. Is this normal or anything to be concerned?
1:01.8	It feels more in my left side, which I seem to get more breakouts on my cheek, jawline,
1:07.7	and neck. Thank you. Okay. So if anybody's not familiar with guasha, it's essentially
1:12.9	using a small stone and scraping or gently doing lymphatic-based massage. So this is an, it's an old
1:24.4	traditional Chinese medicine technique, actually. It's called guasha. And this is, again, something I did on one of my internships. I had done it previously, but not in this way. Not with the guasha stones. They actually use all sorts of different products. We used an animal horn. I know not everybody might like that, but it was very interesting how we went
1:44.9	around the scapula and the trapezius muscles with it. So yeah, it's pretty, pretty fantastic.
1:50.3	And that's it in modern day, I guess. They call it grasped in technique. A lot of chiropractors do
1:56.0	it. But what it's meant to do is help move the lymphatic system, but oftentimes people are doing it really
2:01.7	hard, and so it squishes the lymphatic system. Your lymphatic system is actually meant to go fairly
2:07.2	gentle. If you've ever done a real lymphatic massage, like the Emanuel Votter technique, it's very
2:12.1	gentle. You're only compressing or depressing the skin just a couple millimeters, that's it. Even when you're doing dry brushing, which helps to move the lymph or just with your fingers, I do this every morning I'm massaging down my neck to move the lymph. Very gently. Okay. So what you might be feeling, I think give you my disclaimer, everybody, the disclaimer for the whole show, can't provide a medical advice, medical treatments, medical cures, medical diagnosis, but all of you know that, of course,
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