Thanks for that mate.
Those instructions do indeed look familiar and I also did a week of completely raw food and drank gallons of apple juice and water too. I remember only eating a it of raw fruit through the cleanse day but mostly nothing...more like a fast.
In fact it may not have been a complete pint of olive oil as I am going from memory, but it was a full pint of liquid as I used a pint glass and knocked it all back in one go...I remember thinking it wasnt too bad despite all that oil lol, but almost puked up simply by moving...probably was way more oil though...those instructions suggest half oil and half citrus combined to make 360ml, which is nearly a pint so it may be that I drank the same amount of oil...
I have no doubt whatsoever that the liver cleanse is vital for good health, but I think we first must understand the process of what is happening before we do too many of them...as the liver will indeed be getting somewhat stressed by all that oil in one sitting ( 1600 calories! ) it will be forced to produce lots of bile but can never hope to break down all that fat in one sitting (especially while asleep), thus you will definitely have undigested fats inside the stools - many of these "stones" float which is certainly an indication of fats.
If there are also other liver problems such as damage by terrible lifestyles or alcohol abuse or drug abuse or whatever, then we might want to involve other methods first before doing multiple liver cleanses...even Dr Clark says in her book that liver cleanse should only really be done once plenty of zapping has been done, and ideally after a kidney cleanse too...and I do note that you yourself suggest herbal cleanse before hand which is sound advice...unfortunately too many people (myself included) tend to jump in at the deep end when desperate and believe any old website, and as there are loads out there citing liver cleanses, we need to be careful of what they tell us and try to look at more scientific approaches than following blindly what one of those sites says - which I obviously did in the past to my detriment - MY BUM WAS BUGGERED FOR WEEKS
Also regarding the bile secretion...We probably dont produce bile on the DAY of diarrhea cleansing as no fats are eaten, but we have already produced lots of it in the preceding 7-10 hours after we drank the 180ml or more of fats in one go...this would coincide perfectly with the time it takes to complete the digestion of these fats by the bile secreted, while also bringing forth any debris from the liver - mostly due to the increased bile flow which is in turn stimulated by the initial overload of all that oil, and facilitated by the epsom salts relaxing the bile ducts.
The common bile duct has been stated many times in medical literature to be an average of 4mm - 7mm (0.16 to 0.28 inches) especially during routine ultra scans. People who have large ducts usually up to around 11mm are the elderly, and those suffering from extreme gall stone blockage...and also depends on where the bile duct is measured as one of the below links shows....
The small intestine itself in a NORMAL healthy person is only one inch in diameter, but I have no doubt that some people will have less than this and may well be the true reason for something half an inch in diameter and following a pattern of coming out of a "duct"...these same size and shaped stools have been reported quite a number of times in people who are NOT doing a liver cleanse, but are simply following an intestinal elimination program, and the shapes and horrid black colours of some of these excretions clearly show something that has been lodged within the small intestines for many years.
Sure with epsom salts the liver ducts will indeed relax, but they are not going to allow something the size of a golf ball through and it stretches my imagination to believe that...I much prefer the more logical idea that lots of tiny stones and debris are leaving the liver via the cleanse, and they are building up in size within the intestines, and it is here that the larger balls are actually formed. That makes more sense to me.
An important point I would make also here is to never to rely on memory for details of an event, and always record anything to do with health SPECIFICALLY in a diary. Memory is a very poor judgment tool even when you have a good memory...I have training in memory techniques from years ago, and have used these techniques on many social occasions in the past and recited the entire suit order of multiple packs of cards after only minutes of memorizing them, but if I relied on my memory of what I did last year regards my health without consulting my health diary, I would fail utterly to remember the details specifically...unless of course I applied a memory technique, which I mostly dont!
Couple of links below that came up in a quick search regards bile ducts...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/504652
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10763933
Also below is a website that looks useful...
www.innerbody.com/image_digeov/dige04-new.html
We may not agree entirely on the details but at least we probably agree that a liver cleanse is indeed a positive exercise when done correctly. Life would be pretty boring if we all agreed on everything lol