The first, second and third days of your juice diet will be the most difficult. Have all your supplies prepared in advance, such as fresh veggies, a juice extractor, some juicer recipes, lots of water, a variety of teas – diuretic Senna or natural stimulants and soothing mint or chamomile blends. You’ll also want ground flax seed to mix with warm water for a morning drink.
In order to detoxify the body with a juice diet, the first day should start with a liter of water and a fiber drink, then an 8 ounce glass of celery juice, wheat grass or something light and purifying, perhaps with apple; then more water during the first hours of the morning and another juice, perhaps carrot, mid-morning, then more water until lunchtime. At lunch, a variety of leafy veggies can be extracted.
Some people enjoy a heartier juice with tomatoes, cucumber and green or red peppers; while others prefer to keep the heartier juices for the afternoon. The juice diet is very versatile, especially in terms of flavor and richness because you can add spices like cayenne, garlic, parsley, lemon, a little sea salt, and combine veggies to make a sweet beet-carrot combo or a spicy gazpacho. If you’re accustomed to a larger meal in the evening, then save your spicy / savory drinks to the time of day you most need it.
The main idea of drinking juice, water, fibers and diuretic teas is to detoxify the body, therefore you MUST be having regular bowel movements to flush out the waste. If you’re not, you’ll need to increase natural laxative tea dosage and fiber drinks, or perhaps give yourself an enema or go for a colon hydrotherapy cleanse. In the end, in order to detox your body properly, you need to rely on the natural ability your body has to remove toxins and waste: breath, sweat (exercise), urine and bowel movements.
]]>The focus of this article is to address another component of the physical body aspect of detoxing, which is exercise. You see, what you put into your physical body in the way of foods and drink or even medicines, pollution and commercial agricultural by-products is only one aspect of what needs to be addressed. Sure, if you are constantly eating processed foods, soda/pop, and other refined food products then you have an obvious source of toxins entering your body. If, on the other hand, you simply eat commercially grown fruits, vegetables and take some prescribed medication, you may not be aware that there are potential toxins accumulating in your body from that as well. This is by no means a case for you to stop taking your medications to live on a water fast alone. The point is that there are toxins that exist in our environment and are entering our bodies in a variety of ways.
What Type of Exercises Help With A Body Detox?
Running is great exercise to help with your body detox.
The key point to be made with exercise is that any is a good thing. It doesn’t require an expensive or exclusive gym membership or fancy machine to get the kind of exercise necessary to detox your body. Since one of the main forms of natural body detoxification is through your sweating, this is what you’ll need to produce more of. So, exercise that causes your heart rate to increase and your body to heat up is what is most important. However, you can also get a lot of benefit from having your breath rate increase as well. It is really not possible, to any large degree, to have one without the other, it just deserves mentioning. This is because your lungs are another natural source for detoxifying your body. Cleansing breath and breathing is becoming a lot more common language. It involves breathing in the nose deeply and out the mouth fully. It can sound something like wind entering your nostrils and then a “haahhhhhhh” sound as you exhale.
There is no specific how to detox exercise book or manual. You just need to use your body feedback as a rule. Running, cycling and other traditional forms of cardiovascular exercise could be used for detox purposes, but you don’t need to really push yourself. In another type of exercise, like yoga, specific poses and postures are known to have detoxing benefits for your colon and internal organs. For example, postures that involve spinal twists, downward dog and legs up the wall are great yoga poses for detoxifying your body. With all of the forms of exercise mentioned, it is critical that you are consuming adequate amounts of water that may be much more than you are used to.
]]>One thing is for sure, we spend millions of dollars on treating and dealing with health problems that are most likely related to this increased toxic load whether directly or indirectly. Who knows exactly what types of cancers, autoimmune diseases, neurotoxicity problems and other hormonal dysfunctions are due to such agents? Well, there is something that you can do to at least mitigate the potential of these things accumulating in your body and stagnating. You can detox your body. Toxins are not good for us in any concentration. We have simply been guided to believe or understand that if the levels are below some threshold that has been set, then we should be fine. Well, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any more than zero toxins in my children’s bodies or my own.
It is understandable that we should know at what level these toxins cause obvious signs and symptoms of disease or problems, but it shouldn’t take that much for us to change the way we see taking care of our internal cells, tissues and organs. Modern medicine has come a long way, but it still can’t compete with your body’s own natural detoxification process. There are several organs that function as your body’s cleansing organs. They are your liver, kidneys, lymph system, lungs, skin and colon.
Colon Cleaning And Function
This is an illustration of your large intestine.
The colon is the last several feet of your digestive tract that is used by the body to absorb water, nutrients, electrolytes and prepare waste for elimination. Part of this waste material is toxins that have been processed by your body for elimination through your feces. A colon cleanse, combined with specific detox diets and proper organic food choices can go a long way toward putting you back on the road to optimum health. This is not medical advice, it’s just common sense. If your colon is stagnating and not moving waste through your body as it once did, then it will cause you physical health problems or challenges at some point. Does this necessarily mean that you are destined for colon cancer or some other horrible disease, who knows. There is no definitive answer on what causes any diseases. While there is continuous research aimed at finding genetic markers and the like, clinicians still know that food choices as well as environmental factors still play a major role in determining overall health.
Colon hydrotherapy is the term given for the procedure whereby a licenses and skilled professional colon hydrotherapist uses water to gently flush your colon. It is more thorough and complete than an enema. This procedure washes and cleans your whole colon and facilitates the detoxifying your body greatly needs. Colonics cleanse the colon by helping to break down toxic excrement so it can be more easily eliminated. In some senses, the cleansing helps to rejuvenate your colon. The gentle flushing of your colon also stimulates the muscles of your colon walls to stretch and contract. This gentle movement is what the muscles do ordinarily to move waste through your bowels. So, this is like a massage for your colon. The addition of this extra volume of water into your colon also allows your body the opportunity to absorb more of what it needs to keep you fully hydrated. This will assist your overall cellular hydration and body function. All in all, colon hyrdotherapy is a wonderful addition to a body detox program.
]]>So, for the sake of this article, let’s assume that you are wanting to do a body detox and lose some weight or cleanse your colon or what ever you have in mind for your physical cleansing aspect. If you only focused on that one aspect of your detox, you would not get nearly the results you had hoped for. For example, what people find is that when they are trying to lose weight with a detox diet, if there are other factors that are inhibiting their cleanse, the weight will not come off. Then, what happens is you will end up blaming the supplements or the diet itself, when the real problem might be that you are not addressing other core toxic issues in one of these other aspects mentioned.
Addressing Your Mental Detox
Toxic emotional and mental thoughts are also a problem.
A big part of what keeps our bodies holding onto all sorts of toxins is that energetically we don’t know how to release them. Your body is only the physical structure that is a manifestation or symbol of your emotional, mental and spiritual self. What you are holding in those other areas will show up in your physical body. So, in order to really do a thorough body cleanse, you will need to address these issues at some point. It doesn’t have to mean a bunch of sessions with a therapist or counselor to address your past. It may involve this if you think that this is an area you could use help with, but it need not.
The whole point is that you are one symbiotic and holistic body. There are other factors at work than just your diet as a reason why you are accumulating toxins in your cells and tissues. If your body is functioning at its optimum level, then much of this toxic debris and waste will be naturally flushed through your body’s natural elimination means. This happens through your breathing (your lungs are a big source of toxic elimination), your sweat by way of exercise and through body elimination processes (urine and stools). The only reason that your body may be more sluggish in eliminating a build-up of toxins in your colon is because one or all of these aspects of the body detox are not being fully addressed.
]]>