Spring is a great time of the year to give your body a break with a Detox.
Eat a low allergen diet filled with fruits and veggies (organics are best). Try my Top 10 for a 10 day easy Detox.
- Put Down the Processed Foods:Read food labels, if you don't know what it is, don't eat it!
- Eliminate Allergens:Remove foods from your diet that are both difficult to digest and common allergens: red meat, dairy, soy, corn, wheat and gluten containing grains.
- Slow down on Sugar: Refined sugar decreases your liver's ability to detoxify toxins.
- Bring on the Brassica: Brassica veggies include broccoli, cauliflower, kale, bok choy, High in Indole-3-carbinol, a phytochemical that promotes liver detoxification. Aim for 2 cups / day green vegetables including the brassica's.
- Eat your Antioxidants: Aim for 1 Tbsp / day tomato paste and 1 - 2 cups / day dark berries. My favourites are Marrion Blackberries from Stahlbush Farms, and blueberries from Wilmot Orchards (We just finished the last of the ones we picked and froze last August)
- Power on the Protein: Many of the biochemical detoxification pathways in the liver are protein dependent and will slow down with out adequate protein. Try a breakfast shake made with rice, pea or hemp protein powder blended with frozen berries and natural fruit juice. I really like Thorne's Mediclear Detox Shake, the base is a rice protein with added vitamins and nutrients to support detoxification.
- Fill up on Fiber: Fiber keeps the bowels moving and traps fat soluble toxins that are being excreted with bile into the small intestine. Aim for 2 Tbsp / day of Psyllium or Rice Bran Fiber / day.
- Take Time for Tea: Green tea contains anti oxidants, protective against all causes of cancer, helps rid the body of toxins.
- Just add Water: Flushes unwanted toxins, keeps your brain sharp! Aim for 1.5 to 2L / day.
- Sweat it out: 30min of exercise a day will help to begin mobilizing fat soluble toxins. Aim for 15 to 30min a day during your 10 day detox.If you have access to a sauna this will enhance your body's ability to sweat! I really like Sauna-ray's Infra-red saunas.
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For even more ways to Detox Check out Dr. Crinnion's new Book "Clean, Green and Lean"
3 comments:
I misread this the first time through and thought, "How could anyone get rid of all red meat, dairy, soy, corn, wheat and gluten containing grains?" And while I'm am certain that's possible, it made a lot more sense when I realized that's just for 10 days!
Actually, besides moderate use of soy and substantial use of corn, we've removed pretty much everything else from Michael's diet. I know he's a lot sharper and more energetic than he used to be, and he's enjoying exercise a lot more again. I'm still a "cheater" and sugar is my Achille's heel. I really should try this... sometime!
Hi Fawn! Oh Yes... Just 10 days!! I'm so glad to hear Michael is feeling better now that he has figured out his food sensitivities! It's amazing how a single food can have so many impacts on the body!
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Sugar can be a hard habit to break!! My Achille's heel is Salt! I usually recommend decreasing and varying the types of sugar that you are using. It's quite remarkable how dramatically sugar reduces the immune system and the liver's ability to detox.
Excellent list. We recommend a gentle spring clean detox, cutting out the rubbish bit by bit and getting more exercise. Far too often our 'extreme' good intentions last all of two weeks. Then we crash and burn. A gentle approach means we can sustain it for longer. Forget the sudden, drastic and hard-line reform. We need baby steps.
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