Body Cleanse Program

Body Cleanse Program

Before I read Rodale Health Books’ The Purification Plan, I thought a body cleansing program would entail the regime doctors put patients through the day before a colonoscopy. However, body detoxification involves more than just cleaning the colon. It includes the whole body. A body cleanse program includes three stages: absorbing the nutrients, neutralizing free radicals (toxins), and ushering toxins from the body. Absorbing nutrients is so important because a neglected colon’s inner wall can become so encrusted with old waste that the colon has difficulty in doing its digestive role

Step one of a body cleanse program includes picking foods that are effective in cleansing the body, especially the liver, kidneys, and colon. Some top foods include garlic, lemons, green tea, watercress, cabbage, vinegar, whole psyllium husks, and broccoli sprouts. These foods are sometimes in a top ten listing. Milk Thistle can be used to protect the liver from pollutants like solvents, fertilizer, paint and the like. Use the elder flower to stimulate sweating as a way to push toxins from the body. Finally, dandelion root can jump start a sluggish digestion. Common foods and specialty ones all have a place in a good body cleanse program.

Step two of the body cleanse program is to focus on helping the body fight the free radicals that toxins introduce into the body. There are a couple of points to remember here. Don’t go for the jugular and try to undo years of build up and damage over a weekend. Make your body cleanse program a change in your lifestyle. Be patient. Introduce a body cleansing food that is death on oxidants (free radicals), at a measured pace – like one new one per week. This will give the body a chance to adjust without embarrassing body reactions. Finally, drink antioxidant fruit juices rather than a soda or coffee. Antioxidant fruit in juice form are especially easy for the body to absorb as I explained in my earlier blog, “Vitamin Absorption.”

Step three of a body cleanse program is the elimination of toxins. Ideally, toxins would be neutralized in the digestive, circulatory cycles. Better choices of foods in a body cleanse program would lower the toxins in the body to eliminate. However, not all toxins will be neutralized. Some need to be eliminated via the colon and kidneys, while others may be passed through sweat glands. It is best for a body cleanse program to work with the body’s liver, kidneys, sweat glands, and immune system to kick the toxins from the body. Some cleansing kits not only remove toxins, but also remove friendly bacteria and flora as well. Many may think first of colonic cleansing – as in flushing a toxic colon. Colonic flushing in a body cleanse program belongs in the hands of a professional.

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