“Detoxovacation”

I have been contemplating my first ever detoxification and I would love to do it at an institution or a wellness center to learn how to do it right. So far, I know that fasting is the best way to detoxify. You can fast by drinking only juices or you can chose the most effective way by fasting with only water. What a money saver! There is only one little problem – I hate being hungry! So needless to say being in the environment of a wellness center with lots of people like me would be helpful.

Here are some places that I am interested to check out:

• Hippocrates Institute in West Palm Beach, FL: I am dreaming to go there! People get extensive blood work and then customized recommendations on what your body needs or lacks and how to heal your sickness or prevent one. It’s a place to drink wheatgrass and other juices and eat strictly raw meals (fruits and veggies) and get educated on the health and longevity.

• Tanglewood Wellness Center: It's owned by Loren Lockman about whom you can learn more in my previous article. If you love the mountains and seclusion and if you are not afraid of fasting for at least a week on only water, this is the ultimate place to go. It’s in Panama and getting there is not as easy as getting to West Palm Beach J

• Vida Clara in Belize: It is also far away, but one of the things you need is quiet and tranquility while fasting and what can be better then the surroundings of nature in the tropics. I was impressed by their website. They give great information about fasting. For me, as a beginner, it was written in understandable language, precise and clear.

• Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Potagonia, AZ: This center has a very impressive array of services and a great explanation of each of them on the website. There, you can find detoxification programs, spiritual retreats, workshops, and even vegan vacations and spring break vacations. Impressive!

• In Your Own Location or Water Fasting with a Twist. This is a partial cleanse without changing your daily habits much. The only thing you do is replace all of your drinks with plain water. Turns out, on average, we get 21% of our daily calories from drinks only!


If you have any other recommendations about good detox retreats, programs or would like to share your own experience about a cleanse you had, please share with us in the comments section. 

“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease” – Hippocrates

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UPDATE. October 19, 2016.
For the locals in the Sarasota area:
Since opening the Nutritious You Shop on Siesta Key, we have been offering a modified cleanse. We supply you with alkalizing light vegan meals, juices, and blood elixir (chlorophyl drink) for a week or for as long as you need. We can also refill your containers with pH alkaline water. Are you ready for this challenge? Are you ready to spend a week without animal products, white sugar, and gluten? It is a great opportunity to give your body a break for a week where you don't have to think what to cook. We do it for you :)  Contact us directly if you have any questions: 941-202-2072.

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Food Breakdown

Food Breakdown from Matt Monarch

and his tips on how to start a Raw Food Diet

1. Processed Starches (Bread, pastries, cereal, pasta)
2. Refined Sugar (cake, soda, candy, ice cream)
3. Dairy
4. Animal Protein
5. Raw Foods
6. Stimulants (Coffee, Cigarettes, drugs, alcohol)

Which of these food groups should be eliminated completely from yur diet first? If you were talking from a moral standpoint, animal protein would be the first choice, because all life is sacred. From a scientific standpoint, however, animal protein would be the last group I would eliminate.

 

 

Take for example the diet of a vegetarian. A vegetarian who eats freely of “meatless junk food,” processed sugars and starches, yet eliminates meat, is nowhere near the caliber of a Raw Food Eater or a mindful moderate meat eater. The order of total elimination from the diet is first: stimulants, second: processed starches, and third: refined sugar. That is a huge secret. If you can leave out these three groups you are on your way. You can get a book by Dr. Norman Walker, called Become Younger, which discusses in detail the harmful effects that these foods cause to the body. Since reading that book, I haven’t ingested anything but live raw foods. He also discusses the harmful effects of cow’s milk, pasteurized dairy products, red meat, etc.

 

What are some quick tips or hints for Raw newbies?

 

Let’s say that you are one of the rare cases that actually eliminates everything except for Raw Foods from your diet. Inevitably, the famous “detox” starts to happen. Your body on a cellular level begins to dump endogenous material and toxins into your blood stream. What your diet was like in the past, your age, etc., will determine the outcome of how harsh the detox will be. Not only do we have to deal with all the age-old waste matter being released from our system, we also have to deal with our day-to-day burden of environmental toxicity, cell metabolism, digestion, and maybe even what our parents did. Those that don’t realize what is happening usually blame the diet and either quit or cheat with some cooked foods. Feeling the effects of detox can sometimes last years. I have found the best way to keep up with all this waste matter is colonics. I jumped from the Standard American Diet into a Raw Diet overnight. If it wasn’t for colonics, I don’t think I would have been able to stay Raw. Colonics are especially beneficial for someone committed to improving his or her diet indefinitely. Imagine that you are on the Standard American Diet and you decide to improve your diet for a week. No more greasy foods and junk foods. After that junk free week, you eat a couple slices of pizza. Because you have been eating so well, you’ll probably feel ill and get a stomachache. A colonic would most likely clear that right up. If you were to eat the pizza again after doing that colonic, you may even get more sick then before, because you are even cleaner now then the first time you ate the pizza. This yo-yoing between really good and poor diet can prove to be harmful. Raw Spirit gives more explanation about why it is better to move gradually and consistently, or not at all.

 

Colonics are powerful healing aids and can catapult your body to the next level. Your body will be free of waste buildup, allowing it to work on deeper levels of healing like your internal chemistry. If you returned to the Standard American Diet, you would eventually end up right back where you started.

 

Waste removal is crucial for ultimate health. Most people look at me and estimate my age as early 20s, when in fact I am almost 31 years old. I owe my youth and glow to colonics, leaving things out of my diet completely, and drinking green vegetable juices. Drinking vegetable juice is very important. Not only does it provide us the best nourishment by giving us vitamins and minerals in the most soluble, easily absorbed form, it also acts as a powerful alkalizer. It helps alkalize the acidic endogenous material being released into our blood. If you combine a Raw Food Diet, colonics, and vegetable juices, your body will immediately respond with astonishing results.