Cleansing and Detoxification: Spring Cleansing Strategies

Spring is the season of renewal and rebirth.

The earth comes to life again after a long winter off.

Flowers begin to bloom; trees begin to get leaves.

Your body begins to come alive and awake again after a winter of slow-down.

A great way to shed the sluggishness of winter and add some spring to your step is by doing a spring cleaning of your insides.

Reducing the Toxic Load

An effective cleansing plan must start with what I call “reducing the toxic load”.  No matter how many special detox teas you drink or potions or pills you take, if you don’t reduce the toxic load, both during the cleanse and afterward, your success will be short lived.

During a cleanse, you need to eliminate toxic chemicals in food, water and in the air.  If you decide to follow a cleanse regime that does not involve cleaning up your diet and environment, you are unlikely to see lasting results.  Once you stop the cleansing supplements, your body will soon return to the toxic state it was in when you started.

Foods to avoid while cleansing include all processed foods (just about everything that comes in a box, can, or bag); oils (with the exceptions perhaps of cold pressed olive, coconut, or flax oil); plus wheat, gluten, sugar, dairy, eggs, soy, corn, and peanuts. These last foods are all potential allergens or digestive irritants and thus can thwart the cleansing process.

An effective detox diet plan must also eliminate foods that are difficult to digest like high fat foods, starches, and complex recipes containing a combination of starch or sugar and fat.

Choose the Cleanse That’s Right For You

There as many effective cleansing plans as there are cleansers. That’s why on my Energy Recharge Green Cleanse I offer guidelines and ways to customize. Those who are ready to dive in head first follow Option A, which is the most rigorous plan, while others opt for some variation of B and C, which allow for more flexibility in meal planning.

When I first started my Energy Recharge Green Cleanse (ERGC) back in January 2008, there were very few online cleanses.

Now there are dozens, each one with its own special twist on the cleansing process. Some are food only; many involve a variety of products. A few, like my ERGC, are fully supported and include several support calls and a forum. My ERCG is one of the very few that includes daily journals that allow you to get feedback and support.

Regardless of how you get supported, I feel it’s critical to the success of your cleanse to have a support system in place. It’s a rare person that’s so dedicated and disciplined as to be able to engage successfully in a cleanse and see it through to the end with its emotional ups and downs, temptations to quit, and unpredictable effects in terms of detoxification symptoms.

Learning More About Detox Symptoms

On my blog talk radio show episode, Cleansing and Detoxification Strategies for Spring I discuss the concept of “detox symptoms” — what they are, and why they happen.

I also talk about the pros and cons of a variety of cleansing methods, including fasting, juicing, blending, potions and pills, and just eating whole fresh foods for cleansing so you can determine what’s right for you.

There are some foods that are especially good for cleansing. On the show, I went into detail about my top 5 favorite detox foods. These are described below.

There are many cleanses on the market today. There are potions and pills and herbal remedies. While these sorts of cleanses can be very effective, they can also be complicated and expensive.

I personally prefer food based cleanses.

On my blog talk radio show episode, Cleansing and Detoxification Strategies for Spring I discuss the concept of “detox symptoms”, what they are and why they happen.

I also talk about the pros and cons of a variety of cleansing methods, including fasting, juicing, blending, potions and pills and just eating whole fresh foods for cleansing so you can determine what’s right for you.  There are some foods that are especially good for cleansing.  On the show, I went into detail about my top 5 favorites.  These are also described below.

There are many cleanses on the market today. There are potions and pills and herbal remedies. While these sorts of cleanses can be very effective, they can also be complicated and expensive.

I personally prefer food based cleanses.

My Top 5 Cleansing Foods

Dandelion

Dandelion is a common “weed” that grows abundantly on lawns, in fields and along highways.  It’s known for the wispy sprays that top the stem after the flower dies away.  As I kid, I loved to blow on them.  It was said to be good luck if you could blow all the wisps away with one breath.

I later came to discover that dandelions are one of nature’s most powerful plants.  They are part of the sunflower family, another of my favorite plants growing up.

There are about 100 species of dandelion.  The entire plant is an effective cleanser.

The root is a common ingredient in detox teas and it stimulates the bile and liver.  It also acts as a diuretic and stimulates the release of toxins via your urine.

The leaves are cleansing and nourishing additions to salads, smoothies and soups.  A little goes a long way.  The bitter flavor stimulates the release of stomach acid and bile, which is why herbalists call dandelion a hepatic.

It’s also considered an aperient (gently moves the bowels), diuretic (makes you pee), tonic, and stomachic. It is useful with all kinds of conditions involving kidney, liver, gallbladder and inflammation of the bowels. The fresh root is good for helping with gallstones, jaundice, alcoholism, hepatitis, scurvy, and especially enlargement of the liver and spleen. Dandelion is also a tonic for female reproductive congestion.

 Burdock Root (Arctium lappa)

Burdock is a powerful detoxifier. It’s also a delicious food that can be added to soups, salads, stews, smoothies and stir-fries.

It’s considered by herbalists to be a deep cleaner for it stimulates the release of toxins through sweat, urine and feces.   It can also help lower your blood pressure.  In Healing with Whole Foods Paul Pitchford writes, “(Burdock) is a virtual cure-all for conditions of excess, and significantly purifies the blood while reducing fat and regulating blood sugar.”

In the West, burdock is known to cleanse the blood, and is useful in situations such as exposure to environmental toxins such as cigarette smoke or air pollution, heavy metals such as mercury, lead or arsenic, and chronic bacterial or viral infections.

In macrobiotic tradition, a popular way to use burdock is cut into match stick sized pieces with equal parts carrot and sautéed in sesame oil.  The resulting dish, called kinpura, is considered a deeply cleansing food.

 Avocados

We rarely think of avocados as a cleansing food but these nutritional powerhouses lower cholesterol and dilate blood vessels while blocking artery-destroying toxicity.

Avocados contain a nutrient called “glutathione”, a potent antioxidant enzyme that is used by your liver in phase 2 detoxification reactions.

According to the human genome project research, glutathione tends to be low due to genetics in almost 50% of the population due to a single nucleotide polymorphism (an alteration in a gene).  The enzyme glutathione-S-transferase, responsible for making glutathione, is missing or deficient in close to 50% of the population.

Glutathione is a master antioxidant that’s important for detoxification of synthetic chemicals, for blocking at least thirty different carcinogens and for increasing the activity of the most important aspect of liver detoxification, the phase 2 cytochrome P450 system.

 Cruciferous Vegetables and Leafy Greens

The foods in this detox category include kale, collard greens, dandelion, arugula, spinach, chard, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, broccoli sprouts and Brussels sprouts and many more.

Green foods are powerful allies in cleansing your liver by providing a plethora of minerals, antioxidants and cofactors that support liver detox pathways.  Greens are abundant in chlorophyll which has the ability to suck up environmental toxins from your blood stream and neutralize heavy metals, chemicals and pesticides. They are also cleansing to your colon as they provide an abundance of fiber to “sweep” your digestive tract clean.

Crucifers and leafy greens can be eaten raw, cooked or juiced. They can be blended to make smoothies, soups and salad dressings, marinated, processed with nuts and seeds to make crackers and bread, and eaten whole, dipped in guacamole or a healthy dip.  Leafy greens make tasty wraps, a cleansing alternative to tortillas, pita bread, sandwich bread and other popular grain based processed wraps and tortilla shells.

Bitter greens like arugula, dandelion greens, mustard greens and chicory help increase the creation and flow of bile and aid in the removal of waste from your organs and blood.

Turmeric

Turmeric is a bitter spice used extensively in East Indian cooking.  It contains a chemical constituent called “curcumin” that helps cleanse your liver, purify your blood, and promote good digestion and elimination. It stimulates your gallbladder to produce bile and scavenges free radicals. The spice is aromatic and has a bitter taste. The plant, which grows five to six feet tall, is found in tropical regions throughout Southern Asia; its fingerlike stalk contains the spice’s healing agents.

Turmeric has been shown to be a potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer agent.  It has been shown to increase two very important liver detoxification enzymes, UDP glucuronyl transferase and glutathione-S-transferase.  Turmeric has also been found to inhibit free radical damage of fats and, prevent the formation of the inflammatory chemical cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2).

When rats were fed curcumin, the active constituent of turmeric, for 14 days, glutathione-S-transferase production increased by 16%, and a marker of free radical damage called malondialdehyde decreased by 36%.

Turmeric looks similar to ginger, except that it’s bright orange and the roots are smaller.  It’s what gives curry its characteristic bright yellow color.

The Energy Recharge Green Cleanse

My Energy Recharge Green Cleanse is a food based cleanse, although you can supplement with detox herbs and formulas if desired, but it’s not required.

Whether you live in a small town in the Midwest or a bustling metropolitan area, you have access to grocery stores and can get an abundance of fresh produce. That’s all you need, along with a blender, to do my Energy Recharge Green Cleanse.

We currently have over 100 people ready to begin their cleanse on Monday. They’ve been busily preparing by simplifying their food choices and increasing their green foods.

It’s not too late to join!

The spring 2012 Energy Recharge Green Cleanse begins on Monday, April 23rd.

It includes recipes, menu plans, recordings and support calls for guidance and detailed instructions.  There’s a community forum to provide support and accountability, as well as a sharing of recipes and resources.

Click HERE for details and to decide if the Energy Recharge Green Cleanse is just what you need to sweep out the cobwebs and jumpstart your body into vibrant health.  And a side benefit is a flatter belly, a clearer mind and enough energy for all the things you love.

I look forward to getting to know you during the next Energy Recharge Green Cleanse.

Love, Health and Joy,

Dr. Ritamarie

P.S.  As a bonus when you register for the Energy Recharge Green Cleanse you’ll also get three months of ongoing support from me through our Eat Green be Lean Community.

Click HERE to get details and join in.

Super Cleanse Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 3/4 bunch of parsley with some stems
• 1 handful arugula
• 1 handful kale
• 1 handful broccoli sprouts
• 3 leaves dandelion greens
• 1/4-inch slice turmeric
• 1/2-inch slice ginger
• 1-inch slice burdock root
• 1/2 – 1 avocado, peeled and pitted
• 1 green apple, cored (optional)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 stalks celery
• 1 teaspoon milk thistle seed powder (optional)
• enough water to blend

Directions:

Blend and enjoy.

Hot and Cleansing Liver Juice

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch kale
• 3 leaves dandelion
• 1 cucumber
• 1 small sliver of fresh turmeric (or 1/4 teaspoon dried)
• 1 lemon, juice of
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 green onions (scallions)
• 1 handful broccoli sprouts
• 1 pinch cayenne
• 3-inch piece of burdock root

Directions:

Run all the ingredients above through a juicer.

Benefits to the Body:

This juice is the ideal liver cleanser.  It’s stimulating and does powerful work to keep your liver functioning at its best.

Gratitude Weekend: Celebrate Your Health with Raw Food Recipes and Health Enhancing Resources

Traditionally the day after Thanksgiving has been called “Black Friday”. Although I understand the meaning, as it’s a day when businesses traditionally go “in the black” because of the flood of consumer buying activity, still I’m not fond of the name and I prefer to name our post-Thanksgiving Day sale something more in line with the theme of the holiday it follows. So this year, I decided to offer a “Gratitude Weekend” sale, filled with very special offers of products and services to empower you to be healthy and vibrant throughout the holiday season. The average person gains extra pounds of fat during this season, because food surrounds us at every turn. Yesterday, as I watched my relatives consume processed, nutrient depleted, and dangerous to their health foods without thought about how it affects their “bottom line”, I started thinking about ways to reach the masses with the message that their food choices are hurting them. So today, I am taking away some of the barriers. I’m offering some huge savings on my e-book and recipe collections, many of which educate about the dangers of the usual processed ingredients in favorite holiday and “treat” foods. Read on for details of my “Gratitude Weekend” sale. You’ll see 5 special sales! Enjoy these special offers through the end of the weekend. Order Today and Win! 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Here’s what Special #5 includes: Harness the magic of blended greens to increase your strength, energy, and vitality! What if there was a method of cleansing that was quick, easy, affordable, fun and effective, left you feeling satiated and energized, and could be shared with a group of like-minded people to support you through it? The Energy Recharge Green Cleanse has all the components you need to become more energetic, vibrant, and strong. There are delicious green recipes and menu planners, daily e-mail messages, support calls, a community forum, and countless bonus features to optimize your results. You’ll also receive 3 months of free post-cleanse support in the Eat Green Be Lean Club! This program is the result of hundreds of hours of research, recipe development, and one-on-one coaching. You get a full week of support and continued access to the forum for ongoing community and connection. Register now, and for our “Gratitude Weekend” special, you can invite a friend for free! 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Personalizing Your Health and Nutrition: What You Need to Know About Biochemical Individuality

- by Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo

When it comes to health and nutrition, why are there so many conflicting recommendations?

The answer?  Biochemical individuality.

How well do you understand your unique body chemistry and the choices that make the most sense for you?

I recorded this video earlier in the year.  In the video I describe biochemical individuality and how we all need to discover for ourselves what works best for us.

Click HERE to learn more about the Assess Your Own Body Chemistry program!

Flatten Your Belly with Simple and effective summer cleansing smoothie strategies

As I get ready for my quarterly Green Smoothie Cleanse, I’ve been pondering the concept of time.

Somehow it seems there is never quite enough time to complete all I would like to do.One way I buy back some time is by doing cleanses.  That may seem like a strange comment.

Let me explain

Have you ever calculated how much time it takes you to plan meals, make meals, eat meals and clean up after meals?  There is a bit of a time investment.  Even if you’re eating out a lot, thinking you don’t have the time to prepare your own meals, the time savings is not that as great as you think, considering you have to drive to a restaurant, order the food, wait for it to arrive, eat it, pay for it and drive home.  Even the fast food drive through concept takes time, and unless you eat while driving, there’s still the time it takes to chew your meal.

Some cleanses save time, some require additional time.

Water fasts require the least amount of time at all.  No prep, no cleanup.  The problem with water fasts is that your metabolism slows down and you can’t quite accomplish all that you might when you’re eating.  The good news about fasting is that your appetite goes away after about four days.

Juice cleanses are the most time consuming, especially if you’re dedicated to drinking the 3-4 quarts a day of juice generally recommended to cleanse effectively.  It takes me the better part of an hour per quart to prepare the foods for juicing, juice and cleanup.  Juicing is similar to water fasting in that your metabolism slows down and different in that you feel hungry all the time.  My experience is that my appetite doesn’t go away after four days as with fasting.  The lower energy makes me less productive.

Cleanses that require potions and powders, enemas and other cleansing rituals are very effective but it’s very time consuming to make all the potions, do the enemas and cleansing rituals, meditate  and rest in between as suggested.  I once read about a cleanse that sounded great, and I was all ready to begin.  Unfortunately it required several enemas a day, cleansing baths, skin brushing and other rituals, in addition to special teas, drinks and foods.  The only way I could have done it was to take time off.

Of course, the most effective cleansing occurs when you take a break from your day to day and dedicate your time to the cleansing process.  I did 28 day supervised water fast once. I was at a health center and all I did was drink water, rest, walk a bit and read.  It changed my life.  I highly recommend that everyone take a month to cleanse sometime.  It’s the best.

Unfortunately, not everyone has that opportunity, so we fit periodic cleansing into our day to day routine.

That’s why my current cleanse of choice is a green smoothie cleanse.  It may not be as deep a cleanse as a water or juice fast, but it certainly has amazing results.

Every 3 months, I take a 7 day break from chewing and fats and I drink green smoothies
morning, noon and night.  I have plenty of energy to work, exercise and enjoy my family.  I save precious hours of food prep, chewing and cleanup.  Smoothies are easy to make, quick to clean up after and take a lot less time to consume than the equivalent quantity of fresh produce would take to eat.

When you make them as I suggest, between 40 and 60% green and 40 – 60% fruit, they provide an abundance of minerals, amino acids and anti-oxidants.  Leaving out the fat gives you’re a liver a break and allows it to devote more cycles to cleansing.

I lead my very first online green smoothie cleanse about 4 years ago, informally with about 25 people.  It was so successful I created an official program with recipes, menu plans, shopping lists and lots of bonuses.

It’s evolved now to a full website with videos, audios, a support forum, bonuses, and daily journals and coaching questions.

I’m getting ready to lead another cleanse starting Monday, and I am so ready.

This cleanse will be a bit different for me in that I’ll be in Tucson, staying at my sister’s house.  She’s done my Green Cleanse before, and she’s excited that she’ll get to do it with me in person.

We kick off on Monday evening, with a teleseminar called:

“The Art of Cleansing with Greens- Putting Your Best Food First to Get Started “

Later in the week we’ll have a teleseminar called “Gut Healing Secrets” and I’ll do some Spotlight Coaching and answer your questions.

Our last teleseminar of the cleanse is “Eating Healthy in The Real World: Tips and Tricks for Taming Emotional and Social Eating and Living in a Body You Love”

The cleanse includes full access the calls and all the materials, coaching, recipes and guidance of for a full  7 days.

For a limited time, we’re including these extra bonuses:

Early Bonus 1: Eliminate the Gluten and Accelerate Your Health – a special report containing information and inspiration packed articles, recipes and foods to avoid lists for gluten free diets.

Early Bonus 2: Balancing Your Hormones Recording -  A 90 minute audio class in mp3 format containing diet and lifestyle tips for optimal weight, vibrant energy, strength, stamina, and joyful longevity.

Early Bonus 3: Balancing Your Hormones Power Point Presentation – A pdf file containing the slides that accompany the 90 minute audio class.

Early Bonus 4: Balancing Your Hormones e-book – Complete written transcripts of the entire 90 minute Balancing Your Hormones audio, as an e-book in PDF format.

Please comment below and answer these questions:

Have you ever cleansed?  If so, what’s your favorite way?

Love, Health and Joy,

Dr. Ritamarie

Diet and Detox Rollercoaster – Strategies for Enjoying the Ride

Have you ever felt like you’re on a roller coaster when it comes to your diet and your never ending quest to cleanse and detoxify?

Fact of the matter is, the information on diets and cleansing programs is very confusing! And the more you read and study, the more confusing it becomes.

I for one am not a fan of wild claims and miracle cures. What I’ve discovered in my almost 2 decades of changing lives through diet and detoxification is a closely guarded secret in the nutrition field….

Are you ready for it?

There is no one plan that works for everyone!

…not raw foods, not fasting, not juicing, not medical food powders, not the cranberry juice flush, or liver flushes or macrobiotics or…..fill in the blank.

As much as I’d like it to be so, ’cause it would make my job a lot easier, I have yet to find any one thing that across the board works for everyone straight “out of he box” . It would be nice if we were all cookie cutter perfect, but the truth is we’re not.

Just as you look different than me on the outside, there are subtle differences between us on the inside. What that translates to is simply that even if we follow the same program to the letter, your results will most likely be different than mine.

That said, how can you possibly know how to best cleanse and detoxify, drop the extra pounds of cellulite and hormone rich belly fat, build lean muscle mass and feel great?

That’s what I’ll be sharing with you on a very special call I’m doing this coming Wednesday with Tera Warner. Tera is a master at getting inside your head and asking the questions that press heaviest on your mind, then asking me in a way that simplifies even the most complex topics.

If you have been circulating in diet and detox corners, and you’re not sure what to think about it all or who to believe, you’ll definitely want to tune in and get your questions answered on this call!

Get Off the Diet & Detox Rollercoaster!

A Crash-Course on How to Safely & Effectively Cleanse & Detoxify Your Body

Wednesday, May 12, 2010
3pm EST
(2pm Central, 1pm Mountain, Noon Pacific)

Sign up for this crash-course on the fundamentals of detox while the season is ripe for renewal and cleansing!

You’ll Discover the Answers to these Questions and More:

• Do you need to fast or starve yourself in order to detox?
• What are the dangers of gallbladder and liver “flushes”?
• Is detoxification dangerous?
• Isn’t eating raw food enough to detox?
• How Safe and Effective is the “Master Cleanse” and why?
• Does fruit cause Candida?

With the answers to these questions under your belt, you can:

• Give your digestive tract a long-awaited rest.
• Decrease the toxic burden on your liver and gallbladder.
• Improve your body’s built-in detoxification mechanisms.
• Release extra fat and fluid weight.
• Reduce your cravings.
• Increase your energy and productivity.
• Get in control of your eating habits.
• Improve your digestion and assimilation of nutrients.

Sign up to get access to this exclusive teleseminar and bust the myths that have been holding you back from health!

http://www.drritamarie.com/go/DetoxCall

I look forward to talking with you on Wednesday .

Love, Health and Joy,

Dr. Ritamarie