With all this incredible knowledge you now have regarding nutrition and how important fasting is to our gut microbiome, we must make you aware of toxins and how just how dangerous they are to us. We live in a time where there are more toxins in our environment than any other time in history. Toxins can present themselves in a lot of different places. We are exposed to toxins every day and most of us don’t even think twice about them, but you should!
David (Avocado) Wolfe has said “We are not sick as a nation, we are Tox-Sick as a species”. When it comes to your overall health and longevity, detoxification is more important than your nutrition! Think about that for a second. You can be doing all the right things, exercising every day, eating right, getting plenty of sleep and sunlight, but if you are building up a toxic environment in your body you are going to have serious consequences down the road.
It has also been said that you are not what you eat but what you can absorb, meaning if you do not have the ability to absorb the nutrients you are consuming, well….it just goes in one end out the other end. Toxins can interfere with, or completely block, biochemical pathways in your gut making nutrient absorption less than optimal. So, no matter how well you are eating, your body will then be left deficient in many micro and macronutrients leaving your systems sluggish, unable to run efficiently, leading to all kinds of metabolic problems.
Toxins also damage enzymes and thus undermine countless bodily functions like inhibiting the production of hemoglobin in the blood or lowering the body’s capacity to prevent free radical damage. Once inside the body, these toxic chemicals can interfere with our ability to balance blood sugar and metabolize cholesterol. Overtime, this can have a huge impact on insulin and can also play a role in insulin resistance. The skin, lungs, kidney, colon, and liver are your body’s main pathways of detoxification and elimination. Ideally, they are built to filter and remove waste from the body. But modern living can clog these pathways making it harder for your body to efficiently process waste. From the polluted air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the foods we eat and all the artificial light we are exposed to, we have toxins coming at us, and into us, from all angles. Even the soaps we are washing our bodies with, the perfumes we are wearing, the air fresheners we have in our homes, the mercury that is in our dental fillings and the fluoride found in our water systems, pollutes our bodies.
We are hardest hit with the foods we eat! On a western diet, our foods are running rampant with polyunsaturated fats (PUFA’s). We buy fruits and vegetables that are genetically modified and have been sprayed with pesticides. You will find mycotoxins (mold) on the corn, coffee & grains you buy, and almost all the seafood we eat has heavy metals in it.
All these different kinds of toxins start to accumulate within our bodies and unfortunately a favorite dumping spot for them are within vital organs and our body fat. Once they settle in, they become serious troublemakers damaging enzymes and undermining many of our bodily functions. For example, toxins lower the body’s capacity to prevent free-radical damage that accelerates aging and leads to cancer. Toxins displace structural minerals resulting in weaker bones, inflammation, and obesity. Other conditions include diarrhea, coughing, erectile disfunction, depression, suicidal tendencies, anxiety, mood swings, memory problems, excessive urination, brain fog, chronic fatigue, joint pain, and many other chronic health problems. These all are your first signs something is going on and they are insidious. You start out with just one of these problems, and overtime they begin to stack on top of each other. Doctors today quite frankly are not trained on how to treat mold or toxic poisoning, let alone how to identify the symptoms. You must take precautionary measures into your own hands. Our bodies are incredible machines and have their own built-in mechanisms to detox, but just like your car, if you are putting in leaded gas and not changing out the oil or gas filters regularly, things will start to get clogged up and eventually break down. When your body gets backed up like this, it has a hard time keeping up with everyday processes and it too will eventually breakdown. Living in a western society, we must give our bodies help by taking extra measures to avoid excessive toxin build up and to minimize their damage with a daily detox regiment. The good news is, it’s easier to do then you might think!
What is Detoxing?
When you think of the word detox you may be thinking about someone dealing with a drug or alcohol addiction. In the context of a radically healthy diet and lifestyle, the term detox holds a significant and different meaning. Simply put, detoxification is the process of cleansing your body of toxic elements and preventing new ones from entering. The body has four main exit routes for toxins: pee, poop, perspiration and pranayama, aka breath. Every moment of every day, your body is relying on these 4-Ps to excrete and eliminate toxins. Drinking lots of water, getting plenty of sleep, doing yoga, meditation and exercise are some great ways to help your body to detox, but in these modern-day toxic times, we need just a little more help.
How can I start a detox protocol?
There are so many detox protocols out there. By incorporating a couple of the below protocols, you can assist your body’s own filtering systems to run smoother every day.
Fasting-This is the #1 recommended way to detox and heal the body. Fasting gives your body the ability to do a major clean up. Now that the energy it normally uses for digestion is freed up, your body can now use that extra energy for cellular clean up and removing free radicals in your body.
Activated Coconut Charcoal- If there is one detox strategy you can implement daily and right away it would be this. Activated charcoal is one of the best and easiest ways to remove heavy metals from your body. When you think about most water filters, what is it that pulls the metals out? Its charcoal. It is also used to filter blood when one must have dialysis. Activated charcoal produces an affect called interstitial dialysis, a blood cleaning activity that attracts highly positively charged ions within the body, namely heavy metals, and binds them to the charcoal. Charcoal can hold 100 times its weight in toxins without affecting our bodies necessary micronutrients. Just one pill of activated coconut charcoal has a negatively charged surface area the size of a soccer field.
Juicing-Juice cleansing can support the body’s natural detox process by clearing the diet of caffeine, refined sugar, processed foods, and other substances that can deplete energy. You will be feeding your body a vast amount of nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables. Nutrients like phytochemical and antioxidants will be absorbed more easily by the body. Your body will then kick into overdrive to remove toxins and start to build newer, healthier tissues. To optimize nutrient absorption, it is recommended that you drink juice slowly rather than gulping it down. Before starting any juice cleanse, it is best to bring your body down to a more alkaline state doing a “pre cleanse” to remove acidic forming foods prior to starting your juice fast. To do this requires temporary removal of alcohol, dairy products, refined sugars, caffeine, and processed foods for about 2 weeks. Of all juices to choose from, regarding detoxification, CELERY juice is at the top of the list. This juice is unparalleled for healing and detoxification because of the Sodium Cluster Salts within the celery. These good, specialized salts remove crystallized bad toxic salts that have been in your organs for years. Celery Juice can also kill off fungal bacterial and viral overgrowth.
Detox Herbs-Nature is abundant with herbs that have a wide range of healing properties, many of which are perfect for detoxification. Modern science has revealed that many of these herbs, such as clove, wormwood, black walnut, lemon peel, dandelion, burdock, nettle, schisandra and red clover have a special affinity to support the natural function of our inherent detoxification systems. These herbs can be taken in pill form or also made into teas.
Getting Reconnected with Nature-Get plenty of morning sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and ground your feet to mother earth. Nature provides us with a beautiful way to help us to rid ourselves of free radicals and to put us into a state of homeostasis. (See chapter 7 part II- reconnecting with nature)
Purium’s Ultimate Lifestyle Transformation – Purium offers a four-way cleanse. This is the best all-around cleanse on the market today. It starts off by moving your body from an acidity to alkalinity state. Next it removes glyphosate from tissues. This is revolutionary and is the only product on the market that not only removes glyphosate from tissues but has also been aware the “Gold Seal Award” by the Detox Project. The third phase of Purium’s ULT Cleanse, eliminates heavy metals and mycotoxins from your system. The fourth and final phase of this cleanse will rid the body of yeast and parasites.
Other ways to help you detox
- Infrared sauna
- Red-Light Therapy
- (RUG-remove unwanted guests) A David Wolfe product
- Incorporating an extended 48+ hours Fasting
- Eat dates
- Implement chlorella, spirulina, and barley grass into your diet
- Stay hydrated
- Get plenty of sleep
- Dry brushing and exfoliation
- Get adequate sunlight (especially morning sun) exposure
- Colonics
- Hot Yoga
A Quick Word on Glyphosate and GMO’s
With what we know about the gut being so important to brain health, we have to take a moment here to discuss the dangers of Glyphosate and the severe damage it will cause to your gut and its health. Glyphosate is an herbicide that is commonly known as Roundup. It is an herbicide and crop desiccant. It has one job and one job only. That is to destroy any microbiome in and around a plant. It is so destructive that even the plant cannot survive unless it is genetically modified. It is the most used herbicide in the USA. This industry fundamentally changed the foods that we eat. The effect it has on our gut microbiome is frightening! With upwards of 100 million tons used annually, it is no surprise that glyphosate has found its way into almost all of our food supply to include fruits, vegetables, grains, all animal products, eggs, milk and even wine. There are many ways in which glyphosate negatively affects your body such as leaky gut, inflammation, destruction of the microbiome, auto immune disease, celiac disease, fertility problems, depression, anxiety, and cancer, but studies have shown that our next generation of offspring and even our third generation will suffer disastrous consequences! When Roundup is sprayed onto our food supply, the first thing it does is act like an antibiotic in the soil and it kills off any microbiome in and around the plant. Unfortunately, and horrifically, it is not something we can wash off or cook out of our food. It is now in the flesh of the tomato, corn, soybean, or whatever it has comes into contact with. It also becomes integrated into our foods water structure. When this molecule hits our gut microbiome, it acts like a poisonous antibiotic and attacks the microbial diversity within the intestines. We now know that this destruction of the microbiome is the beginning of chronic disease. The dangers of Roundup are finally being recognized around the world and is now being banned in most countries. To make matters worse, as Roundup wipes out the bacteria and fungi in our plant-based foods, we are also compromising the health of the animals we consume. Factory farmed livestock fed corn and soy products, concentrate glyphosate in their flesh, further contaminating the food chain.
GMOS
A GMO (genetically modified organism) is an animal, plant, or microbe whose DNA has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. These live genetically modified organisms are artificially manipulated and encoded into our food supply. Glyphosate is so deadly that most crops cannot survive when treated with Roundup. So, for these crops to survive, they had to be genetically modified. When you consume a genetically modified plant-based food, it is infused with a trojan horse, glyphosate and wreaks havoc on your gut microbiome.
In the USA, 88% of the corn crop, 94% of cotton, 93% of the soybean crop, 90% of sugar beets (which accounts for over half of all sugar production) are GMO and sprayed heavily with glyphosate to control weeds. The worst offenders are sugar, soy, wheat, rice, and corn. However, a staggering 95.9% of cherry fruit/juice and 90.8% of apples tested positive for glyphosate.
Dr. Zach Bush who is an authority on this topic has said in a recent interview.
“Glyphosate is, in my mind, certainly the most damaging chemical we have on the planet right now. There is so much talk about mercury in our fillings, vaccines, and all of these other things that get a lot of press, but after five years of running a basic science laboratory evaluating this chemical, there is zero question in my mind, that it is the single biggest problem we have threatening human health today”
-Zach Bush, MD
LifeSpanners Aging Forward – “DETOXING” Quick Tips
Quick Tips:
Everybody needs to detox. But some more than others. Each one of us will have different experiences when detoxing and those experiences will come with different symptoms. As a rule, the more toxic the body is, or the more years of toxic habits that have been accumulated, the more intense and uncomfortable the detox healing process will be. Initially you may notice an acute worsening of any current symptoms you may have. This is normal as the body begins to remove the sludge out and begins to heal itself. You may feel worse before you start to feel better. But don’t quit! During a detox, the toxins being released from your body may have been trapped in the cells, liver, or gallbladder for years, in some cases decades! You might feel like you are getting sick, but you will be okay. These intense symptoms you may feel, are necessary as the toxins move out of your body.
Quick Tip #1 -When starting an elongated detox cleanse, reduce your intense exercise. Instead focus on walking or yoga because you don’t want to over strain or stress out your body as it is fighting to remove these poisons from your body.
Quick Tip #2- For most, doing a 4-week herbal detox cleanse combined with a water or juice fast may suffice. However, others, who may suffer with chronic asthma, will most definitely want to remove things like aerosol hair spray, perfumes or colognes that are not organically based. Instead of a chemical air freshener, opt for lighting Nag Champa incense in the room.
Quick Tip #3 -A daily detox routine anyone can do, and should be implemented right away, is with Activated Coconut Charcoal. Start with 1 tablet a day and work your way up to 4 or 5.
Quick Tip #4-Remember your four P’s. Those are to Pee, Poop, Perspire and Pranayama breath. You must do all four daily.
Quick Tip #5-Hydrate. Drink more water than you usually do. Adding salt to your water will help move toxins out as they shake loose from your liver, kidneys, and pancreas. Natures solution to pollution is dilution! Celery juice will help you to stay hydrated and has amazing anti-inflammatory benefits. The salt in celery is suspended in living water and become cluster salts. These cluster salts defuse the charge of heavy metal toxins within the body disarming them. Millions of people swear by it healing powers. One day science will catch up to this phenomenon, but just know that here is a huge difference between simply eating a stalk of celery, or drinking its juice by removing the fiber
Quick Tip #6-The best all-around and easiest Detox programs to follow, is the Purium Ultimate Lifestyle Transformation. It has a 2-week or 30-day detox program with step-by-step instructions. It removes heavy metals, toxins, free radicals, mycotoxins, glyphosate, and parasites. David Sandoval the founder of Purium is a visionary and founder of The Awaken Project and Author of The Toxin That Came to Dinner. His products are of the highest quality superfoods on the planet. Tens of thousands of people have used this program to get physically, mentally, and emotionally recharged.
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Detoxing your body is more important than your nutrition. The more you detox the more your body can reset back into homeostasis. This is such an important part of your LifeSpanners protocol, it makes detoxing your LifeSpanners #3 health hack.
Reads and Sees:
If you would like to learn more about detoxing, we highly recommend:
The Toxin That Came to Dinner -David Sandoval
Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management – Bernard Jenson, D.C., Ph.D., Nutritionist
David Avocado Wolfe has excellent information on YouTube regarding activated coconut charcoal and the benefits of detoxing.
Remember you are never alone on your LifeSpanners Fitness journey. We can always be reached to answer any questions you may have at lifespanners2100@outlook.com
