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All About Cleansing – Our First of Four 10-day Cleanses

Day 7 of Juice Feasting Cleanse

This year we are doing four 10-day cleanses, each timed with an equinox or solstice.

I’ve heard it’s good to cleanse 1 day for every year you have lived, and this year I will have gone around the sun 40 times. Woo hoo! In celebration I am honoring my body (and mind) with some self-designed cleanses … so of course I’m going to share them with you.

My mate Dan is choosing to go on this journey with me because, as he says, “I like to do what you do.” Also, since I’m the primary creator of delicious eats in our house, it’s easy for him to drink what I drink and it’s also easier for me to make juice for two than for one. I love how things have that way of working out wonderfully for us.

We are starting with the vernal (spring) equinox for our first cleanse. With the change of the seasons from winter into spring it’s natural to feel inspired to do a little spring cleaning – inside and outside of your body. I love what my friend Rick The Health Sleuth says about equinox cleansing:

“Equinoxes represent renewal as the seasons change; and the body’s internal clock recognizes them and proceeds to undertake its natural cleansing and detoxification processes during that time. The vernal equinox is an excellent time to do an herbal cleanse, juice feast, water fast, juice fast, kidney flush, liver and gallbladder flush, or whatever other detoxification process that one feels called to try.”

To help you intuit and decide what to incorporate into your next cleanse, I’ve described below (in this now quite long post/article!) what I think about some of the cleansing options I’m aware of, followed by the guidelines I used for our “2012 Vernal Equinox Cleanse”

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Salt Flush Digestive Tract Cleanse

SunFire Salt

I will soon be posting a big long article all about cleansing and realized I have not yet posted one of the simplest and easiest cleanses that can be done in half a day (if that). If you’ve never cleansed before, a great place to start is with this salt flush.

You can think of Salt Flushes as a “quarter colonic”. Where colonics only clean the colon, Salt Flushes clean stomach, small intestine and colon.

A Salt Flush (or Salt Wash) is:
1 Tbls. of Sun Fire Salt * mixed into
1 Quart warm water
Drink the whole quart immediately and stay near the bathroom!

Salt Washes give most people rapid, full elimination within 15-30 minutes. If no flush occurs, this may indicate a person is extremely salt deficient. In this case, I’d personally drink another quart of water and skip a day before my next Salt Wash. If no flushing occurs in a few days, some people increase up to 2 Tbsp or more of Sun Fire Salt.

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Clearing Sinus Infections

Here’s an interview I did with David Favor, creator of SunFire Super Foods, about his sure-fire method for clearing chronic sinus infections.

Here he shows how to use Balloon Sinuplasty or NCR (NeuroCranial Restructuring).

Watch on Youtube: http://youtu.be/NOEN_6kKAt0

Here’s the link mentioned for finding a practitioner near you: http://balloonsinuplasty.com/

We also talk about a Neti Pot for sinus maintenance.

I haven’t tried this yet since my sinuses have cleared simply from eating raw superfoods like Chocolate Bliss and plenty of Primal Digest Enzymes whenever I have any sinus inflammation occur. If you have chronic sinus infections, try the sinuplasty and let me know how it goes for you.

The Master Cleanse

Dan and I did the Master Cleanse and we feel great! It’s actually been over a month ago that we did it and I’m just now making the time to tell you about it (spring gardening took priority).

There’s lots of info available about the Master Cleanse. We have the book “The Master Cleanse” and apparently there’s a new version called “The Complete Master Cleanse” and a Peter Glickman book called “Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 days“. There are plenty of people blogging about their master cleanse experience, and there’s even a Master Cleanse Facebook group for peer support.

If you’re interested in doing a general cleanse for your body, losing weight somewhat quickly, stopping addictions (like foods, caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs), or just trying it out, here are our notes on how it worked for us and our tips to make it go easily. I’m not going to list the full instructions on how to make the special “lemonade” for the master cleanse – please get one of the books to get the full details on how to do the cleanse.

I should mention that this is really a stage 3 of my body cleansing experiments. As Stage 1 I’ve been consuming Chocolate Bliss and other raw superfoods regularly for the last year and a half. Because of that stage 1 transition I’ve been able to stop caffeine entirely, stop eating meat, dramatically reduce my intake of processed foods (I still have good quality potato chips now and then), eat more vegetables, and let go of quite a bit of excess fat on my body. In Stage 2 I got interested in cleansing my body even further, so I did a series of Liver & Gallbladder Cleanses. I’m glad that I did the liver cleanse 2nd because I had started doing an MMS Cleanse that was too extreme for my liver.

The Master Cleanse was stage 3 for me simply because that’s when it came into my awareness and my body intelligence said “yes, let’s do this now”. I think the Master Cleanse is easy enough to do as a stage 1 on a cleansing journey, though you may find you have more detox reactions than I did simply because I’ve been cleaning up my diet for the last year and a half. Nevertheless, since the cleanse is letting your body do its own cleaning (rather than forcing cleansing with supplements), it seems a safe way to start cleaning house.

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Here are our tips on how to make it even more easy:

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Stopping Migraines With Food

I don’t get migraines, but I’ve run across a few people who do, so I thought I’d share what has worked for them.

Here’s what my friend Mae says:

“When I have that heavy or painful feeling starting I take these for a few days. I use the Transformation brand: 2 ExcellZymes, 3 CalmZymes (sometimes I only do 2 (I am small), 1 Protease IFC. So far this has been an awesome remedy for me. I have been using more of the CalmZymes on a regular basis and it helps me be more relaxed and I believe my muscles stay less tense.”

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ExcellZyme

And here are the website links I found for the products she recommends:

http://www.enzymes.com/excellzyme.html

http://www.enzymes.com/calmzyme.html

http://www.enzymes.com/tpp_inflammatory_control.html

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Another friend found that using all three enzymes on a regular basis worked best for her. Just like anything, it’s best if you experiment and customize it for you.

I’ve also heard that migraines can often be caused from liver issues – that the liver is unable to process all the toxins in the body and so they float around in the bloodstream which can particularly hurt in the smaller capillaries around your head.

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So, of course a liver cleanse would be a good idea. Here’s my post where I talk about the liver cleanse I did:

Results of My First Liver Cleanse

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And I highly suggest the book The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse by Andreas Moritz. It’ll walk you through the whole process and it’s very easy.

Also, for all the people with migraines I’ve talked to, adding Chocolate Bliss to their daily diet has helped. Perhaps that’s because Bliss will gradually and gently detox you and all those toxins floating around in your sensitive head capillaries. Plus, it’s nice to have some soothing, good-for-you chocolate to drink when you’re not feeling your best.

Hope that helps all your headaches. And let me know if you find any other awesome solutions!

Results of My First Liver Cleanse

I hope I don’t gross you out. I’m fascinated by what my body produces even though these little babies were clogging up my system.

Here’s a pic of the gallstones I just released in my first liver cleanse:

That’s a penny for comparison.

I’ve actually done a liver cleanse once before, about a year ago, but I didn’t follow all the instructions and didn’t get anything out.

This time I followed the instructions to the letter in the new book The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse. I guess drinking the Epsom Salts made all the difference. And all that apple juice the week before.

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Did it hurt?

Nope. I had a bit of a headache the day of the cleanse and I laid low, reading my book and watching movies, but nothing hurt while it was coming out. That’s the beauty of drinking apple juice before the cleanse – it softens up the gallstones.

Would you do it again?

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