If you decide to live healthy you go for it! What are you craving lately? I was definitely hunting for chlorophyll today. After one week of amazing seafood in Galicia, I needed proper detoxification. Not because I have been eating bad quality… actually, the opposite was the case. But my body felt kind of overwhelmed with all that protein.

Have you ever had that feeling?

You might or might not know that chlorophyll, the blood of a plant is similar to the blood of humans. It only differs in one mineral, magnesium for the plant and iron for humans. To keep our blood flowing and free of toxins, we need the help of our plants’ blood (liquid).

Chlorophyll supports your body in the following ways:

• Stimulating the immune system
• Eliminating fungus in the body
• Detoxifying your blood
• Cleaning your intestines
• Getting rid of bad odors
• Energizing the body
• Preventing cancer

You will find it in green leafy vegetables.

Fresh arugula from the garden. Amazing in texture and taste. This plant is powerful, and its health benefits are:

🌱 Helps Reduce Inflammation in the Body

🌱 Cleans and detoxifies the body

🌱 Hydrating leafy green

🌱 Rich in Chlorophyll

🌱 Helps prevent cancer

🌱 Good for bone health

🌱 Weight loss

Currently, I’m engaging myself with cardiology – how to prevent a heart attack, stroke or arteriosclerosis and with endocrinology – how to balance your hormones.

When it comes to both, there are important pillars to consider. We are talking about the most common ones like exercise, good sleep, relaxation, stress management, thinking patterns, elimination of environmental toxins and Nutrition.

Nutrition’s Role in Disease Prevention

Nutrition is one of the most important pillars when it comes to prevention. It is not only important what you eat but what you digest and here lies the tricky part.

Our bodies are machines, highly complex systems. If one gear is not functioning right the whole system might get out of balance.

When it comes to digestion we are speaking about mucosa, stomach (acid), gut (bacteria), pancreas, gallbladder, liver and hormones. When we are getting older and lifestyle habits, stress or simply life happens we might have a dysfunction in one or more of those parts.

But also some Babies are already born with a disbalance since they for example will be provided with 50% of their mother’s microbiome (gut bacteria). When their mother was having dysbiosis it is most likely that she passed it on to her newborn child.

Improve Gut Immunity

To gain the benefits of natural, healthy nutrition to eliminate disease and for prevention, it is obligatory to clean & repair your body first.

As 80% of your immune system is located in the gut you want to start repairing and resetting your gut first. There are a few ways on how to do it. Unfortunately, it is not done by only taking psyllium, bentonite, and probiotics. You need to give it a proper clean first before you support him with any kind of supplements.

Can I Detox My Gut With Juice?

A natural way to detoxify your gut is with the help of a juice cleanse. Juice cleanses come with many benefits such as reducing inflammation, eliminating toxins, clearing the skin, supporting weight loss, and improving sleep. Truly rejuvenating, nourishing, and healing your body & mind.

The next juice cleanse is coming soon. Stay tuned!

How to prepare your body for a detox? A lot of people start to think about detoxifying their bodies at the beginning of the New Year. Might it be a New Years resolution to start in a healthy and powerful year, out of motivation to start something new or simply because you want to change certain habits to achieve a strong mind and body.

Whenever you think the time is right to give your body a detox here is some information how to start, what to consider and what should be implemented along the way.

Step To Prepare Your Body For A Detox

A clean, vital and nutrient-rich diet

The first step to preparing your body for detoxification is to adjust your diet to a natural and nutrient-rich one. While detoxifying your body needs a lot of strength and power to eliminate toxins.

You want to make sure to create a clean base and to nourish your body with nutrient-rich food at the same time to support and strengthen him whilst running through that process.

This can be achieved through nutrition, which is mainly alkaline and easy to digest. Your gut already starts to clean itself in a gentle way and your digestion will start to improve.

Good digestion is necessary to eliminate toxins through your stool and urine and to keep in the good stuff like minerals, amino acids, vitamins and trace elements providing you with energy and helping to get through the process.

• Detox Programs

There are different Detox programs. You want to choose the one, which suits you the best. Already a 2-day-detox can help to increase energy, eliminate brain fog and to give your digestive system a break to activate the body´s healing power. Other detox options are juice cleansing, fasting, intermittent fasting, alkaline diet and gut cleanse programs.

Important is to find and choose a program which is effective and thus not harm you, which you won´t give up on and which is easy to integrate in your daily life. If you choose a program, which is short but intense you should take some time of work. Your body needs a lot of rest and gentle care while detoxifying.

A person who does not like juice for example, who might suffer under fructose intolerance and needs solid food to keep up the energy level should not consider a juice cleanse program or fasting. It would rather harm than help him and he might struggle to keep up with the program. He rather considers intermittent fasting or a nutrient-rich diet high on alkaline.

Get help

If you are not sure which program is right for you, get the help of a dietician or nutritionist. We design individual programs according to your current health situation, needs and the goals you like to achieve.

After preparing your body with an alkaline, natural, vital and nutrient-rich diet you can start with the detox program. This process can take between 2 days and several weeks.

After the detox is completed you should keep up the good work and continue feeding your body only natural and nutrient-rich food. Now since your important organs (gut, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, kidney, skin) experienced a reset they are able to function better.

They will eliminate future toxins with ease and they will make sure to place vitamins, minerals, amino acids and trace elements in the organs and liquids where they are needed.

After these 3 steps, you will benefit from the following.

• Immune boost
• Increase your energy levels
• Get rid of brain fog
• Lose that extra weight
• Improve digestion
• Reduce inflammation process
• Improve your sleep
• Clear up and rejuvenate your skin
• Activate your body’s healing power

To support the detoxification consider the following

I. Sauna

• Helps to eliminate heavy metals
• Sweating eliminates hormone-disrupting BPA, which accumulates in your fat cells
• Don´t forget to drink a lot of water and get plenty of salt, preferable Himalayan pink salt to reintroduce electrolytes which you lose whilst sweating

ii. Exercise to flush toxins

Exercise increases lipolysis (the breakdown of fat tissue)

iii. Bind the toxins

It is very important to bind the toxins, which started to circulate in your body. You do not want to shift them in other parts of your body. Your body will flush them out through your stool and urine.

There are different ways to bind toxins. You can either use Bentonite & Psyllium husk or activated charcoal.

iv. Supplements

There are recommended supplements they help to support the detoxification process, protect you from heavy metal damage, support liver enzymes and help binding and eliminating toxins.

v. Sea salt bath or foot bath

Sea salts are great for removing toxins from the body. It is alkaline and will help to lower acidity in the body.

Dissolve one pound of sea salt and one pound of baking soda to a regular sized tub of water (more if the tub is large) as hot as you can stand it. Stay in the bath until the water has cooled which will be about 45 minutes. If the bath is too hot, you can add some cold water if this is the only way you can manage to stay in for at least 30 minutes. Don’t ever add more hot water after entering the bath, however.

Do not rinse or shower but simply towel dry after the bath is complete. This bath will likely make you tired so do it in the evening before bed if possible.

If you do not have a tub you can easily dissolve the salt in a bucket or larger bowl. Place your feet in it and leave them there for about 30 minutes.

vi. Skin brushing

Dry skin brushing is a swift and powerful way to enhance the detoxification process. It is easy, pleasant and yields tremendous benefits.

Not only does it improve the appearance of your skin by eliminating dead cells and helping new skin to regenerate, it also stimulates blood circulation, the lymphatic system, and greatly enhances toxin elimination.

All you need is a natural bristle brush. Start with brushing your feet and soles, moving upwards the thighs in small circular motions.

For the upper body part, put one arm up and brush down towards your armpit and then move to the other arm. When brushing your torso brush towards the heart. Brushing over the top of the breast insists on the armpit, where there is a concentration of lymphatic nodes. Finish off with small circular brushing around the neck and shoulders.

Brush your abdomen from the right side to the left, in the natural directional flow of the intestines, and go around in circles to gently massage the colon. I insist on the hips and thighs as skin brushing is an excellent treatment for cellulite.

As a general guide, it is more beneficial to brush from the extremities towards the core of the body.