A healthy outside starts with a healthy inside Enjoy the feeling of renewal Spring Cleaning

Slowly but surely Spring has arrived. The dark days of Spring is a time of renewal, of growth and movement, of fresh air, sunshine and rain. It is an excellent time to shed some of the more sluggish habits of Winter, clean our spaces and let in fresh air and light, change our diets into a plant centric direction, to stretch and move like Nature is doing all around us.

In Chinese medicine, the organ of Spring is the liver. It’sment. It processes foods, drugs, environmental toxins, hormones, emotions and helps us eliminate unwanted substances. We can enhance the liver’s function by doing a cleanse.

Cleansing can take manytain foods, drugs and alcohol to fasting.

Studies on fasting and short courses of caloric restriction (5-7 days) have found that if a person between the ages of 50-70 years old does it for one week twice per year, it can increase their life span by 15 years. How is this possible?

Cleansing can increase autophagy, which could be thought of as cellular Spring cleaning, It is a physiological process where the body clears out damaged cells and other debris, recycles what is not. It is induced by fasting (in as little as 24 hours), calorie restriction, exercise and a ketogenic diet. Autophagy has been shown to improve health in many ways including preventing neurodegenerative