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Table of Content
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Segment 1 §
Introduction
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Your Story
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Intention and Goal Setting
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Cultivate Awareness
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Definition of Toxins
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How Toxic Are You
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Sources of Environmental Toxins (6 most common ones, their health implications and their sources)
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Symptoms of Toxicity
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Conditions and Diseases associated with Increased Toxic Exposure
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Reduce Exposure: Food and Drinks, Plastics, Personal and Household Products
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Cleansing Foods and Herbs
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Yoga to Support Detox
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How to Detox Safely (what to look for in a protocol)
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Your Detox Program
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3-Week Sugar Cleanse Instruction
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Reduce exposure to environmental toxins
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To lower our toxic load, it’s best to start with reducing the amount of toxins that we are putting into our body – so that our detox organs can get some rest and free up bandwidth to deal with stored toxins. Food and Drink Food and Drink is the most common exposure route of a majority of toxins. 90% of our toxin exposure to certain chemicals such as PCBs and dioxins come from the food we eat. 35% of all the foods we purchase in the US supermarkets have measurable pesticide residues, which make their way into our body. Pesticides are designed to kill pests, and they are poison. To reduce your exposure to pesticides and herbicides from your food, avoid eating fruits and vegetables grown conventionally on the Dirty Dozen List – the Dirty Dozen is a list of fruits and vegetables that, because of the way they are grown and the way we eat them, we ingest a relatively high dose of pesticides and herbicides. Choose organic for these produce. [The Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 Lists: http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/] Animal food can also be a significant source of toxins, especially from conventionally raised and high fat animal products. Conventionally raised meat and dairy products have consistently been tested and found to have the highest levels of “hormone disrupting” chemicals in them. An estimated 25 million pounds of antibiotics are fed to livestock a year. The animal feed is also highly sprayed with chemicals as well. Animal feed contains high quantities of fat, which allow for the storage of fat-soluble chemicals and toxins to get into the meat. The chemicals are then passed on into the human digestive system and our body when we eat the products. So here is what you can do to reduce toxin exposure from food and drink:
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Use Cleansing Foods and Herbs
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Besides lowering your exposure, you also want to support your body’s natural cleansing systems so that stored toxins can be processed and eliminated. Our detox organs include liver, kidney, colon, lymphatic system, and skin. Raw foods and leafy green vegetables are very cleansing. My favorite way to support liver function is to drink a cup of warm water with fresh juice of half a lemon first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach. Carrot and apple are great for supporting elimination through colon, while beet and beet juice support lymphatic detox. Sweating through means such as exercise and sauna is a great way to facilitate elimination through the skin – the body’s largest elimination organ. Dry brushing also helps stimulate the skin and open up the pores. There are herbs that you can use to support detox organs. A couple of examples are milk thistle to support liver, and dandelion to support kidney. I do not recommend long-term use of laxative herbs as a way to detox – those herbs generally have a very cooling constitution, a strong downward energy, and can be quite depleting if used over a prolonged period of them. Not to mention there is a concern of developing dependency. Last but absolutely not least, is to make sure you are well hydrated. Water helps our body flush out toxins. Make sure you are drinking mostly clean, filtered water and non-caffeinated herbal tea. Sugary beverages are not recommended, and anything with caffeine, which is diuretic, actually defeats the purpose because it moves water out of the body. If you are doing a cleanse program and suffer from detox symptoms such as flulike symptoms, headaches, irritability, fatigue, cravings, bloating and skin rashes,
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After a detox program, most people experience pretty dramatic results, and these can include: •
weight loss
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clear skin
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increased mental acuity
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reduced stress
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more energy
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improved immune function
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better digestion
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reduced cravings
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better hormonal balance
Before you get too excited and jump on the first program you can find, please know that not all detox programs are created equal. Here are three criteria that I would recommend looking out for before you make any decision. First, a well-designed protocol should take a gradual approach that can minimize withdrawal symptoms and sudden toxin release. When toxins are released suddenly into our body in large quantity, our body’s system will not be able to handle this sudden influx. The excess toxins, which don’t get processed and eliminated, will eventually get reabsorbed into the body’s tissues. So you experience all the detox symptoms such as fatigue, headache, and skin rashes but not much of the long-term benefits. Reducing the extent of the detox symptoms can also increase success rate because these withdrawal symptoms are often what make people quit. Secondly, starving does not equal detox. In fact, detox is a very energy-intensive process, and our body actually uses more energy when it’s asked to do such work. Make sure the program lets you take in enough calories to support the body’s