Detox Do’s
Do drink 2 litres of filtered water daily
Do eat foods in their most natural (and unprocessed) form
Do eat plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit
Do eat some protein in the form of eggs, chicken and fish
Do eat plenty of fibre in the form of chickpeas, all beans, brown rice etc.
Do choose wholemeal or wholegrain breads and pasta
Do get fresh air daily by walking for 30-40 mins or some outside activity
Do reward yourself by getting a massage, having an epsom salt bath etc.
Do take any natural supplement that may aid your detox journey (milk thistle, fibres, liver cleanse tabs, chlorophyll, vitamins and minerals, amino acids such as taurine)
Do drink herbal teas, freshly made vegetable/fruit juices or water with fresh lemon as your beverages
Do realise that you will sleep better, have more energy, lose weight and feel fantastic!

Detox Dont’s
Don’t drink alcohol, caffeine drinks or sugary drinks
Don’t smoke or take recreational drugs
Don’t eat foods that are fried or red meat (higher in fat)
Don’t eat processed foods (anything packaged) or ‘white’ foods such as sugar, white flour, white rice and pasta etc.
Don’t eat more than you can burn off with exercise
Don’t starve yourself or ‘fast’ as your body needs fuel to do its detox properly
Don’t put yourself in social situations during your detox that will make it hard for you to stick to it (pubs, clubs, any people or environment that would compromise your good work)
Don’t stay up late at night, the body heals itself while we sleep so get plenty of it!
Don’t worry! Relax whenever you can and remember how good you are going to feel.

Alisha Forbes is a clinical Naturopath and freelance health article writer with diplomas in Herbal Medicine and Nutrition. Alisha is a frequent contributor to www.healthycomparisons.com.au

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This is some excellant advice Kristy, thanks. There is one thing I'm not sure is good though: Don’t eat foods that are fried or red meat (higher in fat)
Fried food are not good but fatty red meat, for meat eaters is GOOD food. Our bodies need fat, especially saturated fat, and this will help with a whole lot of health problems, including detox.

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Jon, fatty red meat for meat eaters is good, but while one is detoxing it is advisable not to eat red meats, especially during the first week. It has to do with the mucus production as well as fats.

Depending on the type of detox you are performing will determine the amount of time you should do it for, 1 week to a month, 3-4 times a year is more than enough for healthy individuals.

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It has to do with the mucus production as well as fats.
I have not heard of this, so I will investigate. Thanks for the info Douglas.

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Jon,
Thanks for the reply. I would encourage you to look into it more.
Mucusless Diet here is a quick Do's and Don'ts of a mucusless diet while trying to Detox yourself.

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Good site, thanks Douglas. I will spend some time going thru it. I love herbs and herbal remedies, after all, they were our first medicine.
I also need to know why and how red meat causes mucus and how that effects detoxing.

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Jon,

The saturated fats within meat, particularly red meat can aid in the production of mucus, along with dairy, and other items. The mucus production that can build up in the system due to unhealthy diets, lack of exercises etc, in harmful amounts can begin to have a toll on the body.

When you are detoxing, the idea is to not put any added stress on the liver, kidney, gallbladder, which ultimately effect the colon and heart. The ceasing in smoking is always good for the lungs, which will begin to repair itself the first day you stop.

Back to the topic... If you do a total cleanse of the body, to help "kick start" the health you can do it without using the mucusless diet, but it is not near as effective.

Like I said the length of time on the cleanse depends greatly on what your intentions are. We have products that do a quick cleanse of the system (using the diet) that takes 1 week, whereas we have another full system flush that can take upto 6 months.

Hope this helps some, please research yourself though, and if you find some more information on I hope you will share.

Douglas

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Red meat aids the production of mucus, this is what I want to find out, how?
What about if you have a healthy diet, and you get a lot of exercise, does red meat still cause mucus?
The kidneys also play a major part in any detox.
FME detoxing is a very individual thing and should not be undertaken without experienced advice.
Douglas, I will post my findings here.

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The saturated fats contained in the meat is what can produce mucus. Conducting a mucusless diet during a detox cleansing process is only a recommendation for maximum benefits.
However if you do eat a sensible healthy diet, drink plenty of fluids and exercise regularly conducting a detox cleanse may only be required once a year at most. All to often people will start using the detox/cleansing products to clean their systems, but more often abuse it to help in weightloss. What they don't realize is just like everything else over cleansing can be harmful for your body.

I have done the 2 week detox and the 6 month detox to see what the effects were and to test the quality of the products I provide. And there is a noticeable difference in the two, but one focused on a single area while the other focused on the entire system, so you would expected the differences.

By no means am I telling you or anyone to be healthy and have the most success you have to cease eating meat (I eat meat), I am just saying if you are going to take the time to actually detox your system, where you are investing money to aide the process, it is best to utilize the low fat mucusless diet along with it.

Cheers,
Douglas

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Douglas wrote:
The saturated fats contained in the meat is what can produce mucus. Conducting a mucusless diet during a detox cleansing process is only a recommendation for maximum benefits.
However if you do eat a sensible healthy diet, drink plenty of fluids and exercise regularly conducting a detox cleanse may only be required once a year at most. All to often people will start using the detox/cleansing products to clean their systems, but more often abuse it to help in weightloss. What they don't realize is just like everything else over cleansing can be harmful for your body.

Cheers,
Douglas

Hi Douglas,
What little information I have found supports you assertion that meat can produce mucus, thanks for that.
I am not a proponent of detoxing specific organs, why stress an already stressed organ, but I do a whole body detox once a year, which combines herbs, far infrared sauna, body scrub etc, and I think everyone should do it. Prior to doing this detox, actually its next Saturday, I eat all raw foods for a week. I do it in summer because its easy to eat salads in summer.
Most naturopaths here seem to just want to detox the liver, there seems little thought that our whole body is a continuous flowing thing and that anyone organ is not more important than than the whole.
I am not surprised, Douglas, that the 6 months detox was different that the 2 week one. Obviously the longer detox is cleansing the whole system. Great info. Thanks, and please keep up the good work you are doing.

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