Exercising and Detoxing

What kind of exercise can I do while on a detoxification program?

I normally do heavy workouts at the gym, can I continue doing them?

I’m on a sports league, will detoxing be a problem?

Exercise during a cleanse should be thought of as helping the process of releasing toxins. Therefore it needs to be daily and somewhat aerobic. This is not a time for weight training or muscle building.

Unlike laxatives and colonics, our detox formulas are meant to slowly encourage the release of stored toxic deposits from the tissues. Exercise helps to deepen the detoxing process by moving lymph fluids, inhaling oxygen more deeply and circulate blood through the organs and brain.

Another critical element to detoxification is the emotional component. This is a time for turning inward, quieting the body-mind from the chaos of life and the rush of activity. Typically our lives are driven to accomplish so much that we don’t think about our food choices, getting enough sleep, taking it easy or relaxing without chemicals, alcohol or stimulants. Detoxing is about quieting yourself long enough to hear what’s going on inside, hear what your body has to say. Exercising can help process and balance mood swings such as sudden sadness, irritation, or bursts of energy while doing a cleanse.

Exercise then, is about encouraging your body, mind and spirit. We recommend exercises that do not create a lot of emotional excitement, competition or that require long sustained energy to the point of exhaustion like team sports. The exercise we suggest should also relax you, encourage deep breathing, get you out doors in fresh air and think about how you feel in this life you’re living.

There is nothing wrong with competitive sports and pushing yourself hard when you’re not on a detox or cleanse program. When the mind is excited and in a competitive mode, this puts the body on alert as you’re asking the body to “perform”. That’s like cleaning your house and entertaining at the same time. It’s like changing your engine’s oil and trying to race your car at the same time. Neither is accomplished.

So for optimum results from your detox, keep your exercise to a minimum of 30 minutes of daily walking, jogging, biking, swimming, mini-trampoline, yoga, tai-chi. Be sure to get your heart rate up a little if you are doing yoga and tai chi.

Add your own comments to this blog on exercising that works for you!

by Ralf Ostertag, Bio-Nutritionist, Herbalist

Drinking fresh squeezed juices is one of the best things you can do to insure a long and healthy life. Below is a list of juices and juice combinations that will add energy and vigor to the body and give you greater clarity of mind. Rotate these combinations from day to day.  But first here are some important tips:

Equipment:

I recommend using a centrifugal force juicer with inner filters. The Acme juicer is a superior machine for the amount of money you spend. It’s durable and easy to operate and clean. It uses the inner filters, which make it really easy to clean and research has demonstrated that insecticides and other manmade chemicals tend to remain in the pulp that is left in the juicer basket as long as you use inner filters. Models that produce a pulpy juice, like a blender, are not recommended unless you use strictly organic fruits and vegetables, then they are fine, especially for smoothies.

Highest Potency:

It is very important that you drink your juice immediately after you squeeze it.  Do not make juice and store it in the refrigerator or you will lose 75% of the nutrient content due to oxidation and pre-digestion by the live enzymes.

Frequency:

Drink fresh squeezed orange juice no more than every other day.

Juices that may be consumed daily are:  carrot, watermelon, apple, pear, muskmelon, honeydew melon, celery and romaine lettuce.  Fruits to use sparingly are: grapes, pineapple, cherries, strawberries and most other berries.

Spinach and root vegetables should not be consumed every day.

Mixing Fruit and Vegetables:

It is best that you do not mix fruit and vegetable juices, with apples and pears being the exception.

12 Combinations

Makes approximately 8 oz of Juice

#1

6 medium carrots

1 sweet potato

1 apple

#2

8 carrots

4 stalks of celery

#3

8 carrots

3 handfuls of spinach

#4

8 carrots

1 large apple

1 dime-size piece of ginger

#5

8 carrots

1 handful broccoli

#6

4 stalks celery

1 apple

1 yam or sweet potato

#7

8 carrots

1 handful blue cabbage

#8

4 oranges

¼ of a whole pineapple, cut and skinned

#9

3 wedges of watermelon

2 wedges cantaloupe

(both without the rind)

#10

3 wedges of honeydew

2 wedges of watermelon

(both without the rind)

#11

3 wedges of watermelon, no rind

¼ of a whole pineapple, cut and skinned

#12

2 ripe pears

2 wedges watermelon

Creating your own combinations:

Once you have been juicing you will invent your own combinations.  Other vegetables to juice are parsnips, turnips, potatoes and beets (use beets sparingly as they are very cleansing to the liver.)  When juicing bitter vegetables, use carrots as the base ingredient to sweeten the juice.

If you choose to know more about juicing we encourage you to read books by Dr. Norman Walker.  Dr. Walker lived past 110 years after being told he would die by the time he was 70 by his doctors.  He began researching alternative healing modalities and discovered juicing!

Information provided by Ralf Ostertag and Universal Formulas

I just finished the Universal Formulas’ BePure Cleanse and I have my personal “Top 10 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Body Cleanse” for you to get the most out of your cleansing commitment:

1. Stay Clean- BePure Cleanse Inside, Baths and Showers Outside!
   Taking a salt bath or a taking an extra shower  per day helps clean-  your skin is your biggest integumentary system organ and it functions, among many other functions, to excrete waste.  Stay clean and flush the toxins from your inside and out. (If you do take more showers be sure to make them shorter as the skin absorbs just as much as it excretes.)
2. Keep a Rhythm – Eat, Sleep, and BePure Regularly
   If you take your BePure Cleanse regularly, eat meals as well as sleep and wake up at a regular times your body will get in a systematic rhythm.  This will help your body work more reliably and consistently so you may get the most out of your cleanse.
3. Be Nice, Be Kind, BePure – A Nice Attitude Gets Nice Results
   Let’s face it- we all could be a little nicer, to others, and to ourselves.  Take the time to be nicer: smile more, buy yourself a gift, write a friend a thank-you letter, compliment a co-worker, and pat yourself on the back!  Being nice will purify your spirit while BePure Cleanse purifies your body.
4. “Stretch” the Effects of  Your BePure Cleanse – Use Yoga and Simple Excercise to Get More Out of BePure
   By stretching and using yoga practice you help accelerate the detoxification process.  Read more in article The Yoga of Detoxing!
   
5. Deep Tissue Cleansing
   Want to see detoxing in action? Using Ph Litmus Stix with a before and after test:  you will see the muscular toxins, including lactic acid, that are stored in your deep tissue are getting flushed out with distinct increased acidity.
6. Cleanse the Mind – Make a Conscious Effort to Detox the Mind as well as BePure Cleanse the Body
   If you keep a clear mind free of anxiety and worry, as well as make the effort to seek clarity and understanding with your obstacles and fears, you will be detoxifying the mind as we ll as the body.  Try meditating or rhythmic breathing for 10 minutes per day to open yourself up to the clean life!
7. Be Pure, Juice Pure – Fresh Juice Gives the Energy to Detox
   I love fresh juice!  Who doesn’t?  And our bodies love it too.  A carrot, apple, parsley juice, for instance is a great diuretic and keeps the excretory system clean and lean for flushing toxins from your body.   Stay tuned for more on juicing!
8. Cleanse Means Clean Water – Keep the Water You Drink Pure and Clean
   Be sure to drink the purest cleanest water possible during the BePure Cleanse.  This will support the cleansing process by not adding all additional impurities and chemicals to your body that are exactly what you are cleansing out!
9. Eat Well, Be Pure –  Treat your body to fresh and nutritious food
   By eating fresh food with high nutritional content, the first nourishment your cells and body systems receive after cleansing will be that of food of the highest potential and providing the greatest nutritional support for your freshly cleansed body.
10. Keep it Clean – The Inter-BePure Cleanse Maintenance Protocol
    In between my semi-annual cleanses, I take QuintEssence and Tracite to get the most nutritional value out of my diet and to provide nutritional support of the major body systems. This prime nutritional protocol keeps the natural detoxification processes working optimally between cleanses.

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Happy Cleansing!

Adam @ The UF Health Blog