Detox your Body: Spring Detox

Spring is a great time of the year to give your body a break with a Detox.

Eat a low allergen diet filled with fruits and veggies (organics are best). Try my Top 10 for a 10 day easy Detox.

1. Put Down the Processed Foods: Read food labels, if you don't know what it is, don't eat it!
2. Eliminate Allergens: Remove foods from your diet that are both difficult to digest and common allergensor suspected allergens (specific to you): red meat, dairy, soy, corn, eggs, wheat and gluten containing grains.
3. Slow down on Sugar: Refined sugar decreases your liver's ability to detoxify toxins.
4. Bring on the Brassicas: Brassica veggies include broccoli, cauliflower, kale, bok choy, High in Indole-3-carbinol, a phytochemical that promotes liver detoxification. Aim for 2 cups / day green vegetables including the brassica's. Green vegetables high are also high in chlorophyll which will also increases the dumping of fat soluble toxins into bile and ultimately from the bosy.
5. Eat your Antioxidants: Aim for 1 Tbsp / day tomato paste and 1 - 2 cups / day dark berries. 
6. Power on the Protein: Many of the biochemical detoxification pathways in the liver are protein dependent and will slow down with out adequate protein. Try a breakfast shake made with vegan protein powder (brown rice, pea or hemp) blended with frozen berries and coconut milk. My current favourite protein powder is Garden of Life Raw Protein and I also really like Thorne's Mediclear Detox Shake (protein with added detox nutrients).
7. Fill up on Fiber: Fiber keeps the bowels moving and traps fat soluble toxins that are being excreted with bile into the small intestine. Aim for 2 Tbsp / day of Psyllium or Organic Rice Bran Fiber  (Organic Traditions). Fiber can be added to your meals and shakes throughout the day.
8. Take Time for Tea: Green tea contains anti oxidants, protective against all causes of cancer and  helps rid the body of fat soluble toxins through bile. My favourites are Rose Mountain Herb's Organic Houjicha, Jasmine Pearls, Genmaicha and  Do Matcha (nice added to a shake). Aim for 2 - 4 cups / day
9. Just add Water: Flushes unwanted toxins, keeps your brain sharp! Aim for 1.5 to 2L / day (You can count your tea in this amount).
10. Loving Lemons: Lemons are amazing at improving the alkalinity of your body. A huge benefit of alkalinity if the more alkaline your urine is  (pH 6.8-7.0), the more water soluble toxins your kidney is able to flush out and more Magnesium is spared. Other ways to improve alkalinity: Green vegetables, other citrus, buffered vitamin C. You can check the alkalinity of your urine by testing your urine throughout the day with pH paper purchased from a health food or drug store.
11. Sweat it out: 30min of exercise a day will help to begin mobilizing fat soluble toxins. Aim for 15 to 30min a day during your 10 day detox. If you have access to a sauna this will enhance your body's ability to sweat! I really like Sauna-ray's Infra-red saunas. Saunas are great, but any way that you are challenging your body to sweat will provide benefits including hot yoga and other cardio exercise!!
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For even more ways to Detox Check out:

• http://www.the-cleanse.com/ Great Community Detox Program!
• Dr. Crinnion's Book "Clean, Green and Lean

• 8 Weeks to Women’s Wellness, by Dr. Marianne Marchese
• The Dirty Dozen: 12 Hormone Altering Chemicals and how to avoid them: www.Keep-a-breast.org
• EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning: www.EWG.org/guides/cleaners
• Water Filter Buying Guide: www.EWG.org/report/ewgs-water-filter-buying-guide