New Year Clean Living
Q : It’s January and after an eventful Christmas I’m planning on a January full of clean living. Can you recommend something to help my body recover from the excesses of Christmas?
A : Feeling bloated, sluggish, and tired after the last month of indulging in chocolate, wine, and cookies? Kick off the New Year with a resolution for healthy and clean living. Your digestive system and liver take a strain over the festive season and detoxing can help support your body by increasing elimination from the body, cleansing the colon, and enhancing circulation to clear toxic substances. Eliminating unhealthy foods and suspected allergens from the diet further aids detoxification enhancing nutrient absorption and supports and protects the liver which is the main organ involved in a detox.
Some healthy tips :
Diet - reduce sugar, wheat, dairy, caffeine, alcohol, and fried food.
Exercise – introduce some gentle exercise into your routine.
Drink 4-6 glasses of luke warm water per day, filtered or bottled.
Breathe – Oxygenation detoxifies the organs and glands.
Skin brushing – accelerates the rate at which toxins are expelled from the body.
Fruit & Vegetable Juicing – helps flush out toxins.
Liver and Kidney Support – eliminates and drains toxins from the body. Herbs such as Berberis Vulgaris, Milk Thistle, and homoeopathic remedies such as sulphur and nux vom can be very helpful.
Cravings –Chromium picolinate, L-methionine, and vitamin B complex can help balance blood sugar levels, regulate fat digestion, reduce the appetite, and prevent excess sugar from being converted by the body into fat !
Nutrients – Glutamine is particularly healing to the gut after a month of damaging overindulgence. Probiotics can also help to restore a proper balance to the gut. Digestive enzymes will also encourage proper digestive processing.
Detoxing is so popular in the New Year and can be done from 7 days to as long as 1 month or longer ! The longer, the better really. We normally integrate ICIM Blood Analysis in our practice to indicate how toxic you really are and how well your digestive processing is doing. With this information we help design a program according to your needs. We normally recommend a 4 week program to achieve deeper detoxification and allow the digestive system the necessary time to heal.
For further information on ICIM Blood Analysis, Digestive related problems or Detoxing contact the ICIM Medics on 045 844 819 or e-mail info@icim.ie
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