Body Detox Programs
“A basic guide to body cleansing”
Jon Ruigrok, Randy Whitehead
What is Detoxing?
Cleansing the body of harmful
substances such as:
– Heavy metals
– Radiation
– Geopathic stress
– Excess of body chemicals
– Emotional trauma
– Cumulative life experiences
What is a Toxin?
Dr. Haas defines it as, “any
substance that creates irritating and
or harmful effects in the body
undermining our health or stressing
our biochemical or organ function.”
Types of Programs
Baths, saunas, hydrotherapy
Diet and nutrition
Exercise and body work
Allergy Extracts, Herbs, and
Chelation
Current medical treatments
Diet and Nutrition; Super Foods
Broccoli
Beans and Lentils
Beetroot
Berries
Cabbage
Carrots
Citrus Fruits
Garlic
Watercress
Ginger
Cheese (non-dairy)
Honey
Nuts
Oily fish
Onions
Rice
Oils
Tomatoes
Intolerances
- build up of substances that the body finds difficult to process
Dairy Products
Caffeine
Alcohol
Malt
Yeast
Wheat based
products
Barley
Maize
Rye
Refined flours
Chocolate
Refined sugar
Refined starch
Diet and Nutrition; Fasting
To go without food or drink for a period of
time (24 hours).
Helps body to heal and resist diseases,
infections, and toxins.
Allows body to rest; frees large amount of
energy required for digestion
Water or unsweetened herbal teas may be
consumed during the fast.
Diet and Nutrition; Macrobiotics
“the order of the universe”, and relates to
the way food affects our mind and body.
Stresses eating foods grown in the same
conditions that we live
Consists of 50-60% whole grains, 20-30%
locally grown vegetables, 5-10% bean and
seed vegetables, 5-10% soups, and 5%
condiments and other foods.
Body doesn’t have to work to balance or
buffer foods and can spend this energy
healing.
Nutritional Therapy
Balance and moderation of essential foods
Vitamin and mineral based
Antioxidants: protect the body against
free radicals that can damage tissues
– Essential Nutrients
Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Beta Carotene, Methionine
– Enzymes normally found in the body
Superoxide dismutase, Catalase, Glutatione
peroxidase
Questions?
Gittleman, A.L., The Living Beauty
Detox Program, 2000, New York.
Krohn, J., Taylor, F.A., Prosser, J.,
Natural Detoxification, 1996, Hartley
and Marks, Vancouver, B.C.
Scrivner, J., Stay Young Detox, 2001,
Judy Piatkus Ltd, London.