Detoxing
Truth or dare?
“Detoxing” –from foot baths to diet
to energy work.
The basic premise is to take something out of
the body that has build up.
 Nature has an innate sense of surviving by
natural “detoxing” – the liver.
 With pollution comes eventual build up
(remember the Native American?)
 With Technology, Post-War Chemicals, Food
Industry, Transportation, Antibiotics(pharmaceuticals)…comes indulgence and
exposure…..but lets concentrate on food
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When you take in for nutrition, you eliminate
anything that can’t be used (#1,#2)
 Humans hunt and gather and follow the
herds/seasons to keep close to a food source.
 With civilization, no need to move/wander with
the seasons food can be found in distant places
and brought to you. (first intro to inactivity)
 Now, average produce travels 2000 miles before
you purchase it-and it still looks shiny and fresh!
(just like Joan Rivers)
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The Body’s Own Detox Plan
Liver- bile, cholesterol, (sterol), drug
 Kidney- urea, major toxin (drug) path
 Skin- secrete perspiration, electolyte
 Lung/nose- bacteria, gas, water
 Colon- nonfiltered particle, fiber, bact
 Lymphatics- provider of transportation
let the body do what it knows!
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Common Detox Methods
Liver herb/diet -(mostly herbal milk thistle)
 Colon colonics/fiber- (coffee from Gerson)
 Sweat exercise/lodges (bikram?)/10-2
 Blood letting leaches/george washington
 Foot baths electric current
 Fasting (withdrawal dieting)
 Spiritual exorcism/vodoo bone/medicine m
 Energy reiki/crystal/sound/intuitives
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Medical studies
RCT
 Double blinds
 Retrospective
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-all say no change in before and after
measurements…..but anecdote +!
(More on Einsiein later)
What do I have to detox?
Living Things
 Metals
 Oxidative Build Up
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Bacteria
 Fungi
 Virus
 Parasites
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MRSA
Streptococcus
Pseudomonas
Escherichia Coli
Campylobacter
BV (bacterial vaginosis)
Gonorrhea
Meningococcus
Dr Saguil’s Bad Guys on the Block
-fungi
Dermatophytes-jock itch, athletes foot,
ring worm…
 Candida-blood, skin, GI tract, vagina
 Pneumocystis Carini
 Blasto, Aspergilliosis, other “ossiss”
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-virus
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Mononucleosis
Rotavirus
Adenovirus
Influenza
Swine Flu
The Vaccination Virus’
HIV
Herpes
Hepatitis A<B<C<D
-parasites
Ascariasis
 Taenia Saginata
 Taenia Solium
 Diphylobothrum Latum
 Amoeba/Giardia
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watch your poop!
Can we “detox” a living thing?
IMO if the cell is functioning at it’s
maximum potential in a clean environment
with essential sustenance and love-YES!
 Bacteria = build up flora (good guys)
 Fungi = cell structure, flora, n killers
 Virus = Killer cells/lymphocytes/wbc
 Parasites = above + high functioning gut
with proper food prep
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Look ma, no antibiotics!
Some specifics….
Probiotics – acidophyllus, yogurt
 Adaptogens – cordyceps sinensis, rhodiola
mushrooms, ginger
 Plant essense – pau de arco
 Indigenous plants – kalabasa/anti
helminitic, guyabao/anti parasitic,
ipecac/emetic
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Mercury
Lead
 Arsenic
 Floride
 Halides
 Asbestos
 BPA
 Chromium
 Dioxin
 Phthalates
 Teflon
 Organophosphates +/- (pesticides)
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Doctors Data
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Independent company testing for
-nutritional
-environmental
-gastrointestinal
using blood, urine, hair, stool and drinking
water
testing for aluminum, lead, mercury, nickel, tin,
uranium
http://www.doctorsdata.com
How do we get metals?
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Air
Water
Consumer products (bottles, plastics, paint,
playground, flooring, detergents, adhesives..)
Environment (dust, rain, indust, agri, school..)
Food (packaging, preserved, canned lining,
contaminants, fish, softdrinks..)
Andy chimes in..
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Dr. Andrew Weil on
EWG's Shopper's
Guide to Pesticides
Environmental Working Group
Non profit
 Provides resources for consumers
 Pushes national policy
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They even have a tuna calculator!
EWG’s dirty dozen
Celery
Peaches
 Strawberries
 Apples
 Blueberries (Domestic)
 Nectarines
 Sweet Bell Peppers
 Spinach
 Collard Greens/Kale
 Cherries
 Potatoes
 Grapes (Imported)
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http://www.ewg.org
EWG’s clean 15
Onions
Avocados
Sweet Corn
 Pineapples
 Mangoes
 Sweet Peas
 Asparagus
 Kiwi
 Cabbage
 Eggplant
 Cantaloupe (Domestic)
 Watermelon
 Grapefruit
 Sweet Potatoes
 Honeydew Melon
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Author Julia Havey
4 year old hamburger-food for thought!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh1tUBAW8Sg
The Saguil Approach:
The sooner it dies…
….the better it is for you!?
no preservatives….imagine bread with a shelf life of 12 minths?!!!
Inflammation
 Overindulgence
 Poor nutrition
 Poor activity
 Poor spirit +/
What happens in oxidation?
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Oxidation-Reduction reaction-
think cleavage!!!! ;)
Unchecked oxidation leads to free radicals
Think of free radicals as energy sources but not
good energy like ATP, glucose, oxygen ---think
of it like radiation, heat, pain, cell wall damage,
unchecked swelling, chromosome damage,
defect unmasking.
 Body can handle some but for the bulk it can’t
handle, you are now exposing yourself to
damaging energy……remember Hiroshima?
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Inflammation
Trauma
 Infection
 Food –”proinflammatory food”
 Medicine side effects
 Poor sleep/altered healing
 Chronic pain
 Chronic emotional trauma/stress
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Inflammation-it’s not all bad
Inflammation is necessary for healing but..
 To much unchecked inflammation will lead
to acute pain, movement limitation,
chronic pain, poor lymph and blood flow,
organ and gland dysfunction, alteration of
the sympathetic and parasympathetic
systems…poor homeostasis
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Infection-it’s bad
I don’t like it but inevitable
 I believe a “well oiled machine” will fight
and recover quickly
 Antibiotics and vaccinations work but have
side effects that lead to more
inflammation, resistance or poor
homeostasis (Saguil Approach -wait 5y)
 Herd Immunity
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FOOD!
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(and here we are!)
Hippocrates – “Food as Medicine”
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2000-2500 calories daily ok for “average”
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Transfats daily? (labeling says 0 for anything
< 0.5)
High glycemic foods?
“Empty Calorie Diets” – poor nutrition
Food treated poorly- Kobe Beef, Salmon Farms,
GMO’s, Hormone fed chicken and beef, antibiotic
resistant animals.
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Glycemic Index (just know the
concept!)
For more info:
American Diabetes Association 2006
Johanna Burani, MS, RD,CDE
http://www.glycemicindex.com/
Food Side Effects
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Alteration of insulin, gh, glucagon, serotonin,
oxytocin!!!!!!to start inflammation and damage.
Filling with average teen diet leads to satiety
and lack of want for “mom’s home cooking”
Caffeine addiction and
hyperstimulation/hormone prod
Alcohol addiction/liver congestion now and later
Fat in steak/pork, antibiotics in salmon, genetic
virus in GMO, high hormone levels in chicken
also cause poor thriving, immunity for animal
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations -Poop!
Food Good Effects
“Well oiled machine” -homeostasis
 Excellent hormone cycles
 Tolerability to stressors
 High functioning mental capacity
 Faster wound healing
 “Killer” immune system
 Great sex, sleep, productivity (Moses) and
spirit………
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……homeostasis broken down
If the cell is bathed in oxytocin, serotonin
it will want to function at it’s peak
 Parasympathetic system is the rest, digest,
love system-Maximize on this!
 (Sympathetic is necessary but not for 8
hours a day- maybe just 3 times a year)
--Allow a cell to function and give it a
healthy environment and it will fix itself“See how nature would do it” -Andy Weil
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Concept changes in food
1973 “Imitation Food” erased from labels
 1977 Eat less red meat –Sen. Mcgovern
…. now all was a calorie, %, portion,
carb, protein or a fat. Industry took off
from then, consumers got unhealthy with
the new idea of food, no longer for
community -(filipino plate at the door
habit), ritual, culture, pleasure, identity.
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Micheal
Pollan
The Food Pyramid
(how politics influences health)
The Western Diet
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Refined grain (no bran, no germ, lasts long +GI)
Pure sugar
Red meat
Processed meats
Little whole grains
Little fresh fruits and vegetables
fast food diet=national eating disorder
Diseases associated with WD in
other countries
Obesity
 Diabetes
 Heart disease
 Certain cancers
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our WMD.
Killers in the US
Heart disease
 Cancer
 Stroke (CVD)
 Chronic lower resp diseases
 Accidents
 Alzheimers
 Diabetes
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cdc.gov
Harvard’s Pyramid
Walter Willet + Lyon Diet Heart Study
Lyon Diet Heart Study:
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The type of diet described by the Healthy Eating
Pyramid really does seem to be healthier than
the currently conventional Western diet since a
Mediterranean diet similar to the Healthy Eating
Pyramid was trialed in the Lyon Diet Heart
Study. This French study20 of patients who had
survived a heart attack had to be stopped early
after just two and a half years because the trial
diet was so effective compared to the control
diet (a mildly modified Western diet). All-cause
death was 70% lower in the trial group than in
the control group.
Fight the Killers with Fads?
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No, just for looks
The ZONE: On the plus side, The ZONE encourages people to exercise, drink lots of water, and
limit carbohydrates while balancing proteins and fat. It distinguishes between good and bad fats
and better and worse carbohydrates. However, I do not like its suggestion that food should be
regarded as a drug to manipulate your hormones and metabolism - that is not a healthy attitude
toward food and eating. Overall, however, the ZONE is one of the better diets out there for
healthy weight loss.
The Perricone Diet: Touted as "the wrinkle cure," this diet, devised by a dermatologist, holds
that eating high-quality animal protein (excluding red meat) as well as healthy fats, lots of fresh
berries and pure-water will reduce inflammatory changes in the body and thereby prevent
wrinkles. These recommendations are good, but there is no scientific evidence that any eating
plan can prevent or eliminate wrinkles. Also, Dr. Perricone tells you to eat an immoderate amount
of salmon and fails to warn about the dangers of farmed salmon.
The Ornish Diet: Mainly a very low-fat, vegetarian plan, this diet, in combination with group
support, stress reduction, and moderate exercise, was devised to halt (even reverse) coronary
heart disease. In my view the emphasis on very low-fat intake is obsolete and fails to take note of
the important distinction between high and low glycemic-load carbohydrate foods. Most people
not facing invasive cardiac procedures will not have the motivation to stick with this restrictive
diet.
The South Beach Diet: Devised by a noted cardiologist, this diet requires you to eliminate
carbohydrates for two weeks and then add back specific, low glycemic-load carbs. Its weaknesses
are that you don't count calories or control portion size, exercise isn't addressed, and I think there
is too much emphasis on meat. The underlying assumption is that if you're overweight, you must
be insulin resistant, which isn't true for everyone.
The Atkins Diet: Here you also eliminate most carbs and don't count calories. My major
objection to this one is its failure to distinguish between good and bad fats (olive oil and other
monounsaturates being the good ones and saturated and polyunsaturates the unhealthy ones).
Similarly, there isn't enough emphasis on fiber, vitamins and minerals, all of which are important
in disease prevention. If you're on Atkins, you miss out on health-protective phytochemicals found
in fruits and many vegetables and don't learn to differentiate between healthy low glycemic-load
carbs and less healthy high-glycemic load ones. Some studies have shown that short-term use of
the Atkins diet is safe and effective for healthy weight loss. Many physicians are concerned about
long-term health risks.
Diets that have lasted:
Paleolithic….just kidding, no f & v
 Japanese diet –seasonality, high fish, high
plant land and sea, presentation
 Mediterranean diet –low meat, high plant,
high monosat fats, wide variety, grain
 Vegan/vegetarian/raw –B12, iron, fats
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labor intensive but healthy
Vegetarian
Vegan -no meat,dairy,processed,egg
 Raw Vegan –unprocessed veg, not >115
 Lacto Vegetarian –dairy ok, no eggs
 Lacto-ovo vegetarian -dairy egg ok
 Flexitarian/semi-vegetarian
 Pescatarian all meats but fish ok
 Pollo Vegetarian –poultry ok (chik,turk,du)
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The Ornish Program
Plant based diet (vegetarian diet)
Meditation
Exercise
Group support
-Dr Dean Ornish has published studies showing
that a low-fat (10% fat) vegetarian diet resulted
in a 60% reduction in adverse cardiac events in
patients with moderate to severe coronary heart
disease - and soon prostate cancer!
-approved by Medicare last summer!
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Hopefully the shape of things to come!
The 21 day Wellness Program
Red meat, pork and chicken (fish allowed)
 Wheat and Sugar
 Alcohol
 Caffeine
 Dairy products (eggs allowed)
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 Yoga (movement) and
(this is why it works!)
Meditation
Draw backs:
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The headaches and insomnia that will come from body
not getting it’s “fix”:
-caffeine, hi GI foods, taste association, courage in a
bottle, saturated fat-butta and grissle, high sugar, low
fiber, extra cash for cool clothes by buying “#7 family
value pack!”
-WARNING, you will spend more money since healthy
eating, movement and spirituality is not covered by
insurance
-luckily bypass, back surgery, radiation, chemotherapy,
post stroke therapy, chronic rehabilitation and life long
prescriptions are covered by insurance!!YEAH, HOORAY!
Benefits:
Weight loss from mindful eating
 Decreased pro-inflammatory foods (spark)
 Liberated energy from the gi tract
 More room for good foods (color,fiber,oil)
 Less bloating, more physical movement,
better breathing, more colonic movement,
less stagnation, more meridia/chakra flow
 Better mentation, happier cells, better dna
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Yoga
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-The incorporation of a healing tradition from
5000 years old to modern day medical practice.
It sets a framework to allow the physical body
unrestricted utilization of energy. It allows the
mind a calming technique to champion especially
in times of stress. When both body and mind
are allowed to function with unlimited
expression, health and happiness are
experienced and love is found.
Enrique Saguil
..then comes the yoga part!
Movement -(not necessar-ily flexibility)
 Breath control -(stress reduction, oxygen, 355
cutoff, internal massage)
 Mindful clarity –(“stillness doesn’t mean not
moving”), CELLS WORK BETTER!!
 Herb Benson found meditation could control
blood pressure, heart rate, respiration
temperature……AND GENE EXPRESSION!!
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The Saguil Approach
 Movement
 Spirituality
 Nutrition/supplement
body
spirit
mind
Spirit has a place in healthy eating
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Ayurveda
Mind Body Medicine
TCM
Energy healing/movement
Herb Benson
Andrew Weil
Deepak Chopra
Wayne Dyer
Jon Kabat Zinn
Matthieu Ricard
Dali Lama
Life is dynamic
Newtonian vs Einsteinean
(energy is not linear)
 Expect some set backs but remember how you feel
today and reach for it again
 Never go back, (or get out of it fast)
 Time it, pack it, freeze it but don’t deny the “Feast” (Rick
Bayless)
 Change the way we think of food (Michael Pollan), it’s
not just nutrition facts, understand valuation.
 Food is transformed energy and information from the
power of the sun placed here for us to survive.
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Ayurveda (the science of life)
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Seasonality or eating for the season (not the 4
seasons but the 3 harvests)
VATA(winter) KAPHA(spring) PITTA (summer) seasons
Detox between the seasons of winter/spring and
summer/winter
Practice yoga/meditation to calm your mind to
balance your body
Practice ayurveda to purify your body to balance
your mind
-john doulliard
Vata
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Vata dry/cold/nervous winter (build/store/rejuvenate
with; warm soups and stews, ,oils, dairy, cheese, beets,
carrots, sweet potatoes (high fat and protein), heavy
grains (brown rice or wheat), avocados (high fat fruit),
bananas, nuts-(insulating foods)
-nuts are very acidic and the more eaten, the more the
body changes pH and converts to store to fats, proteins
minerals and vitamins (fight or flight)
-eat in season! Go local farmer or organic!
John Douliard
Kapha
Kapha rainy/muddy/heavy spring
Need foods to detoxify the body and open the lymphatic
channels from the winter acidity-Leafy greens, sprouts
(chlorophyll), berries, beans, green pepper, grapefruit,
ginger (roots) foods that alkalinize and allow lymph to
move, low fat foods.
 Natures new year, need to move waste to prepare for
rest of year
-eat in season! Go local farmer or organic!
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John Douliard
Pitta
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Pitta hot/inflammed
During summer, long days and short nights and need
energy foods, asparagus, cucumber, cantelope, celery,
salads, fruits and veggies-plums, pears, grapes, high
carb.
Cooling harvest need to detoxify (around fall) the excess
heat to prepare for winter; leafy greens, apples, plums,
grapes, pomegranates
-eat in season! Go local farmer or organic!
John Douliliear
4 day Doulliard lymphatic
Ghee in am to stimulate body to burn it
 Low or no fat diet daily
 Skin brushing in am with oil chaser
 Boiled water to start in am sipping all day
 Prune juice evening of the 4th day to lax to
toxins
 Hot epsom salt bath to sweat for 20 min
nightly
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Ayurvedic food types
Bitter-alkalinizes body
 Pungent-stimulate circulation
 Astringent-blood purifiers
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Sweet Sour Salty
All calming, relaxing
(but not all year!)
Vata pacification
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Favor warm oily heavy
Dairy
Avocado, banana, cherries, mango
Asapragus, beets, carrots
Mung, dahl, tofu
Rice and wheat
Cardamon, curmin, ginger, cinnamon, salt,
nutmeg
chopra center
Vata aromatherapy
Floral, fruity, warm, sweet and sour
 Basil, orange, patchouli, vetiver, geranium,
vanilla
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all help restlessness, anxiety, cramps,
backache, heart palpitations, insomnia
chopra center
Pitta pacification
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Cool foods and liquids
Milk, butter, ghee
Grapes, melons, cherries, apples, ripe oranges
Asparagus, cucumbers, potatoes, broccoli, green
beans
All beans except lentils
Rice, wheat, barley, oats
Coriander, cumin, fennel, sugar
chopra center
Pitta aromatherapy
Cooling and sweet
 Sandalwood, ylang-ylang, lavender, lemon,
mint, rose
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-good for anger, impatience, jealousy,
ulcers, inflammatory bowel diseases
chopra center
Kapha pacification
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Light dry warm foods
Low or non-fat milk
Apples, pears
All vegetables except tomatoe, cucumbers,
sweet potatoes
All beans except tofu and soybean
Barley, corn, millet, buckwheat, rye and oats
All spices
chopra center
Kapha aromatherapy
Stimulating, spicy, aromatic
 Eucalyptus, rosemary, frankincense, musk,
camphor, juniper, clove, peppermint,
rosemary
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-good for retention of food, fluid, fat,
relationships
chopra center
Short cuts
There’s a place for pharmaceutical/surgery
 Invest in an exercise place, yoga studio,
instructor (flex benefit, health saving acc)
 Supplements r temp (know thy maker)
 Aromatherapy (plant essence)
 Food on sale (think organic and local)
 More plant less animal
 Water/green tea
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The Saguil Approach
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Take advantage of this feeling
Know your “safe word” and come back
Indulge in Ayurveda/Yoga/Pranayama/TCM
Indulge in Nutritional information/help
Learn the value of breath control
Move (yoga/tai chi/sex)
Get the kids involved, do it for them!
Experiment with cooking (Dr Mom)
Set your intentions daily (oldschool-pray?) -SSLY
orthorexic
Mind Body Spirit is like a 3 legged stool…..
…when one leg is a problem, there are
still two others to hold you up.
Namaste!
Enrique Saguil, MD
www.herbal411.com
Be a warrior two!!
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The Gerson Institute
http://www.gerson.org/
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Block Center for Integrative Cancer
http://www.blockmd.com/Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
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The Chopra Center
http://www.chopra.com/physicalpath
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Benson Henry Institute
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/bhi/
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Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
http://integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/