Spring Clean Your Body

People tend to define health by the lack of disease, or by their mobility. Often times people's bad habits seem to catch up with them in the long hall, when it becomes harder to reverse the adverse effects of poor diet, lack of exercise, and poor nutrition. Many people think if they overeat, they must be getting all of the nutrients they need. People who tend to overeat tend to overeat salty, sugary, and processed foods, which actually cause toxicity in the body and which prevent the absorption of nutrients. Cane sugar, which is pretty much added to any processed food, when consumed with other ingredients, is the first thing to be metabolized by the body. It chases to the cells to feed them. The cells become full, and by the time the other parts of the meal arrive, the cells are like 'sorry I'm stuffed'. From that point the nutrient vitamin-and-mineral-rich food parts get carried away by the blood and eventually become excreted without being fully used. This is especially true if the intestines are sluggish already.

I've been saying this for ten years, but I will keep saying it. Many people have the perception that their guts are just pounds of fat layers. That it's all skin somehow. While eating wheat does put fat layers around your vital organs, and stomach, a lot of weight is actually in their un-evacuated intestines. Yards of digesting or stagnating foods are backing up most Americans. The general perception that having a bowel movement once a day is all anyone could ever want, may not be serving everyone's best interest. By drinking plenty of water, limiting caffeine and doing yoga poses, like wind removing pose, and stretches which incorporate twisting at the waist, a person is likely to have at least two bowel movements. The more the body utilizes food, the less waist. Also, fiber is very important in cleansing the body and keeping it regular. It takes at least 10 glasses of water, plus tons of fiber from fresh vegetables and fruits to lower cholesterol and keep the bowels moving properly so that waste and debris can be properly carried out by the cells, gallbladder, bile ducts, liver, kidneys, and ultimately eliminated in the urine and feces.

Over the years I have encountered many constipated clients. There are lots of ways to cleanse the body, including drinking aloe juice, drinking ho shou wu, dandelion root, and in more severe cases, turkey rhubarb, senna leaves with fresh ginger and honey, or reishi and milk thistle. You want to use bitter herbs and herbs which stimulate the flow of bile before using something which causes peristalsis. The smell of the feces reflects your diet. Often dairy can cause too much dampness in the body, and as a result can cause fowl sometimes sweetly pungent eliminations. Coffee can cause the bowls to be loose, and produces more gas in your system, which can contribute to odor as well. Many people cover up their bodily smells with cologne or perfume, which may coat their mucous membranes to a point where they do not even observe the signs their bodies are giving them. Any unpleasant (non-pheromone, onion or garlic) odor coming from the body is a good indication that you need to take care of an issue.

I'm giving a workshop on Spring Cleaning Your Body, for Women's Night at the Dennisport Natural Market, in Cape Cod, on Thursday May 8th at 7pm. There will be free weight loss products and a demo from ReserveAge, a talk on mind-body weight loss and detox by yours truly, and I will be giving mini psychic readings, so sign up today. Contact me at pandora@pandorapeoples.com