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The toxic substances could be alcohol, drugs, or noxious environmental chemicals. If your immune system is strong and your liver working properly, your body can often deal with and eliminate the toxins. But if there’s a toxic overload, you can help your body heal by practicing various cleansing techniques. Lighten Up!Lightening the toxin load on your body—eliminating alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, refined sugars, bad fats —and eating a whole foods diet with lots of fruits and vegetables can allow a gradual cleanse to occur. And it will occur. However, because of health problems you may find that you need a faster cleanse. This could take the form of eating just fruits and vegetables, a fresh juice fast, or eating a raw food diet, for example. If you haven’t done any detoxification methods before, you should probably work with a health professional who is experienced with body cleansing techniques. During a cleanse you may experience the Herxheimer Reaction which occurs when the body is detoxifying too rapidly. Toxins are being released into the bloodstream faster than the body can eliminate them. You might suffer from nausea, vomiting, aches, and headaches. When I stayed at a raw foods health retreat, there were many people who experienced this during the first couple of days of juice fasting and complained of feeling "spacy." There are ways to minimize the Herxheimer Reaction: drink lots of water, get a small amount of light exercise, go slowly, rest, keep the organs of elimination (bowels, lungs, skin, kidneys) open, take detox baths, and use certain essential oils (such as peppermint, birch and wintergreen). If it’s a severe reaction, just cut back on your cleansing program. Click here to read about a possible detox reaction on day 21 of my 30-day raw foods challenge. You can read more about the cleansing process on day 22 by clicking here. Read about various detox diets by clicking here. Click here to read about my getting started on The Garden Diet, a raw food program that is cleansing and energizing. Click here to visit The Garden Diet. 10 Ways to Detoxify Your Body
Click here to read about my possible emotional-related detoxification while on a 30-day raw foods diet challenge. The emotions while detoxing aren't always negative; very often they are pleasant. Read about my day 12 experience of joy. Return to Healthy Eating with Raw Foods from Detoxification.
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