New Year; Perfect Time to Clean Up Your Colon…

Colon cleanse detoxification tips for the New Year from natural health expert, Dr Barry L Marks, DC, Orange, CA

Colon Detox & Cleanse

It’s a good idea to detoxify and cleanse your digestive system, blood and liver 1-4 times each year. With the new year on us, now is the perfect time to do this.

You can go out and order lots of products online and in health food stores to detoxify and cleanse, but you don’t have to. You can easily make your own cleansing products from all natural ingredients without the risk of adverse reactions to strange herbs or other ingredients.

Here is a basic detoxify/cleanse routine based on the famous lemonade fast with modifications for practicality and safety.

Lemonade-Fruit-Vegetbale Detox Program

This is a simple detox-cleanse program. It is a fast short 3-day fast for detoxification, followed by a 3-day liquid diet for cleansing. You may find sites advocating true fasts for several days such as the water or lemonade fast. Those are fine for some people, but many people with medical problems and others require monitoirng. This is a short term program to detoxify the body and should be safe for most people.

As always consult your physician before embarking on any new diet or exercise program. 

What you will need:

A good juicer

Lemons, maple syrup, cayenne pepper powder, distilled water, apples, dark red pitted cherries, red or purple grapes, carrots, cucumber, celery, and parsley. Recipes follow.

Days 1-3 Lemonade Detox

This stage is to chemically detoxify your body. During this period you do not eat any food. You are resticted to drinking the special lemonade and pure distilled water only. Most people will drink 6-10 glasses of lemonade a day depending on body size. During this stage you may feel headaches, grouchiness, tired, and dizzy. After 3 days you may notice a coated tongue. These are typical signs of detoxification.

You will most likley need to stay close to a restroom durign the first 3 days. So begin it on a Friday, so that when Monday rolls around you will be able to work without worry as the next stage is less intense.

Day 4-6 Fruit-Vegetable Juice Cleanse

During this stage you are detoxifying, but more importantly cleaning out your colon with the fiber from the fruits and vegetables. The fruit drink is also said to detoxify your blood.

Drink 2-3 glasses of fruit cleanse and 2-3 glasses of vegetable cleanse daily. You may also drink distilled water. You are still not eating food yet, but the fruits and vegetables will give you plenty of nutrients and generally you will feel pretty strong during this stage.

Afterwards, when you return to food, do it gradually and gently. Don’t rush out and eat a steak or a “Double-Double!” Begin with fruits and vegetables, yougurt with nuts or granola, brown rice, soups, salads, etc. Gradually re-introduce meats such as skinless chicken, turkey, fish, pork and some beef if you like.

Lemonade detox recipe (yields one-half gallon):

• 8 ounces of freshly squeezed lemon  juice
• 8 ounces of maple syrup (look for grade B) 
• 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper powder 
• half gallon distilled waterMix ingredients well in a pitcher and refrigerate.

Fruit Juice Cleanser ( 2 servings)

2 cups of red or purple grapes
2 apples
2 cups pitted dark red cherries

Make this fresh at most 2 servings at a time. Drink soon after making and keep refrigerated.

Vegetable Juice Cleanser (2 servings):

• 3 carrots
• 1 cucumber (peeled)
• 6 celery stalks
• handful of parsley

 

What Should You Expect with This Program?

• You should expect to have a cleaner, more efficient colon
• You should expect to lose anywhere from 5-15 pounds (yes, lots of water, but also gunk that has been hiding in the walls of your colon)
• You should expect to feel more energetic and possibly sleep better

Go ahead and give this safe, simple detox program a try. Just do me one favor…

While you”re on the program, really think about the poor food choices you had been making in the past and re-dedicate yourself to better eating habits. You don’t want to go back to putting a bunch of junk back into a nice sparkling clean digestive tract do you?

Warmest regards,

Dr Barry L Marks, DC

P.S. After you complete the program go ahead and tell me how it worked out for you here on the blog. And if you have any questions at all send me an email.