• Use glass/ceramic/stainless steel for drink- ing and storage of water • Limit/avoid plastic wrap and containers, use glass for storage and reheating


• Avoid tin cans; look for BPA free lined cans or tetra boxes


Limit toxin burden in your home: • Choose a water fi ltration system • Swap out cleaning products for non-toxic brands • Open your windows for air circulation or consider an air fi lter


Limit toxin burden in your life: • Replace your beauty care products with chemical free brands


• Limit alcohol; better to have less a few times per week than several servings at one sitting • Reduce over-the-counter medication when possible, especially painkillers


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2. Support Your Body’s Detox System: Use your food as medicine; eat foods that promote detox and help all the phases of liver detox: • Dark leafy vegetables (kale, collard greens, arugula, watercress and mustard greens): Sauté, juice or eat them raw but the more the merrier • Onions and garlic: Add 1-2 cloves per day to veggies or salads; add them to your sautéed greens


• Artichoke: High in fi ber and rich in detox nutrients


• Cruciferous or Brassica Family veg- etables: (broccoli and broccoli sprouts, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, and caulifl ower) These are very powerful for phase 2 detox


• Cilantro and parsley: considered natural chelators of toxins and heavy metals • Organic berries: blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries are high in an- tioxidants which reduce cellular damage • Organic Green tea: This is an amazing antioxidant with Matcha green tea espe- cially high in chlorophyll, a superstar of detox


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• Spices/herbs: cinnamon, turmeric, cum- in, oregano, rosemary: the compounds in these offer many tools of support for detox and reducing the effects of cell damage


Eat high quality fats that help fl ush the liver:


• Omega 3 fats like fi sh oil and fl ax • Avocados, olive oil and almonds


Ensure suffi cient protein to give the build- ing blocks for phase 2:


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• The average adult needs about 50-60 grams of healthy protein per day. For ex- ample, 1 ounce of meat/fi sh, 1 egg or ½ cup beans/legumes = 7 grams of protein


Eat more plants to ensure plenty of vitamins and minerals that support all aspects of detoxifi cation: • Eat a rainbow of colors in your fruits and vegetables every day. The pigments that give plant foods their color are called phytonutrients. They work as strong sup- porters of all phases of the detox process.


Improve elimination of toxins: • Increase water to 6-8 glasses per day to fl ush the body and support phase 3


• Have 1-2 bowel movements per day to aid the liver in completing its job • Increase exercise for circulation and sweating; this aids the secondary team of detox organs • Consider an infrared sauna or steam bath to promote perspiration using the skin as a way to eliminate and burn fat where excess toxins are stored • Increase fi ber to 35 grams per day; fi ber helps keep your elimination moving and completes the circle of detox


Nutritional Detox Programs: In addition to shifting our diet and lifestyle to a less toxic one, there are also many high-quality professional nutraceutical supplement programs to aid detoxifi cation. These are often referred to as ‘detox pro- grams’. Detox programs can help to support the liver in detoxifi cation as well as provide the body with essential nutrients ‘detox’ at a deeper level. Often, when a person has been exposed to toxins for a long period of time and has illness, a detox program can be benefi cial to reach optimal health. It is helpful to have a professional support you in this type of detox program. Some health care professionals that offer detox programs include Naturopaths and Clinical Nutrition- ists that specialize in Functional Medicine and Functional Nutrition.


As we review our whole life including but not limited to food, we can see many ways we can make changes to improve the body’s potential detox.


3. Stress and Relationships There are more subtle ways we bring toxins into our life. Since we are complex beings, we know that stress, feelings, beliefs and people can also push the toxic burden of our lives. When we consider our whole life, here are some of the other ways we become toxic.


• Stress: Chronic stress is toxic for the body; by being in an emergency state we limit the body’s capacity to handle the day-to- day “housekeeping”. Making a choice to


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