Recently I had a client follow a three day detox
diet. Since I was doing the juicing for her I decided to do it with her.
There is always an interesting response
when people hear I am doing a detox or cleanse. I am always asked why I would need
to do a detox if I eat healthy. I realize this question comes because of what
most people believe the words cleanse, detox and diet mean. When
you hear cleanse or detox there are usually two main beliefs associated with it
- I will starve and I will be on the toilet all day. When you hear ‘diet’ you
usually think food restriction, calorie reduction, low or no fat and certainly nothing sweet.
So let me share my thoughts about what a
detox/cleansing diet is and isn’t. Diet is simply the food I eat. My
philosophy on diet is to eat seasonally, eat organic/non-GMO and eat fresh.
Fresh means the least processed. A carrot is fresh, a twinkie is not. I avoid
gluten, grains, dairy (although I may make an exception if eating out). My diet is 95% vegetarian;
I never eat red meat (or any 4-legged animals).
By following this philosophy I am eating
food with the highest vibrational frequency (a measurement of the electrical
energy that is present in all natural living things). Food can help or hinder
our health, depending on its vibrational frequency. A healthy human body
operates at 62 to 72 MHz; the brain operates at 72-90 MHz (genius brain frequency
80-82 MHz); disease starts at 58MHz; colds and flu start at 57-60 MHz; candida overgrowth
starts at 55 MHz; receptive to cancer at; 42 MHz and death begins at 25 MHz. fresh
foods 20-27 Hz; fresh herbs 20-27 Hz; (fresh foods and herbs can be higher if grown organically and eaten freshly picked); dried foods 15-22 Hz; dried herbs 15-22
Hz; processed/canned food 0 Hz...(the majority of food we eat). To learn more about vibrational frequencies check
out the work done by Bruce Tainio.
By raising the vibration of the body
disease, virus and fungi cannot live. If we are eating low
vibrational foods we are indirectly polluting our body by lowering our
frequency.
There are plenty of foods I don’t eat,
but I never deny myself anything. I consider myself a conscious and intuitive
eater. Because I eat a balanced, high vibrational diet I have a clean palate
(sense of taste) and I trust what foods will resonate with me on any given day.
If I have a craving for a particular food I trust it is a vibrational match to
my body at that time. This is why I say I am only 95% vegetarian and why you will never hear me promote or follow any of the hundreds of diets out there. I can
look at items on a menu and make the best choice based on resonance. I believe that is how we are intended to eat.
I pay attention to what I have cravings
for and how often I have them because it can be an indication of imbalances in
the body. Here are a few common ones:
1. Chocolate > Magnesium
2. White Bread/Pasta > Chromium
3. Soda/Carbonated Drinks > Calcium
4. Coffee/Tea > Sulfur, Iron, Salt,
or Phosphorus
5. Cheese > Omega-3s
Even more important to note are sugar
cravings. There are several different conditions associated with sugar cravings
but the four common are:
• Candida over growth
• Adrenal Fatigue
• Hypoglycemia
• Insulin Resistance
Sugar cravings are more complex than
other food cravings and should be taken very serious. Scientific data shows sugar
is more addictive than cocaine and for millions of people this addiction is the
leading cause of their health issues.
So back to my reason for doing a 3 day
detox. I love food, really good high vibrational local organic food. There are not many restaurants that fit my criteria for that so I prefer not to eat out but since I don’t drink, my social gatherings tend to be over meals. For my birthday
last month I had many invitations from friends to get together, which means I
ate out several times a week during the month of October (yes, I actually
celebrated my birthday for an entire month). I started to notice my energy
level dropping, I was sleeping more but waking up tired and overall I just felt sluggish and withdrawn.
At first I attributed it to the change
of season. Fall is full of movement; referred to as wind in Chinese medicine. From
September to November there is rapid change; one day it is hot, the next day it
is cold. It is a time when the body must continually adapt to change. This same
pattern happens in spring. It is no wonder these two seasons have the highest
incident of colds and flu.
Once I started craving sugary foods I realized
that I had an imbalance in my gut flora, most likely a candida (yeast) overgrowth.
This is why it is so important to be in tune with your body – you can adjust the
minor imbalance before it becomes a major health crisis.
I use juicing as a way to ‘reset’ my
system, something I always do in the spring and in the fall. This assists my body with
the changes happening in my energy level as well as my food selection because
both change seasonally.
In this case, the reset followed a month
of a non-typical diet, something I don’t normally do. It is important not to
fall into the psychological trap of binge eating because you have convinced
yourself you can just reset with a cleanse after. For many people poor dietary
habits are due to emotional eating, a very real imbalance that is too complex
to address here.
For two years I lived and worked at a
detox center in Sedona, Arizona where clients came for seven days to do a digestive
cleanse. I witnessed miraculous transformations in their health. In the last ten months I
have seen how changing my father’s diet got him off eight medications, a 40
pound weight loss and shifted his system out of constant inflammation to
a state of repair. In that same ten months I have seen how my mother came off her
medications, lost at least 35 pounds and shifted from survival
to thriving. And yes, in three days I reset my own system.
It is important to understand that many of the food choices I made in the month were still healthier options, it's just that it is unusual for me to eat out so often. That is also why in three days I was able to feel better. So one has to wonder, if I still made healthy choices why, in such a short period of time, could I actually see and feel changes while many people spend much of their life eating processed foods and 'seem' fine? It's like the frog in water analogy. Put a frog in hot water and it will jump out. But put a frog in water and gradually raise the temperature and it will just eventually die. Become aware of your body's vibrational frequency and you know when you are in or out of resonance. When you are not aware you are slowly adjusting to the water temperature. You gradually feel more fatigue, get sick more often, get headaches, joint stiffness, allergies, depression or anxiety and you buy into the belief that it is all part of an aging process.
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My general rule is if I eat something that isn't necessarily the best choice nutritionally, then I make sure the next day I eat 'clean' so my body can process what I put in. The body will process anything we put in as long as it has what it needs to clean and remove the toxins. Unfortunately most people continue to eat foods that cause inflammation and the body never comes out of that lower vibration state. If you don't feel vibrant and healthy take a look at your diet and your thoughts. Yes, thoughts have an equal role in your health and can lower or raise your frequency, but that would be an entire blog of its own.
Nutrition is the most fundamental part of health,
it should be our first priority
~Marla Schmidt, Moon Fox Massage & Wellness www.moonfoxmassage.com
