Liver Detox Diet

For great liver cleansing diet results treat your body detox diet more like a whole body cleanse. Use juice diets, colon cleansing herbs, natural liver cleanses and yoga an amazing liver detox cleanser.

Removing toxins from your body should include other organs like the skin and skin brushing or sweating, clearing your sinus and lungs of any muck, eating alkaline foods for you colon, kidneys and gall bladder and doing lots of exercise.

Yoga is well known and documented as a great natural detoxification. Read on for details and a video on how to remove toxins using yoga to help out with your liver cleanse.

Ayurvedic yoga detox: Day 7

Posted on 08 May 2009

 Morning requirements for Day 7 on my 10-day yoga detox: Rise before 6:30 a.m.; floss and brush; scrape tongue; rinse both nostrils with Neti pot; gargle with turmeric blend; snort Nasya oil; meditate for 10 minutes; and swallow seven tablespoons flax-seed oil. Then, don’t eat until you’re really hungry.

This is the fifth 10-day detox I’ve undergone over the past three-and-a-half yearsat Kashi Atlanta in Candler Park. Each time, it seems to get better.

Kashi, which calls itself an “urban ashram,” is like an island of balance, wisdom and kindness in a stressed, huried and often unforgiving city.

Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati, who leads the ashram, opens the detox with an introductory workshop, during which participants get a goody bag of various potions and accoutrments, as well as a daily check list of activities, recipes and other background.

Each day, you’re supposed to follow certain specific rituals — like this morning’s rituals described above. Some of them stay the same each day. Others change because they’re progressive steps in traditional, herb-based organ detoxification techniques (e.g. liver, kidney, colon).

You follow a prescribed diet, based on Ayurvedic principles. No meat. No caffein. No alchohol. No dairy. No wheat. The centerpiece is a pretty good tasting, high-protein gruel called kitchari. Almost everyone will cut down on their eating, because no meal should exceed the size of two cupped hands. This season’s detox also is built around a “semi-fast,” which means for seven days nothing to eat after lunch.

You also are supposed to do yoga at least once a day, with an emphasis on positions that encourage internal cleansing. This morning, for me, it was a great power yoga class that I couldn’t have gotten nearly as much out of a week ago, because my body is stronger, lighter and more limber. For those who are undergoing the detox, there’s an almost ecstatic response to each of the yoga classes — not only because the instructors are good and sensitive to the needs of their students — but because you get a rare sense of achieving something that’s good for your mind, body and spirt.

At the same time, the community that’s grown around Kashi is wonderfully mellow and forgiving. No guilt if you don’t do follow the checklist all the way. Lots of empathy.
I know a lot of this sounds mushy to folks who haven’t undergone something like this, but I’d venture that it’d be very difficult to find a participant who disagreed.

I honestly don’t know about all the science. Does the “Liver Cleanse Tea” really have a significantly beneficial longterm affect on my liver? Does “ringing out” my kidney in spinal twist actually have restorative affects on my kidney? I haven’t researched all that.

But I do believe there is a lot of wisdom in the traditional practices of Ayurvedic medicine, and that the basic lifestyle gently promoted by Kashi — eating less meat, eating less, exercising, reducing stress — cannot help but be good for you. For me, the proof is in the pudding (or kitchari): Over the last three years, I’ve lost maybe 25 pounds, have lowered my blood pressure and stress, and have managed my way through some very challenging times with more happiness and a stronger sense of balance than I’ve had in a very long time.

But maybe that’s just the detox talking.

This article was in the Altanta Unsheltered website.

You can find more information on how to improve your liver detox diet with great liver cleansers by searching around this site at http://www.liverdetoxdiet.net. And if you liked this article please add a comment. I like to hear what works or doesn’t work for you – especially if its a natural based solution.

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