Research has shown Chlorella to be extraordinarily effective in helping to eliminate toxins, heavy metals, and radiation from the body. Nadia, Brydon, Medical Herbalist and Raw Food Educator uses Chlorella extensively in her work.  In this interview she shares a wealth of information about how to detox with chlorella.

Q1 You recently gave a talk about Chlorella. Can you tell us how you came to be so interested in it?

I first began to learn the importance of all green foods when studying in the USA at the Hippocrates Institute about 8 years ago.  The Institute in their wisdom always puts every single patient on Chlorella because it’s the ultimate green food.

It has incredible detoxifying, micronutrient, immune boosting and healing qualities and I saw at the Institute firsthand how for hundreds of people it just seemed to not only give incredible energy but was a real miracle food, healing so many people.

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You’ve decided that you want to detox. You know it’s the right thing to do but you can’t quite bring yourself to do it? You are having trouble getting started. If this sums it up for you then this article from coach Karen Knowler can help. Although it’s about going raw you can apply these tips to starting and maintaining a detox diet.

What Do You Need To Believe?

Belief is one of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful, internal drivers in existence.

When we believe in something, both our head and our heart are engaged, and taking action becomes easy because we are already in alignment.

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Toxic pollutants are all around us. They get into your body from food, water, air and products you put on your body. Mounting evidence shows they accumulate in your body and cause many health problems. Minimizing exposure and improving detox is an important step to improving your
health. Here are some Detox tips to help you improve detox.

Minimize exposure:

• Reducing the chemical load on your body will give it a chance to detoxify some of the backlog.

• Eat organic food as much as possible to reduce exposure to herbicides, pesticides, fungicides antibiotics and hormones that are used in conventional farming.

• Drink filtered water .

• Avoid household products and cosmetics that contain toxic chemicals . There is a wide variety of natural and organic products to choose from these days.

• Avoid toxic metals. Eat only low mercury fish. Don’t cook in aluminum pans. Avoid cigarette smoke. Avoid handling lead.

• Use household plants to help purify the air or consider an air filter.
  Bamboo Palm, English Ivy, Gerbera Daisy, Mother-in-Law’s Tongue, Peace Lily are among those that can help.

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After years of hearing that chocolate is bad for you all we hear is now is how good it is for you.  It’s only dark chocolate though that is suddenly being hailed as the latest superfood. But I was astounded recently to hear that a particular healthy chocolate could detox you!

When I contacted the people who were saying this I discovered that it is not the chocolate itself but the Acai berry juice that it is sweetened with that is a detoxifier.  Oh, really?

I have to explain that this particular raw cacao is sweetened with raw cane juice crystals, blueberry and Acai berry juice. It’s sold in tiny squares and the makers recommend that you take 3 squares a day for it’s benefits.

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Cleansing your system of toxins that have accumulated in your tissues is a great way to get back in touch with how good you can feel by eating fresh fruit and vegetables. If you have been put off detox diets because of their length you will probably be able to manage this 3 day detox diet.

Toxins are all around

There is no getting away from it. Toxins are all around us. They are in your home, the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe, the things you put on your skin. What’s more they get into your tissues and build up damaging your cells and organs.

Once in a while it’s a good idea to to stop and look at what you can do do reduce this load and help your body get rid of the toxic chemicals. They contribute to your health problems and symptoms. A 3 day detox can start you on the continual journey of changing towards a healthier and more chemical free lifestyle.

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Guest Post

The medical establishment defines certain medical conditions and illnesses as “silent killers.” Medical illnesses such as high blood pressure, mesothelioma, osteoporosis, heart disease, obstructive sleep apnea, high cholesterol, diabetes and a number of different types of cancer like colon cancer, rectal cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer are well known silent killers.

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Guest Post

Colon Detoxing and Natural Colon Cleanse

There is certainly no question that the digestive tract is an important area of good quality overall health. Colon is your body organ that is one which eliminates poisonous waste materials away from your body system. The colon after getting filled with waste can bring about various health problems as well as bowel problems. The primary reason for poor operation of the colon is that we digest unhealthy foods. When the colon is treated with chemical substances, tension, unhealthy eating habits, and also parasites your interior colon wall becomes obstructed with gunge.

Dr Floras Herbal Colon Cleanse

Herbal colon cleansing and colon detoxification have an important part to play in order that harmful toxins are removed. To be able to eliminate sludge and to stop the spread of toxins to other parts of the system colon detox will be needed and you will often prefer a organic or natural item that can carry out the task efficiently without harming the colon and its operation.

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Guest post

If you are following a plan of vegetarian diet nutrition, are you getting it all? First we have to destroy the myth that eating a Standard American Diet (SAD) provides you with what your body really needs.

If you’ve been learning at the Hippocrates Health Institute for any amount of time, you now know that the food pyramid’s aim is to help the lobbyists , not your health. Most people on the SAD are starving their body of vitamins and minerals, enzymes and phytochemicals.

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According to magazine and newspaper reports this year’s celebrity fad diet is going gluten free.  While many people have been avoiding gluten as part of a detox diet for years it seems that celebrities Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel Weisz, Jenny McCarthy and Victoria Beckham are following a gluten free diet to help them lose weight and give them more energy. But dietitians are warning that giving up gluten products could actually make you fat and tired.

Many experts are warning that cutting gluten out of your diet to lose weight could actually make you feel fatigued, give you headaches and cause lack of nutrients as well as making you put on weight. How can this be when so many people swear how much better they feel when they avoid gluten products?

Gluten free products are high in fat and sugar

It’s not just this year’s fad though. You may have noticed that food manufacturers have gradually been putting more and more gluten free products on supermarket shelves over the past few years. And there lays one of the problems. The gluten free products that they produce are often high in fat, sugar or salt  to try to make them more tasty.

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Guest post

There are several choices presented on the marketplace today intended for colon cleansing. Consumers may select from tablets and supplements, precise diet tactics or colonics. Considered one of the most effective as well as most secure ways to cleanse your body is by using natural body detox.

Sound detoxification diet programs are easy to adhere to and are recommended for thirty days. The major motive people choose a natural body detox is to free their bodies of the poisons, fats along with heavy metals which have built up within the tissues over time. Signs that you could be in need of inner cleansing are fatigue, excess weight, acne and irritability.

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