Lifestyle Master Program

Author(s): Ellen Livingston
Publisher: Ellen Livingston

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Lifestyle Master Program
eBook 1.0 by Ellen Livingston
can cause damage by literally scratching the sensitive intestinal lining (and just because you don't notice blood in your stool doesn't mean there isn't any).
Enemas and colonics are commonly prescribed for cleansing and detox. Again, usually these are unnecessarily harsh and unnatural interventions, which have inherent health risks. In almost every case, a truly natural dietary program, along with other natural lifestyle practices, will enable the body to cleanse the entire digestive tract safely, by itself and when it needs to. Nature's processes are not always as quick as we would like, and we must practice patience, respect, and some healthy discipline to get the best, safest, and most lasting results.
The popular “Master Cleanse" advises a temporary diet of maple syrup, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper mixed in water. Maple syrup has been damaged by cooking, and is an unnaturally concentrated sweetener which causes the body stress. Cayenne pepper is a highly concentrated, strong, irritating spice. Its toxicity causes the body to react by producing extra mucous in an effort to rid itself of the cayenne pepper. Some other toxins may be drawn out in the process, but there is a better, gentler and thus healthier way to do this. This cleansing program also includes drinking laxative tea and salt water daily (inorganic salt in any form poisons our body) and following the program with a round of probiotics, to replace the good bacteria that has been unnaturally flushed out of the body due to the intensity of the cleanse protocol.
Juice diets are also touted as the perfect cleanse. While safer than most of the other approaches described here, juicing is also not a completely natural process, and juice is not a whole food. Better to just eat or blend the fruits and vegetables, retaining their valuable soluble fiber with its absorbing, gentle cleansing ability,
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