I have found throughout the years that daily support can be of great help. It’s also fun to do this with other people. People will share their recipes, new found eating ideas and general experiences on a daily basis.  The sense that you are not alone can be very helpful.

I am personally posting on the forum everyday to remind us as to what we are doing that day, how to prepare and what to expect.  Having provided over 700 of these detoxes over 8 years, both as a group detox format, or in my clinic, I have a good idea as to how people will respond and what their needs are. Posting will be informational and inspiring, helping you to have a fun and successful cleanse.

The pre-detox webinar training can be of great help also. Questions can be asked and answered immediately.

Your first step is to go to the upcoming events page found on this site and register for this 10 Day Express Detox.  Choose your method of training. Your product and information will be sent to you.  (DVD’ s are available if you can’t make the webinar)

We think of this cleanse as a “Leaping board to extraordinary health!”

Please feel free to email any questions that you may have about joining us this spring!

The first step would be to assess what type of cleanse you would be looking for. There are 3 main cleanses; liver, gallbladder and colon.  Each organs dysfunction presents with its own set of symptoms. By knowing the symptoms of the organ, we can determine the best type of cleanse.

Usually, people who have issues with their colons, experience bowel movements that may not be perfect. Anything from too hard to too soft. There is usually intestinal discomfort with periodic cramps. Because the colon is responsible for breaking down food and assimilating nutrients, when a person is having difficulty here, they will usually feel fatigued, maybe even nauseous due to toxins that may be created. There are many types of disorders that can benefit from a colon cleanse. That might be yeast (Candida) infections or overgrowth, and onslaught of bad bacteria, irritable bowel and ulcerative colitis.

When the gallbladder is off, it is usually very noticeable. The gallbladder has a tendency to build up material that we call stones. If a stone gets stuck in the bile duct, the gallbladder presents as a sharp, crampy type pain located mid abdomen on the right side.  Sometimes this pain can be felt radiating to the back.

Knowing if your liver has become overburdened can be a little more difficult because the symptom picture can be subtle and more varied. Think of the liver as a filter. As most filters do at some time, the liver filter can become more clogged or sluggish. There are many reasons for this, such as environmental toxins we are exposed to, poor eating habits, an abundance of pharmaceuticals. When the liver filter gets clogged, we may feel fatigued, have insomnia, feel more depressed, have digestion problems, low energy, and really, not feel right.  By doing a liver cleanse you clear your filter and begin to start to feel better.

Many times people eat this type of cleansing diet after they have done a short term liver detox or cleanse. They get the initial impact of a short detox, and then look to maintain its effect.  This is not always needed or the recommend way to proceed.  Should a person’s health be compromised, a short detox or cleanse may be too strong and have adverse effects.  Eating a diet of foods that have an effect on the liver spread out over a long period of time would be gentler way to proceed with less chance of problems.

As you might guess, these foods would be high in antioxidants and specifically, high in the amino acids that up-regulate the liver to perform at its best. Also as you might guess, these foods are whole foods, vegetables and fruits. As mentioned before and found in our detox information section of the website, cruciferous vegetables have the most appropriate amino acids to cleanse the liver.

Foods that contain high sugar content are not recommended and in fact are the first foods to be eliminated from the diet when choosing to eat a liver cleansing diet. These foods would be the high fructose corn syrups, refined sugars, honey, alcohol, cakes, cookies, etc.  Packaged foods are not recommended. For this type of diet, we are concerned with foods that might be allergenic and thereby causing inflammation. Because of this we also eliminate glutinous grains.  Amaranth, quinoa, oats, rice are ok.  It is also recommend to heavily cutting down on meats. This includes chicken and fish. If you are to eat meats, they should be of the highest quality, hormone free, naturally raised, etc.  I have also found that people do notice better results when they eliminate coffee and other high caffeine products.

A simple menu might be rice cereal or oatmeal for breakfast, a quinoa salad or some type of lettuce, spinach, vegetable salad for lunch, and some sort of organic meat, with lots of cruciferous vegetables for dinner.  Maybe a vegetarian chili.  For snacks, fruit or celery with hummus would be great.  Also, many people use the UltraClear Plus daily for snacks to get the increased liver cleaning amino acids.

The reports are coming in and everyone is still with the program and doing well.  As this is not a starvation diet, we are encouraged to eat a lot. Because what we are eating is very simple and consists mostly of cruciferous vegetables, there are not a lot of fat calories. Because we recommend at least 800 calories a day, it is important to eat a lot. The UltraClear Shake is also provides protein and calories for the core days, plus the correct amino acids to up-regulate the liver to optimize its functions. Several people including myself have reported losing some pounds.  Reports of sleeping better, less inflammation and radiant skin have been coming in.

The core of the core days is cruciferous vegetables. The Cruciferous [krew-SIH-fer-uhs] vegetable family is named for their cross-shaped (crucifer) flower petals.  Cruciferous vegetables contain antioxidants (particularly beta carotene and the compound sulforaphane).  They are high in fiber, vitamins and minerals.  Research of this family of vegetables indicates that they may provide protection against certain cancers.

A review of research published in the October 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association showed that 70% or more of the studies found a link between cruciferous vegetables and protection against cancer.  Lab studies show that one of the phytochemicals found in cruciferous vegetables – sulforaphane – can stimulate enzymes in the body that detoxify carcinogens (cancer causing agents) before they damage cells, says Matthew Wallig, DVM, PhD.  Through different mechanisms, two other compounds found in cruciferous vegetables — indole 3-carbinol and crambene — are also suspected of activating detoxification enzymes.  This element changes the way estrogen is metabolized and may prevent estrogen driven cancers.  Cruciferous vegetables also contain a kind of phytochemical known as isothiocyanates, which stimulate our bodies to break down potential carcinogens.

Most people after the core days report an increase in clarity, feeling less pain, and increased energy.

I find doing this in with a group a fun way to participate. I have been doing this event for the last 8 years. I always join for the January cleanse as a way to prepare myself for the upcoming year. One of the benefits I receive from doing this liver cleanse is a sense of mental clarity. This really helps as this time of year I am doing my business planning and making goals for the upcoming year.  We also hold quarterly group events, but this beginning of the year is the most popular.

This year I also notice I have been gaining weight and would like to lose 15lbs.  This cleansing diet is not a necessarily a weight loss diet, however most people usually lose a few pounds. The benefit is to help break old habits and create new healthy ones. I use this event as a leaping board to extraordinary health. We are eating very health foods for these 10 days. People report felling so good after these 10 days, there is a window of opportunity to take a leap and move forward.

Many people join because they may have more serious health issues. This 10 Day Express Detox can be very effective in reducing inflammation, reducing high liver enzymes, improving stomach and digestive disorders and aiding with sleep. It is important to realize that many of these disorders are a function of an ill working liver not performing its filtering job. The buildup of toxic material in our blood, causes many health issues.  Combining this detox / cleanse with proper post 10 day maintenance usually assures success.

You can sign up for our free ebook on this website which details the process of  liver cleansing and detoxification.

If fact, before I knew I had this issue, I did not take very good care of myself, was 60lb heavier than I am now, and, had a 6 way cardiac bypass in 2000.  As you can imagine, this woke me up.

Being in the health field I have been able to try many products and try many health regimes to see what would keep my numbers low.  I find that I tend toward, even when taking care of myself, to gain weight, feel sluggish, and my numbers creep up.  Doing the 10 Day Express Detox resets my body to process the foods I am eating more efficiently. Every time I do this detox / liver cleanse, I get a renewed source of energy, I feel great, I gain energy and am less sluggish.  My blood tests show my numbers go down.

I have been doing this liver detox / liver cleanse for 8 years now and am pretty confident in its results.  I have also been running this program for 8 years and have had over 700 participants and individuals in our programs do the 10 Day Express Detox.  I am clear that this program helps people reduce inflammation, reduce liver enzymes, helps people sleep better, and can be a leaping board for people wanting to lose weight.  This is why I highly recommend this program to many of my patients and offer it to the public.  I hope that if you were to have a health issue, you would give the 10 Day Express Detox a chance to help you too.

Being high in fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants the cruciferous vegetables help with elimination and general health.  Research on this family of vegetables indicates that they may also provide protection against certain cancers. A review of research published in the October 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association showed that 70% or more of the studies found a link between cruciferous vegetables and protection against cancer. Researchers at the University of California Berkeley have discovered that an anticarcingenic compound in brassica vegetables (diindolylmethane) that can affect and reduce human prostate cancer cells. Another study at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, researched the effects of broccoli sprouts on rats. The rats were first fed broccoli sprouts. A few days later, they were injected with a carcinogen. The results showed that the rats that ate broccoli sprouts developed smaller, fewer and slower-growing tumors than the rats that were on a regular diet. Other lab studies show that one of the phytochemicals found in cruciferous vegetables – sulforaphane – can stimulate enzymes in the body that detoxify carcinogens (cancer causing agents) before they damage cells, says Matthew Wallig, DVM, PhD.

As far as detoxification in concerned, these vegetables are powerful inducers of the microsomal cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP1A2, which is responsible for the metabolism of many pharmacological agents and toxins, thereby promoting detoxification of these substances.  By causing induction of the enzyme, they may increase the rate of phase I transformations aiding in detoxification making these vegetables a good choice for a liver cleaning diet. This of course is why they are used as the primary vegetables for a liver detox.

With studies such as these, and there are more, the case for eating cruciferous vegetables becomes a solid yes for staying healthy!

You probably have not been feeling your best if you are starting this type of search. Inflammation, insomnia, depression, low energy over a period of time, ring those alarm bells that something is not right. You start searching the internet and end up finding out about liver detoxing. What types are there? What is the best liver detox?  How will it impact me?

Liver detoxing is a great way to jumpstart yourself back to health. By using products that cause the liver to do its job better, you begin to clear many of the potential substances out of the blood that may be causing you this discomfort.

You are first confronted with all the types of doing a liver detox, First, I do not recommend detoxes or cleanses that require you to starve yourself. I also don’t recommend those detoxes that have you eat a lot of sugar or honey and subsist on sugar and lemon water.

In order to help your liver do its job, which is filtering the blood, you would want to help the liver accentuate what it does best. Bind with the offending toxin and convert it to a water soluble substance that you can evacuate.

The reason I like this “10 Day Express Detox” so much is that it is not a starvation diet. In fact, you are eating everyday and encouraged to eat. However, you are eating foods that supply the correct nutrients to the liver, so it can have the necessary chemicals to do its job. And if we give the liver what it needs, it does its job better.  The protein drink provided with this detox also provides essential amino acids to up-regulate the liver to even perform more optimally.

By choosing a liver cleanse wisely, you can have a positive experience that has you feeling better, in a short amount of time.  It is then up to you of course to continue eating in a manner that supports your good health.

The first step would be to assess what type of cleanse you would be looking for. There are 3 main cleanses; liver, gallbladder and colon.  Each organ dysfunction presents with its own set of symptoms. For this blog, I will focus on best liver cleanse.  Symptoms of a liver not functioning at its best, might be insomnia, fatigue, headaches or migraines, a general feeling of malaise or not feeling well. Blood tests for liver enzymes might be high.

Briefly, the live is a filter. As the blood circulates throughout the body, the blood cells absorb and transport chemicals, sugars and nutrients, to the organ systems of our body so they can function. Some of what is absorbed either through our lungs because of the air we breathe, or our digestion system as we digest foods are toxins that the organs can’t use.  It’s the livers job to filter these toxins. Through a series of chemical reactions using amino acids, the binding and then conversion to a water soluble substance takes place. The end result of these actions is to evacuate the toxins via urinary or bowel methods. Note that the liver naturally does this, day in and day out. The problems occur when this system become overloaded due to environmental or self imposed stressors.

Some cleanse use olive oil, lemons, Epson salts etc.  I can see how over loading the liver and gallbladder with the fats and salts would dissolve and help your gallbladder release stones if you had them, but I am not so clear how this removes toxin in your blood.

Cleanses that use herbal products containing Silymarin (Milk Thistle) have shown to be effective in reducing liver inflammation, but no reports have been evaluated relating to the remove of the livers toxic load.

If you are looking a liver cleanse, you are looking for a product that up regulates your liver to perform at its best, while removing harmful chemicals that have you not feel well. These types of cleanses or detoxes use amino acids that the liver uses to perform the binding and releasing actions.  Even while doing the best liver cleanse, you want to eat foods that also support that process.  The hypoallergenic rice protein mix provided with our liver cleanse provides the needed nutrients and amino acids to support detoxification.

These issues can have many causes. For many people, the cause is a poor diet over time. Eating sugars and gluten products can over time have an effect on the intestines, weakening or degrading the wall lining.  For many people, they have an auto immune disorder such as crohns, or irritable bowel syndromes, where inflammation of the intestines causes issues and again, degradation of the intestinal lining. The intestinal lining thins overtime, making it more sensitive to more and more irritants. Then, no matter what a person eats, they get symptoms. Many of the pharmaceutical interventions then mask the symptoms, but don’t correct the root of the problem.

What I first do with all these patients is to have them do the “10 Day Express Detox”. Not only does this detox up-regulate the liver to operate more freely but also, because of the elimination of many foods and eating this liver cleansing diet way, the stomach and intestines are helped. WE reduce the types of foods that are typical irritants.  Inflammation is reduced, and the intestinal lining is set up to be rebuilt. The rebuilding process would be difficult without this blank slate with which to work with.  Once the intestinal lining is thickened, which takes a few months, the person is usually able to expand their diet without negative consequences.

I am able to provide over the phone consults to discuss how to rebuild the intestinal lining, as it is more detailed than the scope of a blog.