The Vitamin Clerk compares the ways to maximize your detox routine when dieting.
Diet and detox routines go hand in hand. Together these practices can work synergistically. In this blog you'll learn a supplementation strategy with superfoods that maximizes your diet and detox routine.
Even if you cannot diet for health reasons, combine these three superfoods with your detox regimen. They help support your detoxing organs and provide your body with important nutrients.
Do it for the long run. Your goal is a better quality of life. These superfoods have functional phytonutrients. They boost your body's resistance to fatigue and gut-immune response. Plus they enable neuroprotective processes that benefit your brain and nervous system.
The Issue: Bowel Irregularity | Unrelenting Flu | Sluggish And Brain Fog
These symptoms may indicate when you could benefit from a periodic detox. A leaky gut and gastrointestinal inflammation may also be a problem.
We detox because of accumulated exposure to processed foods and foreign substances. We also detox because of the cellular damage caused by inflammation and free radical oxygen.
Practice Calorie Restricted Dieting | Get The Most Out Of Your Detoxing Routine
Think of dieting as a time to detox from refined sugars and heavy carbohydrate meals. Focus less on how much weight to lose. Rather, set dieting goals for increasing your activity and improving sources of healthy nutrients. The weight will subsequently drop.
If your dieting practice is reducing caloric intake or restricting feeding time, this is a time to replace nutrients with supplements rich in greens.
Supplement Strategy #1: Consume Bee bread and Chlorophyll Cleanse, These nutritive superfoods are rich in antioxidants, minerals and vitamins. I'm not suggesting supplemental super greens as a replacement to eating regular vegetables. But if you're combining Calorie Restriction with your detox, these marine based superfoods can fill the gap for any loss in minerals and vitamins.
Avoid Aggressive Herbal Laxatives | The Right Strategy Is To Protect Your Detoxing Organs
A common myth about detoxing is to take medicinal herbs that are super laxatives and promote excessive bowel movements. Popular super laxatives include Senna and Cascara Sagrada. The promotion of excessive bowel movements for detoxification create adverse events such as electrolyte imbalance, diarrhea, and irritation to the intestinal lining (mucosa).
Low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress is the main cause of aging organs, dysfunctional detox pathways, and various neurological disorders. The excess of oxidants causes a reduction of antioxidants, which in turn produce an oxidation-reduction imbalance. Fewer antioxidants generate oxidative stress, which in turn creates free radicals that contribute to reversing the function of enzymes and inadequate cellular metabolism.
Supplement Strategy #2: Use natural antioxidants that protect and strengthen your liver, kidneys, colon and lymph. They do the detoxing for you. Milk Thistle is a popular "go-to" herb for the liver because of the bioactive molecules called Silymarins and Quercetins. They are hepatoprotective and anti-inflammatory. Silymarins are a family of polyphenols and flavonolignans known for their high antioxidative properties.
Similarly, Bee Bread and Birch Chaga are among the best options to expose yourself to natural polyphenols and glyosidic flavanoids. Bee Bread has other types of polyphenols such as Luteolins and Apigenins widely consider to protect kidney and liver.
Include An Inflammation Detox Too | Optimize Your Gut Microbiome Against A Leaky Gut
Inflammation is directly connected to a dysregulated, "leaky" gut -- the complex permeability of the outer barrier of your intestines. By allowing passage of substances like allergens, your gut communicates to your immune system. But when this permeability is dysregulated, the immune system keeps releasing proinflammatory molecules.
Supplement Strategy #3: Our Birch Chaga supplement is expertly formulated to enhance your detox routine and digestive health. It is rich in naturally occuring fulvic and humic acids and polyphenols from Birch Chaga and Pine Bark extract. These superfoods are regarded as detoxifying agents. Birch Chaga is also regarded as a good prebiotic source of polysaccharides useful in maintaining a balanced gut microbiome and intestinal permeability. Read more about how Birch Chaga does this in my blog What To Do About A Leaky Gut.
I suggest Chaga mushrooms because of the high value as a functional food for your investment. They are rich in other polyphenols and beta-glucans. They promote healthy immune response. Plus, they have a high antioxidative capacity.
Start this strategy today.
Start this strategy today by selecting our Detox Optimizer Triple Action Hack.
You can try a biohack combining super antioxidants from bee bread, cleansing greens and birch chaga.
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