Alternatives for Detoxing...and the Importance for Business!

I would add: "eating healthy, exercising healthy" -- by eating decent food and avoiding things that gum up the system, and exercising to help move toxins out more quickly, you can accomplish a lot. Also, supporting sleep, and adequate water intake. The specifics on this, will vary from person to person.

Detoxification occurs primarily through five pathways: 1. Respiration 2. Hepatic/GI 3. Excretion/Renal 4. Elimination 5. Sweating

A comprehensive detox involves evaluating how well the above pathways are working and treating any problems.

An example of a comprehensive detox would be: 1. A hypoallergenic rotation diet 2. Mantaining adequate hydration 3. Botanical medicines for the liver, bowels and kidneys 4. Infrared sauna therapy 5. Exercise plan 6. Acupuncture (to enhance functioning of the circulatory, immune, nervous and endocrine systems)

Our bodies are constantly detoxing. It is when the above pathways are poorly functioning or when we are exposed to too many toxins for our bodies to process, that problems occur.

Our clinic has two infrared saunas that we use as part of our detox protocol. If any Biznik members are interested in experiencing this type of sauna, please contact our office.

We will be running a comprehensive detox program at the end of this month at Evergreen Integrative Medicine (425) 646-4747

Enabling your cells to properly communicate is vital to detoxification.... which mean Glyconutrients and 'growth factors' are key. I've learned about another amazing product from the sea as well.

Your detox program can be an opportunity to detox physical, emotional, mental, and/or spiritual patterns that show up as symptoms in the physical body. According to Five Element Theory, curriculum being included in most of our certifications or liscences for CAM practitioners, explains that our organs correspond to particular emotions. Each organ has it's own particular frequency and resonates with emotions with the corresponding frequency. By assisting the processing of these emotional patterns/frequencies we release "trauma" held in the subtle energetic level of our bodies. Traditional healing modalities such as applied essential oil, accutonics, sound healing, and energy work can release subtle frequencies held in the processing organs and bring balance to chronic and acute presenting complaints. "A whole body approach to Client Centered Wellness".

Great Monday morning; Yesterday I assisted in constructing a sweat lodge and par took in my first. What an amazing way to detox; It's outside of my professional scope of practice but personally it was amazing. I slept great and this morning I followed up with Journaling and Honeysuckle flower essence on L3 (Lung3 accupoint.); Releasing old patterns. Oils and essences are a great natural, cost effective, and non-invasive way to make the subtle move to a grounded and clearer wellbeing. I use Youngliving Essential Oils in my practice and referr to my colleauge for the use of flower essences in our Vibrational Medicine Practice. Have a great day!

Some how supplemental fiber, bentonite clay, and avoiding environmental exposure have not been mentioned.

I justed wanted to say that I'm enjoying the momentum of this conversation! I was honored to be invited to build and partake in a traditional sweatlodge this Sunday. That was an amazing detox on all fronts. I slept like a baby and have been very open to new information all around me. I look forward to the next one;

Being mindful of the avenues of detox as mentioned is important: two thoughts not yet talked about are (1) though sweating is great for detox, heavy exercise is a way to create extra waste. The hot Yoga comes to mind. They say it's a big detoxer but I wonder if the exercise load both in terms of the cardio and the muscle break down effects are offset by the cleansing affect of all the sweating. The sauna would cut out the muscular effort/breakdown issue, and be less of a cardio stress so may be preferred; and (2) I have been doing the "oil pulling" routine for over a year now and can say that it definitely pulls out something and has a positive effect.

That prompted other thoughts, but I'll save them for later.

I'd like to expand our discussion, if I may, to the mind body connection in detox. My theory, based on working with clients to shift long standing stuck emotional patterns is : Our experiences and behaviors set up energetic patterns that can reinforce the effects of toxins and re-attract toxins in our environment after a detox. So if someone has a trauma that has not been released, the body continues to attract in toxins and reinforce negative patterns that continue to be held in the energy body. Both the physical AND emotional should be addressed for a complete detox (physical detox affecting the emotional, emotional detox affecting the physical). To oversimplify, many people use active exercise to relieve stress and release anger that otherwise increase toxicity in the body.

Lymphatic Treatment with Lemon Essential Oils support at CNS/Lymph alarm point (midline, chin meets neck).
Today I have a client with presenting complaints of mental/emotional fatigue, severe "stuck" feelings upon waking. We've worked towards the central emotions presenting themselves; sadness, lost, lack of movement, and past addictions presenting themselves but not yet acting on them. Today we'll address the stagnant flow of subtle energy in his/her lymphatic system. In this treatment we'll address the pathways, ducts, spleen, and revitalizing the immune system. The application of hands on energy work, Ohm tuning forks, color therapy, and aromatherapy will be used for this type of treatment. I look forward to sharing the results and recieving input from your scopes of practice. Creating a wholistic approach to client centered wellness.

I also like the Nedi pot as a daily practice. It's cheap, quick, simple, easy, effective - especially as part of the showering routine.

And since you mentioned the Lymph system again, John, I am reminded that although the Ab routine done each morning also stimulates all the organs of elimination, the Spinal Flush (see Donna Eden's Energy Medicine) that I get from doing Aikido rolls is a fabulous way to move all or most of the spinal joints from the lowest Lumbar to the upper thoracic region, and stimulate all the NeuroLymphatic reflexes along the spine.

Wonderful, I will look into the Spinal Flush; It seems to resonate with me as well as the Nedi pot. This is great information to share as I offer homework to clients for support between sessions. Thank you Dennis and everyone for creating such a resource to pool resources.

Homework is key. While Geoff's point about assessment followed by "treating" is well taken, I prefer to find out what promotes health just do it. If you make a habit of that while you are healthy, you stay that way.

Donna Eden's stuff is all meant to be done on yourself at home or with someone else equally interested in giving and receiving. Actually, the assesssment (muscle testing) stuff is also there and you can become a practitioner, but I prefer incorporating as much as possible into daily routines.