Spring Cleanse, Week 1

I had an appointment with Dr. Teitelbaum a few weeks ago. She told me she thought I was ready to start a spring cleanse. She wanted me to eat some specific vegetables for the next 2 months.

• Asparagus once a week – clears kidneys
• Daikon radish – once a week – it is the best radish for you it pulls out the hot very toxic toxins. It stops hair loss.
• Bittermelon – once a week – clean’s liver and gallbladder
• Lauki squash, or zucchini squash – once a week, cools liver
• Beets – 1-3 times a week – good for liver and bile
• Taro root – many times a week binds to the toxins taking them out of the body
• Okra – binds the toxins removing them from the body
• moringa soup, or drumstick soup – once a week, clean’s the liver, and bone marrow and blood. Pulls out heavy metals which go into the bone marrow.
• Artichokes – once a week – cleans’ bile

I bought all of these vegetables right away, except for the moringa because I can’t find it. I need to go to Denver to the H Market.

I pretty much could tell that these vegetables were working their magic.

I was starting to have BM’s first thing in the morning before 8am. This never happens, rarely. This was a good sign! Then second day I was having a BM in the morning and afternoon. Third day I went 4 times in a day!! I was definitely getting rid of some toxins and my body was taking them out. I was feeling more energy, lots of it! The toxins coming out of my cells was freeing up the energy it was taking to hold them in the cells. My skin on my face looked like I was glowing:) This was fantastic!

Then midafternoon at work 7 days into the cleanse my face broke out in that horrible rash again. What? How can this be? Am I going to be going through this again? It got much worse! The rash spread all over on my neck and my face. It was burning hot and hurt. This was the toxins being pulled out and my liver was overloaded.

When you go through a cleanse honestly one should stay home to do it. You are supposed to be mindful of your body because detoxing is exhausting. It takes all your energy to flush out these toxins. I was exhausted for a week. I could barely get up in the morning. One morning my brain had so much inflammation I could not shake the fog from my mind. I couldn’t think just simple thoughts. My face was in pain, and so was my ego. I was self-inflicting this upon myself.

I am a dental hygienist, and I work with elderly people who have no insurance most of the time. We help them with resources in the community. It is a very emotionally draining JOB. I feel horrible for these elderly people. Forgotten in our society. One lady shared with me “she is just waiting to die there is nothing to live for.” This week I had a gentlemen need to go to the restroom. He was unable to get his pants down in time. He had to go through the whole appointment with pants on, that were wet from his own urine.

It was heartbreaking. I realized in that hour that I have a deep-seated fear of being like this as I age.

It was the detox, and the experience with this patient that I became aware of this fear. I sobbed as I cleaned my room preparing for the next patient.

I am obsessed with slowing down the process of aging. I am obsessed with changing how society has programed us/me into believing this is how we age. It's a lie.

We can change how we age. Through food choices, cleansing our bodies, and mindfulness we can live a vital healthy life. It is my Dharma, my dream to help guide those who want to live their dream. Who want to be healthy and have vitality and say Hell Yess to life!!

Hell Yes! I made it through the first round of cleansing. I have come through with fire and passion ignited! My skin is glowing again even better than before. Yesterday I took a giant step in faith and purchased my domain for my website to begin to be built.

I have a dream, that all people eat healthy food. That all people have access to healthy food. That all people live without disease. That all of us have a healthy mind and reach out to others in love. I have a dream that we all live our dreams.