| Understanding the Benefits of Detoxification There is a great misunderstanding and confusion in the field of nutrition… The failure to understand and interpret the symptoms and changes that will occur after implementing an improved nutrition program. What can be expected to happen when a marked improvement in diet is begun? Remarkable things begin to happen in the mind and body. When the quality of nutrition or food entering the body is higher that the quality of tissue the body is made of, the “body intelligence” senses this, and begins to discard the lower grade materials and tissue and begins “constructing” new cells and tissues with the superior elements provided. There will be signs or symptoms that are recognizable when lower grade food elements are eliminated, and more alive, superior quality food elements are introduced into the body. If stimulant use, such as caffeinated coffee, tea or chocolate is discontinued, headaches may occur. This is because the body is discarding toxic residue of caffeine and theobromine, which the body is removing from its tissues and transporting through the bloodstream during its many circulatory rounds. Before these toxins reach the final destination for elimination, these irritating toxins may overwhelm the body’s filtration system. The process of removal and elimination out of the body is an incredible cleansing process that is desirable. Detoxification symptoms usually do not persist more than a few days, but can include, in addition to headaches, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, lethargy, or general malaise. During this initial detoxification phase, which lasts about 10 days on average but may last as long as several weeks in very toxic individuals, the body’s vital energies that usually exist in the external areas of the body, such as muscles and skin, begin to shift to internal organs for the purpose of the reconstruction phase. This shifting of power to the internal region may produce a feeling of decreased energy in the muscles, and the mind may interpret this as weakness. Actually, power is probably increased, but that power is being used to rebuild and reconstruct important organs and less energy is available for muscular function. Interesting feelings begin to appear as an improved diet and nutrition program gradually raises the quality of food in the daily diet. The “body intelligence” reasons something such as: “Oh! Look at this superior material I can use. I can now get rid of all the old garbage and start to rebuild beautiful new cells and tissues.” The body will begin immediately to eliminate excess bile from the liver and the gall bladder and send it to the intestines. It will also begin to move sludge from the arteries, veins and capillaries. The smelly, gassy, brain-stupefying masses that have been building up in the body will be eliminated. Arthritic deposits in and on the joints will be cleaned up. The toxic residue from irritating food preservatives, pharmaceuticals, aspirin, sleeping pills and tobacco that have burdened the body for so long, along with masses of fat, will be eliminated. 3 Phases of Detoxification CATABOLISM The first phase of the detoxification process involves the elimination or breaking down of tissue. This is the body’s way of beginning to clean house—in short, to remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues. Waste materials will be discarded more rapidly than new tissue can be made from the new food and nutrients being supplied to the body. STABILIZATION During this second phase, the amount of waste material being discarded on a daily basis will be more equal to the amount of tissue that is being formed and replaced by newer, higher quality foods. This should occur after an excess of material in the tissues has been eliminated. ANABOLISM The third stage of detoxification is a period when most of the wastes will have been discarded. The symptoms that will occur from a superior nutritional program could be a tendency to eliminate poisons or harmful drugs through the skin. People who have a tendency toward recurring skin rashes or eruptions will be most likely to experience this symptom. l |