Posted By: ladolceliving on

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008, 6:26 am

Like every thing else the human body needs to be cleansed inside out every now and then, otherwise the accumulation of harmful, or in some cases even poisonous elements, may cause serious diseases, mental and physical fatigue, pains in various parts of your body, and an overall degeneration.

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Tags: detox, healthy aging, natural detox, body detox, body cleansing

Posted By: azkaharagirl on

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008, 5:16 pm

It has been 13 days since I begun my detox.  After years of pleasure my crutch slowly began to become the bane of existance.  It was easy to give up during both of my pregnancies, yet out of preservation I quickly picked it back up once the babies came home from the hospital.  Of late, I had only kept up the habit for the kick it gave me, it was the drug of my choice and I knew I had to begin a life without my crutch soon.

It was my coffee in the morning and my beer in the evenings.  The cold silver can beckoned me everytime I opened the refrigerator door; the blessed and cursed Diet Coke.

Laugh you might, but caffeine had a powerful hold on me and became a necessity in my life since my first year at college. 

However it wasn't until my children were born that the kick was needed more and more.  Preservation, don't you know.  My two can a day habit became three, then four, then I stopped counting.  I grabed a can whenever I needed a quick jolt to deal with the tormendous job of raising two little tikes, of being the stay at home parent, of being the wife, etc.

It was my stress reliever.  Some people smoke, others drink, and some others even turned to legal and illegal drugs.  I chugged can after can of Diet Coke.  I figured that with my addictive personality, I could be so worse off than I currently was.  I don't drink and I don't smoke, so what is a little can of Diet Coke going to do to me?  It's not like it's LSD!

For some time know I have had the desire to quit my caffeine habit, hating the metalic taste of my crutch.  So that brings me to today, 13 days later.

After the first four or five days my headaches turned from mindblowing to mediocer in strength.  I still have no control over my temper or emotions, which I suspect have always been there, but dulled by my complicacy.  Otherwise the exodus has been rather painless - on me.  I'm sure that I have - at many times - been rather coarse and harsh to those around me, but as I told them before I went on this big adventure, it will be temporary. 

There has been one thing that I'm not too happy about.  Everytime my babe screams and won't sleep, or when my toddler throws a wonderous tantrum, I've been turning to chips and sweets to help calm my nerves.  Sweets has been understandable, that is the next bane to tackle; but I have never had the taste or desire for chips except on occasion.  I hope this is just a temporary side effect and will be easy to give up.

So at day thirteen I can honestly say that I don't truly miss my Diet Coke habit.  I do miss the cold, frosty, bubbly drink on the hot summer day (and living in Phoenix, we have quite a few of those!).  However my husband still drinks Diet Coke quite regularly in front of me, but has acquiesce my request to keep them out of the refrigerator.  Out of sight out of mind, isn't that how it should work?  Even though it is never far from my mind.

Tags: detox, mommy diaries, caffeine addiction

Posted By: emmaspirit on

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008, 1:10 pm

Green Medicine

What exactly is Green Medicine?  I like to think of it in terms of stimulating the body’s own resources and extraordinary abilities to repair and rebuild itself, and help reverse even serious illness, using diet, nutrients, detoxification procedures rather than drugs, to move our bodies in a healing direction.  It also means living a clean life at home, avoiding exposures, as much as possible, to toxic synthetic chemicals, it also means working to keep the larger world around us cleaner, greener, as it was originally meant to be.

This approach differs considerably from the more conventional medicine we know so well, the slash and burn treatment of illness that uses primarily drugs, invariably with long lists of toxic side effects, to blast away at the illness- be it bacterial or cancer.  Of course no one denies the benefits of technological, pharmaceutical based modern medicine but it has serious limitations, and often doesn’t work very well – witness the recent reports revealing that antidepressants, long considered one of the great victories of modern medicine, may overall work no better than placebo.

But, nice as it may sound, gentle as it might seem in theory, can green medicine really work, say against a terrible disease like cancer?  Well, my colleague Dr. Isaacs and I, certainly believe so, and our experience over the past 20 years in the trenches with at times the sickest of the sick has helped confirm that done properly and intensively, our brand of medicine can work.

Others think so too. Over the years, we’ve received some significant recognition in the form of funding by major corporations such as Nestle and Procter & Gamble, even the US National Cancer Institute. We’ve published results confirming the benefit of the treatment against the worst of cancers, and continue working hard toward its wider acceptance.

Though those who know of our work see it as a medical treatment, in fact, it really is, at its core, “Green Medicine,” an entire green lifestyle, that uses food and nutrients and enzymes to change our vital chemistry for the better, but that also requires patients lead a clean and green lifestyle.  We think of our therapy at three levels, personal green, the basics of good, wholesome nutrition, local green, the environment in our homes and offices, and global green – protecting the soils, the forests, the air and the earth.

Personal Green

In terms of personal green, our therapy, in its essence, consists of three basic components, individualized diets, individualized supplement protocols, and detoxification routines, such as juice fasts and colon cleanses, but it most certainly is not “one size fits all.”  We don’t prescribe just one magical diet, suitable for all sizes and shapes of humans, but a variety ranging from near pure vegetarian near raw nuts and seeds to fatty red meat three times a day, akin to an Atkins’ approach.  Our supplement programs are equally as varied, involving precisely designed combinations of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, again depending on the patient’s specific needs, and for our cancer patients, large doses of enzymes we believe fight the disease effectively.  The detoxification routines we believe help patients mobilize and excrete the myriad of toxic chemicals we take in daily from our food, water and air, and that we synthesize daily during our routine minute to minute metabolism.

In addition to whatever specific diet, supplements or detox procedures I might prescribe, since I started in practice, we have insisted our patients eat primarily, if not exclusively, organically.  We’ve long believed that organic food, whether of plant or animal in origin, not only lacks the many the toxic chemicals found in conventional selections, but provides more nutritional benefit.  For example, organically raised carrots yield higher quantities of essential antioxidants such as beta carotene, and grass fed beef can contain ten times the amount of the essential omega-3 fatty acids than cattle raised on grain in the feedlot.

(please see next blog posting for part 2)

Tags: medicine, diet, detox, alternative medicine

Posted By: emmaspirit on

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008, 3:36 pm

Yes, please come Oil Pulling with me…what is that you ask? Oil Pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic homeopathic treatment for detoxification in which you swish a teaspoon of cold pressed, organic sesame oil in your mouth for 15 minutes first thing every morning before you’re eaten and then spit it out (into the toilet, not the sink, to avoid blocking up the pipes).

This oil treatment allegedly pulls toxins out of the blood as it circulates through the thin lining of the mouth. Hundreds of websites recommend Oil Pulling as a wonder cure and hundreds de-bunk the theory. Some claim the simple technique reverses everything from constipation to heart disease to snoring to diabetes to wrinkles to cancer to insomnia to skin disorders and more. I’m not here to take sides in the debate or analyze the results of those who oil pull. But I’ve got 15 minutes a day to devote to science to check it out for myself.

Cancer cures aside, many of the folks who have tried Oil Pulling claim to have whiter teeth within days. Visibly whiter, clean teeth after just a few swishes!?! In a world where folks pay $600 to whiten and brighten their teeth with harsh chemicals while stuck in the dentist’s chair, I figure paying $6.99 for a bottle of sesame oil fits my green lifestyle and wallet much better. Who doesn’t want a safe, easy, inexpensive, non-toxic, natural, teeth whitener?

So I’ve asked 5 people who see me everyday to take a good long look at my teeth up close. And together we will monitor their whiteness over the next 2 weeks. I promise to stick with my typical meat and veggie diet (no blueberry pie!) and continue to use the same natural toothpaste throughout this experiment.

And I welcome you to do the same. Come take my “Oil Pulling Challenge”, and we’ll share our results. One small swish for science…one large leap for teeth-kind!

Mary Beth Gonzalez

Tags: teeth, natural, detox, oil pulling

Posted By: emmaspirit on

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008, 3:29 pm

Yes, please come Oil Pulling with me…what is that you ask? Oil Pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic homeopathic treatment for detoxification in which you swish a teaspoon of cold pressed, organic sesame oil in your mouth for 15 minutes first thing every morning before you’re eaten and then spit it out (into the toilet, not the sink, to avoid blocking up the pipes).

This oil treatment allegedly pulls toxins out of the blood as it circulates through the thin lining of the mouth. Hundreds of websites recommend Oil Pulling as a wonder cure and hundreds de-bunk the theory. Some claim the simple technique reverses everything from constipation to heart disease to snoring to diabetes to wrinkles to cancer to insomnia to skin disorders and more. I’m not here to take sides in the debate or analyze the results of those who oil pull. But I’ve got 15 minutes a day to devote to science to check it out for myself.

Cancer cures aside, many of the folks who have tried Oil Pulling claim to have whiter teeth within days. Visibly whiter, clean teeth after just a few swishes!?! In a world where folks pay $600 to whiten and brighten their teeth with harsh chemicals while stuck in the dentist’s chair, I figure paying $6.99 for a bottle of sesame oil fits my green lifestyle and wallet much better. Who doesn’t want a safe, easy, inexpensive, non-toxic, natural, teeth whitener?

So I’ve asked 5 people who see me everyday to take a good long look at my teeth up close. And together we will monitor their whiteness over the next 2 weeks. I promise to stick with my typical meat and veggie diet (no blueberry pie!) and continue to use the same natural toothpaste throughout this experiment.

And I welcome you to do the same. Come take my “Oil Pulling Challenge”, and we’ll share our results. One small swish for science…one large leap for teeth-kind!

Mary Beth Gonzalez

Tags: detox, oil pulling, teeth whitening