After a week of clean eating, it is time for the liquid phase of the Wellness Cleanse, so I spent tonight prepping. I made my own vegetable broth by boiling a bunch of veggies and herbs and blending them together.
"Golden Milk" with turmeric and honey.
The Master Cleanse drink of water, maple syrup, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper.
We had a nutritionist speak to us last night...she is a a board certified nutritionist and runs a practice that, as she says, takes patients who are "train wrecks" as well as people interested in improving their health. The talk was so interesting! Some of the more interesting points:- Milk sugar aggravates our digestive system, after cleansing from dairy if you choose to reintroduce it back you should use organic, pro-biotic rich, and hormone free milk
- Instead of milk in coffee, use a little whipping cream or half and half, both are low in sugar, low in protein
- We should all be taking pro-biotics, a multi-mineral, vitamin D, and an active B-complex. However, the FDA does not regulate vitamins/supplements so many times we are taking things that have lots of additives that are not healthy, some recommended sources are Numedica and Orthomolecular.
- Soy has an estrogen-like hormone that is not exactly like the hormones in our bodies, thus we should try and limit/avoid soy because it often causes hormone imbalance
- Gluten is the worst...it is very inflammatory. We're all intolerant to gluten, but to different levels.
