Cleansing and Detoxification – Jameth Sheridan ND

(Notes adapted by me (L.B.) from a lecture by Dr. Sheridan)
If I didn't use HealthForce Nutritional supplements and
think so highly of them, I would not include this information.

Jameth Sheridan and Kim Sheridan are respected Naturopaths, health researchers,
nutritional consultants, product developers, writers, public speakers, and teachers.

They co-founded HealthForce Nutritional with a mission to provide highly researched,
select products and services that really make a difference in people's health.
Jameth and Kim have explored multiple aspects of health, healing, and regeneration.
They have been trained and/or certified in many modalities of health and health assessment,
including nutrition, biology/microbiology, detoxification, herbology, reflexology, iridology,
Rayid Analysis, Natural Hygiene, Ann Wigmore programs, Body Electronics,
various methods of body typing and live blood cell analysis, as well as additional
full spectrum health studies. For over 20 years, they have devoted themselves
to the search for true health and truly exceptional products for health and well-being.

On this page I’ll cover several topics:
1)    3 Levels of cleansing

2)    Ideal cleanse - superfood / juice cleanse
       Components of an ideal cleanse - Intestinal and Liver cleansing
       Recommended liver, gallbladder flush (per David Wolfe)    

3)    Questions and Answers about Cleansing:
       What will you be feeling during your cleanse?
       Will I be hungry during a cleanse?
       How long can you go on a super food - juice cleanse?
         Weight loss during cleansing.     

4)    Daily Nutrition during your cleanse - soups, juice, protein shakes

5)    Older forms of cleansing (Master Cleanse, Water fasting & Fasting)
       Are lemons really alkaline?
       Complications and problems of older cleanses

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1) 3 levels of Cleansing:

This is a summary of the 3 levels of cleansing one has the option of doing.
(A protocol is listed on the website (see below) and comes with the package).
Read below to learn about the components of a safe cleanse.

Dr. Jameth Sheridan has developed different levels of cleansing (Levels 1, 2, 3)
depending on how healthy (or unhealthy) you are.

Time of cleanse: Each step has 2 lengths of time depending on your health
                           and time to devote to the cleanse
     A) Faster  (more intense cleanse with potentially greater symptoms)
          3 days - Level 1
               7 days - Levels 2 or 3
     B) Slower (less intense cleanse with potentially less symptoms)
          (30 days) - all levels

HealthForce Healing Cleanse Level 1
 
HealthForce Healing Cleanse Level 2
 Additional - Powerfully supports Liver function cleansing & regeneration.

HealthForce Healing Cleanse Level 3
 Additional - Powerfully supports Liver function cleansing & regeneration.
                - ZeoForce - Zeolites heavy metal detoxification, non-toxic,
                                  deeply detoxifying, & alkalizing dietary supplement from
                                  Earth Clay (zeolite is formed when volcanic magna hits 
                                  fresh or salt water) that can be used internally and
                                  externally to help rid the body of toxins such as heavy
                                  metals, ammonia and other harmful chemicals and
                                  environmental substances.
                - Earth - essiac herbs, flax, chia, slippery elm: soothes colon,
                              supports blood sugar, colon health, detoxification,
                              immune system, and longevity
                - Parasite Formula - parasite and Candida cleanse


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2) Best way to cleanse is a superfood / juice cleanse.

Components of a Juice Superfood Cleansing Program:
Ideal cleanse for detoxification - produces less cleansing healing reactions
and provides a much deeper cleanse.

With the appropriate supplements you’ll have an easier time doing your cleanse,
potentially achieve greater results, and therefore be more likely
to want to do this again in the future.

1) Juices / Superfoods - 
    A) Health Force's - Vita Mineral Green and
    B) Health Force's - Earth a Healing SuperFood™ – (Level 3)
        provides massive deep superfood nutrition; provide alkalinity,
        anti-oxidants & nutrition
2) Intestinal Movement Formula – ensures bowels / intestines keep moving
3) Intestinal Drawing formula - removes poisons

4) Liver Rescue™ Liver Support – makes sure your liver is healthy
    (Level 2 or 3)

1) Add juices and Superfoods -
Alkaline raw vegetable juices (not sugar juices found in most stores).
Juices provide vitamins minerals, phyto-nutrients, anti-oxidants, alkalinity, hydration. Carrots are OK (Not straight, but mix carrots with celery, cucumber, lettuce, ginger, essentially any vegetables are good to juice.
Note - Cruciferous vegetables - like kale can be very difficult to digest RAW.

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For additional ideas on juices and raw soups to use during this cleanse - 
see the other section on this website - "7 Day cleanse"

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Health Force's - Vita Mineral Green
(Deep essential superfood with Algae, land & sea vegetables, enzymes, probiotics) - everything to support the body and detoxify it, alkalinize it,
and to provide the nutrients to keep the cleansing reactions going, and make yourself feel better during it. Also adds some proteins and some fatty acids.
Can take as much as want / day – NO toxicity. (too thick doesn’t taste as good)
Do along with juices (not in place of).

Health Force's - Earth a Healing SuperFood™ (Level 3 can be used anytime)
Roots and seeds, (to balance the blood sugar), great support for most people
as well as someone who is having issue with cancer.

2) Do something to move the colon –
Health Force - Intestinal Movement Formula – to make sure bowels move.

Suggestion: Start using the Health Force - Intestinal Movement Formula
for the 1st day and when your bowels are starting to move regularly
start the rest of the cleanse. If you start to detox and your bowels
are not moving the toxins will buildup, creating symptoms.

Herbal formula uses :
Rhubarb (doesn’t make bowels “grip” and
Aloe Ferox a special form of Aloe - a 2nd laxative helps make contractions,
Peppermint will prevent your bowels from contracting too much,
so you won’t be uncomfortable.
Wildcrafted Nopal Cactus – helps time release everything,
so gentile balanced laxative


Older cleanses used Psyllium and bentonite that helped the shape
of the colon but didn’t really move the colon well as they could.
They’re very effective cleanses. They seemed to work well but often things
would come out looking like these black things in shape of intestines.

Myth: What was taught in past about these cleanses is that
what comes out of your bowels was hardened mucoid fecal plaque – half-truth.
Over a 2 week cleanse you take in many pounds of Psyllium and
it takes up its weight in water. If you took all that mucoid plaque and
hollowed it out, the volume and size is far larger than your length of your colon.
All that material can’t be longer than your colon. What this black material is –
is Psyllium and bentonite mass. Into the mass is pulled green mucous, bile,
heavy metals and other poisons often from many many years ago.
Occasionally there is a chunk of encrusted feces that was stuck for a while
which is this hardened mucoid fecal plaque.

3) Is there a better way to detox the colon and
pull toxins out of the body ?

Health Force- Intestinal Drawing Formula has
slippery elm - more mucilaginous (slippery and gooey) than Psyllium.
It doesn’t stick in the intestines or bind you up like Psyllium and
is more mechanical and can actually can help the intestines heal.

Slippery Elm, Marshmallow can help heal leaky gut syndrome.
Bentonite is a good drawing formula to help draw in poisons.
charcoal (absorbs many more times poisons than bentonite), and
Zeolite which also draws out heavy metals and poisons.

Bentonite, charcoal and Zeolites suck out the poisons hard and fast and
into the slippery elm & marshmallow root, plaintain, carob mass.

(Some people have slight constipating affect because of charcoal see not above about starting the Health Force - Intestinal Movement Formula first to make sure bowels are moving).

Myth: Cascara Sagrada is called a mild herbal non habit forming laxative.
It is powerful but is habit forming and can be rough.

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Juice and Health Force- Intestinal Drawing Formula and
Health Force - Intestinal Movement Formula will remove toxins and pass them out of the body will help people feel better on a cleanse & will help the “depth” of the cleanse, as opposed to reabsorbing these poisons.

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4) Liver detoxification – (Levels 2 or 3)
Liver Rescue™ Liver Support :
Your liver is your main detoxifying organ, it’s like your oil filter.
It makes Co-Q10. Your liver makes more detoxifying anti-oxidants
than you can get from fruit or vegetables.

Milk Thistle Seed Extract (Silybum Marianum), and
Dandelion Root Extract (Taraxacum Officinale) are
2 nutrients in this formula among others to help support your liver.
Milk thistle seed extract will help you will feel better, and
helps the liver process the toxins more effectively.
People will feel better not because you have stopped the cleanse
but because you have increased the efficiency of the liver.

One of the liver's functions is to filter toxic materials from the blood.
The healthier you live your life, the less stress there is on any organ,
including the liver. When the liver is toxic, it dumps toxins into your colon
via bile. Then, if you colon is toxic, (which almost everyone's is)
these toxins get reabsorbed into the blood stream and much of them
are sent back to the liver, and then back to the colon via bile, and
then back to the liver.

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“Healing Crisis” - sometimes when people cleanse they can get
flu like symptoms, fever, sweating vomiting and other symptoms from a deep cleanse - it means your body is cleansing getting rid of these toxins & poisons.
Sometimes people will stop a cleanse to avoid these symptoms and
often return to bad food. This only compounds the toxic problems.

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3 levels of Cleansing:
Dr. Jameth Sheridan has developed different levels of cleansing (Levels 1, 2, 3)
depending on how healthy (or unhealthy) you are.

Time of cleanse: Each step has 2 lengths of time depending on your health
                           and desire to get through the cleanse
     A) Faster  (more intense cleanse)
          3 days - Level 1
               7 days - Levels 2 or 3
     B) Slower (less intense cleanse)
          (30 days) - all levels

HealthForce Healing Cleanse Level 1
 
HealthForce Healing Cleanse Level 2
 Additional - Powerfully supports Liver function cleansing & regeneration.

HealthForce Healing Cleanse Level 3
 Additional - Powerfully supports Liver function cleansing & regeneration.
                - ZeoForce - Zeolites heavy metal detoxification, non-toxic,
                                  deeply detoxifying, & alkalizing dietary supplement from
                                  Earth Clay (zeolite is formed when volcanic magna hits 
                                  fresh or salt water) that can be used internally and
                                  externally to help rid the body of toxins such as heavy
                                  metals, ammonia and other harmful chemicals and
                                  environmental substances.
                - Earth - essiac herbs, flax, chia, slippery elm: soothes colon,
                              supports blood sugar, colon health, detoxification,
                              immune system, and longevity
                - Parasite Formula - parasite and Candida cleanse


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Recommended liver, gallbladder flush (per David Wolfe) :

David Wolfe , "The Sun Food Diet Success System" raw food and nutrition expert
states that even if the diet is toxic and deficient, if the liver is still functioning
at a high rate, the body will compensate for deficiencies.
One of the main goals of detoxification is to get the liver healthy. 
Fasting on juice and fresh spring water helps the liver, overcome toxicity.

Herbs and supplements shown to be beneficial include milk thistle, dandelion
and its juice, Consider Health Force - Liver Rescue™ Liver Support
MSM (start slowly by adding 1 tablespoon MSN powder per liter water).

David points out that this flush increases liver function and bile flow as the bile ducts were a waste release area for the liver. Once the bile ducts are open,
the liver can detoxify itself excrete its waste properly.

Gallbladder Flush :
1)    Fast for 3 days with fresh, raw organic apple juice.
2)    Day 3 - during the evening - start on some natural laxative.
3)    Day 4 - 3 PM, at least two hours after your last drink,
       break the fast with 6 – 8 ounces organic cold pressed olive oil - drink straight.
4)    Follow with  6 – 8 ounces of freshly squeezed organic lemon juice.
5)    Rest the remainder of the day. Lie down on your right side & stay warm.
       It is a warm compress ( towel soaked in warm castor oil) or
        a heating pad on your abdomen over your liver (under your right rib cage)
6)    Day 4 -  during evening  continue natural laxative.

       This gallbladder flush will potentially flush out “gravel" on the gallbladder
       bile ducts & will be eliminated in the stool (may occur after morning Day 5).

www.davidwolfe.com  or
www.sunfood.com

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3) Questions and Answers about a cleanse

The HealthForce Nutritional Cleanses are designed to offset many of these
symptoms below. I list these feelings here so if they occur you'll understand
that these are likely detoxification symptoms. Realize if you are that toxic
do you want these toxins left in your body or are you willing to go through
a few unpleasant days to gain greater vitality and health ?

What you MAY be feeling : Day 1 You may feel tired during the day and 
you may experience hunger pains (which can be offset by taking in extra protein)

What you MAY be feeling Day 2 (and 3) : 
Again, you may feel tired during the day and you will probably experience hunger pains.

In addition, you may experience nausea, weakness, and vomiting. 
You may become irritable, have a foggy brain, be somewhat sweaty 

(the skin is an avenue of elimination), and have a unique body odor. 

All of these are normal reactions as the toxins begin to move through your body.


Will I be hungry during a cleanse?
Usually hunger will not be an issue and often greater energy will occur.
If you use the recommended soups, juices and supplements and
FOLLOW THE PROTOCOLS you'll likely do well.
If one is hungry take extra protein shakes
like Health Force Nutritionals - Warrior Food

Weight loss during a cleanse -
Is the super food juice cleanse the best way to lose weight?
You would want to add a few things. 
On a super food juice cleanse you are getting enough calories especially from
the juices so the metabolism will deepen slightly, and the thyroid won’t be depressed. 
After super food juice fast, your metabolism is more efficient and
it’s still going and if you add cayenne or ginger, it increases your metabolism
and they are both good to add to cleanses.

When you just do a “fast” or a water fast with no calories coming in,
your body’s metabolism plummets and the body starts to reserve energy,
your metabolism starts to get depressed, your body is protecting itself and
starts to slow down immediately. After a water fast, when you eat a little food
it harder to keep the weight off because your metabolism has been tipped so dramatically.

Exercise during a super food juice cleanse, is a good idea,
nothing drastic like major weight lifting but a smart exercise program
during this time helps reset your metabolism during the cleanse & weight loss.

How long can you go on a super food - juice cleanse?
If you have enough body fat there's no limit to how long you can stay on
cleanse, if you consume enough protein. 
As long as you have enough body fat and no contra-indications
you could go indefinitely, this has all the nutrients you need but the only thing
it is deficient in is calories. It also depends on your metabolism.

Great source of Protein / Superfood if on a longer cleanse :
Protein shakes with : Health Force Nutritionals - Warrior Food,
Health Force's - Vita Mineral Green and
Health Force's - Earth a Healing SuperFood™


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4) Daily Nutrition during your cleanse : Soups and juices
Examples of nutrition during day (have something every 2 - 3 hours.)

Protein shakes with :
Health Force Nutritionals - Warrior Food,
Health Force's - Vita Mineral Green and
Health Force's - Earth a Healing SuperFood™

Raw soups - have all the enzymes (Enzymes are usually destroyed by cooking)    
    HEALING SOUP :                                                  
       1 onion
       4 celery
       4 carrots
       4 avocado
       2 zucchini
       4 apples
       ½ cabbage         
       1 handful spinach
       soy sauce
       ½ clove garlic
       1 tsp. soy sauce (ideally organic)
       1 tsp. each - sea salt/ pepper 
       serve COLD (Don’t heat). 
     JUICE all ingredients (except - avocado, soy sauce salt & pepper)
       Blend avocado, soy sauce salt & pepper in a food processor) and
       Then add the “new juice” to the blended avocado mixture.
       Yummy

8 oz. alkalizing green vegetable juice (i.e., celery/cucumber juice) 
Nutrition :1 (watermelon juice with lemon, pear & lemon juice, veg. juice – (like V-8)         

Nutrition :2 (broth, miso soup, veg. soup - fresh is better              
Nutrition :3  Ginger tea (1 slice ginger root, 1 tsp. honey, 1 cup hot water
Nutrition :4 (Almond Avocado smoothie * )

Nutrition :5 (broth, miso soup, vegetable soup - fresh is better

Other suggestions:

Almond Mango smoothie – Juice: Almonds ½ cup, 1/4 avocado, 2 cups water, 1/8 cup dates
Almond Mango smoothie - Juice: Almonds ½ cup, 1/4 mango,  2 cups water, 1/8  cup dates
Pear & lemon juice - Juice: 1 pear, 1/4 peeled lemon, sprigs mint, ¼ tbs. raw honey, 1 cup water

Be sure to drink plenty of water – ½ body weight in oz. / day

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5) Some older more “traditional” forms of cleansing –

A) Master cleanse is often a first time cleanse for someone new to cleansing.
Master cleanse is a good way to start - you are eating less, and your body
is doing things, BUT there are better ways to cleanse & detoxify.

Master cleanse : 15-30 days cleanse using
A) Lemon juice,
B) Cayenne - good for circulation, helps the body heal
C) Maple syrup - helps keep your blood sugar stable. Stanley Burrows
    designed this cleanse, may have picked maple syrup, for it’s mineral content.
D) Water

Are lemons alkaline (or acid) ?
Lemons are commonly thought of falsely to be alkaline which they are NOT.
The way people measure that lemons are alkaline / acid is not complete.
Lemons have 3% minerals in them.  Foods are measured
by the mineral content ONLY and how acid or alkaline forming these minerals are.
(If more than 51% of the minerals are alkaline the food is said to be alkaline.
Lemons have 3% minerals and since there are more alkaline forming minerals,
lemons have been falsely associated with being alkaline.
There is more citric acid in lemons than the small 3% minerals.
An unripe green Meyer lemon is so acidic you could barely consume
it would also be considered “alkaline” by this standard. Lemons and
all citrus are acid forming. Tomatoes are considered alkaline forming
just like cooked tomato sauce. This is not necessarily a bad thing
as not all foods have to be alkaline forming, and many of these foods
are not nearly as acid forming as meat & other foods.

B) Water fasting – completely stop eating and consume water.
Advantages: Water fasting has helped people with their health and
lives compared to their normal way of living but water fasting
has its limitations as you now see.

Concerns and limitations of fasting
(food restriction, water or Master cleanse)
and why one feels toxic during a cleanse :

1) Results of a water fast are similar to a Master cleanse.
Body starts breaking itself down – both fat and muscle tissue.
It does spare survival organs such as brains, eyes, heart,
but does break down the non vital muscle and proteins.
When it breaks down these parts, the poisons and toxins get released
into the bloodstream and colon and its critical to be able
to eliminate these toxins from the body.

2) There are no bowel movements when water fasting
Can you imagine going to an outhouse which has not been serviced for
2 weeks and smelling the bouquet or drinking from the outhouse ?
(Obviously not as consuming our own feces will make us sick.)

This is a similar to what happens when you dramatically
cut back your food intake or go on a fast (like water or Master cleanse).
Whatever food you ate prior to the ? 1-2 weeks before fasting
is now sitting stagnant in the intestines. Food should be in the bowels
for a day or so, & any food no matter how healthy it is,
if sitting in the intestines for too long will start to rot,
putrefy, ferment & becomes toxic – called Auto intoxication.

You don’t want to be absorbing your own toxins do you? 
During a fast it is critical to move your bowels to get rid of the food present.

You can somewhat do it with enemas or colonics but you will primarily
only cleanse the large (lower intestine) To get the upper (small) intestines
you need some physical fiber or herbal supplement to move the toxins out of your intestines.
All the poisons being excreting in your bloodstream, need to have
somewhere to go and be excreted. If there is bile being released from the liver,
if there is no movement in the bowels to remove the bile to be excreted through
the intestines, the toxins in the bile get reabsorbed back from the bowel
into the bloodstream again.

2) All these toxins released by bodies’ cells during a cleanse are being
released into the bloodstream. When fasting there are no nutrients coming in,
and the bodies’ ability to detoxify these poisons are limited,
more so than when you’re eating food. This is good the body is dumping poisons
but there is nowhere for them to go.

There are a lot of free radicals in the blood stream, and there are no nutrition,
no fruits and vegetables providing antioxidants to act as radical scavengers
to clear these free radicals out.

3) Myth : When you are fasting, you’re not eating, & your body gets a complete metabolic rest.

Truth: you are actually eating the entire time you are fasting
as there is no point you are truly fasting, as you are eating the breakdown
of your own tissue meaning your cholesterol, triglycerides and uric acid
are going up and blood sugar is plummeting, because you are eating animal tissue
the entire time ? (you).

Fasting is a very acidic event so need to have alkalinity to offset this.


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