Starting the day with a steaming cup of coffee may be the normal routine of many of you! Most of you might go through additional cuppas all through the day to sail through the professional stresses. Probably, you are not aware of the ill effects of caffeine on the human body!
A dependence on the caffeine either through coffee or drugs may lead to the caffeine intoxication. The common symptoms of caffeine intoxication are:
Faster heart beats, occasional headache, stomach upset, increased level of cholesterol, heart burn, insomnia and many more. These are the situations when you need to follow a caffeine detox diet.
If you are seriously considering a caffeine detox, your goal should be to get completely rid of the addiction. Here is a step by step guide for relieving your body of caffeine toxins.
– The first thing that you should remember with regard to caffeine detox is: your body should be adequately supplied with essential nutrients during the detox program when body is releasing the toxins.
– The key to get rid of caffeine intoxication is following an alkaline diet. The intake of the foods causing acid like meat or sugar should be gradually reduced. Also avoidance of such foods as refined foods and baked foods will speed up the detox process.
– An ideal caffeine detox diet consists of fresh fruits, vegetable salads, soups, greens, seaweed, corn, whole grains-cooked and sprouted, soy products, and some nuts and seeds.
– You have to complement the diet by drinking at least six to eight glasses of filtered water every day. From time to time sip mineral waters. Consume baking soda or, potassium bicarbonate tablets, to enhance the alkaline effect.
– Vitamin C supplementation is a must for caffeine detox diet. It also eases out the withdrawal symptoms and supports the adrenals. They also provide you an anti-stress protection. So a caffeine detox program must be replete with several grams of vitamin C along with minerals like potassium, calcium, magnesium, and zinc.
– In order to get rid of the withdrawal symptoms, intake of vitamin B complex with extra pantothenic acid is highly recommended.
– A caffeine detoxification, program should be stretched over a period of one week or two. This will help in avoiding extreme withdrawal symptoms.
As you shift from caffeinated beverages, you can include a number of herbal substitutes to give you a stimulating and refreshing boost. You can consider drinking the tea made of roasted herbal roots like barley, chicory, and dandelion, which will nourish your body in addition of boosting up your spirit. Herbal teas prepared with lemon grass, peppermint, ginger root, red clover, and comfrey are also good energizing alternatives to caffeinated beverages.
Even the most devoted fast food buff will admit that all that we load our inside with do more harm than good to our health. One of the side effects of too much consumption of wrong food is the rising toxin level in the body. Although the human system is provided with the mechanism to cleanse these harmful chemicals naturally, when the toxin level crosses a certain level, then the body gives up and you need some outside stimulants to help your body resume its elimination process with renewed vigor.
Thank god, there are variety of such products that come to your help in cleansing your system at the times when the toxin level touches the mark of danger. How do you know that it is the times to take assistance of these detox aids? Well, there are times when you start putting up weight without any explanation, start donning dark circles under your eyes that scare away everybody from you, or you feel so drained out all day long that you hardly find out any interest in carrying out the everyday chores.
These were few symptoms of rising toxin level in the body. Here are brief descriptions of some of the most effective detox aids that would help you to gain back the health and vitality.
The detoxification aids are nothing but a range of herbal supplements and variety of other ‘nutraceuticals’ and functional foods.
Milk thistle is probably the most popular detox aid in the recent times. It is a kind of herbal supplement. The product contains a useful chemical element called silymarin. Silymarin is traditionally believed to enhance the liver functions and thus consumption of milk thistle boosts up natural detoxification function of the body.
Another popular detox aid comes in the forms of Pre- and probiotics. These products are believed to enhance the activities of gut bacteria, one of the friendly bacteria that take part in the body’s elimination process. The probiotics are found in huge amount in the food supplements as well as in the ‘live’ or ‘bio’ yoghurts. The probiotics are in the nature of live bacteria themselves and they help the other helpful bacteria flourish in the body and prevent the growth of the harmful bacteria. As a result the body’s elimination process works smoothly.
Use of artificial purgative practices and consumption of laxatives are other popular forms of detoxification. The colonic irrigation is increasingly becoming popular as the safest and most effective way of getting rid of the toxic substances from the body. The laxatives containing wheat bran has always been regarded as a simple but effective way of regular expulsion of toxin from the body.
Once you get back a clean inside with the help of detox- aids, stick to a balanced high fiber diet; this will help your body to resume and continue with its natural detoxification functions and you will not require undergoing any detox regimen in future.
The practice of colon cleansing is quite ancient and if we want to find references of it in the pages of history we can go back 4000 years and to the Egyptian civilization where we find the first mention of colon cleansing. Back then it was believed that the cause of all diseases was the colon and if maintained properly we will lead a disease free life. Such ideas continued to hold currency until modern science and medicine disproved much of the notions.
However, there has been a renewed interest in colon cleansing in the recent years as the number of colon related ailments have seen a steady rise. This can be attributed to our lifestyle where most of our diet consists of high processed foods and there is very little time for us to exercise. All these factors have compounded to make the colon unhealthy. So many practitioners of alternative medicine are advocating the efficacy of colon cleansing. Although not accepted by a large section of practitioners of conventional medicine, there is a sizeable portion of the same community which finds merit in the process of colon cleansing. And the colon cleansing industry has recently got a big boost from the Food and Drug Administration of the United States.
The FDA has recently provided formal approval to the colon hydrotherapy device developed by Prime Pacific Health Innovations Corporation. They are a manufacturer that deals exclusively in Colon Hydrotherapy, Colon irrigation, Colonics, Home Colonics or High enema equipment. The model that has received this approval is the AQUANET EC-2000 model.
This model is a result of the continuous research and development that the company had invested its resources in. this device is much more advanced than the conventional colon hydrotherapy devices which were in use till date.
The AQUANET EC-2000 model employs a highly sophisticated technology. The technology helps it to work in a gentle gravity flow mode at any time during a colon hydrotherapy treatment. Again when required it can be switched to pressurized mode as per the requirements of the patient, his sensitivity and how much he can tolerate. Of the various other new features, the AQUANET EC-2000 includes newly introduced safety components that would make the therapist and the patient much more confident about the entire process. The AQUANET EC-2000 colon hydrotherapy device also comes with a new advanced disinfecting system and a water purification unit.
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December 25, 2009 3:52 pm | 
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