Detox Special Podcast: The 8 Most Popular Detox Diets, How To Detox, A Detox Q&A, And Much More!

In this Detox special podcast, the eight most popular detox diets, how to detox, a detox Q and A, and much more.

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Well, Jessa, we are. We are live. We're on video. Wow, look at our messy office.

This is not my messy office. This is Ben's messy office.

Why don't you move over a little bit so we can get on camera. This is going to be fun. Detox as much as I can get. Let's do a little clink, clink with our wine glasses here because we're not detoxing so that our livers are detoxing. We do not indeed lie around our house drinking alkalinized water and getting coffee enemas. So this is not going to be one of those detox webinars. What we want to go over today is, first of all, some of the dangers with detoxes and some of the big issues that happen when you detox. And then we want to cover some of the most popular detox diets that like celebrities and Hollywood and, you know.

They get that glow, that hair, that.

Body, Jennifer LOPEZ To Matthew McConaughey are doing. And then we're actually going to break about halfway through because the second part of this workshop is for our inner circle members only. And after we talk about those eight most popular detoxes and kind of the, the pros and cons of each one, what we're going to do is really delve into what I personally recommend that people do. And I think it's going to surprise a lot of folks what I recommend versus what the eight most popular detox diets are. And then we'll also answer your questions, your questions from Facebook. For those of you who are on the call live right now, for you inner circle members who are on right now, I already see some questions coming in. We're going to answer those as well towards the end. But first, let's just jump into a basic overview of detoxes in general, including. What's this book that you have, Jess, that you've been.

Well, we got this in the mail.

The 21 day sugar detox. You know why we got that in the Mail. Why? Because the same publisher that published. That published my new book.

Well, anyways, I've been looking at this because one of my girlfriends is doing it and she wanted me to do it with her.

So the sugar detox.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah, we can talk about that one. I think you have some questions about it, right?

Yeah, I have some questions about it.

Okay, cool. Well, first, let's talk about detoxes in general. So the whole idea behind a detox is it's specifically meant to clean your gut, clean your liver, in many cases, clean your kidneys, and then also, if you really want to take things to the nth level, clean your colon. And that's what a detox is. The purpose is to do things like remove heavy metals from the body, to remove a lot of toxins that the liver has theoretically not been able to get rid of itself in some cases. Some folks will argue to get rid of mucosal plaques and buildup in the colon and also to clean out the small intestine from the meat that is rotted in the small intestine for years.

I mean, the £16. Mythically lit.

Yes. Lives in your stomach, which we'll talk about now. The problem with detoxes is that a lot of people will live in a relatively unhealthy manner and then get on a detox.

That was my question.

And you experience. Because a lot of detoxes. And we'll talk about the eight most popular ones. A lot of detoxes are low calorie or they are nutrient, relatively nutrient void, so not nutrient dense. And a lot of the weight loss that you experience is a muscle cannibalization where you lose muscle and literally that down regulates your metabolism. If you do that for more than four weeks, it's your body trying to survive. Yeah. You mess up your metabolism in many cases for life. And it's a lot easier to get fat or to gain weight in the future when you do that. I know not everybody detoxes to lose weight, but it's something you should be aware of. It can also really dehydrate you. And if your cells are dehydrated for days and weeks in a row, that really improves.

It's kind of interesting because there's not a lot of vegetable base.

Yes.

Which is full of water, isn't it?

Yes. A lot of these green juices and cleanses and smoothies, they have water present in them. But what you'll find is a lot of folks will rely on the juices and the cleanses, and those actually do not give your body adequate hydration, especially if you are releasing toxins from the liver that are passed typically via the stool and the urine, you actually need much more water than you normally need. And a lot of folks rely on the juices, the cleanses, the supplements, and kind of forget the hydration part. So there's also a diuretic effect of a lot of the things that are used in juices from dandelion, if you're.

Not used to any of this.

Exactly. Dandelion to milk thistle extract, et cetera, stuff moves through you a lot more quickly. And when you're forming stool, a large, large part of stool, up to 80% in many cases, is just water. And so your body is going through water a lot more quickly, and so you get dehydrated. And then the other big issue with detoxes is that a lot of these toxins that you are releasing, you know, let's say you're doing like a heavy metal flush. And this is something I talked about on a recent podcast. A lot of these metals, if they are getting released into your bloodstream really fast, really quickly, or in really high amounts, or they're not, say, chelated, which means bound by a bunch of amino acids, they can cross your blood brain barrier and they can actually cause neural damage. They can kill nerve cells when something like mercury or let's. Let's say you've been eating like a bargain bin protein supplement from GNC or super supplements, and it came from China and it's laced. I mean, even the ones that don't come from China, they're laced with lead, usually not mercury, but like arsenic and lead are two biggies. People who do protein shakes on a daily basis and then do a metal detox. A lot of those heavy metals wind up in your brain depending on the type of metal chelation or metal detox that you do. So there's some pretty dangerous roads that you tread down when you start into a detox that folks need to be aware of. And we're going to talk about specifically.

A lot of people just take it as this crash course into dieting. And then if they're like, if I can do this, I can do anything kind of mentality.

And then.

So these people are nowhere where they should be to even be entering into a detox. You know what I mean? That's how I perceive a lot of it.

It's a quick fix, which you need to be careful with. Now, I'm not saying that I don't personally detox and that there's not a place for doing kind of like, okay, so if you look at like the some long living population, say like the Mediterranean diet. Well, the Mediterranean diet that we eat in the US Is kind of a bastardized version of the actual Mediterranean diet where they're fasting for 100 plus days out of the year. And each one of those fasts is a mini detox. You can do something like a 24 hour fast once every two weeks or once every four weeks. You can do a period of 30 days every year. Kind of like the Ramadan, where you are just restricting calories and you're giving your cells a break, you're giving your digestive system a break. There's nothing wrong with living that kind of cycle. But what you don't want to use it as is an excuse to kind of eat trash and then clean up the trash and then eat trash again. It's just like exercise. The best way to go with exercise, ideally is exercising 20 or 30 or 40 minutes a day rather than exercising for two hours a day for five days in a row once a month. When you throw up your hands and decide you're going to get in shape again.

Yeah, exactly. Generally happens around January 1st.

Exactly. So let's jump into these eight most popular diets. So are you ready for these, Jessa? The first one is called the Blueprint cleanse. So here's how the Blueprint Cleanse goes. It's a very popular juice cleanse. It was originally invented by a couple of gals at a health institute in Puerto Rico and they actually brought this to New York City originally. And the way that it works is every day you sip these six numbered juices that get delivered in a cooler pack to your door. And so you get to customize the client and choose whether you want to go three days. You can pick your level of intensity, meaning they have like beginner level up to, I guess, like blow your colon out. All out intensity. The more intense your cleanse, the more green juices that you drink, and the less intense, the more frequent fruit juices that you drink, which is kind of interesting. Now, the number of calories that you take in on this particular cleanse, the Blueprint Cleanse is 900 to 1100 calories per day, depending on whether you're doing the beginner or the advanced level.

So is the advanced where you do like 900.

They also have a juice till dinner option where you're actually doing 1400-1650 calories per day.

I don't think I've ever been that.

Low in my life, it's a little bit low. Like when you're getting up above 1500 calories, that actually will be enough to satisfy the metabolic needs of all people. This is something that we'll get into in part two of this podcast and that's kind of the exercise and physical activity component that needs to be taken into account. And I'll get into some of the issues there. But for now, that's what the blueprint cleanse involves. Here's the price. $85 per day. Per day. Unless you live in New York City, in which case it doesn't cost quite as much.

That's insane.

That's a spendy cleanse. So I looked up the blueprint cleanse online and I gotta tell you, when I look at the actual ingredients of the blueprint cleanse, it's not too bad. In terms of the actual ingredients. I think that one of the reasons that it costs $85 per day is because this is a little bit different than like the Naked juice or what are some of the other brands of like these green juices that you get?

The green juice, I don't know, there's like something like Bonner's Farm, Bo, something like that. I might.

They're not organic and a lot of them have been pasteurized.

A lot of them have bananas in them.

Well, they do a lot of thickener.

And stuff like that.

These particular ones do have, do have some, some amount of fruit in them, but they don't use many preservatives, fillers, thickeners, things that like the Naked juice and some of the popular juices at the grocery store have. So you're paying a premium for like a cleaner juice. But if you look at the sweeteners present in most of these juices, especially if you're doing like the, like more of the beginner level fruit ju. Main sweetener that you see in almost every single one is agave.

Yes, I knew it.

And agave is a laboratory generated sugar based syrup that's basically equivalent corn syrup except for, well, it's, it's fructose. It's almost completely devoid of nutritional value, even compared to like raw honey, because it goes through so many different laboratory steps when they make it, it's got a higher fructose content than any other commercial sweetener, which means that it is highly likely to elevate your triglycerid. Triglycerides, which can cause some pretty serious cardiovascular risk factors. And granted, fructose is the primary sugar in most fruits, but it's not Quite as concentrated as it is in agave nectar. High fructose corn syrup averages 55% fructose and agave is 70 to 85%, sometimes higher. There's some versions of agave that are 97% fructose. And this blueprint cleanse, if you look at the ingredients of almost every single juice on this cleanse, it's got agave in it. The other interesting thing about this is if you look at the ingredients of the juices themselves, most of this stuff can be made at home for a fraction of the price. And you're going to find this with a lot of these. For example, here's the cashew milk one that they do. It's 3 ounces unsalted raw cashews, 12 ounces water, a tablespoon of agave nectar, a teaspoon of cinnamon and a teaspoon of vanilla.

They give you the actual recipes, they.

Actually give you the recipes ingredients. So it's really one of those done for you things.

Ultimately that's fine, but I find it strange that they're charging you for the juice to come to your door, but they give you the recipe.

I did the math on the ingredients and you could do this yourself for about seven to nine dollars a day versus $85 a day. If you were going to do the blueprint cleanse, you can buy your own.

Juicer by the end of the week.

So here's the other issue, and this is one of the issues with many kind of plant based raw foods diets, juicing diets, vegan, vegetarian diets, things of that nature. This particular diet, even though it has some nut milks, is almost completely void in protein and it is very high in sugar and it's almost completely void in healthy fats.

So you're probably hungry a lot more.

Often than you're going to be hungry. But you're also looking at neural degradation and muscle wasting, especially if you're on the lower calorie version. So the blueprint cleanse I'm gonna give the thumbs down on.

But a. For convenience. I would love to have all my meals prepared for convenience.

And they're not using a lot of preservatives. So yeah, that's the blueprint cleanse. So the next one is the. And by the way, you don't need to go on a juice fast to reduce your number of calories. You can do a kale smoothie for breakfast, you can do a nice salad with some nuts and avocado for lunch, and you can do a fish with some Roasted vegetables for dinner and easily be it.

Well, remember that one time I had logged my diet for a week and it like consistently was right around 1400 to maybe 1600 calories a day. And it was. And I was totally never hungry, not one time.

And you're just eating.

And I was eating like sardines and nuts and salad and oils and avocado and stuff like that.

But a lot of the foods that you eat are they're either raw and unprocessed or they're not in their concentrated form, they're not in their packed package form. And so you're always looking at foods that are lower in calories when you're doing that.

Yeah, but I just find that interesting.

Yeah. Versus, you know, juiced foods. So cooler cleanse is the next one. This is, this is one that was created by Salma Hayeks nutritionist when she wanted a custom juice detox.

No wonder it's popular. It's got celebrity behind it.

Similar to the Blueprint cleanse, you get six daily juices delivered to your door. You start the day with a green juice and you end the day with a nut milk. Different to the Blueprint cleanse on the cooler cleanse you have to choose between a three or a five day cleanse. That's it. And remember, anytime a cleanse lasts three to five days, usually it's going to be extreme, it's going to be uncomfortable. It's not necessarily something that I recommend. Short cleanses are usually not that great for you and they're very tough. And they're also very expensive. This one's $58 per day for the all juice version.

Bargain deal compared to the other ones.

And then $72 per day for what's called the raw cooler version which also includes snack and a small meal made from raw foods. So I looked up the cooler cleanse and you actually get, if you do like the complete menu, the $72 a day get a three different cold pressed juices. You get what they call an energizing snack, a nutritious entree and a delicious gluten free dessert. For instance, their apple pie that you get is apples, raw almonds, dates agave, once again, lemon juice, lemon zest, vanilla beans, cinnamon, nutmeg and sea salt. So not too bad really. And when I look at the ingredients of for example like their entree, their cashew cheese ravioli, it's basically turnip cashews, hemp seeds, sesame seeds, some kale and cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, some herbs, some black Pepper, some garlic and lemon. Like, these are actually pretty solid.

That's not bad. I'm like, there's.

You're paying a premium. I mean, this is much unlike a TV dinner type of meal that's gonna be, you know, chock full of sodium and preservatives and vegetable oils. Again, very expensive. You could make that at home. You can make a ravioli like that at home, like for super cheap, but.

You'Re paying for convenience. The part about detoxes is people is the people planning. I think for most people it's just like.

Right. But you could go to the Cooler Cleanse website. You could read their ingredients off the. And you could easily do this.

I know, but I'm just saying from a lot of.

And you learn a lot about healthy eating, too. That's.

Yeah, that's actually why I'm kind of excited about doing this one, is because I'm going to learn a lot of new recipes.

You mean the sugar detox? Yeah. Now remember, it's 1100-1200 calories a day for the cooler cleanse. So once again, we're looking at potential for muscle cannibalization. And it does come with some emails that they send to you to kind of support you as you're going through. There's a little bit more fat in the cooler cleanse. Like their Brazil nut milk gives you 54 grams of fat per bottle. I like that about it. It's still pretty low in protein. But of the two between the blueprint cleanse and the cooler cleanse, just because the cooler cleanse is less expensive, it includes some extra entrees. If you were to like top this off with a little bit of extra calories so you're not kind of depressing your metabolism. Not too bad of an option. So that's the cooler.

$72 a day. That kind of.

So next we get to the Jill Pettajan cleanse. And Jill Pettigon was Donna Curran's personal chef for three years. And she introduced her first cleanse about seven years ago at a yoga retreat in the Caribbean. And so now you can get her. Her cleanses get delivered nationwide here in the US they're all organic. She includes blended soups made with whole fruits and veggies. She typically includes kind of more exotic pairings like you get like a butternut squash and curry soup or like a berriade with flax and Himalayan sea salt. Once again, everything is raw. It's very low in calories or relatively low in calories. It's about 1200 calories a day. $410 for the five day cleanse. Wow.

So that's really expensive.

It's again, pretty expensive. And I'll talk about, I'll talk about this towards the second part of this podcast. But like, I added up the cost of what I recommend in terms of a cleanse and it's about 30 days for around $130. But I looked at Jill Pettijohn's actual fact sheets for her nutrition labels.

I'm convinced you're saying that name wrong.

I could be. I could be because I'm just reading it. And again, her ingredients are not bad. So you're not dumping a bunch of crap into your body. The only thing I'm concerned about is that it's a quick fix. It's very low in calories and it's again low in protein. So you're going to have low energy levels and it's going to be a little bit tough on your body, but it's not too bad. Once again, you can get all the recipes off their website and make a lot of this yourself. Now next we get to the Master Cleanse. The Master Cleanse. You've heard of this one before? You know this one? I'm pretty sure you know this one. Okay. The master cleanse is the lemonade diet.

Oh, yeah.

So that one is basically liquid only DIY detox that involves drinking six or more glasses of lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. And you're also allowed to drink salt water in the morning and an herbal.

Oh, boy. Salt water in the morning, that's awesome.

And an herbal laxative tea at night to flush your body. You get about 670 calories per day. What? And you actually can do this obviously quite easily yourself. Beyonce says she lost 20 pounds on this one to get her ready for dream girls, and that was in 10 days. £20 in 10 days is very low in calories even compared to the others. Very low in calories. And once again, we're looking at maple syrup as being one of the primary ingredients, which is very high in the gut. If you look at it, you're actually.

It's higher than honey, isn't it?

Yeah. You're drinking multiple tablespoons of this high glycemic index sugar boosting maple syrup.

You would not want to be around that person until they were done.

Oh, it's a blood sugar level roller coaster.

Screaming maniacs by the end of that thing.

Very tough on your pancreas. And this is another one that sounds horrible that I would Be very careful with and steer clear of. And it's especially because of the potential for some metabolic damage. So I'd be pretty careful with the master cleanse even compared to these others. It's less expensive, but it's even more.

You'd have to lock it in difficult.

On your body and completely void in most nutrients.

I'd be an angry, horrible person.

So yes, your body, that sounds horrible. You basically just have diarrhea and fatigue the whole time you're doing it and.

Then like spikes in your sugar level and then crashes in your sugar level. That doesn't make any sense.

So number five is the David Kirsch 48 Hour Supercharged Cleanse. Once again, be careful with two or three day cleanses. It takes longer for your body. So you're looking at several days for your gastric mucosa and your gastric cells to turn over. You're looking at a good 20 to 40 days for most of the other cells in your body to turn over and for you to kind of be made anew to get a little woo woo. So a two day cleanse is something I raise an eyebrow at. It's used by celebrities like Anne Hathaway and Liv Tyler and it's a fast, intense detox diet that's built around the philosophy if you're chewing, you're cheating. So it's a liquid only detox. Everything is a bottled lemonade like supplement that's basically a pre made master cleanse. But there's a few fancy add ins. So agave nectar, you get what they call fiber salt too. Cranberry extract, milk thistle seed extract. Over 48 hours you drink half a cup of the lemonade supplement mixed with equal parts water. So it is hydrating four times a day. Get this, 80 calories per day. What? 80 calories per day. Now there's no way that living on 80 calories per day, how do you even function? Is that great for anybody? Especially if you're living a moderately lifestyle and you're trying to get around during the day. I'd live in my life starving. Your body creates a lot of side effects and this is another one that I'd be pretty careful with. Now Kirsch also has a five day detox that gives you protein shakes and a meal a day. You're at about 800 calories per day on that one. And I looked up the ingredients of his five day something.

You looked at me like that was generous or something compared to his other one.

Yeah. And it's actually not too bad. Again it's very expensive. But the ingredients that he uses, when I go over them, you know, if you look at like his protein plus shake, it's a whey protein isolate, some l glutamine, some medium chain triglycerides, silica and sea salt. So not a lot of the nasty stuff you get in the average crap protein powder. But once again, pretty, pretty intense.

I feel like this is like, so the first one was like a sprint triathlon and this like the third one was like an Olympic. And now we're into the iron man of detox because this is like, these are the hardest.

So finally we're going to get to another one that I'm going to give kind of a thumbs up on. And that one's called the Clean Program. And this was founded by a guy who's been on the Ben Greenfield fitness podcast. His name is Alejandro Junger. And he actually tried this self healing experiment where he used a detox to cure his irritable bowel syndrome. And he works with his patients with doing a 21 day cleanse. It's called the Renew and Rebuild cleanse. And you actually get two solid meals from meats and fruits and vegetables, two liquid meals that actually give you decent amounts of protein and a little bit of fiber. And then you also get three pills that kind of provide some extra nutrients. Now with this one, you're getting 1100-1500 calories per day. So it's not super duper low. It's 250 to $425 for 21 days. So it's expensive, it's pricey. You're not getting an unhealthy calorie deficit. You're getting a lot of the vitamins and minerals, but you're paying a pretty big premium for the supplements that come with it. There are, and again, I'll get to this later on in the podcast. There's less expensive ways to go to get the same amount of nutrients and not have to pay top dollar for these type of supplements. But this one, you're getting adequate protein. He's even including some healthy, you're getting your nutrient bases covered. So the Clean Program of everything that I've gone over so far is probably one of the better ones because A, it's not super short, so it's not a sprint, and B, it gives you adequate nutrients and protein. Okay.

My biggest problem with all of these is you learn absolutely nothing. It's all done for you.

Yeah, well, the Clean Program, actually you are choosing from an approved list of meats and fruits and vegetables and preparing meals.

So you actually prepare food.

These are not shipped to your house. Okay. Supplements are shipped to your house.

Okay.

But you actually. And the liquid meals are also shipped to your house, but the solid meals you're making yourself. So this is one that. And this is the reason I had him on the podcast, because I read his book and a lot of the people I have on the podcast are people I agree with. Yeah. So this is one that I'm okay with. But it's spendy if you add in, you know, and, and this guy makes a lot of money on, on his detox. But it's called the clean program and it's not too bad.

Okay, well, at least you're learning something in this one.

Yeah. The next one is the Martha's Vineyard diet. And the Martha's Vineyard diet is a three week liquid fast. And it's, it's designed by a registered nutritionist, or not a registered nurse, an RN and a PhD. And the way that it works is they combine supplements and juices and soups with herbal teas and digestive enzymes. You give your body one of these drinks every two hours, and it's got like a mixed berry supplement, a green supplement, what they call their regenecare joint supplement, a glass of juice, and a homemade vegetable soup. And then between those meals, you get to drink water and tea, and it adds up to 800 to 800 to 1,000 calories per day. And this run is about 12 bucks a day, which in my opinion is still pretty expensive going from what was the first, compared to what you, what you, what you can be eating. Well, the other one is. Was 85. Yeah, the other one was $85 a day. So I still think $12 a day is expensive, though. Like, if you sent me to the grocery store, I could eat like a king on $12 a day. I know I'd be eating, you know, and like I said, people, wild salmon and kale and vegetables, people go this route.

They don't feel they can do it themselves.

Right.

They go for it. That's what, that's what they're paying for.

Part of this is setting yourself up for success, for life.

I know that. That's exactly how to prepare life. But the draw to a lot of these is because people don't want to do it themselves.

Well, if anyone has ever tried to do just liquids for 21 days, that's hard and it gets boring. And you also are again, sending your body a message that there's a food shortage. And you toe pretty dangerously close to that four week timeline of actually doing damage to your metabolism on this diet. When I look over the ingredients of a lot of the shakes and mixes that you're getting, in the Martha's Vineyard diet, they use a lot of sunflower oil. The top three ingredients are fructose maltodexterous. Oh my gosh. You get cherry juice crystals, orange juice crystals. It's kind of like the master cleanse in terms of the amount of sugars that you're dumping into your body. So again, we're looking at a little bit of an issue with like the pancreas and overloading yourself with insulin production. I'm gonna give the Martha's Vineyard diet a thumbs down.

Yeah, I would too.

So so far, just for those of you keeping track on the tally, I'm giving the blueprint cleanse kind of a sideways glance, but it's super expensive. The cooler cleanse, same thing. Expensive, but you could do it if you added in a little extra protein. The clean program by Dr. Junger is getting a thumbs up and then we're going to move on to the next one. This one's a, it's actually got a Thai name and in Thai it means be healthy and be strong. It's called Kang Rang K E N G R K E A E N G R A E N G and this one was started in the kitchen of a Stanford graduate who was experimenting with creating her own detox. It's a vegan cleanse and you get three drink mixes a day. You get to eat as many fruits and vegetables as you want. It's dairy free, gluten free and caffeine free, which most of these are. And then you get some pre made mixes of like probiotics and fiber and protein and freeze dried fruit. I looked over the ingredients and it is nice that they freeze dry their fruit. So there's not a lot of preservatives or chemicals. They use a lot of like probiotics. So you're supporting gut health, but this one I gotta give the thumbs down on. There's a couple reasons. There's a lot of soy protein, even though it's non GMO soy protein, especially for men, that can cause some serious issues because it will bind to a lot of the receptors that testosterone would normally be bound to. And it can also upregulate estrogen presence in men's bloodstream, which can cause like man boobs and, you know, guys crying too much and stuff like that. The other issue with this one is it's a little low in calories. It's about 600 to 700 calories per day. And for $14 per day, if you're just eating 600 to 700 calories, it's kind of.

I'd be like, I'm getting gyps here.

Kind of a bummer. Once again, you could eat like a king on $14 per day. And that actually does not include the produce cost for your own produce that you're eating over and above what they send to you. So it's a little spendy. You're getting very little of the essential nutrients that your body needs. You're not getting any of the healthy fats. So you're not, you're missing out all your fat.

What is the logic behind vitamin D.

Vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin K? The logic behind this is the logic behind a lot of these different cleanses and that is that they feel that animal based compounds are full of toxins, which is true in some cases. If you're eating commercial meats, they're all based around the fat is bad concept, which is totally not true. Coconut oil, for example, has potent antibacterial and antiviral properties. Most essential oils are actual. Those are fats, folks. Like oil of oregano is a fat. Goldenseal oil is a fat. Fennel oil is a fat. A lot of these essential oils, yeah, strong detoxification properties are fat. That's grass fed butter, which also has really good detoxification properties. That's a fat. So it's kind of based around our understanding or a lot of western diet understanding of fat being bad, commercial meats being bad. And I'll say that for commercial meats, if you were going to do healthy fats and wild caught organic meats, you could easily do a detox. And I'll talk about that more in part two, how you could do a detox. I've actually got a specific diet that would cost folks about $12 total. Teaches you how to do everything at home. I'll get into that in a little bit. And it includes meats, includes adequate fats, it includes adequate carbohydrates. And then if you combined this with a specific supplement protocol, you'd have a really nice one, two combo. So we'll get into that. Gosh, Kang Rang was, was the last one. Those were, those were eight of the most popular detox diets.

And again, here's my big thing. I asked you what the logic was about these calorie restrictions. I really think these people are more appealing not to health and rejuvenation, but more for weight loss.

Well, yeah, a lot of them are rapid weight loss diets. And there's been some really good studies on rapid weight loss diets that show a yo yo effect where the yo yo up is higher than what you actually lost. Right. So it's something that you really need to bear in mind. Now granted, the longer diets that are based more on real food, that give you adequate protein, healthy fats, and on Most days exceed 1500 calories are going to be more supportive for long term weight loss than some of these low calorie protein void healthy fat void detox diets like the cleanses and the juices. And again, you pay a lot of money for these. Now one of the other things that you need to be aware of is a lot of these are extremely high in fiber. And the basis behind that is they want to cleanse your colon.

What I've heard is referred to is fiber is what sweeps out your.

Yeah, exactly. What they say is that they're based off this idea that the colon has this toxic mucoidal plaque in it. And that's what a lot of colon cleanses are based around these mucosal plaques. And if you were to go get a colonic or, you know, shoot a high powered jet of water through your colon to dislodge, just go skiing.

Just go skiing on the water.

I actually did that. This gross story snowboard snowboarding last week when I crashed. I had to make a trip to the men's room in the lodge because I crashed hard and.

No, I'm talking about water skiing.

Oh, you're talking about water skiing.

You go water skiing and just crash really hard. There's your colon.

You put enough pressure on the colon. Yeah, exactly. Anyways, though, there have been literally thousands and thousands of intestinal biopsies performed in medical research studies that have found zero presence of these ubiquitous colonic plaques or these seemingly ubiquitous colonic plaques. Okay, So I really have a very, very much raised eyebrow at the eye.

It's like the mythological £16 is just.

Sitting in your intestines, either coming in from the mouth end and doing a high fiber and herb cleansing formula, or doing the enema or the colonics, when in fact there are safer, lower fiber, mineral based ways that you can cleanse your colon. And I'll get into those in a little bit that are lower in fiber because fiber, the whole idea behind fiber is it attacks your digestive tract. It actually causes your digestive tract to create mucosa, which allows you to digest your food a little bit better. But the idea that fiber is actually able to break down the lining of your gut, your small intestine or your large intestine, it's roughage. That's what it is. It's called roughage. There's a law of diminishing returns. And once you get above about 40 grams of fiber a day, which many of these cleanses do, you can start to experience effects like diverticulitis and internal bleeding and hemorrhoids and a lot of these issues. You can even get this rectal prolapse kind of issue where too much fiber can actually cause your rectum to kind of come out your butthole. That's what a prolapse is. So there's a lot of things that you got to be aware of when it comes to these high fiber colon based cleanses. I'm not saying that like stop eating greens, Gersten therapy for cancer or enemas and colonic cleanses won't necessarily do anything for you, but it is probably a myth that you have these large buildups of colonic plaque. And likely the mechanism via which those enemas or colonics are working are by improving the health of the colon through enhancing the bacterial presence, which is going to do things like produce fatty acids, allow for production of a lot of vitamins and minerals that are going to get reabsorbed in the large intestine. So there's some other stuff going on above and beyond, just like cleaning, you know, tootsie rolls out your backside. So. So that being said, we are going to actually get into part two of this podcast in just a second in which we're going to answer listener questions about detoxes and then we're going to get into what I Recommend. I've got 5 steps to go through a detox that I recommend. I also want to get into your questions, Jessa, about this sugar detox. But unfortunately we are going to have to say goodbye to our non inner circle listeners for this part of the podcast and I'm going to press stop recording on this part and then we're going to keep going. For those of you in the inner circle and for those of you listening who are not in the inner circle, pretty easy to join. Just go over to BenGreenfieldFitness.com inner circle. We've got 60 plus workshops. We've got more than 800 different forum threads on a variety of topics from natural health remedies to fitness to exercise. It's a 24, 7 support forum awesome community inside. It's 10 bucks a month and it's a real bargain in terms of what you get. And Jess and I are always popping in and helping folks out, so check that out. And for those of you who are in the inner circle, in on the call right now or listening to the replay or watching the video, let's jump into part two of this detox podcast.

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