Would It Be a Good Time to Do a 7-Day Cleanse During the Stay at Home Requirement?

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Would it be a good time to do a seven day cleanse right now during this stay at home requirement? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert and and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Zeke and Zion from Instagram asks, would it be a good time to do a seven day cleanse right now during this stay at home requirement? Now, when you're listening to this, you may still have to stay at home. You may not be staying at home either. Which way? My answer is yes, and I'll tell you why when I come back.

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So is it a good time right now to do a seven day cleanse? Well, I think that every time, all the time, not, not every day of your life, but it's always a good time to do a seven day cleanse and it's actually something you want to rotate into your program a couple of times a year, especially if those seven day cleanses can have different focuses. Here's the takeaway on all of this. I actually think we need two different words. So I believe that we should have the word diet only mean something that you do short term therapeutically to achieve a specific result or learn something about yourself. So the Virgin Diet, you go through the process for 21 days of pulling out foods that you could be intolerant tolerant to. You do a little reset and detox. You get your new normal and then you go back and you test the foods one by one to connect the dots to see which foods work for you and which foods don't. And then you take that into your daily eating plan. So now you know which foods should you be eating so that you don't have the inflammation, the gas and bloating. You've got great energy and focus. Then the Sugar Impact Diet. This is really to help you figure out how many carbohydrates you operate best with and how to really balance your blood sugar and how to prepare yourself for intermittent fasting. And if you're someone who struggles with blood sugar control, maybe some high blood pressure, insulin issues, this is a great place for you to start. If you're planning on doing intermittent fasting, this is or keto, this is what you want to do beforehand. All right. Now what about a cleanse? Well, if you want to lose body fat, actually one of the most important things you want to do before you lose body fat is get your body to be able to detoxify. Well, why? Because toxins are stored in your fat and if you free up your fat but your body doesn't have the detox nutrients on board that it needs to to be able to get those out of your body, you make yourself worse, not better. So I love seven day cleanses, but I want to make sure because they're really the perfect thing to put before a big body fat loss effort. Now one of the things I really love with a seven day cleanse are to have different focuses in them. So I've done different ones. When I was on Dr. Oz, I did a teatox and that's something I've done with my community where we've used great green teas and different types of teas with a detox cleanse to help support better detox. We've done some, depending on the seasons, we'll do different types of detox detoxes. So that's another great thing you can do with the seven day cleanse is depending on the season because we should be eating seasonal and local and organic and rotating. Right. You can then do maybe a detox that includes some intermittent fasting or a detox that's more soothing with more soups if it's winter, or more iced teas if it's summer. So the answer is great time to do a seven day cleanse, especially when you're home, because you can tightly control your environment and your food. So it's an especially good time to take advantage of that. And I emphasize that because when this whole thing started to go down with the pandemic, I remember reading an article that said, forget the kale and quinoa, we're going for the Oreos and chips. And I thought, oh, we're in trouble. And sure enough, there's stats are now starting to come out about people who've gained weight during the pandemic. And my biggest hope was during the pandemic people would get used to cooking, realize how easy it is to eat healthy at home, and this would be a habit that sticks. So if right now that hasn't been you, hey, this would be a perfect time to add in a seven day cleanse and really get clear. And I like to add before I take away adding in more non starchy vegetables. Of course, we know that eating from the rainbow and green vegetables are really helpful for helping you get the toxins out, both from the fiber and some of the sulfur rich compounds and glutathione that you get from them. So yes, now is a good time to do a seven day cleanse. And yes, three months from now is a good time to do a seven day cleanse. And yes, this is something that you want to integrate into your lifestyle plan. It's just something that you do periodically, ideally with a group, with a coach, with an accountability partner, so that you really see it through and have success. This is JJ with Ask the Health Expert. I do this five times a week, so make sure you never miss a show by going to subscribetojay.com.

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