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Fair Oaks Health News

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January 8, 2017

Time to clean up our act

Hi ,

The holidays are past and the New Year has started. It is time to clean up our act once again. Most of us indulged in fattening foods, inflammatory foods, and just plain poisonous foods sometime over the last two months. The short days have slowed down our metabolism and the toxins have built up in our systems.

Toxins come from many different sources. A whole boatload come from the natural metabolic processes every healthy body has. Another load comes from the heavier wintertime foods we eat during the holidays. Then comes the sugar toxicity, cooked polyunsaturated fats, bright food colors, preservatives, and just plain too much food. The last one is a real sneaky source of toxicity, because of snacking on goodies. Our system needs a minimum of 12 hours a day, every day, without food so our system can switch over to detoxification mode to clean up things from the days’ activities. Snacking blocks that by having us eat during more hours of the day.

So what does it take to kick our bodies into clean out mode?

Freeing up the time for our liver to do its job detoxifying our body is the simplest and most critical step we can take. The idea is to confine our eating to only 8 hours of the day. It does not matter which 8 hours we choose, as long as they are all continuous. From the time we eat our last morsel of food we want to give the body 16 hours without any other food. It will use 8 of those hours to finish up processing the food from the day, then it automatically kicks into detox mode for the next 8 hours.

The liver is the main player in cleaning up our body, and there are many things you can use to support its successful cleanup of the toxic wastes that have been building up in our system. Dark bitter greens, like beet

tops and dandelion, are really helpful to stimulate flushing of the wastes into the intestine to then be dumped out into the toilet. Eating lots of fiber helps to carry the wastes out of the body, especially fibers like oat bran, vegetables, apples, and chlorella.

Many people focus on cleaning out the colon, but this is largely unnecessary as long as you have regular bowel movements. If you tend toward constipation, I suggest taking about 400 to 900 milligrams of magnesium a day along with extra fiber and water.

The second most important organ for detoxifying the body is the skin. The skin acts as an extra kidney for filtering out toxins from the body. It does this when we sweat, so sweating is an important detoxification method. This can be stimulated through vigorous exercise or through the use of a sauna. Serious detoxification in clinical settings uses both exercise and a low temperature sauna, combined with high doses of niacin to stimulate a lot of sweating. Be sure when promoting sweating to drink lots of good quality water and take replacement electrolytes with it.

Good quality rest is also a detoxification requirement. It is when we sleep that poisons are removed from the brain and hormones are rebalanced.

Obviously while engaging in a detoxification process we want to eat only foods that will support detoxification and support healthy rebuilding of the body. Sugars, carbohydrates, as well as an excess of any food of any kind stimulate the release of insulin. Insulin inhibits detoxification. Insulin is the hormone that tells our body to store the stuff in our blood stream by opening the doors into our cells. We want the opposite to happen and have the cells dump out the poisons so our liver can process them and eliminate them. So avoid all sugars and most carbs while detoxifying. The only good carbs are those found naturally in non-starchy vegetables. Eat lots of those.

If you really want to get that detoxification moving, you will want to lose some fat weight, as most poisons are stored in our fat cells. That means your total calories during a detoxification will want to be under 1500 calories for men and under 1200 calories for women. That would look like lots of salads, steamed veggies, 2-4 ounces of protein three times a day within an eight hour period. Eat only one serving of fresh fruit per day – preferably berries, cherries, pomegranate, or citrus (no grapefruit). Bone broth is a good drink that promotes detoxification.

If you really want to kick that detoxification up to the total commitment, then I recommend going on a green fast. That means cutting your calories down to under 600 calories per day and eating the same types of food mentioned before, but cutting the protein down and upping the green leafy stuff. I suggest doing this for 3 weeks.

If your goal is to also lose weight, then you can do this 3 week green fast cycled between 3 weeks of the higher calorie diet mentioned above. Combine this with interval aerobic exercise training a couple times a week, and once a week very slow weight lifting, plus, as a bonus, a daily sauna. Do this and then you have a powerhouse weight loss protocol. This type of eating is perfectly healthy if you eat enough vegetables in enough variety.

Bonus detox can be achieved through the use of specific nutraceuticals – vitamins, herbs, and other supplements. I have a number of different types at the office.

Let’s start the year off on our best possible footing – a healthy body. This is the time of year the body likes to do this clean out process – it is built into our genes to do this during the natural time of food scarcity in the winter season.

Good Luck,

David

Ellen update:

Congratulations are in order for Ellen. Today she was able to carefully walk down the hall from the bedroom to the family room without holding on to the wall. We started practicing her walking without a cane but using the hall wall as a support about a month ago. I make sure she does not fall by holding on to a support belt. But today, although wobbly, she was able to make it to her wheelchair in the family room without using the wall.

Why communicating risk fails

Our world is filled with risk and we often look to experts and science in general to tell us what is safe and what is not. Yet this process generally fails and ewe end up only confused. The link goes to an excellent article on why we get confused and how to deal with this.

Risk communication

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"The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment."

~ Marie Kondo

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Inflammation stops fat burning

One of the big focuses this last year in the fat loss world was the understanding that the body converted ordinary white fat into high energy burning brown fat when it wanted to burn fat for energy. The latest new finding is that inflammation blocks this transformation of white fat into brown fat. All sorts of issues trigger inflammation in the body, helping to explain why weight loss is so difficult for so many people.

Inflammation

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"We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do."

~ Marina Abramovic
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Best sleep position

While we are cleaning our our body, we also need to clean out our brain. Researchers have determined that sleeping on our side maximizes the efficiency of the brain cleaning out harmful plaque and unwanted wastes.

Sleep position

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

~ Phyllis Diller

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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