Betina Thygesen

Do you ever get an urge to throw out all the old clothes that you never wear, pots and pans that you never use or to clean out the dust in the back of your closet? I do –not often but at least a couple of times a year, and just a few weeks back was that time - I guess it’s in the air! 

The thing is that I do not really have a lot of stuff in the house to get rid off! This urge doesn’t really make any sense and as I asked myself whether this might be a mental thing I came to the conclusion that it was. It was my body’s way of asking for a clean out of all the heavy winter foods just as my skin is longing for the sunshine to soak up some vitamin D (makes me look healthy too) now that all the tender greens are ready to be picked. Spring represents new beginnings in nature and we, as humans, are part of that cycle. 

What to do? You guessed already --- it was time for a cleanse! 

I am very fortunate to have worked with a doctor in Switzerland who taught me a detox program that works very well for virtually all of us whenever we feel a need to rejuvenate. For people with undefined intestinal, abdominal, mental and rheumatic ailments as well as for those suffering from allergies, arthritis and cardiovascular problems, this detox program can prove amazingly powerful. People (like me) with autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia truly benefit from 2-3 weeks on this diet whenever we feel out of balance. Detoxing indeed is a great tool that we can all practice in our every day life to keep inflammation of the body at bay. 

Upon having completed 10 days of detoxing, I will start by reassuring everybody who care to listen that it is easy and completely pain-free. You will not starve, indeed you will be eating quite substantial amounts of food. As you will eliminate 90% of all foods known to cause allergic reactions, there is no coffee, alcohol or refined carbohydrates. Now this means that you will feel … well … not so good on your first and maybe second day of the detox. If you are really hooked on coffee and think that it is the coffee (and the refined carbohydrates that often accompany the coffee) that makes you wake up in the morning though, the most fantastic thing will happen (if you keep going beyond the second day☺) and that is that you will discover that your have much more energy without coffee and those empty calories. After as little as 10 days I can assure you that the coffee will have no power of you, at all! Now how amazing is that? 

So not only do I feel that I am back in the zone - as I continue the program for another few weeks I will keep experiencing: 

• • Increased mental alertness 
• • Deeper, more restful sleep 
• • Fewer headaches and sinus problems 
• • Greater energy and vitality 
• • Further reduction of MS symptoms that had briefly resurfaced 

If you would like to learn more about how and when to detox and what to experience then I invite you to sign up for the workshop on this subject scheduled for May 14, 2008 and May 21, 2008.