Should I go on a detox or a cleanse program?
Detoxification and cleanse programs can be really advantageous. If people go on a program like that and can combine it with a fast, they have to be cautious. Fasting for too long a period of time can actually slow down your metabolism, and that's not good. So, fasts that are very short in duration, maybe specific, under a doctor's guidance, or a dietician's guidance, or maybe you're doing it for a specific religious reason or ceremony, and you do it for a short duration, that's okay. If you are doing sort of a detoxification cleanse program, you're getting rid of both the good and bad bacteria in your body. You have to put the good bacteria back in – that's what helps to digest the food. We get the good bacteria, actually, from yogurt – and it's called acidophilus. People can get that in a supplement form as well and it has to have a minimum of a million and up four billion live organisms in it. Now that may sound like a mad science experiment, but it's actually very, very good for you and that's what helps improve digestion. So if you do a detoxification, a cleanse, and a fast – if you do all that sort of thing, make sure you put back in what are called the pro-biotics, the good bacteria, which helps the digestive tract and helps you assimilate your food and will improve overall intestinal health.
