Cleansing:

Your Liver:
There's alot of talk these days about colon cleansing, which is definitely important and we'll talk about in a minute, but I  first I want to emphasize the importance of liver cleansing.  Your liver is essential for metabolizing fats, carbs and proteins for use in the body.  It also produces bile which is key to the digestion and assimilation of fats.  If your liver is congested or clogged weight gain, indigestion, bloating, depression, elevated cholesterol and skin problems may be among the symptoms.  If you have a roll of fat around your middle, it is likely caused by a "fatty liver", in order to lose this fat, you will need to clean that liver out.

A simple homemade way of cleansing the liver is to drink a cup of warm water with half an organic lemon squeezed into it each morning before eating. Sorry, ReaLemon won't work, it's got to be the real thing, you need the enzymes! Drinking a cranberry juice drink, not a commercial cranberry cocktail but one like the ones recommended in the Soda Substitutes section under recipes, is good for you too.  Eating clean proteins high in certain amino acids, plenty of fiber and omega 3 fatty acids are also very important. 

Food Enzymes, Milk Thistle Combination, Liver Cleanse and Chickweed formulas are some of the NSP products we can discuss to help support that cleansing process.

Colon Cleansing
Few people with weight problems realize that unless you are going 3-4 times a day, you are constipated.  The volume you are eliminating should be pretty close to what you are consuming, and you should be eliminating regularly.  Consider this: if you left your lunch sitting on a picnic table in the 98.6 degree heat all afternoon would you eat if for dinner that night?  For breakfast the next day?  Of course not, it would be rotted, an unhealthy breeding ground for all sorts of toxins and bacteria.  That is exactly what is happening to food that sits in your colon for too long.  It will also dry out and become packed onto the walls narrowing the passageway for future eliminations creating a situation where diarrhea or straining becomes a problem.  The toxins and bacteria cause inflammation which can lead to leaky gut syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease.

Drinking lots of water, taking your essential fatty acids, and eating plenty of fiber (at least 40g!) is a good start but if you are looking for more, you may want to consider a packaged NSP cleanse to get you going.

Clean Start comes with both a capsule packet to aid in elimination and a powdered drink package that provides 10 grams of fiber which so many of us are desperately lacking.  It comes in 2 flavors, wildberry and apple cinnamon.

Dieter's Cleanse contains herbs not just for cleansing the colon but also the liver and supporting detoxifying, the glandular system and digestive enzyme and bile production. 

Other products that may be beneficial to some people include: Para Cleanse which also eliminates parasites, Tiao He Cleanse a chinese herbal cleanse which supports the metabolic system and Candida Clear which works to eliminate Candida albicans overgrowth.