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I went down the rabbit hole after reading/listening to some great information from Pam Popper. Pam is a naturopath who works/lives in Columbus, Ohio. She is an advocate for a whole foods plant-based low oil diet.
A whole food plant-based low oil diet is strongly advised by most cardiologists and cardio-thoracic surgeons.
For many years I have lived a whole food plant based diet, it wasn’t until recently that I tried meat and animal products again.
I did that for a few years from 2017 to mid 2020 and then I had a crisis of ethics. I could not continue eating in a way that I was sure was contributing to the degradation of my health.
It is in September that I recommitted to the WFPBLF lifestyle and I have felt amazing ever since.
I started using Engine 2’s meal planner which allows you to copy all ingredients into a single spread sheet that you can send to your local grocer.
This helped me to jump start to my way back to health.
Living this lifestyle for the past three months has already had a profound effect on my health. My cycle has become more regular and the inflammation I experienced after having major surgery was much less than the normal patient.
I first heard about OHS a few years ago from a colleague. Optimal Health Systems is supported by Dr. Brimhall and Dr. Harris. Dr Harris is considered the expert in methylation and he uses the methylation and genetics testing kit to get to the root cause of many chronic issues.
I have not attended these seminars but decided that I should take some time to detox my body before my upcoming jaw surgery in the fall.
For the past month I took:
Female +B
Opti-Para
Opti-Mito-Force
Soft Cleanse
This review is on the soft cleanse. It comes in a neat and clean box that allows you to punch out a hole in the bottom and the supplements are on a roll that you tear off each morning and evening. They are labeled morning/evening so you know whether you’ve taken one or two for the day.
Each packet contains 5 pills:
2 FloraPlus
1 Liver Kidney
2 Opti Cleanse and Repair
From OHS website: “The Optimal Soft Cleanse Pak combines two formulas and utilizes a proprietary chlorella herb and patented glutamine blend to aid in cleansing. In addition, it utilizes special pectin fibers, along with nitrogen from glutamine, to aid in the safe removal of debris.”
“Key Ingredients & Their Roles Licorice Root – Support gut, liver and immune health Psyllium – Bind to and remove heavy metals Oat Bran – Promote a healthy colon Celery – Inflammation reduction Sweet Potato – Natural anti-inflammatory that promotes liver health Pectin – Bind to and remove heavy metals Chlorella – Bind to and remove heavy metals Jerusalem Artichoke – Help detoxify liver Barberry Root – Natural detoxifier Dandelion Root – Encourages removal of toxins through sweat, bile and urine Milk Thistle – Promote a healthy liver”
www.optimalhealthsystems.com
I’ve had a great experience with this soft cleanse and noticed that several key signs of detox were present.
The smell of my sweat changed and became less pungent.
My face has broken out several times and toxins leave through my skin.
I checked my Zyto score and all of my body systems balanced out.
It’s important to detox every 6 months especially in 2020. We have toxins in water, in the air, in our food, basically every thing we do contributes to our toxic load.
Essential oils are quite simply the oil that comes from a plant when you press it extremely hard. You can extract this oil from herbs, flowers, and roots. There may be others but these are the most common. Using plant essential oils has been around as long as there have been plant and human interaction.
Before the most recent craze of using essential oils for everything from toe fungus to hair serums, we were using essential oils and not even realizing it. Chewing gum for instance was originally flavored with peppermint or spearmint essential oil.
Many shamans, natural medicine healers, and early doctors used essential oils quite often to help heal their patients. You might think that we have come a long way since then and why should we go back?
Using Plants in Modern Medicine
Today many great discoveries in medicine are still found using natural plants. There are many botanists, pharmaceutical botanists, medical doctors, and researchers who are looking all over the world for natural cures to diseases and infections. If nature made it, then surely nature can kill it?
Once a plant, flower or herb is discovered then they bring it back for testing and to learn about its chemical composition. Let’s say for instance that a plant or herb is very good at curing disease Z, but this plant only grows for 1 month each year on a high up rock in one deserted part of a far away country. Well then, it only seems natural that we would figure out what makes it so helpful and try to recreate it in a lab. This would save the natural environment from unnecessary exposure to trucking, development and other unpleasantries.
Since the advent of “modern medicine” this has been the standard practice. Find something useful and recreate it in a lab for mass production to help as many people as possible.
The Problem with This Solution
There’s always a problem, isn’t there? When we mimic plants and herbs that we find naturally occurring we end up making mirror images of their chemical composition and this doesn’t always mesh the same with our systems.
As the saying goes “nothing like the real thing”. So while, for some very expensive, hard to grow plants and herbs it makes sense to do our best with the chemical copy, when we have the opportunity to grow the ‘real thing’ then we should of course take advantage of this.
The reason this wasn’t always so popular was due to the fact, that making the artificial version has always been more ‘cost effective’ shall we say?
Due to this fact, the corporations making these products decided to go with the artificial version instead and they have been putting some other less desirable additives into these products that we’re consuming as well.
There are so many great website that track this information. My personal favorite is www.ewg.org . The environmental working group is committed to providing the general public with the information what is in the products that we are consuming. I think this a great resource for anyone who is concerned.
