Looking for a natural detox?
Whether you stayed up late for a party…
Ate too much sugar, salt, or dairy…
Or have just not been “living as clean” as you normally do…
There’s no need for detox diets or detox pills. Cleanse your body naturally with this morning hydration routine.
The ancient yogis had lots of purification rituals, and many are still appropriate for modern life. When I eat too much restaurant food, packaged food, sugar, salt or dairy, I don’t sleep well. I wake up tired, with a bad taste in my mouth and scum on my tongue.
Here’s what I did this morning to detox after two holiday dinners this week:
- Brushed my teeth
- Used spoon to gently remove residue from tongue.
- Ran 2 cups warm water with sea salt run through nose with Neti pot
- Drank 1 cup of warm water with lemon and ginger (sometimes I use teaspoon of apple cider vinegar)
- Drank 12 oz dandelion root tea. It’s bitter, in a yummy way. Bitter is one of the important 6 tastes, and we don’t much in typical American diet. Americans’ most commonly consumed bitter foods are beer and coffee. I don’t drink either of those.
- Drank 1 cup organic green tea. I use caffeine very sparingly. (It’s a drug.) I’ll make another blog post about that someday.
- Ate homemade food, including steamed kale and broccoli.
Most people don’t need elaborate, difficult and restrictive detox diet plans. Most of us just need to eat real, whole, homemade food. And when we get off track, we can get back on track by doing just that.
Let me know how you feel with the morning hydration routine!