Detox for Women: An All New Approach for a Sleek Body and Radiant Health in Four Weeks by Natalia Rose

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Women long for the kind of beauty and health that can only come with clean cells. Yet many women find detox plans difficult to follow and are disappointed with the results. In her ten years of working privately with celebrity clients at leading Manhattan spas, Natalia Rose has discovered that traditional detox plans don't work for adult women because their microbial balance is completely out of whack. In fact, doing the wrong kind of detox can make their symptoms even worse!

Here is the solution. Rose has formulated a very specific detox prescription for women that is easy to follow and gentle on the system, yet yields fantastic results that are both immediate and lasting. In Detox for Women, she brings you her powerful step-by-step plan that will help you shed weight, look years younger, and radiate energy in only 28 days.

Like Rose's celebrity clients, you will love this plan! Rose steers readers away from traditional detox fare like fruit and nuts and cautions against eating too much raw food too soon. And while many detox programs do not allow you to eat at all, during the next 28 days you will enjoy

• Cooked foods that are easy to digest

• Treats like dark chocolate and wine

• Recipes that hark back to favorite foods like pumpkin pie and guacamole

• Sunshine for Breakfast! Rose's own elixir for health and beauty

• Great restaurants—this plan can even be tailored for eating out!

You will also luxuriate in relaxing baths, get plenty of fresh air, and enjoy meals that are simple to prepare, beautiful to look at, and delicious to eat. Like Rose's clients, you will probably also find that this way of living is so easy and rewarding that you will even want to make permanent changes after the 28 days are over.

With inspiring stories from real women, Natalia Rose doesn't just give you a detox prescription but also real hope for the kind of transformation you have always wanted.

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Detox for Women
An All New Approach for a Sleek Body and Radiant Health in 4 Weeks

Chapter One

Why Detox?

Detoxification is quite possibly the single most important thing we can do to improve our life. When done correctly, it removes all that stands in our way of pure energy, joy, and ideal physical experience. When we share space in our body with substances that do not belong there (created by an unfit diet-lifestyle), we give away our clarity, authenticity, and inner power. When we "de-toxify" (meaning we remove these harmful substances), we find ourselves in unfettered wholeness and thrive.

In my experience, the results of the Detox for Women method are powerful and immediate and they last. In fact, health and physique consistently improve over the long term. Here are some of the common reports I receive from my clients who follow this method:

• Rapid, lasting weight loss
• Elimination or marked decrease of cellulite
• Firming and tightening of the facial skin
• Firming and tightening of other areas on the body
• Increased circulation contributing to a healthy glow
• Marked increase in energy throughout the day
• Feelings of natural euphoria
• Improvement of sleeping patterns
• Reduction of wrinkles and under-eye circles
• Decrease in mood swings
• More comfortable menstrual cycles

The Problem Behind the Problem

The root cause of physical, emotional, and mental imbalances is the clogging of our cells, tissues, organs, and pathways due to the residue left behind in the body after decadesof an unfit diet-lifestyle. While there are myriad different names for modern diseases in medical literature, there is really just one core cause of all these imbalances: clogging of the cells and pathways due to the accumulation of inappropriate matter left behind. There is also one solution: the removal of that matter. This is the true meaning of detoxification.

When substances are consumed that are not easily digested and passed by the human body, they leave residue behind. This residue starts out in the intestines where it ferments and putrefies and eventually (since the body is an interconnected organism) permeates the tissues of the intestine and circulates throughout the body—winding up in the blood and tissues.

Once the cells are contaminated by this old matter, the healthy microbes in the cells develop into unhealthy, antagonistic bacteria and yeast. As the body accumulates more of this residue, the undesirable strains of bacteria and yeasts proliferate, overthrowing the healthy balance the body needs to fight them off and stay well. The degree to which we experience symptoms or illnesses is directly related to the degree to which our body's tissues have been overcome by bacteria and yeast.

Fight the Good Bacteria Fight

As long as our good bacteria successfully fend off undesirable amounts of unfriendly bacteria, our cells will stay clean and we will not have symptoms or illnesses. If we do have troublesome symptoms and identifiable illnesses, you can be sure it is because these key systems have been compromised through the clogging of the cells and pathways, obstructing the organization of the system and enabling undesirable bacteria and yeast to take hold.

Since waste matter along with sugars and starches from common foods feed the bacteria and yeast, we find ourselves craving more sugars and starches without actually knowing why we are driven to consume them. This is a form of addiction.

You are probably aware that viruses can enter the body from the outside, but in 1883, a scientist by the name of Antoine Beauchamp revealed that viruses are also developed from within. "The primary cause of disease," he discovered, "is in us, always in us." The likelihood of bacteria snowballing into pathogenic viruses or the body becoming infected by pathogenic germs, Beauchamp pointed out, is directly related to the degree to which the body serves as a good host to them (if the body supports their existence). What Beauchamp is saying is that cells that have become defiled with fermentation form pathogens from the inside out!

Once bacteria invade the cells and tissues, we start to show signs of deterioration. The only way to turn the condition around is to stop supporting the proliferation of the rogue bacteria and yeast by removing the waste that supports them. This removal of waste is literally de-tox-ification—the removal of the toxins.

Why Detox for Women?

Adult women long for the kind of beauty, physique, and lasting youth that can only be experienced by a clean-celled body. However, the modern woman has a system that has been seriously compromised by lifestyle. These compromises have thrown her healthy microbial balance so completely out of whack that a very specific prescription for detox is necessary. You will find this plan altogether different from others that have been popularized by the raw food and detox movement, and uniquely formulated to produce results in adult women.

While men also suffer from yeast, fungus, and bacteria overgrowth, estrogen, the dominant female hormone, helps to breed yeast for several reasons. An estrogenic environment supports the production of lycogen (the storage form of glucose in animal cells), which is a major food supplier for yeast. Estrogen is also responsible for many of our moods, making women gravitate toward comfort foods—starchy, sugary, and often highly processed, setting the stage for yeast to thrive.

In addition to being more prone to yeast, women also tend to be more acutely sensitized to the symptoms that go along with yeast and bacteria imbalances: bloat, moodiness, poor skin quality, excess weight, etc. We not only feel terrible, we are depressed because we feel the pressure to look perfect all the time. Then to top it off, women quadruple-task their lives away!

So you can understand that dietary guidance is useless if it cannot be woven into a woman's home life, social life, and work life and mesh with her spirit and personality. Our physical body is so deeply interconnected with our emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects, food is only part of a full spectrum of support we need to be successful with detoxification. To be truly transformative, all aspects of a woman's inner and outer life must be taken into account. Therefore, a detox program specific to women's needs is absolutely essential.