The Elimination Diet

The base is an elimination diet (Yin) and is an extremely important part of our program for a few reasons. Basically, foods that you may be allergic, intolerant or sensitive does two things to the body: they either cause a trigger to your immune system or cause unrest in your digestive system. Both of these can result in inflammation and imbalance throughout the body. Imbalances cause signs and symptoms like headaches, fatigue, food coma, allergies, respiratory congestion, muscle pain, menstrual difficulty, infertility, digestive disturbances, to name a few. So the program begins by excluding toxic, intolerant, allergenic, and free radical producing foods so as not to add insult to injury during the process of detoxification.

In addition, when we are constantly eating something that wreaks havoc on the immune and/or digetive system, the body will tackle that before anything else, so baseline detoxification may suffer because the body is too busy taking care of the more urgent issues. By removing the ‘noise’, the body can do what it needs to do and reset itself to its natural, optimal state. Lastly, by avoiding those potential foods during the program, you get to see what you have an intolerance or sensitivity to when you invite that food back into your diet at the end of 3 weeks. This is an extremely valuable and life changing thing to know!

Many of us might think it’s normal to be bloated all day or that we need coffee in order to function; those things are just not true! Keep in mind, there is no starving on our program, we are merely omitting certain foods and focusing on healthy, clean eating; people find that they discover new foods and recipes that they didn’t know they liked! And with our new compilation of 70 plus recipes, this will give you a solid foundation in the kitchen to experiment with different foods.