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Detox support · South Berkeley
I am not running your cleanse. I am helping you survive it.
I want to be precise about the wording, because a lot of places are not. I do not administer liver cleanses or colon cleanses. What I do is support your body while you are doing one, particularly with elimination and with the headaches and general awfulness that turn up when things start moving.
- What this is
- Support, not a protocol
- Works alongside
- Naturopath, herbalist, colon therapist
- Helps with
- Elimination, headaches, sluggishness
- First step
- A free phone call with me
Why lymphatic work fits here
Elimination is the whole job.
The lymphatic system is one of the body's main routes for carrying things away. When you are cleansing or fasting, more is being released than usual, and it has to leave by some route. Helping the lymphatic system move is straightforwardly useful for that.
A great deal of lymph is made in the liver, which filters all your blood. The two systems are far more connected than most cleanse protocols acknowledge.
And the headaches, the sluggishness, the feeling of having been hit by something, all of that is frequently a body struggling to clear faster than it can. That is the part I can genuinely help with.
What I support
Alongside whoever is actually running your protocol.
If you are doing this on your own with limited knowledge, I will steer you toward a professional. That is not me being cautious, it is me having seen how badly this can go.
Liver support
Not a liver cleanse. Lymphatic work supporting the organ that filters everything and produces a great deal of your lymph.
Colon cleanse support
Alongside a proper colon therapist. I know several good ones and will happily point you toward them.
Fasting and elimination
Where the discomfort of clearing outpaces the capacity to clear it.
Headaches and malaise
The common miserable middle of a cleanse, and the point at which most people quit.
Nervous system
Cleansing is a stress. A body in fight-or-flight is not a body that eliminates well.
Honest guidance
If what you are doing looks unwise, I will say so kindly and tell you what I would do instead.
The part people get wrong
How you come off it matters most.
I once overheard a man in a shop describing ten days of the maple syrup and cayenne cleanse, and how he was so hungry afterwards that he had gone straight for a burger. I had to bite my tongue very hard.
The whole success of a cleanse is in how you come off it. If you have been on little or no food, you reintroduce gradually: broth first, then light foods, melon, then eventually normal eating. Going straight to bread and a burger will hurt, and it undoes a good deal of the point.
There is no fast way to detox. Things have to happen gradually and in stages, in and out. If a protocol is promising you speed, be suspicious of it.
Worth saying plainly
What I will not do.
I do not administer cleanses
No liver flush, no colonics, no protocols. I support the body of someone who is doing those things properly.
I do not sell supplements for this
There is a great deal sold online for detox. Some contains genuinely good ingredients. Very little of it does what the marketing says.
I do not diagnose or prescribe
If you have a medical reason to be concerned about your liver or your gut, you need a doctor.
I will discourage the silly ones
The master cleanse, extreme fasts done alone, anything with a countdown. I would rather lose the booking.
Before you call
Questions I get asked.
Do you do liver or colon cleanses?
No, and I have deliberately changed how this is described. I provide lymphatic support to people who are doing a cleanse or protocol under proper guidance. The distinction matters.
Can lymphatic drainage help with detox symptoms?
Often yes. Headaches, sluggishness and general malaise during a cleanse are frequently a body clearing faster than it can eliminate. Supporting the lymphatic route helps.
Should I be doing a cleanse at all?
That depends entirely on you and on who is guiding it. If you are doing it alone based on something you read, I will encourage you to work with a naturopath, herbalist or good colon therapist first.
What do you think of the master cleanse?
Honestly, not much. And the most common mistake is not the cleanse itself but coming off it badly. You reintroduce food gradually, starting with broth and light foods, not with a burger.
How often should I come during a cleanse?
It depends on the length and intensity of what you are doing. We will work out something sensible on the call.
Do you sell detox supplements?
No. Some of the products sold for this contain herbs with a genuine history of supporting lymphatic function, but I am not in that business and I would rather point you to a practitioner who can prescribe properly.
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The next step
Tell me what you are planning.
Fifteen free minutes on the phone with me. Tell me what protocol you are on or considering and who is guiding it, and I will tell you how I can support it and, if I think it is a bad idea, I will tell you that too.