The Best Detox For Lyme Is Not A Product – It’s A Practice

(Updated March 18, 2024)

The best detox for Lyme (and all forms of complex illness) is not a product, it’s a practice!

How can that be, you might ask, when there are so many cleanse products to choose from, and many experts offer a wide array of products to support your liver and detox pathways?

It’s true, certain quality supplements and herbs CAN support the body’s detoxification functions in certain ways.  However, they don’t always create the desired result – a cleaner, healthier body.  Why is that?

When you are successful in achieving detoxification, you know it because you feel lighter, more clear-headed, and more energetic.  If your cleansing supplements are having good results, then stick with them!  

As a practitioner who works with people who are looking for the best detox to support treatment of complex illness, I recommend certain products too, at times.  But these products are never a replacement for the lifestyle practices that physically and mechanically remove the body’s waste more than it’s capable of doing on its own.  These lifestyle practices – including hydration, sweating, colon cleansing and deep breathing – do the heavy lifting of removing the infectious and toxic excess that can make you feel so sick.  

How To Detox Your Body From Lyme Disease & Complex Illness

In order to promote healing and get ahead of the die-off caused by the treatment of infections, effective detox is crucial. To be successful, you will want to adopt a holistic cleansing lifestyle. This is a foundational piece of the Uprooting Lyme approach to healing chronic Lyme disease. In fact, I created an online program so that people trying to heal from complex illness, and practitioners who want to learn the (literal) in’s and out’s of natural detoxification can do so HERE.

“Holistic” means that we’re dealing with your whole body-mind-spirit when we cleanse, not just the liver.

The body has 4 main avenues for excreting waste – the bowels clear the waste by-products of the liver-gallbladder and GI system, the urine releases waste filtered by the kidneys, sweating excretes waste through the pores of the skin, and with exhalation we excrete waste gases (such as carbon dioxide) via the lungs. What an amazing body you have! It is specially designed to clear metabolic by-products on a daily basis to ensure optimal health throughout your lifetime.

Yet the modern human body is in a state of toxic overload, much like our polluted planet. And when we’re sick, those detox mechanisms become compromised, causing toxins to accumulate faster, which slows the organ function even more in a negative loop of increasing disease and toxicity. Hence the critical need to employ detox methods for Lyme that really work.

The purpose of cleansing health practices is to unburden the entire system. This requires daily lifestyle routines that are sustainable and become part of your daily way of life, just like brushing your teeth.

Your body’s natural cleansing abilities are a part of your circadian rhythm, which is divided into 3 equal portions throughout a daily cycle:

Appropriation of nourishment:   noon – 8pm

Assimilation of nourishment: 8pm-4am

Elimination of waste: 4am – noon

The holistic cleansing lifestyle takes advantage of the human body’s natural cycle.

Detox Diet For Lyme & Complex Illness

We recommend to begin your day with a large glass or 2 of pure spring water (even better to add alkalizing lemon and/or a 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt).

This hydrating ritual is followed by the consumption of fresh vegetable juice to further alkalize and hydrate the body’s tissues, which magnetizes the acidic waste and helps to escort it out of the body.

Fresh vegetable juice also energizes and supplies a high amount of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and enzymes to the body, in an easily absorbable form, to support the body’s cleansing and re-building efforts.

These are a couple of essential practices that serve as initial building blocks, so they’re a great place to start. Consistency is key, so we recommend implementing one daily practice at a time, until it becomes a sold routine – then start on the next.

There’s nothing wrong with taking herbs or supplements to support your body’s detoxification. But they fall extremely short of what is required to accelerate healing from complex illness.

The truth is, real cleansing – the kind that leaves you feeling lighter, energized, younger and more vital – only happens when you put cleansing practices into place, then your favorite detox support products will work better to help you achieve your health goals.

If you are taking lots of pills and powders, your body may detox better without all the supplements, for they may be adding to your internal traffic jam despite their best intentions.

The true promise of effective cleansing is that it will remove what is blocking your healing. This is because cleansing removes the obstructions that trap and block your inner power and vitality, which is your innate self-healing capacity. So hold off on purchasing more pills and powders until you put these basic daily practices into place!

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Ready to learn how to effectively, safely detox – and literally clear the way for healing? Check out Detox For Lyme, our 8-week online course, which teaches you everything you need to know to cleanse and fast, whether you are just learning how or ready to move to an advanced level of cleansing.