Now that you have tracked your current health status and dietary habits, it is time to begin your changes. This health journey is about YOUR Life and YOUR Health, it is not about dieting. You have to change the way you care for your body, in particular what you eat, drink , breathe in, and what you put on your body. This week is where it all begins by following the anti-inflammatory diet, meal spacing optimization, and water intake.

The anti-inflammatory diet is a big change for most people. One area that tends to be affected is meal spacing. When you don’t know what to eat, sometimes you don’t eat. This week your goal is to optimize your meal spacing and solidify good habits to ensure your success on this health journey. I often tell patients that they will be eating more food than they ever have in their life.

By now, you should have your routine in place and have found your rhythm. If not, keep working on it. You are almost halfway done with the hardest part of the dietary changes. This week, your focus will be on adding in supplements, exercises and your lab results to help focus on more complex problems. Remember, as challenging as the dietary changes are, they merely set the foundation for your health improvement. Supplements help with focused nutrient delivery to aid in restoring metabolic balance to your body and putting out the flames of inflammation. Meditative exercises help you build upon your new changes by recognizing areas in our mind and body where we need to focus our attention. Your lab results will help you recognize patterns and stressors that you did not even know were affecting your ability to maintain and even recover your health.

Unfortunately, modern humans who live in industrialized countries have lost much of the cultural knowledge about how to survive in our ever changing environment. Fermentation, pre- and pro-biotics have been eliminated from the majority diets of modern human living in industrialized countries. The focus this week will be on preparing the digestive tract for re-inoculation of your microflora. Think of it like plowing and tilling a field before planting a new diverse set of crops. You will learn how to make your own seeds (fermentation) so that you can begin to pass on this lost cultural art to those around you (if you choose).

This week your focus will be on adding in your probiotic foods and/or supplements to support your digestive system and immune health. This also will mark the time to prepare for reintroducing foods that have been eliminated with the anti-inflammatory diet.

This week is the week where you will begin adding in, or reintroducing foods. This week will also serve as your preparation time for the next phase in your health journey…The Green Detox. You are what you don’t eliminate! It’s time to prepare your body to optimize elimination of toxins. If you haven’t preformed a coffee enema…there is no more waiting, it’s time.

This week the focus will be on optimizing biotransformation, or in other words, helping the body with elimination of toxins and detoxification. It is important to take notes on how you feel and stay ahead of your hunger! The coffee enema cleanse will follow the Green Detox, so make sure you have practiced the procedure and have the details figured out.

As you unwind from your detoxification, you should avoid all animal proteins for the next two days and beef for the next week. This is a welcome change for most, however, some people are left wondering what they will eat. Don’t worry, you’ve got this!

If you have fallen behind, this week is the time to catch up and reassess your health as well. You will want to compare your answers from your forms you filled out in the beginning to your newly completed forms (don’t look at your answers prior to filling out your new forms). Measure your health stats (such as weight, pH, blood sugar, blood pressure, body temp, etc.) to see what has changed and what has stayed the same.