All right, you're ready to take the first step toward better health and begin the Regenerative Detoxification journey. Naturally, you'll want to know what to eat for the best results.
How you should approach diet at the beginning can depend on different things. This is because each person's situation and personal needs can vary widely.
While you'll get the best diet recommendations by consulting with Morse's Health Center or a qualified Detoxification Specialist, let's cover some general guidelines most people can start with.
What Should You Eat?
Controlling the Speed of Your Detox
Dr. Morse's Regenerative Detoxification programs emphasize a fruit-predominant raw foods diet.
This diet prioritizes fresh, organic, and tree-ripened acid and sub-acid category fruits, which are the best fruits for supporting your lymphatic system and lymph flow.
Put differently, acid and sub-acid fruits are like pushing a car's accelerator pedal in terms of your detoxification.
And while most of the time this is great, you can also end up going too fast, leading to uncomfortable cleansing reactions—or what Dr. Morse calls "healing crises."[1]
The reason these reactions happen is that your body's main detoxification and elimination channels (lymphatic system, kidneys, colon, and skin) are unable to keep up with the rate at which waste material is being stirred up and carried to the nearest exit to be removed (or to be neutralized in a lymph node).
So, you have the ability to speed things up with your diet, but you can also slow things down when you need it.
That's when eating vegetables, salads, and cooked foods helps to strike the right balance. These foods are like releasing the accelerator or pushing the breaks.
Basic Diet Recommendations
The most basic way Dr. Morse suggests starting is to enjoy fruit meals from morning until dinner time. You should follow food-combining best practices as well.
Choose mainly from the acid and sub-acid categories and eat as much as you like.
You can have:
- mono-meals where you eat just one specific kind of fruit;
- mixed fruit bowls and platters; and
- fruit smoothies with or without frozen fruit.
For dinner, you can then have your favorite salad (use dairy-free dressings only) with an optional cooked side such as:
- amaranth
- cauliflower rice
- celeriac
- millet
- rutabaga
- sweet potato
- quinoa
- wild rice
We generally don't recommend regular grain rice. But if you'd like to have some at the start, white rice is preferred over brown, red, and black rice, particularly if you have sensitive digestion.
Get Inspired and Keep it Fun
Once you get the hang of it, feel free to get creative with fresh raw foods as long as it doesn't conflict with any Regenerative Detoxification protocol you may be following.
If you don't already have either of the following, you can, for example, get a:
- high-speed blender
- juicer
- food processor
- spiralizer
- dehydrator
- salad spinner
Each piece of equipment can speed up your meal preparations or unlock a universe of possibilities for what you can make.
Many recipes are on YouTube, Pinterest, and search engines.
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