Diet and What's Required for Success
Regenerative Detoxification doesn't require you to be perfect with your diet at all times. It's fully normal to have a treat occasionally or take a break from the protocol.
What's required is whatever degree of discipline and consistency is necessary in your case to:
- effectively detoxify and regenerate; or
- break through a plateau or healing crisis.
It all comes down to the individualized nature of these programs.
The Consequences of Deviating From the Diet
For some people, a lapse in diet—going from high-fruit to common cuisine—can cause great setbacks.
This can happen, for example, with neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, where a person can lose newly regained motor skills because they had a few meals that deviated too far from the recommended, high-energy fruit diet.
Diet relapses can create symptomatic setbacks if your diet has changed too soon—meaning before your condition(s) has sufficiently healed—or otherwise too drastically.
It's not only your main health concerns that are affected by a holistic health program. It's your whole body.
So regardless of whether something or nothing at all happens when you eat "off protocol," your detox isn't ruined, and you'll likely still have made subtle health improvements overall.
While occasional departures from your detoxification diet are inevitable and won't undo all your progress, you should still try to make the best food choices.
Avoid animal foods, refined and ultra-processed products (white sugar, white flour, regular table salt, etc.), vegetable oils, and alcohol.
Any small setbacks from straying from your protocol can be an opportunity to recommit and refocus on your healing goals. Listen to your body's response and adjust accordingly.