This document discusses cleansing the internal body and supporting the immune system through diet and lifestyle changes. It recommends eliminating irritating foods like gluten and dairy, adding fiber, and changing to an organic, whole foods diet to improve digestion and reduce inflammation. Specific probiotics, vitamins, herbs and supplements are suggested to further support digestive health and heal the intestinal tract. Overall healthy eating, cleansing, and regular exercise can improve one's health and sense of well-being.

1. Cleanse Your Internal Body

2. Support Your Immune System
 Proper absorption of nutrients is vital to proper immune system
function.
 Entire digestive tract, which includes the stomach, small intestine,
large intestine (colon), and rectum.
 First, the diet must be changed by taking away such foods that cause
irritation such as wheat, gluten, citrus, sugars, refined flour, dairy,
beans and legumes, caffeine and chocolate products. By eliminating
these types of foods it will weed out what causes the flare ups of the
Crohn’s condition. Bulk fiber, psyllium should be added to the diet
to help the stool become more formed reducing frequent bowel
movements (Heidel,2010). By changing the diet to start with will
help to decrease the frequency of the inflammation. When the flare
ups have calmed down then the healing process of the ulcers can take
place.

3. Reasons to Cleanse
 Pain and discomfort
 Lower energy levels, fatigue and exhaustion
 Constipation
 Gas
 Bloating
 Skin inflammation
 Weight gain
 Lower back pain
 Headaches
 Inability of the digestive tract to absorb nutrients can result in
malnutrition and lead to many other health conditions such as vision
loss, osteoporosis, arthritis, seizures, strokes, peripheral neuropathy,
headaches, depression, and in severe cases possible death.

4. Reasons to Cleanse
 A good way to take action against slow digestion is by
making dietary changes and increasing the amount of
exercise you do immediately.
 Eating more fresh organic fruits and vegetables, limiting
your intake of processed foods, caffeine and sugar,
increasing your filtered water consumption, eating smaller
meals more often and taking a 30 minute walk each day is a
good way to get started.
 Increase your fiber and introduce specific herbs into your
diet. Supplements and colon cleansers are an effective,
painless, fast and direct response to remove excess waste
from the colon, which is precisely what they're designed to
do.

5. Reasons to Cleanse
 These products can fast track a toxin flush to reduce their overall levels in the
body as well as provide the entire digestive system with much needed and
deficient nutrients and probiotics. These help repair and replenish these stores
of good bacteria in the intestinal tract so the entire system can be restored to a
much better and cleaner operating state.
 Ideal colon care and digestion supplements and cleansers have been
formulated using specific ingredients in the required amounts and have been
proven to assist in supporting digestion. Certain ingredients have the ability to
improve your overall health, increase your energy levels, help you shed excess
weight, support your immune system, promote easy and regular bowel
movements, break down residual and hardened waste, eliminate toxins and
increase concentration levels.
 If you are worried or feel you have a more serious digestion issue, it is advised
to speak to your doctor before embarking on any cleanse.

6. Choices of Ways to Cleanse
Eating whole, organic foods to your
climate and season.
Herbs and combinations appropriate for
specific cleanses.
Vitamins and supplements for nutritional
support during and after a cleanse.

7. Importance of Healing Foods
 Foods are vital to our bodies sustenance.
 Digestion starts in the mouth. By chewing foods
enzymes are released that help to breakdown digestion
so the nutrients of the foods can be absorbed in the
small intestines and throughout the body.
 The quality of foods that we take into our bodies is
extremely important to our health and wellbeing.
 Organic, whole foods are our best source to avoid
chemicals and pesticides.

8. Foods for Support
Fall Season Foods
 Earth: Mid-August to the fall equinox of
Sept 21
 During late summer we experience a
distinct shift, a brief pause between the
explosive energy of summer and the quiet
descent of autumn. While the days are still
hot, evenings turn cooler, the sunsets come
a bit earlier and the harvest begins to slowly
shift from the delicate juicy foods of
summer to the hardier foods of fall. The
earth offers up all of her great abundance,
and it is a time when all of life seems to
balance. The earth element is the most
stable of the five, its color is yellow, the
flavor is sweet, and the associated organs
are stomach and spleen. The hours for
stomach are 7 to 9 a.m.; spleen is 9 to 11
a.m. (Hoy, Jen).
 Grains: Millet
 Vegetables: Sweet corn, all squash: (acorn,
butternut, Hokkaido, Hubbard, spaghetti,
pumpkin) shiitake mushrooms, beets, onions,
parsnips, rutabaga, collards, chard, artichoke,
sweet peas, and string beans
 Fruits: sweet apples, figs, cantaloupe, sweet
orange, honeydew, tangelo, raisins, sweet grapes,
papaya, dates, tangerine
 Fish: salmon, tuna, swordfish, sturgeon
 Nuts: Almonds, pecans, walnuts, sesame seeds,
sunflower seeds
 Sweeteners: agave, maple syrup, rice syrup,
barley malt, molasses

9. Vitamins, Herbs & Supplements
 Probiotics: Probiotics are healthy bacteria, similar to those found
naturally in the body. They help to balance the bacteria in the
intestines.
 Vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin which helps aid with absorption of
nutrients.
 Slippery Elm with help soothe and heal the intestinal walls of the
digestive tract.
 Omega 3 supplement 2.7g of fish oil daily may help prevent or reduce
inflammation of the intestines. For best results, take omega-3
supplements with a nutritious meal, as fat enhances nutrient
absorption (NCCAM).
 Vitamin B12, an essential water-soluble vitamin which supports healthy
nerve function, red blood cell production and healthy digestion.
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10. Healthy Body
Happy Health
Combining cleanses
along with proper
diet and exercise
improves one’s
overall health and
better sense of
wellbeing.

11. References
 Heidel, Jaime A. (July 15, 2010), Heal Crohn's Disease Naturally,
Beat the Pain and Inflammation of Crohn's Without Drugs or
Surgery. Retrieved from: http://voices.yahoo.com/heal-crohns-disease-
naturally-6357310.html?cat=5
 Hoy, Jen, The Five Elements and The Five Seasons Choosing Foods
by the Macrobiotic Calendar, Retrieved from:
http://macrobiotic.about.com/od/menuplanning/a/FiveElements.htm
 Retrieved from: http://simplehealthreviews.com/colon-health/?
gclid=CJL_quylrcECFSgS7AodxUYAOA
 National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
(NCCAM). Retrieved from:
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/probiotics/introduction.htm
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