Pretox preparation detox cleanse

Properly preparing a soup cure or detox cleanse of 3, 5 or 7 days can greatly affect its effectiveness. Especially with the three-day detox, proper preparation is important. Not only will your detox then be more effective, but you are also likely to experience fewer side effects. Preparation is not mandatory, but we do recommend it.

Preparation and the Pretox

At least three days before your detox begins, try to taper off certain foods. Start slowly by reducing from three to two cups of coffee a day, for example, and build off more and more. Cutting down on coffee can be tricky, especially if you have to do it at the same time as your detox. So make sure you don’t quit cold-turkey. The same goes for animal protein, white bread, white rice, products with sugar and dairy products: build off these slowly. At the same time, try to drink more and more water and herbal teas. You can also get detox symptoms, such as headaches and low energy levels, from phasing out.

The detox roadmap

Remove solid and heavy foods from your diet step by step. Start this preferably three days prior to your cleanse.

3 DAYS BEFORE
No red meat and dairy products such as cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese and processed foods.

2 DAYS BEFORE
No meat and seafood (chicken, turkey, fish, shellfish), no eggs, no dairy, no carbohydrates from bread, rice and sugars.

1 DAY BEFORE
Eat only salads, soup, (raw) vegetables, fruits and nuts.

*Do not consume alcohol, coffee, medications, dietary supplements and cigarettes no later than three days before your detox begins.

Detox tips to prepare properly

• Try to buy all your food organic. You get a lot more nutrients, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, and you avoid absorbing little to no pesticides and foreign bodies.
• You may eat or drink unlimited raw or cooked vegetables
• If you have a lot of pulls, at the pretox, detox and aftertox in between you can just eat healthy snacks and snacks tailored to our recommendations.
• We advise against white rice, bread, pasta or other white flour products. Preferably limit your intake of starch products. Replace it with whole grain rice, gluten-free bread, sourdough, sprouted bread and sweet potatoes, parsnips, purple potatoes, beets and tubers.
• We recommend avoiding refined sugars and not consuming too many natural sugars from fruits and raw honey. Avoid all sugars, including alternative sweeteners such as raw cane sugar, invert sugar syrup, glucose, dextrose, molasses, caramel, fructose, corn syrup, date syrup, rice syrup, agave syrup, maple syrup, etc. Sugar is also in ginger syrup, lots of ready-made sauces, bread and everything you can almost think of. It is also in fruit but don’t take more than 1 to 3 pieces of fruit a day. It is better to take fruit with some less natural sugars like blackberries, blue and red berries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries etc. On the other hand, sweet fruits like mango, banana and pineapple contain a lot of sugars and you should eat them in moderation.
• Avoid e-numbers as much as possible. Ingredients you can’t pronounce or sound too scientific don’t put that in your body, you are what you eat. Nutrition is supposed to be simple.
• Avoid chemical sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, cyclamate, acesulfame-k, etc., especially found in “light” and sugar-free products. Always read the labels!
• Vary as much as possible so not 1 broccoli every day but a different type of vegetable, fruit, nuts, seeds, beans, grains every day so that your body gets enough nutrients on a variety of levels
• Use to your heart’s content the healthy saturated fats of extra virgin vegetable coconut fat, palm fat, olive oil, flaxseed oil, hemp seed oil and of animal origin cream butter, suet, lard. These should be, organic, cold-pressed and unrefined.
• Avoid margarine and low-fat margarine.
• Avoid trans fats.
• Use an average of 1 teaspoon of salt per day. Avoid standard (jozo) table salt and replace it with sea, Celtic or Himalayan salt
• During preparation preferably do not drink coffee or alcohol.
• Green, white tea and various herbal teas are not a problem.
• Drink purified (spring) water. As long as your pee is a light translucent color.
• If you have a slow juicer or blender you can drink a few green juices or smoothies a day according to your needs. Rule of thumb use 70% vegetables or more and 30% fruits, herbs, spices and superfoods.