I’m going on my 10th year of teaching my students how to detox through Ayurvedic cleansing. One of the most common questions I hear from my clients is… What makes a cleanse Ayurvedic? What are the Ayurvedic cleanse benefits? And why is it so much better than a traditional detox? Good question!
Let me tell you this. I’ve been practicing Ayurveda for 18 years. Ayurveda literally saved my life a long time ago. I can tell you with certainty that detox DIETS are not anywhere near as powerful for improving your health as an Ayurvedic cleanse is. Here’s why.
3 Reasons Why Detox Diets Won’t Make You Healthier, but an Ayurvedic Cleanse Will
1. Your metabolism
Most detox diets are built around limited calorie consumption. You want to lose weight- you eat less. Makes sense, right? Wrong! It doesn’t have to be this way! Limiting your food consumption will send your body into “starvation mode” by slowing down your metabolism. What this means is that your body will start preserving fat and to be able to produce energy later. All the weight you lose during a detox diet is most likely just water. Will it produce results in the short run? Yes. You will see lower numbers when you step on the scale… but it won’t stick.
You want a detox program that gives you real, lasting, sustainable results. Not just a temporary (and potentially stripping or dehydrating) fix.
The RAD Cleanse (Radiance Ayurveda Detox) is what I call my Ayurvedic cleanse program – the most nourishing and purifying roadmap to recharging your body, mind, and spirit. And what it can do for you is unique.
While many detox programs limit your daily calories. That’s not the focus of The RAD Cleanse.
The RAD Cleanse is a month-long course, designed to show you how to apply Ayurveda to your daily life, so you increase your energy, balance your hormones, improve your mood, and strengthen your digestive and immune systems. In The RAD Cleanse, you purify your body-mind-spirit while repairing the root cause of your troubling symptoms (like weight gain or inflammation) and restoring true balance and health.
The Ayurvedic cleanse works with your body – your unique constitution – and the season you’re in.
The benefits of Ayurvedic cleansing – where nourishment is a primary focus – results in long-term feelings of lightness, energy, groundedness, and a sustainable way of maintaining a diet that helps you feel this way for weeks or months beyond the program.
It’s not a quick fix, but the transformation it creates is lasting! Regular seasonal cleansing, with attention to strengthening the digestive system and supporting the body from an Ayurvedic perspective, is anti-aging, disease-preventing, inflammation-reducing, and hormone balancing.
It empowers you to live in harmony with nature, improving your sleep and circadian rhythms, boosting your immune system, and reduce your allergies.
2. Key nutrients
When you choose to go on a detox diet, you’ll most likely have lots of restrictions on what foods you can eat. Most detox diets miss heart-healthy fats that your body needs to absorb certain vitamins – and to produce vibrant hormones! Also, you need protein for liver detoxification and building and maintaining muscle and other body tissues.
The RAD Cleanse is all about making you healthier – in a totally holistic way. It helps you gain complete control how your body feels, so you feel FANTASTIC, enjoy increased energy, a healthy weight, a clear mind, and less pain. Meaning, your body will receive all the nutrients it needs throughout The RAD Cleanse. And it’s unique for everyone.
In The RAD Cleanse, you learn how to listen to your body and interpret any symptoms you’re having into valuable communication from your body. Your body is always telling you exactly what you need through how you feel. In The RAD Cleanse, I help my students understand those communications – and how best to respond to them.
For example, these days our culture is crazy dehydrated (have you noticed?). Everyone’s rushing around, traveling for work, on their phones and screens, eating food that doesn’t have the same nutrient density it once did because of soil depletion, etc.
In Ayurvedic cleanse programs, we first identify symptoms of dehydration – things like insomnia, dizziness, anxiety, lightheadedness, constipation, feeling scattered, indecision, joint pain, brittle bones, and high sensitivity. Then we look at the season we’re in. What’s fresh and available right now that’s a remedy for those symptoms? Then we make sure all the nutrients we need to help settle those symptoms (magnesium, absorbable protein, electrolytes, probiotics) are in place. And we do most of it through food.
The education that comes from approaching your health like this is life-changing. You learn tools that carry you through all kinds of situations where, before, you wouldn’t have known what to do. And now you do. It’s truly empowering!
3. Great tasting recipes
As I mentioned before, most detoxes restrict your choice to a very narrow selection of foods you can eat. Most people quit dieting because they cannot stand the taste or get bored with the same food. Not the RAD Cleanse! One of the great Ayurvedic cleanse benefits is that I offer a healthy, flavor-full reach recipes your will LOVE! They are so easy to make and you will enjoy making them for many months to come!
See for yourself!
Kitchari with Vegetables
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Yield: 3 to 4 Servings
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Organic Brown Rice or Quinoa
1/4 cup Moong Dahl – Tiny Yellow Lentils. Can also use red lentils
6 cups Purified Water
1 Tablespoon Ghee or Coconut Oil
1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seed
1 inch Fresh Ginger Root, peeled and minced
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder
1 Bay Leaf
1/2 teaspoon Celtic Sea Salt
1/2 teaspoon Ground Cumin
1/2 teaspoon Turmeric
1/4 bunch Fresh Cilantro, chopped
1 teaspoon Cold Pressed, Virgin Olive Oil
Various Vegetables (see variation)
How to make it:
Warm the ghee in a medium saucepan over medium/high heat. Add whole cumin seeds and sauté for 1-2 minutes. Wash rice and dahl well (until water is clear) in a fine mesh colander. Add rice and dahl to ghee and stir one minute before adding water, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and cook over medium-low heat for 30 – 40 minutes*, stirring occasionally. Add salt, cumin, and turmeric. Garnish with cilantro and olive oil to serve. Kitchari is considered one of the most healing meals of Ayurvedic Cuisine.
Most detox diets and cleanses are focused to produce a short-term result. In the long-run, you are not doing your body a favor going through this detox roller-coaster. You will most likely not improve your health and even gain your weight back.
Here’s what my clients say about Ayurvedic cleanse benefits:
Ayurveda, an individualized system of medicine, is so healing.
That’s why, when you seek healing, you must seek healing that is completely customized to YOUR body type, digestive system, and symptoms.
The way the RAD Cleanse works is to create transformative, lasting, sustainable health – through daily practices you love and releasing old habits that no longer serve you. You get to understand YOUR body and what you need most to feel your best.
The RAD Cleanse shows you how to change your body and your life. You CAN be more present, cultivate more of what matters, and have more FUN! If this is something you are looking for, I’ll show you how.
