Immunity & Health Starts with your Colon

4 simple steps to increase health & immunity

How strong is your immune system?
Everyday people approach me and ask how they can help someone they love regain their health. They tell me how they tried all the natural remedies and the medicinal route and don't know how to make a real difference... this person keeps getting ill.

This is why I want to share the top TO DO and DON'T DO tips for developing immunty... because they simply work!

No. 1: Detox the body every year.

Symptoms are often simply your body's way of releasing it's toxic build up, as your body is a naturally self-cleaning organism.

Giving the body time and space to clean and detoxify itself is as common sense as a yearly MOT for your car, or a spring clean for your home.

Fasting allows the body to divert it's attention away from the constant demands of digesting the last item we've put in our mouths, and move all it's attention towards internal repairs. The body, according to it's internal intelligence, will focus on where cleansing is needed and possible at this time. For some this will be a particular organ or system. For others it could be a general release of toxicity from the cells all over the body.

This time focused solely on inner repairs and balance is vital to alleviating or eliminating chronic symptoms and creating positive health.

No. 2: Take a powerful probiotic pill every day

Like Probiotic14 (we use this one on all Karuna Detox Retreats) to replenish and rebalance the large intestines good bacteria content.

Large intestine bacteria complete our digestion of foods, constituted up to 65% of our immune system and is involved in maintaining good mood.

We should aim at cultivating a 80%-20% good bacteria-bad bacteria ratio, however most people harbor the opposite! I believe this imbalance to be a key ingredient in chronic illnesses, low energy and indigestion.

As the bacteria we feed is the bacteria that grows, these dynamic colonies change according to our lifestyle and behaviour, with bad bacteria multiplying rapidly after intake of sugar and alcohol... Hence, a daily probiotic can be a safeguard for health.

Taking it one step further...

Fasting and colonic irrigation are a fantastic combination, as practiced on Karuna Detox Retreat, deeply cleaning the whole body and the colon, at the same time is akin to an internal spring clean with inner showers to wash away the debris, creating the conditions for inner health to grow.

No. 3: Sugar. Cut it out.

It feeds the bad bacteria, reduces immunity, destroys digestion and strains the pancreas. It does nothing good and supplies empty calories.
Eat fruit instead. As much as you like.
Fruit contains nutrients, minerals, fibre, structured water and enzymes besides natural unprocessed fructose. Enjoy!
Commercial fructose is not the same as natural fruit. Organic is obviously better as it hasn't been sprayed with highly toxic chemicals. If not organic, best to buy fruit you need to peel.

No. 4: Use Digestive Enzymes when you eat

Digestive enzymes support the digestion and assimilation of the vitamins and minerals from food. Sometimes the body will not have enough enzymes creating indigestion.

If you eat while you are unwell, the body tries to both heal itself and digest food, and can do neither very well

If you suffer from indigestion, constipation or acid-reflux you can also take digestive enzymes on an empty stomach 2 hours after food to support the clearing out of old matter. The benefits are normally felt within a couple of days. Digestive enzymes can irritate ulcers, so taking enzymes on empty stomach wouldn't be recommended.

The body produces it's enzymes in the pancreas. Over production or indigestion makes us feel tired after a meal, when actually, food is supposed to energise us! A high quality digestive enzyme ('Higher nature' have a great range) helps break down and assimilate nutrients from the food, leaving you nourished.

If you have a cold or a flu, giving the digestive system a break of up to a week, by drinking only water or fresh juices, will support the body's ability to release toxicity and regain inner balance. You can take enzymes during this period to clear out old matter. This won't suppress the symptoms of the cold or flu, but they will pass quicker than if eating, and at the end there is a sense of freshness and cleanliness, brightness and clarity. Like returning from a refreshing holiday! This is the 'post detox' freshness. Very different to the what most people experience after a fed flu/cold...