The Dreaded Detox. If you're new here, check out our meal plan, our fitness plan, and our ebooks to help you get started with Paleo. Thanks for visiting! So you’ve started eating Paleo, and you’re a few days into it. You’re not feeling the amazing effects of the diet that so many others before you have, and in fact, you feel worse! Naturally you’re asking, “Is this really worth it?”Almost everyone who is on the Paleo Diet or similar plan has been right where you are—you are not alone. Here’s the scoop on what’s happening in your body. Why Do I Feel Worse After Going Paleo? As the days grow colder, a warm and comforting dinner sounds more inviting. These Paleo one-pot meals are hearty and filling without a lot of clean up. We show you how to milk nuts, literally and figuratively, for all they're worth with our gallery of nut recipes. Now get cracking! As seen on TV. Sunny Anderson uses Dr. Ian Smith’s “Shred” Diet on The Rachael Ray Show! Smith on WGN MIDDAY NEWS Watch Dr. Smith on Anderson Cooper 360°. Have a fight coming up? Nutritionist and trainer Lauren Brooks will show you how to quickly shed pounds with this two week fighter diet plan. Many of you have asked this question over the past few months, and I’m sure many more of you have at least contemplated this question at some point. I know I did. For some, if you’ve drastically changed your diet or cut way back on carbs, processed foods, caffeine, or booze, unpleasant withdrawal effects may be setting in. This way of eating is pretty different than a Standard American Diet (SAD) and as a result, there are a lot of changes you’ll be making on multiple levels that will not go unnoticed by your body. It’s totally normal to experience a wide range of detox symptoms as your body undergoes this transition, and it’s definitely worth toughing it out to get to the other side! When you understand the reason why these terrible feelings are happening, you’ll actually have more insight into your total body health.(Read this: Everything You Need to Know About Detoxing)How to Tell if You’re Detoxing on Paleo. While the initial shock to the system isn’t pleasant, keep in mind that your body is finally getting a chance to clean out some built up toxins. Without all of the harmful foods constantly bombarding your liver and other organs, and with the addition of tons of nutrients and proteins from the fruits, vegetables, and meats you’re now eating, your body is going to take this opportunity to do some much needed cleaning, healing, and resetting. This purging is precisely what causes the symptoms you may be experiencing right now—the toxins are being dealt with instead of being suppressed. In the first three days to three weeks of going Paleo, you may (or may not) experience any of the following detox symptoms: Headaches. Fatigue. Dizziness. Irritability. Mood swings. Nausea. Intense cravings. Sinus drainage. Bowel changes. Diarrhea/Constipation. Flu- like symptoms. Brain fog. Increased urination. Increased appetite. Increased thirst. If you’ve given up drinking caffeine or alcohol, you should almost undoubtedly expect some withdrawal symptoms. Caffeine and alcohol are addictive substances, as most of us know, and your nervous and endocrine systems will need some time to re- boot. Now is a good time to warn your significant other/kids/co- workers that you might not be the sweetest, most congenial person for a few days. The benefits, however, when you get to the other side, will more than make up for it. How Long will the Dreaded Detox Last? For most, detox symptoms tend to appear within three to 1. Paleo, but for others they may take a few weeks to pop up, or you may never experience any of these at all! Most people only experience symptoms for a few days to a week, but others (especially the chronically ill) may feel icky for a month or more. There’s really no way of predicting how long your detoxification period will last, as it’s a highly individual process that depends largely on how much healing your body needs to accomplish. Don’t be disheartened, though. There are ways to not let the dreaded detox derail your Paleo plans. Coping with the Dreaded Detox. When I first went Paleo, I remember having to pee about 2. I was walking through oatmeal for the first three weeks. Walking up a flight of stairs was a big accomplishment. I was so tired and groggy—I just wanted to sleep, but then on the 2. I felt fantastic. Again, many people only experience symptoms for a few days to a week, and there’s really no way of predicting how long your detoxification period will last. There’s nothing wrong with you if yours lasts longer, and if you don’t have any at all, that’s great, too! If you’re one of the people who has some of these detox symptoms, there are two key ways to minimize them. Stay Hydrated. You’ll be doing yourself a big favor by keeping well hydrated during this time by drinking at least half of your body’s weight in pounds in ounces of water. For example, if you weigh 1. Read this: The Ultimate Guide to Paleo Drinks)2. Move Your Body. Getting regular exercise, even if it’s just a few minutes each day, can also help the body to speed the detox process along. This can be as simple as walking, taking the stairs, or doing a bit of yoga. I know that’s difficult to do when you’re already feeling tired and run down, but I promise it will be worth it.(Read this: The Benefits of Movement Over Working Out)The Positive Effects After the Detox Storm. During these difficult moments when you’re wondering whether this diet is hurting or helping you, remember that after the storm of detoxification subsides, you may very well experience: More energy. Emotional balance. Clarity of mind. Fat loss/muscle gain. Strength gains. Fewer aches and pains. Less inflammation. Less sinus congestion. Fewer seasonal allergy symptoms. Digestive ease. Clearer skin. Fewer colds. Fewer symptoms of chronic disease. And that is why you’ve chosen to do this! Stay strong and it will be worth it. Is It Just Me? You may experience a few (or many) detoxification symptoms, including intense cravings, headaches, and fatigue. Why? You probably removed a lot of toxins from your diet. These can include any of the following: Gluten and anti- nutrients (grains and legumes)Preservatives and other additives. Refined flours. Sugars and sweeteners. Dairy (which is more toxic to some than others)Since you’ve probably been eating these things your whole life, your body is going through some serious withdrawal. Gluten behaves like an opiate, and when we remove it from our diet, we can have actual withdrawals! The average human carries two to six pounds of bacteria in their body, which is somewhere around 1. When we don’t feed the bad bacteria the sugar they need to stay alive, they can (and do) make our cravings worse, at least for awhile. The cravings and irritability that we experience when we cut sugar from our diet (especially if our intake is reduced drastically) can be intense, and may also be largely influenced by the types of bacteria that we are hosting.(Read this: How to Choose the Right Probiotic)Burning Fat for Fuel. Another reason people feel lousy when they first start Paleo, is because on a cellular level, your mitochondria are learning to burn more fat for fuel. That is, your body is shifting away from using glucose (from carbs and protein) as its primary fuel source, towards using more ketones from fats. Be patient with your body (and your mitochondria!) because it can take several weeks for this transition to happen. If you have an overgrowth of bad bacteria in your gut, which you may not even be aware of, you might experience symptoms of bacterial/yeast “die- off” when you drastically reduce your carb intake. This creates a transient toxic state in the body otherwise known as the Herxheimer reaction (also known as “die- off”) which is thought to happen when toxins from the dying pathogens overwhelm the body’s ability to clear them out. It is likely the bad bacteria in your body screaming to stay alive. Fight through it and these feelings will pass. In the beginning, it’s also helpful to think of the Paleo diet as a cleanse, a detox, or a purging of sorts. Your body is finally getting a chance to clean out those built up toxins! This purging is exactly what causes the symptoms you may be experiencing right now—the toxins are in your circulation being dealt with, instead of being suppressed. It’s like when you do a good deep cleaning of your house. You turn it upside down before it looks immaculate. Support your Detox Organs with Paleo Foods. The major organs of detoxification are the liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal (GI) tract, lungs, and skin. If any one of these systems is sluggish, it can lead to a buildup of toxic chemicals that act as free radicals and can damage cells throughout the body. When your body is going through the natural detoxification process associated with a diet change, you especially want to make sure your detox organs are functioning at top notch. It doesn’t take a hard- core detox program to clean out your organs. In fact, incorporating specific foods into your Paleo diet can greatly enhance your body’s ability to naturally detoxify. Ways to Support Your Detox Organs Naturally. The Liver. The liver is considered the body’s largest organ of detoxification because it contains enzymes (collectively called the cytochrome P4. Sulfur- rich foods, such as garlic and broccoli, provide the building materials our cells need to make glutathione, the body’s “master antioxidant” utilized in phase two of detoxification. Other foods can help to support our liver detoxification enzymes as well.(Read this: 5 Paleo Foods to Support Your Liver)2. The Kidneys. Our kidneys are constantly filtering toxins and waste materials out of our blood and into the urine, making them the body’s most important organ of excretion. Ample hydration is absolutely essential for these processes and in fact, dehydration is the most common and damaging stressor to the kidneys. The Skin. Our skin is the largest organ in the human body and our first line of defense against the outside world. It’s also one of the main ways we purge toxins from our bodies, by sweating them out. Dry brushing (which involves using a natural bristle dry brush to brush the skin) can help to expedite the detox process. Be sure to brush towards the heart using long, quick strokes. Alternating between hot and cold water during your showers also helps to increase circulation, as do other forms of “contrast hydrotherapy.” Saunas, steam rooms, and detox baths can also help move the process of detoxification along quicker.(Read this: The Ultimate Guide to Clean Skincare)4. Blood as food - Wikipedia. This article is about the consumption of blood by humans. For consumption of blood by other animals, see Hematophagy. Many cultures consume blood as food, often in combination with meat. The blood may be in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, a cured salted form for times of food scarcity, or in a blood soup. In many cultures, the animal is slaughtered. In some cultures, blood is a taboo food. Methods of preparation. Pig or cattle blood is most often used. Typical fillers include meat, fat, suet, bread, rice, barley and oatmeal. Varieties include drisheen, moronga, black pudding, blutwurst, blood tongue, kishka (kaszanka), biroldo, morcilla, mustamakkara, verivorst, and many types of boudin. Pancakes. It can provide flavor or color for meat, as in cabidela. Solidified. In Hungary when a pig is slaughtered in the morning, the blood is fried with onions and served for breakfast. The blood is allowed to congeal and simply cut into rectangular pieces and cooked. This dish is also known in Java as saren, made with chicken's or pig's blood. Blood tofu is found in curry mee as well as the Sichuan dish, maoxuewang. In Tibet, congealed yak's blood is a traditional food. Raw blood is not commonly consumed by itself, but may be used as an addition to drinks or other dishes. One example is the drinking of seal blood which is traditionally believed by the Inuit to bring health benefits. The post- communion prayer of the 1. Anglican Book of Common Prayer describes the meal as . Many other Christian denominations symbolically consume the Eucharist. However, nowhere in Christianity is the drink consumed at the Eucharist actual blood, even among denominations believing in transsubstantiation (the literal transformation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood). The consumption of actual blood is in fact forbidden according to the book of Leviticus, part of both Jewish and Christian holy scriptures. The ban on consumption of blood by Christians was affirmed after Jesus' death by the Apostolic Decree, chronicled in the Acts of the Apostles. Other religions and spiritual traditions do consume actual blood as part of rituals. Some Pagan traditions, Satanism, a few Native American and voodoo traditions are reported to consume actual blood, in some cases human (usually willingly donated by participants in the ceremony). The symbolism of the blood itself and the act of drinking it varies between these traditions; in Pagan tradition, the blood of many participants is mingled in a chalice which they then drink from, symbolizing a bond between them not unlike becoming blood brothers. In voodoo, blood from various sources, including chicken's blood, goat's blood and even menstrual blood is a common ingredient in spells and potions. Satanism, similar to voodoo, is a nebulous collection of traditions, generally associated with devil worship and perversions of images from Gothic Romanticism, including vampiric acts such as the drinking of blood. These were originally invented by Gothic writers as violations of Christian doctrine intended to invoke disgust and horror in the reader. Some cultures consider blood to be a taboo form of food. In Abrahamic religions, Jewish and Muslim cultures forbid the consumption of blood. In the New Testament, blood was forbidden by the Apostolic Decree (Acts 1. Greek Orthodox. Goats, cattle, and other animals slaughtered in the traditional Igbo manner are dispatched with a single cut across the neck and then most or all of the blood is allowed to slowly drain from the wound. This practice may have been influenced by the Igbo Jewish community that apparently predates contact with Europe. Many Igbos who buy butchered, packaged meat from groceries and supermarkets are in the habit of washing the blood from the meat with water before preparing it. The taboos may be rooted in the fact that consuming greater quantities of blood is actually poisonous. Thailand also has a dish known as Nam Tok, which is a spicy soup stock enriched with raw cow or pig's blood. It is often used to enrich regular noodle dishes, as well as in Khao soi. It is fried or steamed as a snack or cooked in a hot pot. In Korea, people consume Seonjiguk, a soup with coagulated blood and Sundae, a blood sausage made generally by boiling or steaming cow or pig's intestines that are stuffed with various ingredients, such as pig's blood, cellophane noodles, kimchi, scallions, etc. In the Philippines, a popular dish called dinuguan is made from pig's blood and seasoned with chili and is traditionally eaten with steamed rice. The northern tradition calls for stir frying both the seasoned blood and chosen meat with vinegar until dry. This is known as . The spicy noodle soup Nam ngiao and certain variants of Khao soi of the cuisine of Shan State and Northern Thailand contain diced curdled blood. When prepared alone it is called raththam poriyal. More commonly it is stir- fried with lamb stomach and intestines with spices like ginger, garlic, cloves, cinnamon, red chili powder, green chilies, coriander powder, cumin, shallots and grated coconut. This dish is very common in the Madurai and Kongu Nadu region of Tamil Nadu. In Indonesia, especially the Batak tribe in North Sumatera, pig's blood is used as an ingredient and sauce mixed with andaliman (Zanthoxylum acantophodium) for a cuisine named Sangsang (read saksang). In Vietnam, congealed pork blood is used in Bun bo Hue (a spicy noodle soup), as well as congee (a type of rice porridge). It is simply solidified, then put into the broth to absorb the flavor. In China and Vietnam certain types of snake blood are considered to be an aphrodisiac, and are drunk with rice wine. In Britain, Ireland, and some Commonwealth countries, . Blood sausage is also popular in Norway (Blodp. It was considered to be a preventative measure against cattle diseases, and the blood drawn, when mixed with butter, herbs, oats or meal, provided a nutritious emergency food. Other popular dishes, with blood as one of the ingredients include blodpudding (black pudding. It's eaten warm or preserved in jars. Changes in taste and lifestyle have made this an uncommon dish. The soup is made with pig's blood, chicken meat, pork, ham, salami, lemon and bread, and is typically sprinkled with cumin, which provides the dish with its distinctive odor. It is usually served in the winter because it is a rather heavy dish. The dish is seldom eaten in Southern Portugal. Also very popular, is morcela sausage, a type of black pudding. Another traditional Portuguese dish known as cabidela is also made by cooking chicken or rabbit in its own blood, sometimes diluted with vinegar. In Spain, the morcilla sausage is a kind of black pudding mainly made with pig blood, with spices, fat, and sometimes vegetables. In Andalusiasangre encebollada and Valenciansang amb ceba are popular dishes made with chicken or pork solidified blood and onion. In the western region of Santander Colombia, a dish called pepitoria is made from rice cooked in goat blood. Mexicans from certain regions eat goat's stomach stuffed with pork blood and vegetables as a delicacy. In Brazil, the traditional Portuguese dish known as cabidela (see above) is also eaten. Yaguarlocro in Ecuador is a potatosoup made with sprinklings of goat's blood. References. The Oxford Companion to Food. UK: Oxford University Press, 2. Ma Jian, Stick Out Your Tongue Chatto and Windus London, 2. Borr. The Seven Ecumenical Councils. Retrieved 1. 1 October 2. With the Greeks, indeed, it continued always in force as their Euchologies still show. Balsamon also, the well- known commentator on the canons of the Middle Ages, in his commentary on the sixty- third Apostolic Canon, expressly blames the Latins because they had ceased to observe this command. What the Latin Church, however, thought on this subject about the year 4. St. Augustine in his work Contra Faustum, where he states that the Apostles had given this command in order to unite the heathens and Jews in the one ark of Noah; but that then, when the barrier between Jewish and heathen converts had fallen, this command concerning things strangled and blood had lost its meaning, and was only observed by few. But still, as late as the eighth century, Pope Gregory the Third (7. No one will pretend that the disciplinary enactments of any council, even though it be one of the undisputed Ecumenical Synods, can be of greater and more unchanging force than the decree of that first council, held by the Holy Apostles at Jerusalem, and the fact that its decree has been obsolete for centuries in the West is proof that even ecumenical canons may be of only temporary utility and may be repealed by disuse, like other laws. Weigl Publishers. ISBN 9. 78- 1- 5. Lucas, Cattle In Ancient Ireland, pp. Boethius Press, 1. ISBN0- 8. 63. 14- 1. Retrieved 1. 1 October 2. 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