Infused Water

Water doesn't have to be boring.  You can add vitamins, minerals and flavor by adding fruits, herbs and veggies.  Today we have pineapple, lemon and cilantro. We will refill this at least 4 times today and eat the pineapple at dinner.  The container is from Bodum and is BPA free.  

If you are doing the 30 day Water Challenge, then you are experiencing some side effects.  They may include cleaner closets because you have so much energy, you are organizing at midnight.  It happens for some on a  juice cleanse as well.  You are flooding your body with alkalinity, detoxing and eating less which means less digestion energy is being expended so you feel less tired and more energetic.  Your brain has more clarity and creativity, less fog and you are able to function better.   

How are you feeling drinking half your body weight in ounces of water each day? 

Best Water

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Ive done a ton of research on water lately.  Tap, reverse osmosis, alkaline, distilled, spring-what is the healthiest water?  If you're drinking half your body weight in it each day, you need to make sure it's healthful and not harmful.  

At Dtox, we use alkaline water to make our H2Os and our Almond and Brazil Nut Milks.  These systems are very pricey.  So when I chose a system for my home, I settled on reverse osmosis that is attached to my kitchen sink.  After much reading, I decided I'd rather remove everything, minerals included, and add back in what I wanted.  

The best thing you can do, and we are saving to afford this, is get a high-end filtering system for the entire house that treats the water where it enters your house.  It is said that we breathe in and absorb more chlorine through our skin in a 15 minute shower than we do drinking our 3 liters or 8 glasses.  For now, my next step is to add a filter to our showers and bath outlets.  

Ayurveda "considers the ability to detoxify - to eliminate toxic waste and toxic thought and emotion - as the "root" source of your physical and mental health. The loss of this ability helps explain why you might have allergies, headaches, constipation, nightmares, fertility problems, and unidentifiable pain among a host of other ailments."  -Dr Alejandro Junger CLEAN

Daily Dtox is a process.  Use common sense and do your research.  

Skin Cleanse

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Green Tea with Lemon and Honey

Ten years ago, I asked my dermatologist, also dr to many of the models at the agency, what I should do for my skin to ensure it's health longterm.  Without hesitation, he said switch from coffee to green tea.  I was a coffee drinker.  We ordered it as an office for delivery with milk and sugar every morning.  I made the switch that day.  Ive learned since to really enjoy it with lemon and honey.  It took a long time to find one that was not bitter and that was truly healthy.  At Dtox, we use a fair trade,organic green tea that tastes delicious.  We also offer matcha which is the green tea leaves ground into a powder.  Matcha is said to be 10x more medicinal than green tea because you actually ingest the whole leaf instead of just the brew.  

Matcha Latte Recipe

1 TBS of matcha

1/4 cup of hot water

1-2 TBS of raw, local honey

8 ounces homemade or Dtox Almond Milk (keep it thick so it will froth; store bought usually won't froth)

Mix matcha, honey and hot water with a handheld frother.  Use the Nespresso frother to steam 8 oz of almond milk. Add it to your matcha mix.  Enjoy!

Green tea benefits are numerous.  Green tea does contain caffeine but much less than coffee.  We offer a step down in caffeine from coffee to our pu erh tea, still a bold caffeine.  This is actually a green tea that has been fermented and oxidized.  Drinks like a coffee.  Then, if you want,  you can make the switch to the lesser caffeine of matcha, and then to green tea without too much of a withdrawal headache.