Understand and Detox Your Body Naturally With Alkaline Diet & Ancient Wisdom

Detoxification uses alkaline chemistry from fruits, vegetables, and herbs to cool inflammation, help the body’s sewage system (the lymphatic system) circulate from cells to the kidneys, and provide cells with the chemistry they need to function properly and regenerate tissues.

Unless the body is clean from acids and toxins, which create chronic inflammation over time, like a domino effect, all of the systems and processes will take a hit. As a consequence, the body will try to preserve itself by leaching vital electrolytes and nutrients from the bones and connective tissue, placing even more strain on one’s health. 

While the body is highly intelligent, it can only work with the net chemistry and energy it has at any one time. If we don’t feed it vital, alkaline fuel, it will deteriorate over time - a process we call premature aging. Ultimately, chronic decay and lack of cellular energy cause disease and death. Detoxification helps correct imbalances and provides the body with essential chemistry to clean, re-balance, heal, and regenerate. Inevitably, it is not a fad but a lifestyle. Just as we clean our outer body, our inner body creates daily metabolic waste that needs to be expelled efficiently. An alkaline diet is the most effective way to clean and regenerate the body.

Bioenergetics describes how natural law governs the mode of existence of all living beings. As biological entities, our basic cellular needs are energetic, as our cells convert chemistry (simple sugars from foods) to create energy that fuels life. By understanding that food is in its essence chemistry that can add or detract from our energetic cellular reservoir (it takes plenty of energy to digest, assimilate, and flush out waste from acidic foods), we can be more conscious that the chemistry we take in is greater in energy than the energy it takes to digest and process it. 

Most of us consume foods, think thoughts, experience emotions, and act in ways that deplete all our energy. Because of this, the body is left to compensate and protect itself by utilizing electrolytes from non-essential tissues, leading to degeneration.

Bioenergetics can be seen as a life formula that describes the essence of longevity:

LONGEVITY = The energy we consume > the energy we spend on digestion, assimilation, cellular metabolism, and waste elimination

This means that the foods we consume must be of the highest electrical composition of all foods found in nature, which are organic fruits, herbs, and most vegetables. In fact, fruit and herbs are so high in electricity, that they are the only foods to be able to heal nervous system issues and regenerate spinal cord injuries. 

Most commercial supplements isolate chemistry from biological foods, a process that does not have the same healing effect on the body as the original food which includes the synergy of that compound and other nutrients to be assimilated properly. When it comes to health, it is not necessarily what we consume but mostly what we assimilate. 

Our bodies are biological and are meant to re-balance and thrive on “live” foods. Most commercial supplements are created from the awareness that the body is a sum of parts that function independently of one another. These parts can then be fixed by “technical” intervention of scientifically isolated and artificially created medicine, and the intervention won’t disrupt any other parts. 

This is the complete opposite “theory” than is advocated by natural health practitioners and natural law, in general. In naturopathy, or functional medicine, the body is seen as a holistic entity of interdependent parts that don’t need fixing but rather support in re-balancing (reaching homeostasis), which can only be achieved through contact with other biological chemistry.

If done properly, natural detoxes using an alkaline diet as the main healing modality are very safe! However, there are many “detox” fad products sold out there that may be too concentrated, laden with harsh ingredients, or simply don’t do what they promise. As a general rule, if nature didn’t make it, don’t take it!

The main criteria to follow with any detoxification protocol is that it is a slow process that should introduce the body to more alkaline food over time, so that the body is not shocked into acid elimination and healing. When the body is not prepared properly for detox, it can start purging acids without being able to properly eliminate all the acids from the body.

If the elimination organs are not strengthened slowly through a clean, raw diet over some time, they will not be able to process all the waste the body is looking to eliminate. What happens then is that the acids have to be recycled back to fats and tissues for storage. All of this causes physical and emotional symptoms called “detox symptoms” (such as headaches, cold/flu symptoms, weakness and tiredness, anxiety and trembling, tension, crying, and other emotional imbalances) which is part of the healing crisis that mirrors the effects of acid circulation throughout the body. 

To ease these symptoms and ensure the proper elimination of all waste, a safe detox protocol always looks to clean the body slowly with certain foods and methods so that it is in shape to deal with such a change in its energetic state, its chemical input/output, and the metabolic activity necessary to eliminate, clean, and regenerate. 

This is why learning about proper body cleansing is paramount. Using raw foods, herbs, and superfood supplementation (as opposed to synthetic pills or supplements) is ultimately the most effective detox strategy with tangible long-term healing results.

Detoxification is not a short-term cleanse that is often advertised in the mainstream. It is a process of preparing the body for healing, providing it with the chemistry it needs to heal, and ensuring that it has enough energy to properly self-heal. 

While short-term cleanses help by providing the body with the nutrients it needs to function more optimally, they cannot achieve the state of health necessary for optimal healing. 

Think about the years of physical, emotional, and mental habits it took to create certain health conditions, and realize that the same amount of time must be devoted to healing. 

The law of cause and effect (which governs our reality and nature) acknowledges that our efforts  - both in causing health issues and healing them - breed a culminating effect on how we exist in the world. To change our health, we must reverse all the body damage that has been accumulating over time. Ideally, a proper detoxification cleanse will have tangible long-term results that should last anywhere from 3 months to a year, depending on the severity of one’s condition.

However, the habit of detoxification should last a lifetime. It is a natural process of internal cleansing akin to taking a shower or a bath. Just as we eat and eliminate, so do our cells, so the system has to be healthy enough to manage all the impositions of our modern lifestyle. Detoxification is simply the process of removing all the obstructions to optimal energy and lymphatic flow and helping the body do what it does best.

While detoxification can heal us and overcome most health challenges, sometimes we may not be aware of our energetic body weaknesses (be they due to our own body karma, genetics or both). To better understand where our health problems lie and which part of the body we should focus on, we may need more information to put the big picture of healing together. 

Medical astrology uses ancient techniques that read the chart for physical, emotional, and mental propensities and looks at which parts of the body are the weakest. It can provide enormous clues on which areas of life and the body may be out of balance and provide clues on how to bring them back to homeostasis. The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, utilized medical astrology himself and is known to have stated that no physician should become one without knowing how to apply medical astrology to healing. 

Other ancient techniques have also evolved from the understanding that the body is a holistic ecosystem that is interdependent on all its parts for optimal function. Most are based on the concept that the body is an energetic entity and that we can help it be the divine vessel for the soul it was meant to be by helping it eliminate energy blockages, circulate energy flow, and increase its energy reservoirs.

It is unfortunate that we have lost the knowledge of the ancients, since they were way ahead of our time in understanding our place in the universe. They were closer to nature and observed it first hand by following its cycles and observing the cosmic phenomena above. 

My mission with Red Grape Wisdom is to connect ancient knowledge of energy cultivation within the body and marry it with the healing power of alkaline foods. There are many ways of promoting energy flow and increasing the frequency of the body, and helping individuals align with the modalities that most resonate with them is key to enabling their personal transformation.