Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system increasing the metabolic rate and Guarana contains the active constituent Guaranine, which is nearly identical to caffeine. Now even the sugar content of energy drinks made less. They all are added with nutritional supplements. Now that is your notion of healthy energy drink.

What if you get consistent energy from within your body over longer period of time? Here is a healthy drink which caters to your daily nutritional requirement and keeps you healthy and safe from various diseases. This is called charged water . It is used to cure many diseases by naturopaths and also used daily as health drink. If you are ready to break your traditional notions of energy drink, then here is a excellent version of one of the best natural energy drink.

Before coming onto the charged water, let’s see what these minerals do.

Copper: This is useful for all diseases and problems connected with the nervous system, e.g high blood pressure, arthritis, polio, tension and leprosy.

Silver: Ancient people used to make ample use of silver and gold in their daily life knowing their importance. The rich even used their utensils of silver and gold. Silver is useful for the diseases of the organs connected with the digestive system and urinary system.

Gold: This is useful for the disorders of the breathing system, lungs, heart, and brain. This acts as an anti biotic and is a very good general tonic.

How to prepare the charged water:

For preparing these charged water use stainless steel, copper or pyrex glass vessels.

Copper Charged Water: Put 60 gm of pure copper plate/wire or 6 to 8 copper coins in a vessel containing four glasses of water and boil it.

Silver Charged Water: Put 30 to 60 gm of silver pure bullion or pure coins (.999 purity) in a vessel containing four glasses of water and boil it. (Do not use silver ornaments).

Gold Charged Water: Put 15 to 30 gm of gold pure bullion gold coin of 20-22 carat gold in a vessel containing four glasses of water and boil it.

Iron Charged Water: Put 60 gm of unrusted, not galvanized, piece of iron in a vessel containing four glasses of water and boil it. ( In case of deficiency of iron in blood, anemia or during pregnancy)
All these metals can be put together in the proportion of gold 15 to 20 gm/ silver 30gm/ copper 60gm/ iron 60gm. Boil the water and reduce 25% of water. Retain 3 out of 4 glasses of water. Filter this water and keep in a thermos if possible. Drink this charged water lukewarm during the day.

It acts as a very good tonic and healthy drink. When 4 glasses of water is reduced to 2 glasses by boiling, it gets medicinal and is useful for all the types of serious and chronic diseases. In acute cases the water may be boiled down to 1 glass. Avoid sour things like lemon, sour buttermilk when you drink such concentrated water.

Health drinks containing natural energy from nutrients plus an energy blend provide longer lasting energy and that is truly a healthy drink. Majority of healthy energy drinks are soft drinks, formulated specifically to increase energy levels. The ones available in the market are high caffeine beverages, enhanced fruit juices or fortified nutrients to improve health.

But you can prepare a healthy drink that caters to all purpose and has a therapeutic effect on body.

Recipe for energy drink

Take 300g of Amla powder and add 100 grams of dried ginger powder. Mix them. Now take one teaspoon of this powder with water twice daily or add it to fruit or vegetable juices.

You can also take four glasses of water adding two teaspoons each of amla and ginger powder. Boil it for some time and reduce it to three glasses. Filter the water and drink it during the day. Honey can also be added if you feel like.

Amla is highly concentrated form of vitamin ‘C’. It is so rich that it contains 16 times more vitamin that lemon. Such a drink will give protection to the body against common diseases like cold and increase digestive powers. Your body’s oxidative stress is countered to maximum by this drink. Being the richest source of vitamin ‘C’, this drink fights and gives resistance to free radicals generated daily within your body. This is also an anti aging formula improving your immune system

Human body can assimilate maximum vitamin and mineral from food sources than supplements. So always try to find them from natural sources. We revert to supplement only because even the most balanced diet does not cater to our daily requirement of vitamin and minerals.

We are seventy five percent made of water:

Every single cell in our body contains vital fluid. It is the main component of our spinal disks. Our nerves are basically microscopic tubes filled with water. Dehydration in the nerves is thought to be the main reason behind various degenerative and neurological diseases. Proper digestion and effective absorption of nutrients directly depend on a good water intake. Our energy levels and stamina are greatly affected by lack of water.

Medical research has proven that a mere drop of five percent in our body fluids drastically reduces our energy levels by thirty percent.

Take enough water with a few rules in mind:

Knowing what water can do to your body, cautious use of it can do miracle. Here are a few

• Drink at least 2 to 2.5 liters of water daily. Less intake is as dangerous as overconsumption of water. Avoid dehydration and be sensitive to your body. You will know how much water you need. The answer to recommended daily intake of water is not so easy. Drinking water at every opportunity is not good. But on an average depending upon hot or cold wealther, physical activity, 2-2.5 liters of water intake is good for an adult.

• Drinking less water is very dangerous. As you give less water to your body, the less toxins are thrown out of the body. One interesting fact is, under less consumption of water kidney cannot flush out the toxins and develops problems in its function. It may appear as kidney stone, kidney failure etc. But once you know this, then also you cannot take enough water, because your kidney is no more in a state to process enough water. So you are blocked in a deadlock. So message is clear, drink enough water.

• Do not drink immediately after taking food. Perhaps this is the single biggest mistake people should correct in their pursuit of healthy eating habit. After taking food of any sort, you r stomach goes into work to digest that food with all the salivary glands secreting their juices. Acids are secreted by the stomach to help in digestion. Once you drink water, those acids and gastric juices get diluted to great extent and the digestion is affected and remains incomplete. Then all the back to back process of digestion in your body is not completed. Indigestion, constipation, wind problem are the result.So drink water only after 40-45 minutes after taking the meal. You can take a sip or two during the meal if you feel like.

• Stop drinking cold refrigerated water after meal. For digestion, the stomach with all the gastric juices needs heat to churn the food and for the ultimate combustion the heat inside the stomach should be maintained. Drinking cold water after the meal brings the temperature down inside the stomach. Even serious diseases like cancer have been linked to this eating habit. Cold soft drinks during or after the meal has the same effect as cold water upon the stomach.

Fasting is voluntary abstinence from food. It is necessarily voluntary nut forced. When forced, it is starvation. So fasting is a rest- a complete physiological rest. So during fasting any physical work should be avoided. It is better if you observe fasting on holidays staying at home. A body’s physiological rest should not be accompanied by external activities. This complete rest restores the vitality of the body and the conserved energy goes into work to flush out the toxins from deep within the body.

Dr. Stan Malstorm says, “Fasting is rapid, safe, and effective way of ridding the body toxins, thus enabling it to function more efficiently to ward off disease and to heal itself of illness.”

In fact, for acute and chronic functional diseases or disorders fasting is a great remedy.

Fast conserves energy and the conserved energy does the work of elimination. Fasting has a number of untoward symptoms

Foul breath
Coated tongue
Skin rashes
Vomiting
Uneasiness
Headache

These are signs of body’s elimination process and are automatically taken care of. The rules of fasting during the days should be strictly adhered. Water should be taken as and when required. Fasting is not broken with heavy food. Juice diet is used at the end of fasting and a gradual restoration to a healthy diet is prescribed.

So long fasts and fasting for any health disorder should be done under the guidance of a natural cure doctor who knows how to control if anything abnormal comes up during the fast. Competent natural cure doctors use this as a great tool to restore the body’s vitality.

So natural body detox is not all about smooth bowel movement and proper urine passage. Purgatives can produce vomiting and diarrhea and analgesics (the drug which stops you from feeling pain) can make you free from troublesome symptoms but this is not solution. It is sedation. Vomiting and diarrhea are examples of evacuation, but they are not eliminations. Vomitus and fecal matter are not part of the body; they are rejected matter out of the body.

Detox (elimination) means excretions from the cells and tissues of the body. You can take the analogy of a house. The house can be cleaned inside, but if the building material of the house is of low quality and compromised, then the structure is still unstable.

Detoxification is a key bodily process designed to deal with health threatening toxic conditions posed by our environment, our diets and even our bodies themselves. There are many chemical processes taking place in the body all the time, and some of these require detoxification process after completing their work.

For example, steroid hormones such as estrogens and androgens perform vital cellular functions within our bodies, but once a particular function has been performed, these chemicals can cause problems such as over stimulating breast and prostate tissues. Consequently they must be detoxified or removed.

How to obtain natural detox:

Now various detox products have flooded the market. But naturopaths are unanimous on the following full proof methods.

Raw detox diet
Juice diet
Fasting
Other supporting methods like massage, bath for natural body detox
New naturopaths are now of the view that 100% raw detox diet can make the body clean from inside. It is correct to some extent only but this raw detox diet is not the complete answer.

It has been seen, observed and experienced that fasting actually permits the body to get eliminated or purified. But given the complexity of rules of fasting and breaking it, naturopaths prescribe various diets like raw detox diet or juice diet depending upon the person’s will power and commitment to good vibrant health.

In addition to these, even certain baths and massages are also included in the detox program. They are very effective and very much relaxing.

So natural detox is as much a lifestyle as it is a program. Your consciousness towards detoxifying the body will make you sensitive towards the body and you will yourself realize what is good and what is bad for your health.

Before knowing about the raw detox diet, we must know how a healthy diet is essential for detoxifying the body. A healthy diet containing lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes is key to countering the negative health effects of our increasingly polluted environment. Eating a variety of these foods provides access to vital sources of nutrients that support the body’s ability to detoxify. Flavonoids- plant chemicals or phytochemicals found in green tea, flaxseed, soy, and blueberries, provide a jump start for the body’s cleansing mechanism.

As vitamins or minerals do not act in isolation, the total nutrition helps each nutrient to perform at its best with help from another nutrient. People still do not understand the importance of diet and supplements that help the body’s detoxification enzymes to perform at optimum levels. Any gross short of a particular nutrient kick starts the inability of body to deal with toxic conditions created both externally and within the body itself.

If you want to stay on a raw detox diet program for few days like a week or so, then 100% raw diet helps a lot in cleansing. On a more compromising note, a 75% raw diet without any junk food, processed sugar, caffeine, alcohol may help the purpose. But it all depends upon you, how much strong willed you are to detoxify your body and restore your health. Fruits and vegetables with a high fiber component can make the most of your food during this detox program. Strictly avoid overcooked, smoked, burned, and charred meats. Avoid non-veg totally during this period.

Among many researchs, one shows how important flavonoids(one phytochemical) are in counteracting the effects of combustion by products (toxins) in the body and preventing cancer. And they are found plenty in food from plants. Among other vitamins, vitamin C and vitamin E are powerful detoxifiers which should be taken together as they support each other’s function. So foods rich in vitamin C and E should form a major part of your detox diet program.

Drainage is as important as taking healthy nutritious food. Though good food habit does impact a better drainage of toxins from your body, you need to take special care for your total body cleanse. The effort of all nutrition goes waste if toxins from body are not flushed out.

This is the single most theory of disease in naturopathy. All the herbal are and nature care treatment give utmost importance to full body toxins cleanse to eliminate any disease from the body.

So read more about toxins cleanse, detox, fasting, colon cleanse and all other method of body toxins cleanse.

What is Natural Body Detox

Full Natural Body Cleanse

The Detox Diet

Jiuce Fasting For Natural Body Detox

Most Powerful method of Body Detox – Fasting

Full Natural Body Cleanse

Healthy eating is not complete if absorption and proper drainage is not facilitated resulting in a full natural body cleanse. Now if you are wondering what drainage is then in true sense it is full body toxin cleanse. If you still wonder what is toxin and where do it come from within body, then you need to go deep down the process of food metabolism.

The toxins in the body includes

The uneliminated products of metabolism within the body

•    The breaking down of the cells in disease
•    Toxins absorbed from food ( Modern food    and vegetables has a lot of it )
•    Toxins from drugs
•    Toxins from environment and its pollution

Human excretory organs are not able to eliminate these toxins, especially for the way we lead our life. Our lifestyle and our food choices make it more difficult for us to allow the body to cleanse itself.

Body has surely a mechanism of its own for total body cleansing. So what we need to do is allow for a natural body cleanse and stop or minimize the flow of toxins into the body.

If you are at all wondering the capability of our body drainage system, then Dr. Weger writes only 14% of the unusable waste in the form of toxic poisons finds its way out of the body through the bowels. When bowels do not move or one gets constipation for a couple of days, it is troublesome but do not threaten life but when urine is blocked or stopped for more than 24 hours, person will die of toxemia known as uremia.

Our body cells are not inert, rather they the most intelligent ones. They are expert in selecting and rejecting matters. Unwanted things are rejected and wanted things are kept in, not thrown out. This process of taking good things in and rejecting unwanted things goes on and that is a vibrant health. All this happens under ideal condition. But when this unwanted material, dirt stays in the cells and tissues, irritation, uneasiness, weakness and restlessness etc. are felt in the body. There starts disease and more appropriately AGING. To some extent this debris or dirt can be tolerated but then it is always a question of when it will manifest in disease.

So it becomes very necessary for us to cleanse the body both externally and internally. Taking exception to the popular belief that external cleanse is something like keeping the outer body clean, it in fact includes your bowel movement and proper urine passage.

Colon cleanse, liver cleanse, gall bladder cleanse; all are as important as internal cleanliness. Doctors or nurses can clean up stomach, can evacuate fecal matter from the colon, can clean the air passage by removing expectoration, and can wash the body but it is mere external cleanliness.

Toxins cleansing can really be done by the body itself. That is detox or full natural body cleanse. We can only provide the right environment to the body to detox itself. We can minimize the flow of toxins into the body and facilitate the drainage out of it.

Juice Fasting as Natural Detox

Complete juice fasting also helps in natural body detox and is one of the doable and simple home remedies for detox. Juice should not only be a part of your detox cleansing diet, but a part of your regular food after your detox diet program is over.Fresh fruit juice of the season with or without milk or curd should be part of your juice fasting. Fruit sugars- dextrose, glucose etc are quickly absorbed and disintegrated in the body giving quick energy to the sick.

It is a wonderful method for patients who cannot fast or are not fit to fast, or fasting is not advisable to them. Dyspeptics (having problem with digestion), lean and thin, and patients suffering from nerve weaknesses, require juice diet not fast.

The juice diets which have been found very effective are

Orange juice
Pineapple juice ( fresh, not tinned)
Fresh grape juice
Apple and pomegranate juice
Carrot and vegetable juice

Orange juice is very effective for dyspeptics and good for complexion. Its sugar provides strength and acids increase appetite. Pineapple juice is supposed to be a good blood purifier. The acids of these foods help a lot in dissolving the debris or impurities of the body and in sending them to appropriate organs to be thrown away out of the body.

Grape juice is the king of all juices and should be a major part of your detox cleansing diet. It not only removes the dirt from the system but also helps in rebuilding and rejuvenating the body. Almost all functional diseases which are curable are cured by this juice diet.

Apple and pomegranate juice is good when people suffer from diarrhea. Though it takes time but chronic diarrhea of long standing can be cured by this juice diet. Apple juice and pomegranate juice supplement the orange, pineapple and grape juice if added into them. The addition make these juices fortified, palatable and its digestibility is increased and food value is elevated.

Carrot juice is panacea in asthma, arthritis and acidity. All vegetables including carrots are good for non vegetarians whose bodies are full of toxins.

Fruit juices are always preferred to vegetable juices. Weak persons should add fruits to carrot juice to make it more digestible. People with gastric problems should rather take fruits because they are more digestible than vegetables.

Juice fasting may be with or without milk and milk products. Milk is a sedative, quieting the liver, heart, and blood vessels. It is anti toxic and it is very good for brain and nerves. Some people do not digest milk and are allergic to it. But this is not the problem of milk, rather their digestive system which can be corrected.

They are complex organic compounds which contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. The protein molecule is composed of a number of simpler compounds called amino acids. All the wear and tear of the body caused by the continuous functions of the organs like heart, lungs, stomach, is made up by the proteins we take. Proteins provide the necessary material to build new cells for growth or replace those lost in wear and tear. So it becomes equally important for all age group to keep a strict eye on their daily protein intake, especially children, older citizens.

Proteins are present in foods obtained from animals and in foods from vegetables. Proteins from both animal kingdom and plant kingdom should be consumed. Vegetarians with a lacto vegetarian diet (milk and related product with vegetables) almost fulfill all the needs of the body. Some advocate for eggs also. This is known as lacto-oval-vegetarianism.

To answer, what is the daily recommended amount for protein, 40/50 grams of protein should be in our daily diet. Some are also of the view that one gram of protein should be taken for 1 kg of body weight.

When proteins are digested, amino acids are left. The human body needs a number of amino acids to break down food. Amino acids need to be eaten in large enough amounts for optimal health.

Amino acids are found in animal sources such as meats, milk, fish, soy, and eggs, as well as in plant sources such as beans, legumes, and nut butters. You do not need to eat animal products to get all the protein you need in your diet.

Amino acids are classified into three groups:

Essential
Nonessential
Conditional

Essential amino acids cannot be made by the body, and must be supplied by food. They do not need to be eaten at one meal. The balance over the whole day is more important.
Nonessential amino acids are made by the body from essential amino acids or in the normal breakdown of proteins.
Conditional amino acids are usually not essential, except in times of illness and stress.