Dr. Junger Phone Call

After our delicious meal last night at Sargasso we called Dr. Junger on a speaker phone so everyone could hear.  He mentioned how he really would have loved to Skype with us so that he could see everyone's smiling faces, and that before the next cleanse he wants to Skype with us to start us off and answer any questions.  So we are planning on it!

Here were the questions and an overview of his answers.  His answers were pretty long, but I included the main points that he made:

1. Now that we are finished with the cleanse, what are most toxic foods that we should  keep out of our diets?
Answer: Now that your system has been cleaned out, you need to be very careful about adding un-clean foods back into your diet because you need to be able to track which foods cause you trouble.  Add one food at a time and pay attention to how your body reacts to that food.  You will be able to see if your body has a negative reaction - then you will know which foods you may be allergic to or that just irritate your digestive system.

2. How often should people do the cleanse?
It really depends upon how you live your life when you are NOT on the cleanse.  It's like taking a shower - you need to take showers more often if you get really dirty every day.  So if you eat really badly on a consistent basis, you should probably do a cleanse every 2-3 months.  If you are a very healthy eater and follow the elimination diet, then maybe only once a year.

3. How often do you do the cleanse?
I am not perfect, and definitely have my trigger foods.  About 90 percent of the time I eat clean foods, and the other percent I don't.  I do the cleanse 2-3 times a year.

4. What are your trigger foods?
Gluten and dairy.  I also like sugar.  I don't drink coffee or alcohol because they don't agree with my body at all.

5. What is so bad about tomatoes?
They can be very irritating to your digestive system, just like all nightshade vegetables.  But this will vary person-to-person, but in general they are irritating.

6. Are we the largest group to ever do your cleanse?
You are the second largest group.  There was a group of 120 doing it in Uruguay (where Dr. Junger is from) and there is also a group in Georgia who does the cleanse through a yoga studio and they had a group of 70.  I just talked to them earlier today and congratulated them!

He wrapped it up saying that he looks forward to talking to skyping with us at the beginning of the next cleanse.  He made it very clear that he wants to SEE us next time.  : )