By Lesley Thorsell

What can we do for our own body’s environment? How do we clear the toxins and debris away so that our immune system stays strong and healthy?

These are questions that people seem to ask themselves, especially in the spring when it feels like a time to cleanse and renew, as nature does.

The first obvious choice is to do a cleanse-buy a prepared one like Firstcleanse or drink purified water and teas made from nettle, burdock root, dandelion leaves, elderberries and hot lemon.

• Drink green tea regularly-highly antioxidant.
• Check your PH-if there is one thing you do for yourself this year, get some PH strips and see if your body is acid or alkaline (check out ph-ion.com).
• If your body is acidic, cut back on processed and packaged food. Reduce white flour, sugar, alcohol and coffee.
• Increase use of lemons, grapefruit, onions and garlic: these all have an alkalizing effect. The juices from green vegetables are also highly alkalizing. Alkaline water is now available, for more information search Kangen Water.
• Drink wheatgrass. It is a powerhouse detoxifier and has 70% chlorophyll. It transports valuable nutrients to every cell of your body and removes waste while rebuilding immune system.
• Alkalizing your body regulates metabolism, increases athletic performance, builds stamina and delivers pure energy. Disease and arthritis CANNOT survive in an alkaline environment.
• Find your mojo! Enjoying what you do, exploring your passion, practising yoga, laughing, and being with people you love also increases your ALKALINITY!
• Step into an infrared sauna regularly- detoxifies, softens skin, reduces stress and increases weight loss.
• Soak in Epsom salt baths to help release toxins.
• Dry-brush before going into shower-use a natural bristle brush in a circular motion towards heart - great for lymphatic drainage and increased blood flow.
• Buy local and organic-organic produce has as much as 300% more nutrients than non-organic-plus, you are not ingesting pesticides.
• Eat raw-70% raw and 30% cooked is a great goal to get enzymes to aid in digestion
• Exercise-oxygenate your body to move toxins and accelerate lymphatic processes.
• Munch on some seaweed-organic is best-to remove heavy metal.
• Your body also needs essential fatty acids. Flax, borage, evening primrose, grape seed and hemp oil all help to construct cell membrane and strengthen immune cells. Hemp oil, Flax and Udo’s oil are this writer’s choice.

I guarantee that if you try one or all of these suggestions you will feel younger and energized.
Happy Spring cleaning!