If you're asking yourself, "Why should I avoid even gluten-free grains?", you're right. You should not believe the popular claim that they cause inflammation and are an unnecessary source of carbohydrates. Gluten-free grains do not feed pathogens or cause inflammation. No need to worry that foods like millet, quinoa, brown rice, or oats feed bacteria like strep, non-productive gut bacteria, or viruses like Epstein-Barr and herpes simplex.
Caffeine has two effects that are contraindicated during a cleanse. First, it dehydrates the body, which is characteristic of all problem foods. Second, it stimulates the adrenal glands to pump unnecessary amounts of adrenaline into the bloodstream, which harms the brain, liver, and kidneys in various ways.
Considering how popular fermented foods are, one would think that anything fermented would be good for health. But this is not so. Fermentation is not a healing technique, just a food preservation technique from the past. Let's take yogurt as an example. Yogurt is a dairy product, and all dairy products feed viruses and non-productive bacteria that are the source of so many chronic diseases. The claim that the microorganisms in yogurt are beneficial is only a hypothesis. The harm done by dairy products themselves, even if it's raw, unpasteurized yogurt, outweighs any theoretical benefits: milk proteins and lactose feed the microbes causing your symptoms.
Vinegar dehydrates the body at a very deep organ level, and when we cleanse, we should not allow ourselves to become dehydrated. Vinegar keeps the poisons in the organs and not so that it can then expel them from our body. Toxins dehydrate us because they need an abundance of water to dilute and eventually wash out of our cells so they can safely leave our organs without harming us. Instead of helping to flush out these toxins, vinegar allows toxins to enter our cells and organs because it sucks the water out of the cells, driving the poisons and toxins even deeper.
As already mentioned, there are varieties of fish that contain lower levels of toxic heavy metals such as mercury. However, there are other toxins in seafood that we should be careful about and prevent from accumulating in the body – especially during a cleanse. However, we don't want to sabotage the detox by adding new toxins.
The reason to avoid eating lamb during a cleanse is similar to the reason to avoid pork - the high fat content hinders cleansing and detoxification. Lamb usually isn't as high in fat as pork, so it's lower on the list of problem foods to avoid. However, it is higher in fat than most other animal proteins, and the purpose of the cleanse is to make sure you don't consume too much fat, lamb being one of them.
It is best to avoid soy while trying to heal for the simple reason that soy is very high in fat. Although the fats naturally contained in it are evenly distributed in its unprocessed form and are different from pure soybean oil, their large amount can lead to thickening of the blood and prevent the body from cleansing itself.
These types of oils are extremely harmful during detoxification because not only are they a source of fats that thicken the blood, block toxins and poisons from leaving the body during cleansing, and strain the vascular system, but some of them are also acidic and irritate the lining of the the digestive tract. Additionally, industrial edible oils create inflammation because they have the potential to feed pathogens such as the many strains and mutations of Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus, and hundreds of other non-productive bacteria inside the small and large intestines, as well as viruses in the liver.
One of the important reasons to avoid corn is that it is very rare to find organic corn. People eat nachos, corn chips, corn tortillas, corn breaded sausage, canned corn, popcorn, corn cereal, corn flour, corn porridge, corn oil, high fructose corn syrup, and more—all of which are made from conventionally grown corn. This corn is too often genetically modified and consuming it can harm us.
It's no secret that tuna, like many other fish from the oceans, lakes and rivers, is high in mercury. Tuna stands out because it is well-loved and regularly consumed, especially canned - it has been a staple food for decades.
Pork seriously burdens the pancreas, heart and liver. When a person consumes pork bacon, sausage, ham, steaks, ribs, skin, bacon and others, the blood thickens a lot. This degree of thickening differs from that obtained by eating an avocado, a handful of nuts, or salmon. The variety of fat in pork products, their consistency and heavy nature saturates the blood like nothing else. Even if you think your steak has almost no fat because you've trimmed away the fat, you're still taking in more fat than your body can handle because it's in the meat itself. The blood thickened by the lard is so hard on the pancreas that it forces the gland to use up much of its insulin and enzyme stores to prevent disaster.
We often hear that salt is good for health as long as it is high quality like sea salt or Himalayan salt and then we can use as much as we want because these types of salt contain nutrients and many minerals. While this statement is true, these single salts still prevent the body from cleansing itself. They do not contain the life force that, for example, the mineral salt in celery stem juice contains. The salt contained in celery stalk juice is a subgroup of sodium (Anthony William calls them sodium cluster salts) that is suspended in hydrobioactive water. One of the many jobs of sodium cluster salts is to bind to toxins and flush them out of the body. Another task is to destroy pathogenic microorganisms.
Whether you call them soft drinks or sodas, they are not helpful in any cleanse. Many of these come in aluminum jugs, and aluminum is one of the things you're trying to get rid of during a cleanse. Plus, they often contain harmful aspartame, high-fructose corn syrup, flavorings, and flavorings, even if you're not drinking from a can.