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What Should I Do to Prepare for a Nutritional Cleanse?

What Should I Do to Prepare for a Nutritional Cleanse? (0:30)

The best way to prepare for a nutritional cleanse is go on an elimination diet and eat cleanly for a few days before, so you can ease your body into the cleanse. Watch cardiologist Alejandro Junger, MD, explain how to prepare the body for a cleanse.

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The best way to prepare for [xx] cleansing is to go on elimination diet by stopping bread and paster and any group containing foods, dairy products, sugar, coffee and alcohol, for a few days. Well when you go into a cleanse and detox program directly, it may be too intense for some people and give you a headaches and skin rushes and things like that.

So you want to easy into it, so you have the least side effects of it.