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.
Alejandro Junger, MD, is medical director and founder of the Clean Program. He attended medical school in Uruguay and completed his training in internal medicine at NYU Downtown Hospital and cardiovascular diseases at Lenox Hill Hospital.
