Alcohol detox: regenerate your cells and boost your metabolism

Strict diets and long fasts are not for everyone. The advantage with detoxing is that you never have to go hungry. Instead, you actually consume more fresh ingredients such as vegetables and fruit, which can also increase dietary awareness.

Detoxing is a great way to strengthen your immune system one small step at a time. It can also help with unpleasant feelings of indigestion, bloating or fullness. As a welcome side effect, detoxing boosts your metabolism, which can help you lose weight. Plus you sleep better, your body is less stressed, and you feel brighter in no time.

What’s good to eat and drink the morning after?

This magazine article explains what to eat or drink after drinking too much alcohol. It also provides delicious recipes for smoothies that can help flush alcohol breakdown products out of our cells and body. That makes space for healthy substances that support cell function and promote cell regeneration.

• Citrus fruits, e.g. limes, grapefruit, oranges and lemons (vitamins A, C, E, D for the citric acid cycle that makes energy available)
• Algae e.g. chlorella and spirulina supply important phytochemicals for fat burning, bind heavy metals from contaminated food
  
• Salads rich in bitterns, e.g. chicory, radicchio, endive salad, sugarloaf, dandelion, goutwort stimulate liver function, promote detoxing and regeneration of liver cells, remove harmful deposits 

• Water, ideally filtered or spring water transports toxins (detoxing without drinking enough water is hard on your kidneys and liver)
  
• Spices e.g. cloves, ginger, pepper, chilli
  stimulate production of digestive acids in the same ways as bitterns)

• Protein-rich foods (nuts, shoots, beans (including soy)
• Grains, especially non-wheat types such as millet and quinoa
• Fat transports flavours and is needed to absorb certain vitamins
• Vegetable fats, e.g. in avocados or nuts
• Green vegetables (chlorophyll!), e.g. broccoli, zucchini, green asparagus, spinach, celery sticks support detoxing
  
• Bitterns in dandelion and artichokes stimulate liver function and support fat burning 

• Wheatgras contains vitamin C, chlorophyll, antioxidants and protein, cleanses the gut, supports digestion

Smoothie recipes for your Alcohol Detox Program

With just a few ingredients and the right blender helping your body detox is easy and delicious:

1. Bouncer – your detox professional

• 2 handfuls corn salad vitamins A and C for your immune system, bitterns to promote digestion and flush out toxins

• 1 handful green cabbage (kale) iron, calcium, vitamins A and K, antioxidants to protect your body cells, bitterns to stimulate digestion and flush out toxins
• 2 bananas minerals and vitamins 

• 1/2 avocado essential fatty acids, vitamin A for haematosis 

• 1 pear minerals such as potassium and calcium, vitamins C and B2 for your immune system
• 1 tsp coconut oil essential fatty acids, antibacterial, boosts the citric acid cycle and hence energy production
• 1 tsp Chlorella algae binds strongly to toxins and heavy metals, flushes them safely out of the body 

• 300 ml coconut water rich in trace elements and vitamins for a large number of metabolic processes

2. Green Boost - as green as it gets

• 1/4 lemon vitamin C to strengthen your immune system 

• 1/2 cucumber trace elements, vitamins A and E, enzymes to better digest meat and regulate the acid-base balance, renews gut flora 

• 1 banana minerals 

• 10 leaves of mint anti-inflammatory, stimulates digestion

• 2 sticks celery anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, help detox and bind toxins 

• 300 ml water

The key is to plan ahead! When you’re going to celebrate, it’s good to stock up for the following days too. And if all else fails our Anti-Hangover Smoothie can help. Need the right blender? We can help there too.