Episode 171: 7-Day Clean Eating Detox – an Ayurvedic and Functional Medicine approach
with Dr. Alejandro Junger
Living in today’s industrialized society, it’s more difficult than ever to take time to reset yourself. That also makes it more important than ever to do so. Dr. Alejandro Junger was forced to learn this lesson himself and has been endeavoring to help others do the same ever since.
While moving in the direction of living healthily requires effort, Dr. Junger has created programs that are an accessible on-ramp to help people take better care of themselves. Combining principles of functional medicine and ayurvedic medicine, his system goes further into helping find ways to reset and detoxify our bodies.
On Today’s Solo Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:
- How growing up in Uruguay and then moving to New York informed his path
- The general mechanics of how toxic materials can build up in the body and how the body detoxifies
- Why our bodies can’t deal with the overload of toxins on their own
- Ways to support the pathways for detoxifying in our bodies
Alejandro Junger, M.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of Clean, Clean Gut, Clean Eats, and most recently, Clean7. He completed his training in internal medicine at New York University Downtown Hospital and his fellowship in cardiology at Lenox Hill Hospital. After his medical training, he studied eastern medicine in India.Now, in Clean7, he aims to make health transformations more accessible and easier to implement, especially for all whose fast-paced lifestyles means putting their health on the back burner.
Links:
The Institute for Functional Medicine
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