you're listening to an archived cabal concept podcast after listening to this show check out the most upto-date podcasts available at Steven cab.com slmp podcasts or search directly on iTunes and now welcome to the Cabral concept where board certified naturopath and Integrative Health practitioner Dr Steven cabal shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering illness and given no hope for Recovery it was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine ancient ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life it's time to discover how to get well lose weight and finally feel alive again and now here's your host Dr Steven cabraal looking forward to getting today's Total Wellness Tuesday show and that's because we're going over a very commonly misunderstood concept within the the Natural Health space and that's trying to figure out the difference between a cleanse a detox and a fast and to be honest they're interchangeable words that are often times used incorrectly and oftentimes used incorrectly by marketing companies manufacturers and even health professionals so what I want to do today is I really want just to make things simple that's really what the cabal concept is all about is trying to help you figure out these big complex natural health-based issues so you can do things more clearly you can get more benefit and that will lead to better results when you get better results you're happier you're healthier you're living a better life so let's get into that today now what I want to do is I actually want to help you figure out today the difference between a cleanse a detox and a fast believe it or not there are actually very very Stark differences and so I think now when you go to read material on a detox or a cleanse or a fast you'll really know what this is all about you'll have more knowledge which obviously leads to more power and as I said previously you it's going to get you better results so without further Ado let's get into the first one now the first one is a cleanse most people use or interchange cleanse and detox all the time but very very big differences so literally the word cleanse in the dictionary means to make thoroughly clean so why would we use that Natural Health now again keep in mind detoxes cleanses and fast are all very very important they're just done for different reasons so I would just I want to use all of them but I want to pick the right one at the right time time so here's what we do when you are looking to remove something from the body and just kind of clean out an organ such as the skin the kidneys or the lymphatic system we're doing basically a cleanse and a cleanse allows you to do something like hot water with lemon and apple cider vinegar it allows you to do something very specific like a kidney based cleanse where you would use herbs such as U ersy and You' use stingy Nettles or nettles in general use something called horse tail you would use cranberry a lot like our Ur we have a very we what's called a healthy urinary tract protocol and that's for women that are prone to urinary tract infections and they get an imbalance essentially in the alkalinity acidity and bacteria in the kidneys and so what we're looking at in the bladder as well but what we're looking at is helping to cleanse the kidneys cleanse the bladder of some of this bacteria of anything that might be festering in there so it cleans is just a removal process very very natural so another thing that we would use for a cleanse is our intestinal cleanse that's what we call it the intestinal cleanse and well what does it do well it cleanses it literally removes it makes thoroughly clean the definition of cleanse right makes thoroughly clean the bowels so for seven days very very simple protocol we have people use things that contain within them Senna cascara bentonite clay activated charcoal and they're using these very special specially formulated capsules they take them before before bed so that when they wake up the next day they're having two or three botel movements not like running to the toilet you can still go to work you can still have a normal day but larger botel movements where you're actually removing more of the fecal matter that's old and built up from the intestines so that's days one and two and then you continue taking those capses at night but then on days 3 through 7even you're actually what you're doing with this is you're using this powder which again contains the banite clay and the activated charcoal and what it's doing is it's expanding not harmful or anything like that and also not uncomfortably but it's expanding within the intestines and that's a good thing it helps to pull because banite clay and activated charcoal especially bonite clay has a magnetic based ionic based property that allows it to pull a lot of the fecal matter out of the crevices in the intestines little pockets and again right out of the bowels when you have a bowel movement and again you should be having two to three bowel movements per day on your intestinal cleanse that allows you to really fully clean out a lot of the built up bacteria that shouldn't be in there it helps with parasites helps with a lot of things and then of course with ours we give you a bottle of What's called the clean gut probiotic that you use after your intestinal cleanse to help repopulate the gut with good bacteria but also with something called sacris poity which helps to push out the negative pathogenic based yeast so those are just a couple examples you know but you could even call like a skin cleanse one where you are applying mud to the skin itself and then you are going through a a sweating based process or ritualistic bath and then you're using a sauna to really sweat out and cleanse the Skin So what I want you to think about is when you hear the word cleanse I want you to think about clean to get clean or to make clean so whatever there is in that object we're just trying to remove it like we also have What's called the amazing liver cleanse so it's not our product I just simply I give you a cheat sheet if you type in liver cleanse on Steven cal.com podcast you'll actually get the exact cheat sheet for what we do and how we help people with it's very very simple it's been used since way back in ayurvedic times it was used in Greek times it was used in a lot of different forms of ancient medicine to cleanse the liver of builtup bile and a lot of other cholesterol based products that can be lodged in the liver and the liver keep in mind is thousands of ducks that can get narrowed and they can get sludge-like and this has obviously been seen on autopsies and just in people's overall health so that's a really good example another really good example of a cleanse and I hopefully again that's starting to make sense because the liver cleanse is not the detox we're about to talk about okay so it's essentially using things like a liver cleanse another really good example of a liver cleanse is using parsley and it's using grapefruit and it's using olive oil and it's using Epsom salt if we want to dilate the liver ducts and it works again amazingly well malic acid to soften the bile so we use these things very very naturally and we just have to understand that it's not a detox okay again amazing we use liver cleanses all the time we use to help people save their Gall BL letters as well we use urinary tract protocols we use Skin cleanses especially with a lymphatic based massage and then infrared sauna afterwards we use kidney based cleanses using U ersy and other herbs that I named previously we do healthy urinary tract cleanses which is essentially the cranberry we use the D Manos we use the vitamin C grapefruit seed extract a lot of great natural herbal based products so again in cleanses you see a lot of herbs being used because they're very very powerful now for a detox what's the difference well the difference is with a detox the definition is rids the body of toxic or unhealthy substances and how do we do that well with a detox we're essentially binding okay so we're we're actually specifically removing things from the body we're not trying to get a liver or a kidney or the skin or anything like that to just push things through what we're actually doing is a binding based process and helping the body to do its job better so as an example a heavy metal detox a heavy metal detox would be actually using things like cilantro it'd be using things like crack cell chlorella so natural based binding herbs or plants that can help to remove Mercury lead aluminum other heavy metals like that right from the body so it works phenomenally well and we have something called a heavy metal detox I think we even call a heavy metal detox cleanse because so many people are used to hearing the word cleanse like okay well what's the difference well this is actually specifically using things like crackel cilantro crackel chlorella cilantro and we're using vitamin C along with it as well and we're using a bofilm disruptor too the bofilm disruptor gets a little bit deep into the biochemistry and science but essentially biofilms this kind of like thin slimy layer inside of your intestines can actually be built with all sorts of different heavy metals that covers parasites it covers bacteria and it actually allows them to live longer so until you use these biofilms you can't actually get at the yeast the candida the SEO all of those things and that's of course why we're so successful in our practice with our candida and bacal overgrowth protocol which is more again more of a cleanse than a detox because we're cleansing we're removing those things okay so what else with a detox well keep in mind our doct we all detox or any functional medicine based detox again this show is not me promoting any of our specific protocols if you're working with the functional medicine doctor my goal is to allow you to better know what your functional medicine doctor is doing with you hopefully this obviously makes sense so if they're putting you on a functional medicine detox this is probably the most Merit out of anything and the reason is we have a lot of science behind it so that's why we use it of course in my um practice as well so what is it well what it is is specific vitamins such as Vitamin C E it's vitamin D there's obviously a lot of the vitamins that go along with it the folate the natural methyl folate the B12 we're using those along with glutamine and a few other phase one nutrients they're called so your liver basically Works in two phases okay so let's say that you're losing 5 pounds the first week on your your Dr B detox or another functional medicine detox if you choose weight loss not everybody obviously chooses to lose weight what you're doing is you're releasing toxins from those fat cells that have to be processed in the blood and all of your blood is filtered through your body every 6 minutes through your liver so now your liver binds up a lot of those fat soluble toxins that just came out of the liver okay and it's turning them into what's called an intermediary metabolite now that intermediary metabolite is then going to be processed by what's called Phase 2 detoxification liver and this uses What's called the cytochrome 450 and other based processes that we won't really get into today but what that means is it's predominantly using a lot of sulfur-based amino acids it's also using glutamine there's selenium being used zinc is part of the process for both phase one and food two which is really really important I mean super important but a lot of things we don't get that's why a lot of people what they do is they get their vitamins but they lack the sulfur-based amino acids they lack the nyine they're lacking the glutathione so what happens is their body is actually recirculating toxins back in their blood and that's why they might have skin based issues they might have fatigue they might have well autoimmune based issues of course so what we need is we need the sulphoraphane from things like broccoli and cauliflower so here's the thing when you do a functional medicine detox what you're doing is you're getting for example our daily nutritional support that's part of the powder that's in there that helps a lot with phase one plus it gives you the amino acids from the p and rice based vegan protein okay but phase two you're getting from what's called our FM detox that's why can't just do it with a shake alone it's not enough this is very specifically formulated again we're not the only ones it's just I believe our product is obviously second none because I formulated it from scratch I didn't have to go by any other people's methods I said this is what's shown in the research this is what works best this is what I want to use for myself my family obviously my practice so what it does is it contains the glutathion it contains the anal syy it contains the thing that your body needs your liver needs specifically to filter your blood and be able to remove these harmful toxins such as the Plastics the estrogens all of those different environmental based products that our body must filter to get rid of to stay healthy all the 77,000 made chemicals in the environment so to make a long story short when you're doing things like a heavy metal detox or a liver detox which we just call a functional medicine detox or ours is called the dobell detox but again there are others out there the reason they work is because they have specific nutrients that binds up products so it binds up toxins and it allows them to safely be pushed through the the bile or through your stool so when you have a Bott movement through the sweat or into the urine very very simple process through the stool water soluble through the urine or through the skin or even sometimes huffed out through the lungs so again cleanses are very powerful for what they are bowels kidneys bladder all that fantastic liver as well and then the detox is The Binding up of the cancer-causing substances that basically are in fat cells your brain all of those things as well super super important just very very different and then the fast well this is where it gets really confusing because a fast it just means this again dictionary abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink and that's really what it is so people are doing they're doing like five or six juices a day okay like just for one day of the week and I think that's fantastic like I have no issue with that and a lot of times on a Monday when I'll do my intermittent fast or I'll do my 24-hour reset diet I'll mention all these things again at the end so sometimes I'll just do green juices like that's another way but that's not like it's not a juice cleanse a juice is not really a cleanse unless you're adding herbs to something so that's the misnomer that's where it's just kind of again no like no one's doing it harmfully I know great companies that I work with and they're calling it a juice cleanse it doesn't mean it's bad it doesn't mean anything and yes it actually helps to cleanse a little bit with the kidneys but there's no specific herbs really what it is it's called a juice fast that's what it should be called You're fasting from Whole Food and you're giving your digestive system a chance to rest that's a great thing like meaning like fasting juice fasting not from fruit juice but from vegetable-based juice is an absolutely incredible thing for your body I can't think of anything that's going to help people live long or get healthier lose weight better than doing a fast once a week every couple weeks or at least once a month for one day like I don't think that that's too much to ask and no you're not going to die if you don't eat for the day and just type in intermittent fast at stepen cal.com podcast and what you'll find there is you'll actually find all different episodes on how to fast 12 hours 16 hours 24 hours two days however long but I give all the different ways to do that now do keep in mind my fast I typically go from Sunday night I have dinner Sunday night and then I go and I have dinner Monday night so I do a 24-hour but I still eat every day and I still get to come home with my family on Monday night we sit down for a meal together and obviously it's chaos because I have two young girls and a dog that likes to you know try to jump up and eat all the food so anyway it's a good time but we always get to have dinner together and and so that's why let's say you have a husband or wife or kids or anyone you live with that's not suppor of you could still fast during the day and go home at night and still have a dinner with the family it makes it really really easy and it's a great way to just do you green juices at like 8:00 in the morning 11:00 I have to do math now 2 o'clock 5:00 you come on home and then you have your your dinner maybe at like 6:30 or 7 like anywhere around there I typically when people doing vegetable juices I'm doing every 2 and a half to four hours maximum just to make sure the body's getting plenty of fluids and plenty of nutrients from the vegetable juice itself I'll go into vegetable juice cleanses in the future there's so many great companies I would love to recommend to you I'll do that on a Friday review if you're interested if you're not of course then I won't waste your time so let's do a little recap for fasting there's our 24-hour reset diet it's completely free just keep in mind my job is to try to give you a really try to give away all the information that I have all the information that I use in my practice completely free you can go to cabal support group.com that's a uh private Facebook group where you're allowed to ask my team and my health coaches and myself any questions you may have you can go to steam cal.com ask cabal and that is where I answer your questions each and every weekend on our cabal host calls and of course if you ever have a question about the Dr ball detox just go to support at Dr B detox and for everything else in the world just go to support at Stephen coral.com so what am I trying to say is we're here to help you in any way possible I know how confusing these things can be I know how hard it can be to choose a lab so what do you do you just email support at stepen cal.com whenever in doubt like I mean literally my job my team's job is just here to support you that's it even if you don't want to go with one of our products we're still here to support you it's not like we're not going to answer your email or it's not like we're not going to help you by me creating these specific products or I again half my products are recommending other people's products and all the labs none of the labs are mine they're all other companies so our job is again really to support you so let's go down the list for a cleanse again it really means to make thly clean it means to remove to push out to wash away that's what a cleanse is so like a colonic is a cleanse essentially a coffee enema is a cleanse you're cleansing you're cleaning out your liver when you do a liver cleanse a kidney cleanse a skin cleanse a bobble cleanse anything like that a healthy urinary tract cleanse any one of those things you're pushing out and you're using a lot of herbs such as again nettle horse tail parsley cranberry any of these things they're all great they're just the ones that are coming to mind right now the botle base cleanse the Santa the cascara the charcoal activate charcoal the banite clay beautiful products recommend them all but again when you're constipated and you're built up or you're halfway through a the candid and bacterial overgrowth protocol you just finished a parasite protocol that's when you do intestinal cleanse why do you do the intestinal cleanse there you want to push out you want to remove all the stuff that you just killed okay the Dr ball detox detoxes such as the heavy metal detox your favorite functional medicine doctor's detox any one of those things they specifically give you phase one and phase two nutrients that you need that your liver needs that it can't do its job without keep in mind it literally can't do its job without the these things or it does it at 10% 20% 30% and it's why you feel sluggish it's why you feel rund down it's why I now have essentially unlimited energy because I'm running on a clean body and that's really that was my next level that's how I got to my final Pinnacle of health is by just detoxing by just removing this stuff from my body that was so built up for three decades I mean that's really what it was and the fasting well the fasting is literally not eating or it's doing hot water and lemon uh hot Ginger tea throughout the day or it's doing vegetable based green juices or it's doing green powders throughout the day you could use our daily fruit and vegetable blend and literally just do a big 16 or 24 ounce water with a tablespoon of our daily fruit and vegetable Blends which is just your Greens in there every 3 hours that would work fantastically well you can do your favorite vegetable juice you know fast that would work great I almost had detox myself again but it's it's a fast because you're abstaining from Whole Food or you can do our 24-hour reset which people love as well it's kind of just like a mini day of you doing doing three shakes you're doing just basically breakfast lunch mid-afternoon then you're doing dinner with a family spouse partner whoever it might be so again this was a recurring question that just kept coming up so I wanted to answer it for you I hope it was helpful I love answering these questions I really appreciate you being a part of this community thank you so much I appreciate your iTunes reviews I appreciate your shares so again if this episode Help anyone clear up some confusion please please do feel free to share it with them thanks take care did you you know that the body really only becomes sick or imbalanced in only two ways over time you become deficient in vital nutrients and you also accumulate toxins internally and from the environment as those nutrients diminish and you increase your total toxic load your body then begins to show the first signs of disease it's actually quite predictable and the good news is that if we know how you began to fill up that proverbial rain barrel we also know how to empty it to begin the healing process I was fortunate enough to learn this ancient healing process from my mentor after suffering from debilitating diseases for close to a decade it was only when I began to implement these techniques did I finally overcome my illnesses and go on to live a life of energy and vitality that I now enjoy I'd like to share with you now what I discovered after traveling all over the world and how to combine the best of ancient Healing Wisdom with state-of-the-art science allow me to teach you exactly how I've been able to help over qu of million people to empty their rain barrel and begin to transform their body and lives into what they've always hoped they could be to get your copy of the international bestseller the rainbarrel effect simply go to Steven cal.com [Music] rainbarrel