Shonali Sabherwal - The Detox Diet

With lifestyle diseases growing at such an alarming rate in India, like autoimmune conditions, irritable bowel disease, diabetes, allergies, depression, food insensitivities, etc., Shonalis insight into how gut microbes are responsible for practically all health ailments is revolutionary. Today, research supports theories on strengthening the human microbiome (namely gut bacteria), and this has become a widely talked about subject in health circles all over the world. It lends itself to understanding what we truly need to optimize our health quotient.

We need health practitioners who understand what causes an imbalance in the human body. We also need food to be used as a tool to reverse these ailments. I have known Shonali for eight and a half years now, and eaten the food and done the detoxes she recommended to know how she uses foods to reverse health ailments, keep your weight stable, help your skin glow and make you look great.

I have always wondered what her secret was to setting everything right for her clients; now I realize that it is keeping the gut clean by maintaining a healthy balance amongst the colonies of bacteria and controlling inflammation. By doing what she does with the use of fermented foods, she helps us properly digest our foods and assimilate the nutrients from it.

Her detox approach is unique. I have always felt my skin glow, look more radiant and younger after I finished her detox diet. She already knew a major health secret before it even became a trend. This is what I admire about herher immense knowledge of her field, her passion in using foods to help you, and remaining true to her work.

Forget dieting and start living, enjoying the food you eat. Do something that will create lasting changes in your life. When it comes to looking good, give your body the right inputs via foods. This will determine how you ageits a lifetime investment.

Shonali has brought about a new way of thinking in this book based on scientific facts, and outlined a recovery plan that makes perfect sense. This book is an essential in your collection of health books. I recommend it to everyone looking for answers to longevity, good health and ageing. You will feel absolutely rejuvenated with the information she has brought out and the light she has shed on gut biodiversity being the key to your health.

Isnt life one big detox? You should detox every daynot only from bad food but also from thoughts, bad relationships, negative emotions and unpleasant situations. If life could be one big detox every single day, youd be one happy person. But thats where we usually go wrong. We keep things pent upbe they negative emotions, feelings, thoughts or even all the junk we eat. We let it fester inside us, till it finds its release in mental patterns that cause us harm or physical ailments that debilitate us. So the art of letting go is something one has to learn. Thats where detox comes in.

This book is special and very close to my heart after The Beauty Diet and The Love Diet. Its my third child. Most children in this position find themselves in a zone of discomfort with their parents. But like all mothers, I would like to nurture it, like I did my first child. Why? Because when it comes to being healthy, while my first book laid the foundation of creating a good blood structure, its this book that will set the ball rolling on enabling you to live the best life youve ever had and for vitality 24/7. Knowing what you are on the inside results in the outward manifestations of health, beauty, abundant energy, mental clarity, strength, happiness and gratitude.

I remember my friend Anu telling me, Gogi (my nickname), you are always on a diet! While there is truth in this statement, I would say Ive been on a detox diet every minute of every day for the last twenty-odd years. To achieve this, I have done two things that have laid the foundation of my life. Firstly, I learnt how to practise meditation daily so that I dont carry any negativity, be it from situations or people. This ensures that there is no negative mental residue that might build up from my environment. Secondly, I have stayed true to a macrobiotic lifestyle for the last twenty-odd years, which makes for healthier blood, and is one true to the master detox lifestyle.