Stephan Domenig - The High Alkaline Smoothie Cleanse: Balance Your pH in 7 Days

The Alkaline Cure is not just a diet but an approach to eating, including manners and awareness, as well as achieving a balance in your atmosphere and environmentnot just food.

Lucy Walton, www.femalefirst.co.uk

It shows you how to prepare yourself and your shelves for the best possible plan results to leave you lighter, brighter, and with bucketloads more energy in just a matter of days.

Emma Jones, Get the Gloss

A miracle cure, based on the diagnostic principles of Dr F. X. Mayr I arrived home several pounds lighter with glowing skin and a renewed sense of vitality.

Charlene Barton, MatchesFashion.com

Glow like Gwyneth with recipes from Dr. Stephen Domenig, head medical doctor at top detox destination for the rich and famous. Womens Health

After one week I have lost seven lbs I feel incredible. Harpers and Queen

It is not a fad or an extreme diet. It is a book written on well-founded principles by a medical practitioner with lots of experience

Susan Thira, the Healthy Happy Mumma blog

It can heal a wide range of ailments including arthritis, diabetes and cancer, as well as slowing the aging process can improve energy levels and memory and help prevent headaches, bloating, heart disease, muscle pain, and insomnia.

Kate Hilpern, Independent

Finding our way back to equilibrium [through an alkaline diet] is a great chance to improve overall health.

European Spa Magazine

The alkaline diet has been around for more than a century it can help anything from headaches to heart disease.

Patrick Strudwick, Mail Online

You lose so much without doing anything extreme. I love it! Womans World

Alkaline foods are easier for the digestive system to break down and therefore vitamins and minerals are more easily absorbed. Suzannah Ramsdale, Marie Claire

The diet, the chewing, the massages, and the emphasis on drinking water all contribute to my feeling much better I rarely feel hungryevidence, if it were needed, that I routinely eat too much.

Harriet Green, The Guardian

Medical Director The FX Mayr Health Center, Lake Wrthersee, Austria

At the FX Mayr Health Center on Lake Wrthersee in Austria, we see nearly 100 patients a week. Over forty years we have accumulated evidence from real patients demonstrating that our holistic approach to cleansing the body is physiologically therapeutic. Numerous research studies have established that the kind of diet most of us eat is a major cause of many illnesses.

Although the benefits of juicing have been known for most of the 20th century, the technology has not really been available to make the idea mainstream. Mayr himself obviously did not include juices in his dietary approachoriginally he advocated raw, unpasteurized milkbut here we have taken his principles and applied them to what can be achieved using modern technology. In Ayurvedic thinking everyone should have a liquid fast at least once a week. In that sense juicing is not new but thousands of years oldjust the technology makes it easier and more interesting.

Some fruits that may seem to be acidlime, lemon, grapefruitin fact have an alkalizing effect on the body. Strange but true. But also if you are going to include any acidic foods in your diet, then the start of the day is the best time. If you eat raw foods in the evening then they will ferment in the stomach overnight because the body just wont have the time to digest them overnight. Like you, your body sleeps too. Raw foods need to be eaten early in the day when your body is strong and has time to absorb their benefits.

In the plan you may find you do not eat as much as you have been doingwhich is a good thing because nearly all of us eat too much. But what you do drink is of very high nutritional quality. Plus, hydrating with smoothies, teas, and soup and water will help to clean your body. We eat too much acidic food because we like it, after all. The recipes here will help to you to change your mind and see that alkaline foods can be just as delicious and more rewarding.

Martyna Angell

Health Coach with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and creator of the

Wholesome Cook blog

I wanted to get involved with this book to highlight an important fact: we, as consumers, have the choice to vote with our wallets every time we go shopping. I believe that the food we eat should not only be good for us, but that it should be real. It should be grown and harvested in a way thats responsible to our environment and in a way that shows respect and care for the thing that it is.

Smoothies, juices, and plant-based soups made with organic, pesticide-free ingredients are a prime example of food that nourishes. They are a pleasure to drink and are one of the easiest ways to enjoy additional servings of fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds in our diets. Things that, lets be honest, most of us dont eat enough of in todays world of over-processed and prepackaged food. Most take less than a few minutes to make and can be enjoyed on the go, transported easily and, in many cases, stored in the fridge for up to twelve hours which means they are very convenient as a snack.

The Seven-Day Cleanse gives us a chance to reboot our systems and clear out the junk in our diets and our bodies. However, you dont need to cleanse for the whole seven days. One day a week, or a few consecutive days can be enough to get the vital, cleansing nutrition we need into our lives.

In my work as a health coach, recipe developer, and food writer I try to create a point of reference for healthy, nutritious, and easy-to-prepare meals. I like to think of it as an anti-revolution to the world of highly processed and prepackaged meals. A way of thinking very similar to that of Dr. Stephan Domenig and his team. And, in the same way, I encourage my readers to nourish their bodies simply with real food.

I hope that the following information, notes, and recipes will help you find your own path to healthy living.

A healthy diet means eating a balance of acid and alkaline foods. The modern Western diet is heavily weighted toward foods that we would define as acid-forming. This book gives you an easy-to-follow way to cleanse your system and repair that imbalance.

In the Mayr philosophy, the most important route to good health is to support your stomach. If you eat the right things in the right way then your body can cleanse itself. You may want to lose some weight, but alkaline eating is not simply a weight-loss approach; it is a plan for vitality. We are looking for your body to return to its natural shape so it functions at its optimum.