more clearly, and your mood lifts. All these benefits are yours when you create a healthy environment and provide your body with deep, sufficient nutrition.
Just think of it this way: Where there is waste, there is weight. Where there is deficiency, there is illness. The Paleo Reset is your answer to all these situations. Your body fine-tunes and refines to a healthier state.
When your body isnât working hard to deal with what it doesnât need, it focuses on getting you more of what you do need. You get healthier, stronger, and leaner. When you take the time to clear out your bodyâs waste, youâll be shocked how your body composition begins to change and your energy skyrockets.
The best way to transition to a Paleo lifestyle and diet is with a 30-Day Reset. In this chapter, I explain the Reset and its benefits beyond simply getting you on the Paleo track. I also highlight specific foods and portions that are appropriate during the 30-Day Reset, and I answer some of the most commonly asked questions regarding the Reset and how it will work for you.
Whatâs a Paleo Reset Anyway?
A Paleo Reset is a way of eating for 30 days that creates the healthiest possible environment in your body for you to have long-term success with living Paleo. The Reset helps you achieve all the positive benefits of a Paleo lifestyle like losing weight, boosting immunity, healing conditions, and feeling energized and youthful. A Paleo Reset isnât a powder, a liquid, or pills you take hoping to clean out your system.
The fluid around your cells is your internal milieu, and this fluid must be healthy for you to be healthy. Think of your body like a fish tank. The water in your tank is your internal milieu. When you eat healthy and balanced food, you nourish this milieu; when you eat poorly, you clog and acidify this system, your cells become like sludge, and you look and feel toxic â like fish trying to survive in a dirty tank. The Paleo Reset helps clean out your fish tank and gives you a clean, fresh start.
I know the Paleo Reset seems intimidating. I know it seems strict and even hard. But remember whatâs truly hard: healing your body of serious disease or going through the depression of knowing that youâre not living your life because youâre tired, in pain, or overweight. From this perspective, 30 days is just a drop in the bucket. The Reset is challenging, and itâs going to take some grit, but itâs well worth the effort to get from where you are now to where you want to be.
Reaping the benefits of the Reset
When you commit to the 30-Day Reset, you jump-start your bodyâs improvement in every way. Your body begins
Eliminating toxins: When you drink plenty of water, toxins leave through liver, lungs, intestines, and kidneys.
Slaying your sugar cravings: Youâre breaking sugar addiction, and your body is switching to using fat for fuel rather than using sugar and sugary carbohydrates.
Getting your gut health in order: Every 21 days, your intestinal cells turn over (regenerate). All the nutrient dense foods (foods with lots of nutrients compared to their calories) you feed your body during the Reset provide the best raw material to form the healthiest cells possible.
Reducing inflammation: The healthy fats and clean foods of the Reset quiet inflammation throughout your entire body. This concept is one of the cornerstones of eating Paleo.
Rebuilding and healing: All the structures and functions of your body begin to strengthen.
Balancing your fatty acids: Your ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids improves, which is great for reducing inflammation.
Optimizing your metabolism: The balance of macronutrients (the protein, carbohydrates, and fat that provide you with energy) helps you create an efficient metabolism.
Balancing blood sugar: The foods on the Paleo Reset help stabilize your blood sugar for the long term.
In addition, during the 30-Day Reset you begin to break
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