[lurkingforacure]

I just finished reading a book from our library called "Clean" by Dr. Alejandro Junger. He is board certified in cardiology and internal medicine, and is the director of integrative medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC. He also sees patients at the Eleven Elevent Wellness Center in NYC. So he has some credentials.

His book is fascinating. The premise is that our bodies have an amazing ability to heal themselves, if we only let them. We have to "clean them out", from years improper eating, exercise,toxic lifestyle, etc. and his book details how to do that, with lots of background into things that affect the body in a bad way and how they do it (including a comment that he was never taught nutrition in medical school-incredible).

He of course has a web site selling his shake products if you don't want to make the recipes in his book, but he doesnt' really pressure the sale much at all. It's basically a 21-day program and he himself went through a bout of depression which started his journey down the path of trying to find out WHY his chemistry got off track in the first place...what a novel idea. Both docs he went to for his depression scripted ssris, which he delined.

He references "spent", a condition his colleague Dr. Lipman treats, in his book, which I think is probably more applicable to us here. I feel that by the time so many get dx'd with PD, the body is really spent and just about used up. Dr. Junger talks about the adrenals and their role in stress and health, and his comments echo a lot of what I have read here. Rebuilding health would be much harder for someone who is "spent" as opposed to merely "dirty in need of cleaning", particularly if you are still in the same lifestyle, location, situations, stressors that got you to the spent condition in the first place.

We are trying the blended meals twice a day and the one solid meal a day, although we usually do the solid meal at dinner because of med interference and family time. I'll let you know how it goes, but in the meantime wanted to pass this information along to see if it might help anyone else. I don't think this cleaning thing is a cure, but it just might make the body feel as good as it can with what it has, and that's something.