What is Cellular Re-nourishment™?
Cellular Re-nourishment™ means filling the body’s cells quickly with a large quantity of quality nutrients in order to provide them with resources necessary for self-repair and other essential functions. It may be very beneficial for many of us who do not normally eat healthy (or as healthy as we’d wish). Even though no one is starving in our society of abundance, just because the body is fed, it may still be greatly undernourished.
The foods and drinks we use for cellular re-nourishment are healing foods that are carefully chosen. They represent the most concentrated sources of vitamin complexes, macro and micro minerals, chlorophyll, and phytonutrients having multiple health benefits, such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.
At Fresh Start, for Cellular Re-nourishment™ we use the following means:
- vegan, organic meals with a large % living (raw) ingredients
- green smoothies (enhanced with superfoods)
- re-mineralizing hot soups
- top-quality supplements for digestion activation (probiotics and digestive enzymes by Avena Originals)
- living drinks for activation of the digestive tract and liver (Liver Activation Shot™= fermented beet juice and GI Tune-up Shot™= fermented sauerkraut juice)
- an herbal drink for deeper sleep (a tea made from specially-chosen calming herbs)
Why Cellular Re-nourishment™?
- The main goal of the program is health restoration. If detoxification is like cleaning a basement, nutrients are like paints and building materials for its renovation. They are crucial for the restoration of your cells, organs and tissues.
- People often think of nutrition in terms of avoiding “bad” foods. We get so sucked into elimination diets that sometimes we forget that nutrition is not about omitting but about nourishing. People may say, I do not eat anything bad and still do not feel well. But the question is not about what you do not eat but what do you actually eat. Does it give life to your cells?
- When you go out to restaurants or stop at the airports, very few food items meet that requirement. No fresh salads, sometimes a few cut-up vegetables, in many cases, reheated or even microwaved food. If you are lucky, you may be able to get an apple and an orange for your breakfast. The rest will be carbs, meats and sugar. If you eat like this once and a while, you’ll be ok. But if you eat such revitalized foods on a regular basis, your building materials will soon not be enough for what your body needs.
- Without adequate nutrients, the body is like a car running out of gas – it cannot go far. With the body, this effect is even worse: it may not stop functioning completely, but bit by bit, the body will break down. It’s obvious: without proper parts, your internal machine will be coughing, sneezing, and crawling instead of running 120 km per hour like it’s supposed to.
- With the added nutrients, you can move mountains: you’ll have more stamina and endurance for exercising, improved clarity of thinking, restored healthy state and will have healed many aches and pains. And very importantly – your body will start gradually cleansing and rebuilding cells that may not have been working optimally. This means a stronger digestive system and bones, better emotional and physical well-being, less mucous in sinuses, deeper sleep, shrinking unwanted inches, and weight loss. Start the process with cellular renourishment!
Why Do We Use Raw Food in Cellular Re-nourishment™?
- Taking a Load Off the Digestive System and Freeing up energy
- Taking a Load Off the Digestive System and Freeing up energy
- Optimization of Peristalsis of the Digestive Tract (Constipation Relief)
When consuming large amounts of raw foods, your bowel peristalsis works much more effectively. When consulting a client with severe constipation, we suggested she drinks green smoothies daily. That was basically all she added to her diet besides drinking more water. After a week, the person called us and said that she started having normal bowel movements every 2nd day after just three days (though before, she had a hard time going every 3rd day). When a healthy person eats 80%+ raw foods, his/her elimination will happen after each meal, which is normal and brings a feeling of well-being (and +ensures proper elimination of toxins).
One of our guests admitted that this is the first time in 20 years that she started experiencing painless and smooth bowel movements!!! This should be a normal experience. It took her 20 years to find the Fresh Start, and all that happened was three days on a quality diet with high raw food content.
Warning! If a person wasn’t used to eating a lot of raw on a regular basis, when he/she comes to the Fresh Start, he/she might occasionally experience a temporal slowing down of the bowel at first. This is related to the adjustment of the digestive system to different proportions of essential nutrients and high fibre content, as well as the removal of stimulants both from food and the environment.
- Detoxifying Properties
Please feel free to read our article about these and other benefits of Raw Food Diet
Pros and Cons of Raw Food
Some people will say that raw food is difficult for their digestion. This is because toxins and stress may become inflamed and weak when our digestive system gets damaged. As a result, raw food may irritate the GI. Additionally, it may become challenging to break down cellulose covering raw foods, and they may experience some pain or discomfort when eating raw. Digestive difficulties are usually not limited to raw foods. As a result of a compromised GI tract, some people may lose the ability to digest sugars effectively, others fat, even third ones proteins from their concentrated sources.
Usually, they say in such cases: do not eat raw foods, eat soft foods. Or: avoid all sugars, they are bad for you etc. With this, the quality of foods is often not considered, and lots of animal proteins and junk food may be included in a suggested list of foods. Sometimes people are starved for glucose until they start binging on “healthy” or not chocolate, develop constipation from low fibre/high amounts of animal proteins, and experience other consequences of such limiting diets. However, many people do not realize that the issue here is not the food but the current state of digestive health. The discomfort will be present in such conditions, even on a very healthy diet. And even if one starts taking tons of supplements at once, there is very little chance that he/she’ll be able to digest or absorb them. Though soft foods put into the body will not cause irritation, in the long run, lack of fibre will aggravate the condition due to poor GI peristalsis. You will not resolve digestive issues by excluding foods that create discomfort, though it will temporarily relieve and mask symptoms.
Such advanced conditions of GI when one cannot eat raw foods at all are relatively rare. They need a careful GI rebuilding strategy while supporting organs to help digest foods as well as they can. There is no quick fix here, so do not get discouraged if you start the process and it does not improve quickly.
Most people at this time still have moderately working digestion and need to cleanse their GI and make lifestyle changes to keep up good health.
Even if the digestive system is inefficient and the body cannot absorb that many nutrients from raw foods, it is beneficial to include a certain percentage of raw foods to ensure proper bowel work, regular cellular detoxification and adequate nutrition. Only in extreme cases of inflammation and raw state of GI and only for short periods of time avoidance of raw foods may be beneficial. And during that short period of time, a person would be mostly fasting and taking freshly squeezed juices and broths because anything else will not get absorbed or assimilated in such an acute state.
Fresh Start does not suggest a 100% raw food diet on a regular basis for most people. Without proper knowledge and high-quality nutrition (inaccessible to most), it is easy to develop a lack of certain nutrients in this diet.
Yet eating raw food short term and expanding your diet up to 80% raw on a regular basis has huge benefits. If we know that a handful of nutrients get better with cooking, there is no doubt that most nutrients are abundant in raw foods. Nutrients in raw foods are unadulterated with thermal processing and, when served fresh – oxidation. Due to this, according to Dr. Joel Robbins, up to 30% of nutrients from raw foods can be utilized by the body. In juices, this ratio is even higher. Because of the fine structure, up to 90% of nutrients contained in a juice can enter and be utilized by cells. Flooded with these nutrients, your body can heal and restore the tissues – to accomplish cellular re-nourishment and repair.
We include raw food in your program and some cooked dishes, including hot re-mineralizing soups. Using this combination, many of our guests can see great health benefits they did not have a chance to experience. We use some cooked foods to assist with digestion so that you can experience how to do it at home. Unfortunately, at this stage, we are unable yet to take in people who cannot take large % raw foods, but we are working towards creating a special plan for their overtime.
At Fresh Start, we’ll share with you how you can use the benefits of raw food without developing nutritional deficiencies and how to incorporate it into the crazy-busy city lifestyle most of us live now. Removing all philosophies, a raw food diet is simply consuming unprocessed food in its natural state. It is delicious, energizing, and healing; our body loves it.
Why Do We Not Serve Meat, Eggs and Dairy at Fresh Start?
- Animal products are highly mucous-forming. Excessive amounts of mucous create all sorts of problems, from sinus issues and common colds to allergies, asthma and constipation. Consumption of meat may also cause feelings of anxiety and aggression due to the hormones in the animal blood, especially in red meat.
- Even though we understand that not everyone desires or is ready to transition to a vegetarian lifestyle permanently (just like not all our staff are vegetarians or advocate a vegetarian lifestyle), incorporating it for a few weeks will benefit almost everyone. Vegetarian food allows your body to lighten its digestive load, remove excess uric acid from joints, which is a by-product of protein digestion, and clear the symptoms related to mucous accumulation.
- Without adequate nutrients, the body is like a car running out of gas – it cannot go far. With the body, this effect is even worse: it may not stop functioning completely, but bit by bit, the body will break down. It’s obvious: without proper parts, your internal machine will be coughing, sneezing, and crawling instead of running 120 km per hour like it’s supposed to.
Do We Teach Vegetarian Lifestyle?
For many people choosing a vegetarian lifestyle is an ethical issue. If you desire to transition to this type of nutrition, we may assist you in doing it gradually and successfully. Such change is possible and doable, and a balanced diet may be very beneficial for one’s health. We highly suggest considering that option. However, due to the fact that it is not straightforward and requires a skillful approach and a certain level of health, we leave that choice up to every guest and do not proclaim it a cure-all diet.
In the modern age, it is hardly possible to find an ideal diet, and our goal is not to create one more panacea or above-the-head standard diet but to affirm what already works for each person who comes to us and to provide the knowledge that may help them to improve their diet further.
Allergies Accommodation (at an Extra Fee)
Meal Portion Control
Cell Nourishing Drinks
Cell Nourishing Drinks
- Digestive Enzymes
- Top Quality Probiotics (acidophilus)
- Digestion Tune-up™ and Liver Activation™ Drinks
- Herbal Tea for Deeper Sleep
Please feel free to read: Why Do We Eat Supper Like a Pauper at Fresh Start?
Disclaimer: Program structure, drinks and activities are subject to change without notice.