About

I grew up back in the “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” days when you were supposed to drink whole milk (straight from the carton), eat hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches with sliced American and whole toasted bagels with butter and Philly cream cheese.

A childhood asthma and allergy sufferer, I turned to sports to combat my health challenges during his middle and high school years.

In college, I partied hearty like most “normal” college students and developed some bad eating, drinking, sleeping and certain substance abuse habits.

Over the next 10-12 years, things continued on a downward slope, I became more sedentary, nocturnal and addicted to the comforts of fatty foods and multitudinous strains of the cannibis sativa plant.

It wasn’t until 2002, at the less than tender age of 33, that I paid any attention to my declining health.  My mother’s breast cancer returning certainly played a humongous part.  A year and a half later, in 2003, my 43 year old sister was diagnosed with breast cancer too.

Losing a mother to cancer was devastating.  Losing a sister to the same disease 21 months later was kinda beyond comprehension.  It got so bad in the early months of 2007, that I considered ending my own life.  My body was healthy, but my heart was shattered.

Gradually, with the help of my friends, chosen family and a lot of prayer and meditation, I began to move forward again.

However, losing the loves of my life to illness changed me forever.  I faced the cold, hard facts of the capabilities of western medicine were and what its limitations were.  Both mom and sis sought alternative medical treatments from licensed naturopath in addition to conventional oncology treatments.

A 4-week whole body detoxification was one of the alternative treatments.

I admit at the time I rejected all of this Northern California, touchy-feely-hoodu-guru (it was 2003 and I was raised in Boston), but I was stunned into hopeful silence when they both returned from the detoxing almost like a new women. Much of the weakness was gone.

They had more energy, more vitality, and despite the chemo therapy, they was almost like their old selves.

No, the detox didn’t “save” them from their inevitable fates in the end.  They were much stronger emotional forces working against them, but without a shred of doubt, the detox radically improved the physical quality of their lives which made their terrifying journey a whole more bearable.

I wondered if detoxing would work for me?  I wasn’t sick like my mom or sister, but was definitely chunky and bloated to say the least (a steady diet of processed foods made that possible).  I used my asthma pump more than I should have. I had bad allergies, constipation and felt chunky and bloated all the time.

• Would I get sick from detoxing?

• Would I get explosive diarrhea?

I just didn’t know — and considering what they were going through at the time, I didn’t dare ask my mom or sister.

So I went to work like a madman figuring this out.  I took baby steps at first.  I started eating organic food, tried acupuncture, colon cleansing and whole body detox, herbal medicine, liver flushes, the master cleanse diet, Kombucha tea, chiropractors, Abraham-Hicks and the power of the present moment.  And my two year quest resulted in the most amazing research –a now-famous “detox guide” that’s shocked and delighted even some mainstream doctors …”

I still go my regular doctor every January for a yearly check up.  Fortunately, because I’ve done so much on my own to regain and maintain my personal health, we only see each other once a year.

I live life too.  I eat steak, drink the occasional Ketel One and cranberry and even share a pepperoni pie with my beloved on a Saturday night.  I can do this because I know that every six months without fail, I’ll be doing regularly scheduled maintenance on my body with a 7 or 14 day detox/internal cleansing program.

This year I will turn 42.  Funny, now that I’m officially “middle-aged”, I feel more like a kid.   I’ve gotten better at integrating eastern, alternative and herbal medicine into my daily routine so it becomes a more “regular” part of my everyday life.

Anyone can reap the benefits of better health and well-being if they take a “big picture” approach to finding ways to substitute healthier, life-giving  practices to their diet and lifestyle in a gradual manner.  Slow as you go wins this race, hands down.

I invite you to discover your highest, healthiest good.

Comments and emails most welcome!

I’ll always write back.

Email me: jay.greene @ tipsforhealing.com

Thanks for reading.