So in this video, I just want to talk about potential detox symptoms that you might experience when switching to an alkaline diet. It really depends on where you've come from how you've been eating before us to the level of severity length of any detox symptoms, but I would say you should expect some for a couple of days. So if you've come from a place of eating a lot of meats, a lot of dairy, caffeine, alcohol, processed foods, microwave foods, and you're coming on to this diet, I would say that you can expect some fairly significant detox symptoms for at least three days. I've been eating an alkaline diet for years, but I kind of late last year I got into drinking green tea. And for a number of months I was drinking got up to about four or five cups of green tea a day. It was just a habit.

I just kind of slipped into it. And then suddenly it hit me when I wasn't sleeping as well. I thought Actually, I'm drinking a lot of caffeine that I just, you know, just crept up on me. So I quit caffeine was about two months ago now. And for three days solid I had a major headache. No joke and, and the first two days I just felt rubbish I literally had no no energy, no desire to do anything.

I was totally apathetic towards work and anything else so I literally just rested for two days. Third day kind of was coming out a bit but still had a headache. So and I was on a run, you know, pretty healthy diet. So, if your diet is worse than just having a bit of caffeine and I would say yet please do expect some detox symptoms. The good thing is, detox symptoms are good. Because it's, it's called retracing.

So it's your body Having a chance to kick out all the rubbish. And so you will experience that as your body kicks out rubbish, there'll be a shake up in your body and you have some symptoms. So for example, when I gave up smoking back in 2001, as a smoker, I never coughed. When I gave up smoking, I started coughing and that's I was actually giving up smoking advisor for the NHS for a while as well. And that was the experience of most people I worked with, is that and that's what prompted a lot of people to not continue with giving up smoking to go back on the cigarettes because they said, Well, I never had a cough before now I'm coughing and feeling rubbish. That's because when you smoke when you're putting on this harmful stuff in your body, your body's just trying to deal with it.

And it's like suppressing it down. It's just trying to cope the best they can. And you give that up. Your body says, Ah, we can breathe, okay, kick that stuff out. And the result of that will be coughing and headaches and you know, you might break out, you might have bad skin for a little while. But that's actually a really, really good sign, you've just got to ride out that process, please just be patient.

And the best way to approach it is just to be really kind with yourself and say, Look, okay, so pick like a, if you can start this diet on maybe a Friday night, or when you know you're going to have a few days off, or you can certainly just take things a little bit easier. You don't have to give up all your you know, social activities and work well together. But just tone it right down. You can just coast and you know, if you're out with people and you just don't feel that good, you don't feel like being too sociable, younger, much energy. Just allow yourself to be like that. And maybe just let other people know what you're doing.

So just have compassion for yourself and have embrace the process because once you come out of that three days or two days or one day or a week detox, you will then come out feeling much better and you will have this surge of energy, you love to feel better, you'll start losing weight, you'll start reaping all the benefits that we've talked about in, in the previous videos. So, yeah, that's that's what I'd say prepare for detox symptoms so that if and when they hit you, you're not thrown by it, you don't go, Oh, well, I can't cope and come off the diet before we even started, you're prepared. The best way to attack an obstacle is to prepare for it and then you can negotiate, negotiate around it, keep on track, keep going, and then hit the finish line and, you know, reap the rewards. So, think of symptoms, expect them, they shouldn't be too bad, but expect some and then expect the reaping the rewards on the other side of that