As a pharmacist and naturopathic physician I have formulated a number of products for many companies over the past 30 years. However the recent challenge of developing a total body cleansing system has the most rewarding experience of my career. I was given a great deal of freedom to create this concept, was not to be governed by the price of the component parts and was told to use the best possible ingredients to deliver efficacious formulations. That being said let's discuss detoxification.

                            GENERAL VS. PINPOINT DETOXIFICATION

   For those of you who have never experienced a general detoxification, it is usually not a pleasant experience. Trying to detoxify the body as a whole is about as much fun as laying down on a bed of nails. Cleansing is a rough proces. Specific organ detoxing is a much less aggresive and logical approach. Most important of all, I have found that patients will not comply very well with total detoxification programs. It has been my experience that you can have the best possible product, but if the patient compliance is zero, it is not going to do him or her any good at all. It must be a program that the patient can complete, thus setting him/her up for success.

                                     PINPOINT DETOXIFICATION

   Pinpoint detoxification, where do you start? You start at the colon. Cleansing the colon should always be the first step, followed by liver cleansing and then the kidney. Afther kidney cleansing, it depends on the patient and the specific problems that are presented. For instance, for a 31-year-old single mother of four with a full-time job, whose main complaint was fatigue, the next step would be an adrenal cleanse. However, a 64-year-old male that had benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), who was waking up four to six times a night to urinate, afther the kidney I would suggest a prostate cleanse. And let's say he had heart and vascular problems. What would he do? Afther the colon, liver and kidney cleanse, he would do a heart and blood cleanse with prostate cleanse being the last.

   Now let's say you have a patient who presents with simple joint problems and does not want to do a total body cleanse ( or has just done one ). Yes, he can do just a joint cleanse. Remember, it is always advantageous to do the step-by-step total body cleanse in the specific order previously mentioned, however, there are always exceptions to this process on an individual basis.

   One of the most asked questions is how does the liver cleanse product know to go to the liver? How does the kidney cleanse go to the kidney? The answer is to look at the formulations. Herbal medicines, like all medicines, are processed trough specific organs. For instance, milk thistle is processed trough the liver while dandelion is processed trough the kidneys. Therefore, these herbs will go to the areas through which they will be processed. With the delivery system incorporated into these formulas, the bioavailability will de greatly enhanced.