Nourish

Objective: To replenish essential nutrients and nourish your body, mind & soul — giving the body the wholesome building blocks it needs to repair damage and regain balance and vitality.

The Nourishing Phase. A good holistic wellness and recovery program starts by giving the body the wholesome building blocks it needs. This phase focuses on a balanced, varied diet rich in whole foods — fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and healthy fats — to support your body's basic functions and overall health.

Start here

• Focus on an Organic Whole-Food Plant-Based diet, adding only good-quality grass-fed organic meats and omega-3-rich fish like wild salmon as needed.
• Avoid all processed foods. You want food that is alive.
• Avoid refined sugars at all costs. We're going to train your body to get its energy from good-quality fats, not from glucose.
• Reduce total carbohydrates to a maximum of 20 grams a day.
• Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables.
• Eat plenty of high-quality fats rich in Omega-3s: grass-fed butter or ghee, avocados, salmon, sardines.
• Eat plenty of polyphenol-rich foods: broccoli, blueberries, raspberries.
• Practice intermittent fasting. Learn more here.
• Reduce stress — it throws the system off, makes it acidic, and makes us crave sugar for fast energy. Make time each day to deeply nourish body, mind, and spirit: meditation, yoga, and regular nourishing bodywork. Read about stress.
• Get plenty of sleep. Read about deep sleep.

Key products & services

(use the filter to narrow by your goal, or ask the AI Advisor): foundational nutrition — greens powders, omega-3s (Premier DHA, Deltanol), B-complex and methylated B's, magnesium, mineral complexes, multivitamins; nourishing services — Therapeutic Healing & Massage, Watsu & Aquatic Healingwork, and restorative time at the retreat.

You're ready for Detoxify when

• You're having a regular bowel movement, at least once a day.
• You're well-mineralized — urine pH at or above 7. Learn about balancing pH · pH paper roll.
• You have steady energy and can handle a temporary dip during detox.
• You're not fighting a cold or flu, not pregnant or breastfeeding, and you have time to rest.
• You've been eating clean — alive foods, off processed food and refined sugar — long enough to feel steadier (a few weeks is typical).