Tired of popping pills every day and finding crumpled tissues in every pocket, purse, and jacket you own? Wondering if acupuncture is right for you? In our experience, acupuncture for allergies is one of the best natural allergy treatments, and our clients thank us endlessly for the results.

According to Chinese Medicine, the root cause of allergies is a lack of protective Qi energy – Wei Qi energy, to be precise. When Wei Qi is weak, outer forces can penetrate your first line of defense and POW – the itchy, red, sneezy symptoms flare up!

Allergy medicines only bury these symptoms deeper into your body, cementing this pattern in your cells, tissues and organs. Acupuncture for allergies can be the gardener that removes the weeds and leaves you with a rich soil by increasing its nourishing energy: Wei Qi.

Address the Root Cause of Allergies:Strengthen Your Qi

Acupuncture for allergies strengthens and rebalances your Wei Qi and all Qi in your body, reducing symptoms. As New Yorkers, we need our defense systems intact! Just stand on a subway platform as a train rolls into the station and consider what is flying through the air. YIKES!

Wei Qi acts like the Avengers, creating a vigorous force (energy) field around your body and defending you from irritants and pollutants and acting as a natural allergy treatment. When your Wei Qi is balanced, no planet, creature or microorganism will be able to penetrate and cause allergy symptoms. Strengthening your Qi with Acupuncture can even help reduce cravings and addiction!

NYC Acupuncture for Allergies As your Natural Treatment:

When considering acupuncture for allergies, look for a compassionate, intuitive therapist. After all, allergies as well as any chronic condition must be treated by careful examination of your unique constitution. Acupuncturists like LYT NYC’s Jennifer Taveras, L.Ac embody the wise, compassionate perspective needed to suit your individual needs and determine which course of natural allergy treatments will work best for you.

Juicing for weight loss yields rapid results in the short-term, but it may surprise you to know juice fasting combined with colonics will help you achieve your long-term weight loss and health goals. In addition to keeping the excess weight off, juicing will help you transition to a healthier, nutrient-rich diet and eliminate bad food cravings. 

Juicing For Weight Loss Works: Waste = Weight!

The key is waste = weight. Removing excess waste from your body results in weight loss. Juice fasting and raw foods are the best way to awaken and loosen waste, and colonics will help remove it from your body. Read more about raw foods and losing weight here.

Vegetable Juicing Recipes & Fasting Tips

    1. Transition Before A Weight Loss Juice Fast:

               * Alkalinize your diet by including fresh-pressed juices (on an empty stomach), raw salads before cooked food, and whole foods.

               * Reduce/eliminate your intake of acidic/mucus-forming foods such as red meat, dairy, processed starches, and alcohol. 

               *Get a pre-fast colonic for best fasting results. 

    2. During the Weight Loss Juice Fast:

               * Drink approximately 1 gallon of liquid per day during a fast: Composed of a 50/50 ratio of  vegetable juice and water. See the diagram below for the benefits of drinking a substantial amount of water!

               * Get Colonics!!

Vegetable Juicing Recipes For Rookies – Start With 12-16 Ounces

Use equal portions of each of these or use more carrots if you’re new to juicing. As your taste buds shift, you can increase the GREENS!

     * Carrot & Romaine Lettuce

     * Carrot & Celery

     * Carrot & Cucumber

     * Carrot, Beet, & Cucumber

     * Carrot & Fennel

     *** Add a 1- 2 inch chunk of ginger to any of these for some kick & to dissolve mucus!

     *** 1 lb carrots = approx. 8 oz juice

Vegetable Juicing Recipes For Veterans – Consider 24-32 Ounces

     * Romaine & Cucumber 

     * Romaine, Cucumber, & Spinach  

     * Celery, Spinach, Lemon, & Arugula 

     * Grapefruit & Spinach (or shot of Wheatgrass)

     *** Grapefruits are low in sugar, anti-inflammatory, and help dissolve mucus. Keep fruit juice to a minimum during a fast to avoid unmanageable detox symptoms. 

     *** Add a 1- 2 inch chunk of ginger to any of these for some kick!

Colonics Are Necessary When Juicing For Weight Loss

It is crucial to keep the bowels moving when juicing for weight loss. The alkaline juices will loosen more waste than your body is capable of eliminating on its own. The more waste you release with colonics, the more weight you will shed in the long-term! Read more about juice fasting and colonics in New York City to learn more.

Your gut is the "Captain Of The Ship"! KEEP IT HEALTHY!

Before you cleanse with Biore, peel with Dior, firm up with Chanel, and moisturize with Prevage, STOP! Learn how to get rid of acne at its roots. Your skin is your largest organ and can reflect disruption and poor health and unhappiness in your body. Sorry, there’s no easy way to say this. If you’re eating inflammatory foods you are provoking your symptoms. Eat to GLOW! Live to LOVE and LAUGH!  And cleanse with confidence to heal your skin once and for all NATURALLY!

Natural Remedies for Acne: Increase the Quality of Your Skin from the Inside Out

In our last post, we discussed what causes acne (cooked oils, dairy, etc.) and how a raw food diet can help reduce inflammation by alkalinizing the body. Use these natural food remedies for acne to help boost your skin’s overall health:

1. Fresh veggie juice supports your collagen, elasticity and hydration. No joke! Pure minerals and vitamins get absorbed immediately and begin to nourish and cleanse your body.

2. Fresh leafy greens, especially fresh vegetables and fruits (eat what’s in season), are all anti-inflammatory foods. Reduce inflammation in your body and reduce irritation and symptoms like acne, rashes, excessive oil, and dehydration. See the food-combining chart for more guidance.

3. Eat raw or cold pressed fats and oils – they lubricate body and beautify skin. Cooked oils clog your pores!

4. Drink raw organic aloe for intestinal support and use the gel from the leaf as a mask. Great for hydration, and its anti-inflammatory ingredients are wonderful natural remedies for acne.

5. Use dry brushing techniques to help remove excess mucus, toxins, and to stimulate your lymphatic system.

Colon Hydrotherapy Reduce Skin Issues: Apply Natural Remedies for Acne, Then Cleanse

Don't let a one ounce tastebud ruin your skin's glowing potential!

Don’t swim in the toxic pool! When you integrate the raw food principals, please know that you must help your body rid itself of the pollutants that have contributed to your acne and skin issues. Our cells have held our history of lollipops, pizza, burgers, alcohol, and deserts – that’s quite a burden. Colon hydrotherapy helps cleanse your colon so that your cells can be relieved of  excess waste and gas, leading to healthy vibrant-looking skin. Colonics Rock®!

Cold cucumber slices are great for reducing eye inflammation! Eating them clears toxicity from the skin and improves kidney health!

Please learn more about colonic sessions as natural remedies for acne at LYT NYC here!  

What Causes Acne and Skin Ailments?

Inflammation in the body, resulting from poor dietary choices and acidic cellular waste, is often what causes acne and skin ailments. Inflammation equals irritation, provoking the skin’s natural defenses to work overtime.

The (greasy) road to inflamed skin! YIPES!

Foods and Conditions That Cause Inflammation:

1.  Cooked Oils

2.  Processed White Foods: breads and pastries

3.  Dairy

 4.  Animal Protein

5.  Candida or Yeast Prone Body

6.  Emotional Stress

This is not food! This is toxicity waiting to clog your cells!

Natural Remedies for Acne:  Rock A Raw Food Diet, Watch Your Skin Heal

Alternatively, consuming a raw food diet of green juice, salads, and fresh whole foods is a natural remedy for acne because alkalinizing the body reduces inflammation. These alkaline foods will magnetize acidic waste, yeast, and other pathogenic bacteria out of your cells and deliver them to the colon for effective removal with colon hydrotherapy. Check out “Raw Food Results” for more tips on eating a raw food detox diet! 

Spinach has anti-inflammatory characteristics & reduces redness.

Colonics Are The Best Natural Remedy For Acne

Colonics and a raw food diet are the most effective natural remedies for acne, skin ailments, and eczema. By removing acidic waste matter with colon hydrotherapy with us at LYT in New York City, you can experience a reduction in inflammation and a re-balancing of hormone-regulating glands. So, colonics help the glands reduce excess sebum oil production which, when out of balance, contribute to the causes of acne and other chronic skin ailments. You’ll see it’s like having the power of magic in your own hands!

Colonics offer your skin the “double whammy”! This powerful therapy both relaxes the nervous system (making it easier to handle stress), as well as loosens the emotions stored in cells – thereby naturally helping heal skin ailments caused by emotional toxicity.

Learn more about Colon Hydrotherapy in NYC and raw food diets as part of the path to healthy and happy living.

Radiant Skin & Balanced Emotions - with a raw food detox diet & colonics!

It may surprise you to know the benefits of colon hydrotherapy are not limited to the obvious realm of improved digestion and elimination – the positive effects actually encompass many other aspects of your overall health and quality of life. Given this, then it may not surprise you to discover an increasing number of people are incorporating this ancient holistic practice into their lifestyle on a regular basis.

In our two previous posts, we revealed how EXCESS CELLULAR WASTE = EXCESS WEIGHT and how to use RAW FOODS TO LOSE WEIGHT. Now we draw your attention to the importance of removing the poisons that these raw foods awaken and unleash! In our experience, it’s not until these destructive substances leave your body that the maximum benefits of colon hydrotherapy (detoxification) are experienced and true cellular regeneration ensues! IT JUST MAKES SENSE!

BENEFITS OF COLON HYDROTHERAPY INCLUDE:

*Improved Digestion: IE:  Reflux

*Improved Elimination: IE: Bloating/Gas/IBS/Constipation

*Reduced Inflammation: IE: Arthritis, Hypo/Hypertension, Hypo/Hyperthyroid, CFS

*Improved Sleep: IE: Insomnia

*Improved Complexion: IE: Acne, Dry Skin, Rashes, Eczema, Hives, etc.

*Improved Circulation & Breathing: Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Disease, Cold/Tingly Limbs, Asthma, etc.

*Improved Fertility: IE: PMS/painful menstruation, Infertility, (inability to conceive/menstruate)

*Improved Nervous System: IE: depression, anxiety, moodiness, irritability, and impatience

*Improved Senses:  See, Hear, Taste, Feel, and Smell with amazing clarity

*Improved Injury Recovery

*Reduced Frequency of Sickness

*Reduced Need For Pharmaceutical Drugs

*Reduced  Tumors, Pre-Cancerous & Cancerous Cells

* Awakens Toxicity

* Removes Toxicity

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WHAT IS COLONIC IRRIGATION:

Most people believe the body can “do it all” on its own. If this were true, how do we explain shampooing our hair, swabbing our ears, brushing our teeth, and washing our bodies? You can see where we’re going here. What is colonic irrigation, you ask?  In a colonic treatment, the colon is alleviated of impacted matter that has not left the body on its own free will and is potentially destined to be the cause of a wide range of infirmity.

We want you to understand that any negative health symptoms you experience are typically a direct result of impacted matter, and even the now loosened up matter, still residing in your body! (Stay tuned to future posts about the spiritual connection to the manifestation of illness.)

THE POWER OF COLONICS

The benefits of colonics are vast and impressive! So, if you’re seeking that fountain of youth or at least just a healing modality that allows you to experience an amazing lightness of being, joy for living, and that overall clean feeling from the inside out, you may just find that Colonic Hydrotherapy is the missing link to manifesting vibrant and escalating health in your life!

Now, tell us, aren’t you curious?

Ingredients:

1.  Juice of 1 Lemon

2.  1/2 cup water 

3.  1/4 tsp Sea Salt

4.  1 – 2 bunches of cilantro

5.  1 cup of raw cashews 

***Use organic when possible! 

*** Makes approx. 1 1/2 cups. 

Preparation:

1.  Pour juice of 1 lemon into Vitamix or high speed blender and add the water

2.  Wash cilantro and place into Vitamix w/ all other ingredients

3.  Blend on HIGH until creamy

4.  Drizzle over your favorite green leaves such as a combo of Romaine lettuce and spinach with sliced red pepper!

 ***This is a rich dressing so use it sparingly. Store the remainder in the fridge.

FOOD COMBINING TIP:

Nuts don’t combine favorably with fats (avocado/coconut), starches or proteins, so this works well as a lunchtime salad alone or can be followed by cooked non-starchy vegetables.

Variations:

1. Add a large chunk of fresh ginger or a pinch of cayenne pepper to the blender for some spice!

2. Add a splash of Hawthorne Valley Hot Pepper Sauce to the blender for some spike!

3. Add a dash of cumin powder once served for an exotic twist and a dash of color!

In New York City, stress can be a real challenge to manage. At LYT we often suggest meditation as an immensely effective stress management technique. It can even help those looking to learn how to strengthen their immune systems! Though meditation is a powerful stress management technique, we often have questions and hesitations when we hear the word “Meditation.”

“How do I meditate?”

It is simple: sit and breathe.

“I don’t have the time.”

Five minutes.

If your desire is to feel present in your body, experience clarity of mind, and less anxiety, mediation is an amazing portal.

Meditation and the Brain:How to Start Meditating for Beginners

Meditation is a useful stress management technique because it’s a reboot for your nervous system. During the process, you release trauma, emotions, and images that keep your system operating in “fight or flight” mode, which creates constant stress and inflammation in your body.

Your central nervous system consists of the spinal cord, brain, and retina, and the system branches out into nerves throughout every part of your body. When you embark on a meditation session to clear your electro-magnetic energy pathways, use these universally applicable stress management techniques we list below.

Meditation 101:First, Shut Down All Communication

1. Sit in a comfortable chair, feet on the ground, back straight.

2. Place your hands in a relaxed position: Palms up is a gesture of open-ness and receiving. Palms-down is a gesture of giving and grounding.

3. Focus on your breath: Breathe deeply, but do not try to control your breathing.

4. Allow the images to pass and observe any that trigger a response. Release them.

5. 5-minutes is a great start! Build up to a 20-minute practice.

Learn How to Strengthen Your Immune System with Meditation

Decreasing your stress through meditation will also help to strengthen your immune system. If your nervous system provides the conducting hardwires, then the immune system is your source of POWER! Give your mind and body a boost this spring:

1. Be mindful of your internal terrain: Cleanse your insides with an alkaline diet, juice cleanses, and colon hydrotherapy. 

2. Move every day: Stretch, breathe, walk, practice yoga, go to the gym, dance, go to spin class.

3. Meditate: Start your day clear, peaceful and strong with this stress management technique.

Craniosacral Therapy New York City: Stress Management at a Deeper Level

Living in New York City constantly puts stress on our nervous and immune systems. In addition to regular meditation and stress management techniques, craniosacral therapy can help address imbalances in the cerebrospinal fluids that surround and protect your brain and spinal cord. Please visit the LYT Craniosacral page for more information. And our Craniosacral Therapist, Jennifer Taveras’ Personal Story About Craniosacral Therapy can be read here, in the Insights And Articles section of our website.

1-2 Nori Sheets
1 T Coconut Butter
1 Tomato
Spinach & Arugala (variations below)
Cumin Powder
Sea Salt
Black Pepper

Ingredients

Preparation:

1. Place Nori Sheet on cutting board.

2. Spread 1 T or so of coconut butter on Nori with a non-serrated knife. Coconut butter spreads easiest at room temp or will soften & melt as you spread it gently across the Nori sheet.

Spread Coconut Butter evenly to edges of Nori

3. Sprinkle cumin or herb of your choice on the coconut butter. Try chill powder or oregano or garlic/onion powder as variations.

Sprinkle cumin powder next

4. Place spinach and arugula on top of coconut butter.

5. Place cut tomato on top of spinach.

You may wish to sprinkle sea salt and black pepper on top here

6. Roll Nori gently but tightly.

You may need a bib for this one!

You’re ready to eat!

Variations:

Check out our YouTube video for reminders about healthy options for spreads and more!

1. Cilantro w/ avocado (instead of coconut butter) and a sprinkle chili powder.
2. Kale w/ cucumber and dill & nutritional yeast.
3. Olive tapenade (instead of  coconut butter) shaved fennel w/ sun-dried tomato and fresh oregano.
4. Romaine lettuce w/ red, yellow, or orange peppers, and fresh rosemary or rosemary powder.

Phthalates increase flexibility and durability of plastic containers and are known to cause hormone disruption & birth defects.

According to an article written by Dr. Joseph Mercola, he sites information from a report by Columbia University School of Public Health that diet and environmental toxicity cause about 95% of cancers. In our previous blog post, we explained how implementing a raw food diet coupled with regular colonics noticeably improves your overall health and physical appearance. However, we also want you to know a raw food diet and regular colonics can also help effectively remove the environmental toxins from your body that cause cancer!

The Top 3 Environmental Toxins That Cause Disease

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a New York Times best-selling author who helps people recover from chronic illnesses through natural methods, Americans have 400 – 800 chemicals stored primarily in the body’s fat cells. If you do not learn how to cleanse your body properly of environmental toxins, you could experience debilitating health conditions such as neurological disorders, cancer, hormonal imbalances, reproductive disorders, fatigue, headaches, allergies and/or asthma. 

Below are the most commonly occurring environmental toxins that people unknowingly consume, and why it’s important to know how to cleanse them from your body: 

1. Mercury: Mercury enters the body through dental amalgams, fish consumption, vaccinations, and contaminated-air inhalation.

2. Pesticides: Insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides coat at least 50% of non-organic food. Pesticide-laden run-off from farms can contaminate the ground water.

3. Phthalates: Often found in soft plastics including water bottles, tupperware, and plastic wrap, phthalates leach from the containers and are absorbed into the body.

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How To Cleanse Your Body With Raw Foods: Alkaline Detox Diet

The first step in the process of learning how to cleanse your body of environmental toxins is loosening the toxins from the tissue with a raw food alkaline detox diet. 

Toxins become embedded in your body when the positively-charged acidic waste magnetically adheres to your negatively-charged alkaline tissue. Alkaline detox diets of raw fruits and vegetables contain a negative charge that pulls the acidic toxins out of the cells and into the bloodstream for removal via your body’s elimination systems. 

Fresh-pressed, raw green vegetable juices and salads are the best way to deliver high-doses of alkalinity to your body. Chlorella, cilantro, and raw garlic are particularly good alkaline detox foods that excel at magnetizing environmental toxins from your tissue.

Chlorella Helps Cleanse & Even Prevent Toxins From Being Absorbed By Your Body

The Added Benefits of Colon Cleansing

Once the environmental toxins have been loosened with an alkaline detox diet, it is important to support the process of their removal by cleansing your body with colonics. At LYT in New York City, we believe colonics are the best way to escort environmental toxins out of your body. 

Colon cleansing benefits include more rapid healing time, relief of detox symptoms, and the prevention of re-absorption of toxins into the blood stream. Furthermore, other channels of elimination such as the liver and kidneys can become overtaxed when filtering the blood of environmental toxins – rapidly removing the toxins from your body with colon hydrotherapy will ease their burden.

Colon Hydrotherapy helps cleanse these main organs of detoxification by removing poisons more efficiently from your body.

By including regular sessions as part of your lifestyle, you can experience some of the life-changing benefits of colon cleansing: 

     - weight loss

     - glowing skin and less acne 

     - improved digestion

     - fewer chronic health problems: depression, constipation, back pain, etc.

     - stress relief

If you are looking for other ideas about how to cleanse your body, please see our informative posts on the benefits of lymphatic drainage and juice cleanses. You can also learn more about the benefits of colon cleansing by visiting our Colonics in New York City info page. 

Your Fresh Ingredients

Ingredients:

    – 1 zucchini

    – 1 bunch fresh spinach 

    - 1 lemon

    – 1 tsp Bragg’s Liquid Aminos OR Nama Shoyu

    – 1 pinch sea salt

    – 1 lg clove garlic (or few sprinkles of garlic powder)

    – 1/4 bunch fresh dill (washed and dried gently in paper towel or salad spinner)

Two Creamy Vegan Options:

1. Add 3 Tbs Extra Virgin Olive Oil OR 

2. 1/2 avocado to blender w/ other wet ingredients.

Directions:

1. Slice zucchini into 1/2 inch sections. 

2. Wash and spin the spinach in salad spinner (or buy bagged, pre-washed spinach)

3. Place both in Vitamix with juice of 1 lemon and all other ingredients.

4. Blend until smooth.

Serving Suggestion:

Drizzle over a fresh bed of romaine lettuce. You may wish to sprinkle some chopped celery to the top of your salad for some added flavor contrast to the dressing.

Makes approximately 2 C.

Lasts a few days refrigerated.

Bon Apetit!