The opening shot of the 1990s' film GirlQuake!, written and directed by Michael Randall, is of a hamburger frying on a grill. In an Arizona diner, a group of overweight American men are smoking, drinking, and chowing down on burgers, dogs, fries, coffee, and other junk food. They get their comeuppance when they attempt to rape a bevy of fit, quaintly dressed extraterrestial Wonder Women, and the biggest food junkie is smothered to death in a gigantic fruit bowl of raw hamburger meat.
One way to look at this scene is as an ironic commentary on addiction: addictions ill fit us for facing life's sometimes unexpected challenges, and one way or another an addiction will kill you if you don't wise up. The scene also serves as a reminder that we can be addicted to other substances besides drugs—such as sugar and caffeine.
The number of Americans using drugs is skyrocketing, though many drug users don't consider themselves addicts. (For example, some people say they take cocaine because it gives them that extra energy to work longer days.) Tens of millions of Americans use drugs. Aside from the two most popular 12-step programs, Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, what other approaches to facing and overcoming substance abuse are out there?
There are in fact a number of alternative approaches to beating addiction, including detoxification, eating natural foods, and hypnosis. Let's start by talking about detoxification, a process whereby the body is cleansed of the toxins created by the addictive substance.
Detoxification
Elson Haas is a practicing integrated medical physician and the director of the Preventive Medical Center in San Rafael, California. He is the author of several best-selling books on health and nutrition, including The Detox Diet. Haas describes the best times to detox: "Right now, I'm on day six of my 25th annual spring cleanse, so I've been doing juices and broth. I usually cleanse in spring. That's one of the best times. Seasonal change times are usually more fraught with problems, and a cleanse can help a person. Going into autumn is another good time.
"I live on the West Coast, and even though it's a rainy and lightly cool March day here, back East it's probably colder. Probably a good time out there would be as it warms up into mid-April. Then you can count on a little warmer weather. Because when you do cleansing programs, your body gets a little cooler, so you need to take a little more protection from the cold, and dress warmer. Exercise, keep your body warm and all those things."
Of course, in embarking on a detox program, there are other considerations besides the seasonal. Reasons to begin one include when you experience congestive problems or are having regular headaches or sluggish intestines. Other good times to start are "when allergies are kicking up, when blood pressure is getting too high and the cholesterol is rising. Those are times when I, as a physician, would use detoxification as one of my medical treatments. When I see people who have problems of toxicity and congestion, and other things stemming from or related to addictions, I see that detoxification works better therapeutically than almost anything I can do for them. So we have both the time of the year and also the individual time for people when it's appropriate."
Haas adds, "Anytime you decide to go off any of these substances, you have to get your mind set first. When we are using any of these substances, we are hooked in emotionally. Mentally, we think we need them, and physically, we are slightly dependent on them. This varies with the substance. Nicotine is probably the most addictive, alcohol next, caffeine after that. Sugar is probably the least physically addictive, but emotionally people are really hooked into it."
Choice of Program
As Haas points out, "There are various levels of detoxification. You can do everything from juice cleanses to changing your diet in certain ways that will allow your detoxification to begin. Even drinking more water and getting more exercise and doing steams or saunas will help in the detoxification process. There are a lot of levels. It doesn't mean just one thing or one program. There are a lot of approaches out there."
Haas's prescription for the type of detox regimen to follow depends on how advanced the person's level of toxicity is. "If you treat somebody too extremely," he explains, "and she has too much toxicity, then she'll have more symptoms come up and more problems. In any kind of diet change—and the detox diet particularly—there's usually a couple of days of transition during which, as you're starting the diet, you may feel headachy, a cold, irritable. Usually by the third day, you start to click in. It's much like aerobic exercise. The first few minutes are difficult, but as soon as you get into that aerobic state, you think, 'Wow, this feels good. I'm moving forward.'"
Note, however, that pregnant women, people who are convalescing from illness, diabetics, hypoglycemics, people with mental problems, those with metabolic imbalances, and people taking medications should not undertake a cleansing program unsupervised. First they must determine that any proposed supplements or juices are not counterindicated by their medical program. Then if the person feels weak, faint, or dizzy, she should have a protein drink made of high-quality soy- or rice-based protein—containing anywhere from 20 to 35 gm of protein. She can also have grains, such as brown rice, millet, or barley, and beans, or a serving of fish while cleansing to maintain blood sugar. Eating these foods does not detract from the cleansing program.
Haas says detox is broadly helpful. "Anybody," he says, "can benefit from a detox program if it is done in the right way at the right time. Each detox depends on where a person is at and what she needs. To me, good medicine connects you with the patient and helps the patient take her next steps. Everybody is in a different state. If the person has a regular job and cannot easily go on a juice cleanse, she may have to go a different way. That's why I wrote The Detox Diet, to show people how they can take very simple steps that most anybody can handle. The detox diet provides nutrition for people with fruits and grains and vegetables, which provide many vitamins and minerals. With this diet, you are being nourished while you are detoxing."
Caffeine
How can detox help you escape the clutches of caffeine addiction? First, let's make it clear how bad for the body caffeine is and how people come to ignore its negative effects. "If you do something for the first time, such as drink alcohol, smoke a cigarette, or have a cup of coffee," Haas says, "you will be aware of the irritating, stimulating, or sedating effects of the substance." When people start to use any of these substances regularly, however, they tend to overlook those initial effects. They now have an addiction and take the substance not so much to feel the original sensations as to counteract the withdrawal symptoms.
Caffeine is bad for you, particularly over time. In the short term, it raises your blood pressure. It can also make you hyperagitated, increase anxiety, and affect sleep. Over time, because caffeine is a diuretic, it causes the loss of many minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium, particularly through the urine. The result of these losses is a more permanent increase in blood pressure. Two other long-term effects of caffeine are to weaken bones and to create mineral deficiencies, both of which can lead to a variety of other problems.
In women, Haas notes, caffeine seems to increase the incidence of all kinds of cystic problems, such as fibrocystic breast tumors and uterine fibroids. Studies on the relationship between caffeine use and cancer have produced conflicting results. However, a number of studies suggest that caffeine does increase the risk of certain types of cancer, and Haas believes that is another good reason for minimizing caffeine intake.
He observes that "most people, when they go off caffeine, will have some secondary effects, usually a tension headache, at least for 24 hours. Sometimes they will feel agitated or fatigued. They are going through a short-term withdrawal. If they have a very large habit, it may last 48 hours, but usually it's only 24 hours." Haas says that some people can mitigate the withdrawal headache by taking an over-the-counter aspirin, but thinks it's better to avoid that chemical medication if possible.
He recommends that you begin a detox diet the day before you start getting off caffeine. You can either go cold turkey or try to reduce your intake so that over a week you get down to maybe half a cup a day or less. If you do it gradually in this way, you will have fewer symptoms. According to Haas, "Many of the withdrawal symptoms happen because of elimination of acid from the foods and chemicals that we're cutting out."
"Doing the detox diet will reduce the withdrawal. I advise that you take additional nutrients, as follows: 2,000-10,000 mg vitamin C from calcium ascorbate, 1,200 mg calcium and magnesium from citrate, 400 mg potassium, 400 mg alpha lypoic acid, 200 mg ginkgo, 1,500 mg of essential fatty acids, a 20-mg capsule of cayenne pepper, 200 mg ginseng, 400 IU vitamin E, 500 mcg vitamin B12, and 200 mg non-flush niacin.
"Drinking lots of water helps. Also make sure the bowels move. Some people like caffeine because it gets their bowels to move in the morning. It stimulates the intestine's peristaltic activities. For these people caffeine withdrawal may cause constipation. Now not moving your bowels enough can cause more toxins to back up, and you will feel worse. So it's really important to do what you can about this. Even a day or two after you go off caffeine, you might get something from the natural food store such as laxative tea or laxative tablets or find other means of cleansing the bowels."
Alcohol
Drinking alcohol has serious negative nutritional consequences. "Alcohol doesn't have a lot of nutrients in it," Haas explains. "People will say wine has a little bit of vitamin C and some nutrients from grapes. Beer has some B vitamins. Yet the levels aren't really that significant. Alcohol also is a diuretic. It causes loss of nutrients through the urine."
Nevertheless, he is not in favor of teetotaling. "When people have a drink here or there and they are eating a healthy diet, it will not cause a problem. In fact, a recent study showed that people who drink wine tend to have a better, more Mediterranean-like diet" and the associated better health, "whereas people who drink beer and other kinds of alcohol tend not to eat as conscientiously." 
He adds, "One thing I've seen over the years is that bad habits tend to multiply. People who tend to abuse any substance, whether sugar, alcohol, nicotine, or caffeine, tend to also be less conscientious about how they take care of their bodies. They have other habits which are undermining their health."
Alcohol also irritates the liver, and people who drink more tend to consume more calories. Haas explains, "Alcohol is a sugar that gets absorbed relatively directly into the body and causes an overstimulation of insulin. Then you are dealing with problems in the whole sugar metabolism. These heavy drinkers then tend to consume less nutrient-rich foods. They get depleted that way. Those are some of the ways that alcohol endangers the body."
What is the best detox program for getting off alcohol? "For alcohol," Haas advises, "you want a nutrient-rich program. If you have been taking a lot of alcohol, you will definitely need professional guidance and intervention to help get through the period of withdrawal." Haas finds that the best daily combination of supplements for getting off alcohol is vitamin B, vitamin C, and a combination of calcium and magnesium, which helps alleviate the agitation that accompanies withdrawal. Chromium is another substance that can help in sugar metabolism. He advises a person to take either chromium picolinate or another form of chromium. "You'll need at least 200 mcg, which is the way they usually come in capsules. Take these a couple times a day to help with processing the sugar."
Another amino acid that can really help is L-glutamine, which affects brain chemistry. "Remember, a lot of the addictions we have are related to the opiate receptors which oversee addiction in the brain. L-glutamine seems to help feed the brain the nourishment it needs. It appears to reduce both sugar cravings and alcohol cravings. It's been used successfully in several alcohol clinics for people with more serious problems. The amount of glutamine that people might use is 500 to 1,000 mg, two to three times a day. If you have cravings, you can take more. It's safe. I never see problems with it."
Haas does suggest that "with any amino acid or any B vitamin, you don't want to use one substance for a long time by itself because you can throw the body off balance a little bit. So if you are using the amino acid or B vitamin for more than a few weeks, you may want to use a whole complex."
Orthomolecular psychiatrist Dr. Abram Hoffer has this advice: "For alcoholism the basic treatment starts with Alcoholics Anonymous. Bill W., the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, first showed that when you added niacin to the treatment of alcoholism you got a major response that you did not see before." Today, there are a large number of very good alcoholism treatment programs in the United States which combine AA's 12-step approach, various social aids, good nutrition, and the right supplements.
Sugar
Many people may debate whether sugar is addictive in the same way nicotine and alcohol are addictive, but it is definitely a hard habit to break. Haas notes: "When I talk to people about cleaning up sugar because there are so many books out now recommending lowering sugar intake and mentioning the problems with refined sugar, I find that it is an emotional problem above all. People were trained so early on that sugar is a reward. Sugar is sweet. All the love-talk words involve sugar. You're 'sweet on someone,' the person is your 'honey' or 'sweetie.' Sugar is associated with love and reward. So it's hard to break that emotional pattern."
Yet getting rid of sugar improves health. "When women who have problems with their menstrual cycle, who are irregular, who have pain, who have PMS clean that sugar out of their diets, often within a couple of months they are feeling a lot better, as long as they are taking some other nutrients," says Haas.
Not only does sugar affect behavior and moods, it is responsible for quite a few health problems. As Haas tells it, "Although some studies have refuted these findings—studies sponsored by the industry, I might add—researchers have found that sugar causes problems in kids in their focus and behavior. I think it causes increases in candida and parasites. It causes weakness in the digestive tract. Clearly, it's a cause of tooth decay. It has some causal relation to obesity, diabetes, and chronic digestion problems, as well as menstrual irregularities. It also hooks into alcohol abuse."
He has seen psychological problems that he believes had strong roots in the patient's sugar intake. "I've had a number of young women patients who came in. They were on medicine for depression and other low moods. When I interviewed them about their diet, which their psychiatrist never did, it turns out they are drinking a quart of Coke or Pepsi or one of those heavily sweetened beverages a day. So they were getting in the neighborhood of 40 to 50 teaspoons of sugar a day. Those intakes are really influencing their moods. The women who I've gotten to pay attention to their diets and get off sugar have been able to reduce their medicines and be more stable without these psychoactive drugs."
He echoes a theme that recurs throughout this book: "I think there's a lot to be said about how lifestyle and these habits affect our health and sanity. One of the key overall views is that when people don't feel well they need to look at their lifestyle first and see if there are factors in the way they are living that may be contributing to their decline. Then they should look at natural remedies. Lastly, I would tell them to turn to medicines, which I still use in my practice because I think that's part of being an integrated doctor. I use any system that I think is going to be of benefit to my patients. Sometimes people do need prescription medicines to help them get out of trouble. If they lived better, however, they wouldn't be getting into that trouble in the first place."
To really eliminate sugar, he encourages people to read labels and work on cleaning up their diet as a whole. He commonly sees people who have a some form of yeast infection, or candidiasis. They also have problems with moods, energy, and brain function, secondary to the yeast fermentation process in their intestinal tract, which causes toxins to get into their bodies. A key to recovery for such a person is to eliminate alcohols and sugars to stop feeding the yeast:
"Usually, within three or four days of cutting out the sugar, the person will feel a change. She doesn't have any symptoms in the way she would from alcohol withdrawal, but for the first couple of days she may feel headachy and moody. This will only last a day or two
"Again, if you drink more water and you take your extra Bs and other supplements, you'll have a smoother transition. Typically, by the third day and definitely within the week, you'll notice smoother and more balanced energy and better brain function. After the withdrawal, a person's moods are more stable, she is less reactive. She just starts to feel better quite quickly. Then a week or two later, she will say, 'You know, I had a lapse and I tried some more sugar. I can't believe the stuff I was eating. It's so oversweet that it doesn't taste right to me.'"
Haas is not against sweets per se. Breaking sugar addiction, he says, "doesn't mean we can never eat anything sweet. Fruits are sweet, and they are some of the purest foods that we have. Most sweet foods are based on extracts from either grains, such as corn syrups, or from other plants that are naturally sweet. Overall, we just want to balance out the diet."
Addiction as Ingrained Craving
Jerry Dorsman makes the unusual point that food addictions are harder to kick than drug or alcohol addictions. He's a certified addiction counselor from Oakton, Maryland, and the author of How to Quit Drinking Without AA and How to Quit Drugs for Good:
"Let me begin by saying that in my clinical experience, it is harder to get people to change their diet than to break an addiction to drugs and alcohol," Dorsman says. "I've seen statistics on this recently that show we have a 30 to 40 percent success rate for people breaking addictions to substances; but there is only about a 5 percent success rate for people who are trying to change diet and get away from bad food habits.
"The reason for this, I think, is that we have deeply ingrained addictions to food. Our body has come to expect certain foods in our diets. We have a metabolic expectation. If we don't get those foods, we begin to crave them. If you take a look at it, we've been eating foods since we've been one year old, whereas, typically, drugs or alcohol aren't started until we are in our teens or early twenties. So they have had a shorter period of time in which to change the body. I think it's a longer-term, more deeply ingrained pattern that creates the difficulty in changing diet."
To break food addictions, one has to get a handle on cravings. According to Dorsman, "The more balanced we can make our diet, the healthier it becomes. The addiction causes a certain imbalance in the body. The body has to be constantly prepared to metabolize this substance which it's experiencing over and over. This creates a severe imbalance. Our natural response is to balance it. The place to start is dealing with this physical part of cravings. By changing the diet based on the contractive/expansive as well as the acid/alkaline balances, we can really begin to settle our metabolism and find greater peace based on diet alone. In fact, in my opinion, changing diet is the number one stress-reduction technique available.
"A second way to handle cravings is just wait it out. Most cravings, according to scientific studies, last for only about five to ten minutes. Once we know that up front, that particular piece of knowledge can help us beat these cravings. You can think to yourself, 'Hey, I just have a few minutes here to wait this out and manage it.'"
The basic difficulties in resisting cravings—and this applies to any type of addiction, from food to drugs to alcohol—can, in Dorsman's opinion, "be broken into two categories: problems that substance use caused and problems it concealed. The most common problems that substance use causes are the physical problems, because of the biological effects of the drug or alcohol or food on the body, which are very devastating at the cellular level and to the nerve cells. The problems that are concealed are emotional ones. Those are problems which, when a person drank or used drugs or binged on food, tended to go away, because the person could ignore such things as depression, anxiety, and anger. Those emotional difficulties a person ignored when drinking or drugging or binging will come back up when the person puts down the addictive substances."
Hypnotherapy
Another health practitioner with much experience in dealing with addictions is Michael Ellner, a medical hynotherapist with a private practice at the Chelsea Healing Center and co-author, with Dr. Richard Jamison, of Quantum Force.
Ellner begins: "One point I should bring up is that anyone a healer works with is an individual who has her own story about why she does something, her own mythology about why something is important to her and what role it plays in her life." Ellner says, for example, that there are many underlying reasons why a woman might use food as her addiction of choice. "Some use food to fill up the empty feeling they have. Other people have social issues with eating. Such a person might eat wisely when she is at home, but in social situations, just to be part of the crowd, she may indulge in food that ordinarily would not appeal to her. If the person is very active socially, then suddenly it becomes habitual, almost a license to eat junk food."Some people use food as a shield. Very often when a relationship ends, a woman puts on 10 to 15 pounds. It provides a cushion, because people are unlikely to hit on her. The woman gets a little bit of space. Very often when she begins to feel better about herself and is ready to go back into the world, it occurs to the woman that it is time to let go of the extra pounds. I can help the person do that very quickly."
The Treatment Process
Explaining his treatment for addiction, Ellner uses tobacco addiction to illustrate. "To deal with any addiction, I use one of two ways. For people with combined physical and psychological addictions, in the case of cigarettes, for instance, I work as an adjunct to an acupuncturist. She helps the person resolve the physical addiction, while I am working to help resolve the psychological addiction. That gives a person a one-two punch in helping her take charge of her life. It makes the overall detox much easier.
"The initial phase of treatment begins when the addict decides she wants a change of behavior. That's the first step. The second step comes with helping her develop the self-confidence and self-esteem necessary to move forward, which means stopping the addictive behavior.
"I use hypnotic conditioning to help the person create a shift. The shift would make the desire to be smoke-free much more important to the person than any impulse to smoke. Ordinarily, the impulse to smoke is much stronger. The hypnosis enables the person to make choices rather than responding to preconditioned reflexes. In other words, there are many things in a day that will trigger the response, 'It's time to light a cigarette.' Most of these responses occur unconsciously, and before the person really thinks about it, she is smoking a cigarette. The hypnosis will interfere with that impulse in such a way that she will have the time to stop and think, 'Do I really want that cigarette?' That's the pause that enables people to break habits and end addictions."
To some people, the very word "hypnosis" has a stigma attached to it. Ellner comments: "If you ask 50 of the leading experts in the world about what hypnosis is, then you'd probably get 50 different answers. When I use the word 'hypnosis,' I'm talking about a way to help a person change neurological patterns. This is done through imagery, metaphor, and the power of suggestion.
"Hypnosis in that context is a communication tool. It helps a person communicate with herself more efficiently, and so she is able to do things that ordinarily she wouldn't think that she could do. "There are a number of practices that are quite popular and are in fact hypnosis, but the practitioners avoid using the word. An example would be guided meditation. Guided imagery and visualization are also forms of hypnosis. Many meditation practices are forms of self-hypnosis. I myself am working very hard to educate the public to understand the word and to appreciate that hypnosis is one of the most powerful self-help tools available.
"If I have a client — I don't have 'patients' and I don't like that word — who is dealing with a smoking addiction, I find it can often be resolved in one session, especially if she has a couple of adjunct sessions with an acupuncturist. Hypnosis is a stand-alone therapy, but I work with an acupuncturist because I want to give my client the ultimate protocol for helping her do what she wants in helping herself. These two systems work very well together to help a person stop smoking very quickly and with little or no withdrawal. 
"With food issues, it could take between four and eight sessions. There are a lot of additional areas that have to be worked with that involve building self-esteem, building a better self-image, helping a person gain confidence, and helping her let go of a lot of emotional tension.
"In terms of alcohol and drug addictions, let me say this. My general practice is to get the person involved in something else [another rehab program] and to work with her as an adjunct to support whatever it is she is doing. I will recommend different programs for helping a person stop using drugs and stop drinking. Then the hypnosis would take the edge off. It would give the client a higher quality of motivation.
"A substance abuser very often finds herself stuck in an addictive environment. So, if she can go to rehab, she finds that in that environment, it is pretty simple to stay off the drugs. However, then she gets back home and finds that all the things that contributed to that problem in the first place are again staring her in the face. I could help her address that hypnotically in such a way that she can create space and disassociate from those triggers that ordinarily lead back to the addiction. I can help the woman change the way she responds to those triggers. She can then nullify those triggers and create new responses that are healthy."
He mentions some triggers that may start a person drinking. "We live in a country where the founding principle is freedom of speech. Yet the greatest phobia in America is public speaking. You'd be amazed at how many people develop drinking problems because they have a drink or two before they have to speak. It becomes a ritual. Very often, it diminishes the quality of whatever they're saying, but they can't appreciate that. The speaker feels helpless without that drink or two.
"The situational triggers produce anxiety and the anxiety says, 'Hey, I need a drink. Maybe I need a drink and a cigarette.' With the hypnosis, the same stimuli can now create a relaxation response. Instead of anxiety overwhelming the person in that situation, suddenly the person feels calm and peaceful. Suddenly, speaking to the people in front of her is as natural as taking a deep breath. The person is in the same situation, but the triggers don't provoke the same response, don't produce the old unwanted behavior. In that respect, in conjunction with a program and a support system, most people can turn these behaviors around rather quickly and dramatically. A woman will find that she has the inner resolve to stay on the wagon."
Another adjunct to his counseling is nutrition. "When I am working as an adjunct to the acupuncturist, I have the acupuncturist also do nutritional counseling. If I am not working with her, I would refer the client to a nutritionist, giving her two or three recommendations of nutritionists and suggesting that this be part of her overall program to reclaim life and health. One of the more popular programs I recommend is to join one of Gary Null's study groups, which provides peer support and a firm education about nutritional issues and gives people something to do that is a good use of their time. This is very important in making this kind of change. I take advantage of whatever is out there, and I use hypnosis as an additional way of helping the client accomplish her goals."
Toxic Thinking
Ellner speaks passionately about how thought processes can have a negative impact. "To me, the biggest and most dangerous addiction is toxic thinking. People are very often addicted to negative beliefs, negative opinions about themselves and the world they live in. This addiction really diminishes one's quality of life. Instead of having fun, life is always a drag. Very often, that primary addiction gives rise to all the secondary addictions that people put all their time and energy into. One of the first things I do is make people aware of the nature of toxic thinking. Then I help them do a mental detox and change the way they think.
"As a part of that I use meditation, creative visualization, and other forms of hypnosis. One of the most engaging forms of hypnosis comes about when a person has some kind of creative pursuit, whether it's strumming a guitar and going into an enhanced state of consciousness, or reading a very exciting book, or taking a walk and having contact with nature. All those things are hypnotic experiences. All those things involve moving from one state of consciousness to another. I encourage a person to get very active in her everyday life."
A Final Note
If you are taking a substance because you are depressed, your depression may be physiologically induced, perhaps due to some form of brain imbalance. You might have an underactive thyroid, for example, or a blood-sugar imbalance—whether high or low blood sugar. Either of these conditions can be manifested as depression. In order to get away from the chronic feeling of emptiness that frequently accompanies depression, people will start to drink.
One of the reasons people drink is that it takes away the feelings: both the highs and the lows. It gives the drinker a sense of being in a never-never land. The same is true of many drugs. People take drugs because it gives them a euphoria they wouldn't have achieved on their own or that they may have had but could not sustain. So they keep going back to it. Once you get used to that, it's quick and easy to just stick a needle in your arm or put some form of narcotic up your nose. You drink it or ingest it. None of this helps us resolve the underlying conflict, which may be biological, psychological, or a combination of the two.
I have found that the best single way to approach this is to get the person into a systematic cleansing program—and there are many—where the person actually breaks all physical addictions, and not just to one thing like sugar, but also every other thing they could be allergic to. That seems to be a major first step. The person's energy comes back. See, a very big thing about any addiction withdrawal is the lack of energy. So when you substitute for the energy they had been getting from the drug by giving it to the person naturally, through the body's own process of metabolism, the person feels better.
Then you start to rebuild the center of the brain with phosphatidyl serine, 500 mg, acetyl L-carnitine, 500 mg, phosphatidyl choline, 500 mg, and with certain herbs that are known to have an impact like feverfew and green tea. Also flood the body with flavonoids. The person should also juice, juice, juice, taking anywhere from four to six glasses of fresh-made organic vegetable juice a day. Within six months to a year, I have seen people who have been totally addicted clear up about 80 percent, stay off, and not come back.
Consider the alternative: You might end up face down on a slab... of hamburger patties.