New Year, Clean Start

Posted by: The Balancing Center

And welcome to 2014. It’s been a brutal start to the year. We hope you weathered the freeze with relative aplomb. We can all look forward to a veritable heat wave this weekend! 38 degrees? It’s practically beach weather!

When it’s this cold outside, healthy eating can be at least a little challenging. Cool, crisp salad doesn’t warm you up like pot roast or chili or burgers. The coldest and darkest months of the year require comfort foods and hibernation! 

But if you’re feeling the toll of that comfort, feeling a little slow and sluggish after the indulgences of the holiday, this might actually be a great time to reintroduce healthy eating into your days and nights. It might not seem like it at first, but healthy eating can be an even greater comfort to your body and mind in both the short and long run.

You can make a great start by clearing out the old before ushering in the new. Kickstart your year with a great cleanse! Cleanses can jumpstart your body and set a great foundation for a year of healthy eating and habits.

The two cleanses for 2014 we’re recommending are the McCombs Plan and Orenda’s Clean, Burn, and Shape. Both cleanses have something a little different to offer, depending on your health goals.

If you’re looking to recalibrate the environment in your gut--gut health being absolutely essential to wholeness and wellness--the McCombs Plan is specially formulated to help you achieve a healthy balance of yeast in your digestive tract. It’s a rigorous and thorough process, with a food regimen and you can find out more at the McCombs website and also in this blog post by Dr. Ken.

Clean, Burn, and Shape is the new cleanse and weight-loss program from Orenda, our partner-in-health. It is a 10 day vegan cleanse followed by a 30 day diet and exercise cycle. This program features tasty shakes and works in tandem with Orenda’s established line of supplements. You can read more about CBS (as we call it) here.

Let us know if you’ll be embracing a cleanse this year and which one! We’d love to feature and celebrate your results. 

Here’s to a clean start and a wonderful winter!

Clean, Burn, and Shape

Posted by: The Balancing Center

We are well into the second half of 2013 and it seems like a great time to evaluate how your year has gone and how you would like your year to finish. How are you lately? Are you feeling energized and lively? Sluggish and tired? Ready to take on the upcoming months or maybe wanting to get back to those New Year’s resolutions you made almost eight months ago? However you’re feeling, there are things you can do to either keep up your momentum or increase your energy so you can finish your year with a flourish!

Besides visiting your friendly neighborhood chiropractor, we recommend taking on the rewarding challenge of a cleanse, specifically Orenda’s new Clean, Burn, and Shape program. Cleanses, when done safely and properly, can give you more energy and support the health your body is designed to achieve naturally and on its own.

Orenda’s Clean, Burn, and Shape program is a multidimensional cleanse program, beginning with detoxification, supporting healthy weight-loss functions, and creating a strong foundation for continued weight and health maintenance. You start with a 10 day cleanse to jumpstart your metabolism and detoxify your system. After the cleanse you move into three 30 day cycles that outline a detailed diet and exercise regiment. All told, it is 100 days to a leaner shape, cleaner body, and more vitality!

The last step after any cleanse is to integrate your new, healthier habits into your everyday life to maintain your vitality for the rest of your life. Orenda’s Clean, Burn, and Shape program is ideally designed to help you achieve that integration.

Check out this simple and informative online brochure to get the scoop on Clean, Burn, and Shape. If you would like to order the program, visit Orenda’s website here or call the convenient support line at (866) 673-1333. If you would like, you can even call us at The Balancing Center, and we can support you in your decision to Clean, Burn, and Shape!

We’d love to feature your progress and celebrate with you as you move forward in your health goals. Our wonderful office manager, Jennifer, recently began the program and has already seen encouraging results. After her first 10 days, she lost over 13 pounds and an inch from her waist!

If you’re looking for a way to make the second half of 2013 even better than the first, try Orenda’s Clean, Burn, and Shape to receive the best support for your optimal health!

Top 3 Cleanses for 2012

Posted by: Dr. Ken Bennett

The holidays are finally over and a new year has begun! Many of us have lofty goals and aspirations for 2012. If transforming your health and life in 2012 is one of your goals, might I suggest you start with a cleanse? There’s a laundry list of benefits to doing a cleanse (or detox). Any of the three cleanses I’m about to describe may help you:

- slow down the aging process
- strengthen your immune system
- improve mental clarity
- increase your energy
- enjoy better sleep
- decrease your pain
- lose weight
- enjoy a sense of well-being
- improve symptoms of arthritis
- improve symptoms of fibromyalgia
- balance hormone levels
- reduce inflammation
- improve skin health
- improve digestion

Have you started cleansing yet? That list of benefits is almost enough to make me want to drink some Palmolive... If one or two of these results sound good to you (and I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t) keep reading.

There is an overwhelming number of cleansing/detoxing options available (google it, you’ll see what I mean). I’m sure most of the options out there are helpful on some level. But it can get seriously confusing trying to pick the right one. That’s why we’ve guinea pigged ourselves for you...at The Balancing Center we primarily support 3 different types cleanses. Why only three you ask? Because they work. It’s as simple as that. They are based on solid research, have proven track records, and we all have personal experience with them.

Each of these techniques cleanses your system in a different way. I’ve done all three and I would recommend you do the same. We have different systems and organs in our bodies that need support and detox. And we live in an increasingly toxic world! Watch this video if you need any convincing of that... EWG's Eye-Opening Presentation.

With no further ado and in no specific order here’s our top 3 cleanses for 2012:


1. Alka-Cleanse gently cleanses the colon. It contains psyllium and herbs to stimulate and remove old toxic residues that have been sitting around since the Bears won the ‘85 SuperBowl. It also contains probiotics to help normalize the bacterial environment in the colon.

Personally, I do this twice a year (right after the holidays and in the spring). There’s really no reason not to do this. It’s as easy as taking 6 to 10 pills first thing in the morning for about a month. I look at it like spring cleaning.

In case your weren’t already convinced, Alka Cleanse is our featured product for the month of January. Purchase your bottle this month and get $3 off! (Normally $18)


2. Orenda Immune is probably the best cleanser/detoxer I’ve come across. It actually works at the cellular level. This is huge because we are really nothing more than a bunch of cells (about 100 trillion). Our cells have a lot of receptor sites for different vitamins, hormones, neurotransmitters, etc. Kinda like a lock and key. All of the toxins in our air, water, food, and personal products (if you haven’t watched the video link above, please do) stick to and block our receptor sites. Now we can’t fit the key in the lock, which means our cells can’t let the good stuff in and the bad stuff out, and communication with the other cells is cut off. Given time, our cells become unhealthy, and if our cells are not healthy, we are not healthy. Orenda Immune clears the toxins from our receptor sites which lets the good in, the bad out, and re-establishes communication between cells. Orenda Immune also helps to escort the toxins out of our body via the liver and kidneys. There’s really no other product like this.

I take it everyday and plan to continue doing so until something better comes along. Unfortunately our world is exceedingly polluted. This is one product that you can’t afford not to afford (double negative, I know)...

Orenda Immune is part of an awesome line of products that all produce brilliant results. Visit http://www.thisisorenda.com/index.asp for more information.

3. The McCombs Plan is a candida (yeast) cleanse. You can learn more about this at the McCombs website but in a nutshell this is how it works.

Everyone (man, woman and child) has been on antibiotics at least once. Probably multiple times and many of those were unnecessary (antibiotics don’t kill viruses). Overuse of antibiotics, especially in the food industry, is a new hot button topic because it creates drug resistant bacteria, but that’s another discussion. Antibiotics kill bad bacteria and good bacteria (the healthy ones in our gut needed for immunity and digestion). When the bacterial balance is offset, the yeast (candida) can multiply and overtake our colon, and then go systemic. Systemic Candidasis can create a myriad of problems.

The McCombs Plan consists of changing your diet to foods the don’t promote candida growth (no dairy, sugar, or grains) and taking supplements to help kill the candida, detox, and reestablish your healthy bacteria. You also drink a lot of water and regularly sweat (in a sauna or hot bath) to help detox. (Simplifying your diet to include fruit, veggies, meat, and brown rice is always a good idea whether or not you do this cleanse.)

This plan is AMAZING! Most people feel better within the first couple of days. I know I can attest to that. My sleep and energy improved in two days! The biggest benefit is learning how your body responds to different foods. It is truly eye opening for most everyone.

For more information on getting started on this plan visit the following link: http://www.mccombsplan.com/new/the_plan/index.php

Let me know if you have any comments or questions. Until next time...stay balanced.

The McCombs Plan

Posted by: KC McCorriston

The Lifeforce Plan is one of the best decisions I have made, and will continue to make, in my life. The Plan (now called McCombs Plan) is a detox system that we support in the office that balances out the yeast and candida in our bodies. We get imbalanced candida in our body due to toxins and also antibiotics. This imbalance can come through as many symptoms, a few examples: fatigue, food cravings, depression, irregularity, digestion issues, weight issues, muscle pain and weakness, etc. There are many different outcomes that draw people to the Lifeforce Plan.

-It cleans the body and leaves a person feeling refreshed, energized, and at peak health.
-Many people lose weight and also rid of various other health issues.
-It helps people to understand what foods work well with their body specifically and what foods can meet particular needs.
-It also redefines food and the relationship one can have with supplying themselves with nutrition.

The plan consists of a specific diet, supplements, and daily sweating. When I first looked at the plan I was very intimidated and felt a little out of my league. After I started I was surprised at how my cravings were little to none and how the diet just became a part of my life. Although it did require a bit more planning, especially if I wasn't going to be at home, it was well worth it to get healthy and fulfilling foods. It was the first time for as long as I can remember that I didn't need a cup of coffee in the morning because my energy levels were so high. The daily sweating was the most challenging to find time for, but by far the most rewarding. It required me to find a small amount of time everyday to relax and spend time taking care of myself. Not only did I lose 25 pounds, but I also felt better as a whole, on the outside and inside. After the plan I was able to digest dairy for the first time in my life and found many patterns from the plan forming into a new lifestyle. The plan is set up so that you slowly add different foods back into your life, because of this I felt much more in touch with my own needs, on the nutritional level and beyond. If this plan at all strikes an interest with you, please do not hesitate to talk to me or the doctors about it or go to their website: http://mccombsplan.com/. Not only is it a great way to cleanse yourself, but is a chance to transform your life in a way you may not expect.