Alejandro Junger, M.D.Alejandro Junger, M.D.

Alejandro Junger, M.D.

Open-minded doctor, passionate about detox and cleansing.

Founder of the Clean Program, Dr.Junger was born in Uruguay. He graduated from medical school there in 1990 and moved to New York City for his postgraduate training. He completed three years of training in Internal Medicine at NYU Downtown Hospital and three more years of fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at Lenox Hill Hospital.The drastic change in lifestyle and diet resulting from his move to NYC soon showed up as irritable bowel syndrome and depression. Becoming a patient of the system he was practicing was such a shock, that it started his journey in search of an alternative solution to his health problems.His findings are the subject of his first book, Clean: The Revolutionary Program To Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself, where Dr. Junger describes how he became aware of the toxicity of our planet. He explains how detoxification and cleansing have been around for thousands of years, and right now it’s more important than ever to reclaim this information.
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Philosopher's Notes on Alejandro Junger, M.D.'s Books

Clean
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Clean

by Alejandro Junger, M.D.

Are you feeling a little funky? There’s a very good chance that your body’s detox systems are overworked and could use a little re-start! And, helping you do that wisely is pretty much what Dr. Alejandro Junger’s great book is all about. In this Note, we take a look at what’s creating all that toxicity and what you can do about it!

Clean Gut
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Clean Gut

by Alejandro Junger, M.D.

The gut. That’s where all the health magic (or challenges!) begins. Alejandro Junger is a cardiologist turned functional medicine doctor who created the incredibly popular Clean Program. We covered his first book Clean and now for a spotlight on the Clean Gut. Big Ideas we explore include symptoms vs. root causes (paint any brown leaves green lately?), how food’s shelf life correlates with yours, your 2nd brain, nutrigenomics, gluten (the ubiquitous poison) and step 1 to cleaning things up (hint: remove toxic triggers).

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The reason many of these problems persist and get worse with time is that modern medicine tends to focus on making a diagnosis, instead of looking at what is behind it.
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To kill the symptoms without changing the conditions that caused them is insulting to the body’s intelligence.
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At the most basic, obvious, and literal level, we are what we eat. Food provides the materials for the construction of our body’s architecture. Food becomes us.
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Americans are eating too many processed foods loaded with chemicals, simple carbohydrates, and fats designed in laboratories.
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It is rampant in modern life; unproductive thinking rules us and controls our lives.
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The human body has an amazing natural ability to defend, repair, heal, and even rejuvenate itself.
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It’s a universal truth: when you are fit and healthy, you crave the good-quality foods that maintain that state.
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When given a chance, even the most fatigued body wants to find its way back to balance.
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Before chronic disease, there is inflammation; but before inflammation comes gut dysfunction. Antiinflammation treatments help, but gut repair corrects the problem right at its source.
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A pill for an ill to suppress symptoms is a lot like painting the brown leaves green for a sick tree. It is just bad gardening. And it doesn’t work.
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In fact, most health issues affecting the world’s populace today are the result of a disrupted, damaged gut.
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Healing the gut is the single most important step we can take to ensure our lifelong health.
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It’s simple really: if you learn about how your gut works and understand how to repair and keep it clean, you will achieve vibrant, long-lasting health.
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Discovering that either gluten or dairy is a toxic trigger is an amazing find. Before completing the Clean Gut program, these foods affected you without you knowing about it. Not anymore.
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Finding your toxic triggers is the most important first step in living clean for life.
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Think of it this way: the basic template for your long-term health is whole foods minus your toxic triggers.
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