The Tao of Detox The Secrets of Yang Sheng Dao

The Tao of Detox The Secrets of Yang Sheng Dao

A practical guide to preventing and treating the toxic assault on our bodies

• Shows how the practices of periodic detox and “rational retox” can counteract the toxic nature of our modern lifestyles, diets, and environment

• Provides ancient Chinese methods and remedies that help the body repair itself

• Includes detoxification techniques, formulas, and exercises that work within 10 days

Despite the wonders of modern medicine, the state of human health throughout the world is eroding at an alarming rate. The long-term accumulation of toxins and acid waste in our bodies–both from the chemically contaminated air we breathe and water we drink as well as the toxins we ingest in the form of low quality food, preservatives, and additives–damages our organs, corrodes our joints and arteries, enervates our nervous system, and inhibits our immune system. Chronic pain and fatigue, hypertension and heart failure, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, indigestion, insomnia, and even acne, are all caused by the long-term accumulation of toxins in our bodies.

In The Tao of Detox Daniel Reid combines traditional Eastern practices and the latest of modern Western thinking to offer detoxification methods that can repair in as little as seven to ten days much of the long-term damage done. He provides breathing exercises, massage techniques, and soft exercises such as yoga and tai chi that help the body to heal itself. He also explains the importance of “rational retoxification,” which allows the careful reintroduction of less healthy substances, and offers ways to counteract those toxins we can’t–or don’t want to–avoid, including alcohol and tobacco. Reid explains that, just as we care for our cars with regular tune-ups, by practicing periodic detox as well as “rational retox,” we can enjoy long and healthy lives and still be able to “eat, drink, and be merry.”

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great Insight
This book has a lot of information in it. I came across it randomly in the book store and have recommended my more serious health-nut friends read it for more insight of ways to detox. I couldn’t put it down. I hadn’t come across a book for detox that really drew me in like this one. Sure, some of this seems so serious and too much for a beginner or even one who has taken on the challenge of detoxing, but it gives the reader an outlook in many dimensions. Get your hands on this book, read it for yourself and decide what you want to incorporate into your next detox. It is another learning curve . . . . there are many thoughts on detox . . . some agree with it and some don’t . . . . some take it further than others . . . . Get as much knowledge as you can and decide how you want to go about it. Be smart!

5 Stars best of old and new.
Knowledge from the past blended with the most recent useful means of appling it. The physiology of how detox works, might be well established in “Yang-Sheng Dao”, but this “how-to” hands the techniques to this baby-boomer in plain terms from more overlapping angles than I could have ever found in one source. Enjoy

1 Star Not the Tao
I was excited to buy this book because I am familiar with some of Reid’s other books on Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine. I was hoping for some authentic Taoist and Traditional Chinese dietary and detox processes. Alas, what I got was an uncritical promotion of the worst fads, snake oil, and expensive products and devices imaginable. Taoist teachings emphisize the ability to discern reality from delusion, most of this stuff is pure magical thinking. It reads like Reid is just citing promotional literature for a lot of this stuff. Some of what he says is pure nonsense that circulates around the internet with no substantiation, such as Pasteur’s deathbed recantation of the germ theory (never been documented) and the notion that colons are packed full of hard plaque (never been seen at an autoposy). In at least 2 of the products he discusses, the manufacturers have been subject to prosecution for false and misleading claims.

The good – A couple of useful chapters dealing with detox by diet and detox by fasting. Some useful food ideas and several herbal mixtures, both American herbal and TCM, that might be useful. Some simple exercises. These sections warrent 2 stars.

The so-so – The promotion of colon hydrotherapy. There is no evidence of hard plaque in anyone’s colon, however the cleansing of the colon is typically part of any detox, so this may be a useful addition to herbs and foods. Despite Reid’s uncritical acceptance of the manufacturer’s claims, the product he discusses for home use is at least not very expensive and appears well-made. I, for one, wouldn’t want to do 14 colonics in 7 days. This would seem awfully disturbing to normal gut flora. But at least it is probably not harmful nor too expensive for those who want it.

The bad – Uncritical acceptance of science fiction theories and products and promotion of these (often very expensive) products with stuff straight from the company’s literature. Things like: the Grander Living Water Sytem, proven in independant lab tests to do nothing and which is extremely expensive; “alkaline water” generators which are expensive and produce a product which is immediately acidified by the stomach; water “microclusters” when in fact the stomach and intestinal lining can absorb any conformation of water with ease, body pH (I thought this fad had died out several years back)… the list goes on and on and on. Only 1 page of discussion of the yin and yang of foods, pretty much reduced to yang = acid = bad, yin = alkaline = good. Minus 1 star.

I don’t usually like to chime in on the skeptic side of things and sound like some quackbuster. I’m willing to be open-minded and try a lot of new stuff. But I also worked as a microbiologist and in chemistry for a number of years and I know when things just don’t work on a physical level. Much of this is just magical thinking and I hate to see people waste a lot of money on it.

I’d suggest skipping this one and just look at some simpler, more basic books on diet and detox. You don’t need a lot of expensive products to turn your kitchen into a chemistry lab and your bathroom into a colon treatment center to do a little internal cleansing.

4 Stars Very attuned, thorough practical guide, good reading, smart and appropos
I am delighted, informed and heartened by this comprehensive practical guide to detoxification…especially by its linking of eastern and western knowledge and thought processes. I would rate this 4 and a half stars if I could. Missing, however, is documentation/citation of some mostly evident (to me) truths and pertinent studies that are mentioned. Also there are interestingly speculative (to me) statements presented as logical deduction or fact; these could be better supported.. I was left wanting directions to pursue for more substantive validation. I don’t think there was a statement I wanted to disagree with or did want to challenge based on my own background knowledge but I’d have liked to have had something to pursue or to have a deeper conversation with the author.

I would like for example to see whence comes the percentage data of oxygenation of earths air now and before and also how the conclusion is reached that we are oxygen deprived because we have less. How much do we need and how is that determined, I wonder. Another example: Occular-endocrine reactions in fluorescent lighted classrooms. Mentioning studies… I wonder what they are… to support the behavioral normalization of students. I’d like to also understand the occular endocrine process more deeply in this regard and while relieved and pleased that Mr Reid articulates my thoughts even further, I would like some harder fact and deeper explanation on this and other points. Personally, as a visual artist/art teacher of talented teens, I’ve seen greater responsiveness and other benefits from switching to daylight spectrum lighting inside and have read/heard of other experiences. I’m interested in finding a scientifically designed study or two to back Mr Reid’s statement and am sorry to not find it here. Its absence does not further the impact I might have where I teach. I seek some research of conventional value in order to be able to persuade administrators to purchase and try this…thereby providing relief to students teeming with such behavioral issues as Dan Reid mentions.

Overall, I am still most pleased. I don’t so much mind leaving this book with questions [...where to purchase Ocean Frost? The site mentioned doesn't have it.. and Mica type??] that I wish it had more fully answered. This is because it’s practicality, comprehensive nature an premise is resonantly sound and provides a balanced understanding of our challenges and how to face them. A great mixture of ‘how to’ and ‘what is and why’ from a remarkable broad and rooted perspective. Thank you to Dan Reid for writing it.

2 Stars Just a commercial
I am a little disappointed in this book. It seems to just rattle on at times with bits of useful information added in. The useful information is then directed to the sponsors in the back of the book. The book often refers to experts who have no references. I’m sure that the information may be accurate, but these things that I have pointed out make me wonder.

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