Let me be honest. I never thought I’d be the woman wide awake at 2am, googling “natural menopause treatments” with one hand while fanning a hot flush with the other. But perimenopause crept up on me quietly, then hit with full force.
Mood swings, broken sleep, low energy, and a general sense of being not quite myself. As a nutritionist, I know how to eat well and move regularly. I’ve built a career around it.
But when hormones begin to shift in midlife, sometimes clean eating and exercise alone aren’t enough. I wasn’t quite ready for HRT, and I needed something deeper. Something that addressed more than just the physical.
So I booked myself a series of treatments at The Farm at San Benito , a wellness retreat known for its holistic healing programs and medical-grade detox therapies. What I found was something that surprised me. Treatments that were out of the ordinary, yes, but ones that left me feeling lighter, calmer, and more in tune with my body than I had in years.
Starting from the gut with colon cleansing The first thing the doctors addressed wasn’t my hormones, but my gut. “Cleansing should start from the gut if we want to really jumpstart our journey toward healing ourselves,” Dr Mariam explained. “A clean body will facilitate our healing process, which is a built-in mechanism in each of us.
” I started with a coffee enema, which, while not exactly glamorous, left me feeling surprisingly refreshed. It was part of a series of colon cleansing treat.
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