21-Day
Functional
Medicine Detox

A comprehensive, practitioner-guided detoxification programme that gives your body 21 days to reset and clear accumulated toxins. Those toxins are what sit behind stubborn weight gain, bloating, dry skin, brain fog, low mood and hormone imbalance. Twenty-one days is long enough for most people to see several of those shift together, rather than one at a time.

A cleanse restricts. This supports Phase 1 and Phase 2 liver detoxification, so toxins are actually neutralised and eliminated rather than just moved around. That is why the result holds after you finish, instead of returning within a fortnight.

No. Twenty-one days is the protocol and I do not run a shortened version. Three weeks is the minimum window in which your liver, your gut and your blood sugar all get long enough to actually change — anything less and you are back to shifting the surface.

Week one always opens with two liquid days. Repeating them at the start of weeks two and three is optional, and we decide together once I see how you responded to the first week. If fat loss is your main goal, we usually do repeat them.

The shakes are provided — a morning and an afternoon shake for every day of the protocol, and four shakes a day on the liquid days. You buy and prepare your own lunches and dinners for the meal days. You are not left guessing what those are: the meal plan and shopping list are written for you.

From me. It is not a generic PDF you go and find — it is written for your case after the intake call, adapted to how your household actually eats, and you can hand the shopping list straight to whoever does the food.

Follow the protocol sheet I give you rather than guessing. As a rule: one scoop per shake, four times a day, on the liquid days. On meal days, two scoops for each of your morning and mid-afternoon shakes.

Yes, within reason. If you are up earlier than the times on your sheet, start with lemon water on waking, then take your first shake no earlier than 6am and space the rest three and a half to four hours apart. Keeping the spacing matters more than the exact clock times.

Giving up coffee and caffeinated tea is the ideal, and expect a withdrawal headache for a day or two if you do. If losing it entirely would make you abandon the whole thing, keep it to one in the morning and we work with that. Caffeine competes for the liver capacity we are trying to free up.

Yes — unsweetened, caffeine-free herbal teas, ginger especially. Avoid coconut water and anything with sugar in it, added or natural.

Roughly 2.5 to 3 litres a day across the protocol. A good part of that is the shakes themselves — each one is around 600 to 700ml. Beyond that, drink when you are thirsty rather than forcing it.

Yes. If you cannot manage the powder in plain water, use a 50/50 mix of unsweetened nut milk and water. Coconut milk is fine at one to two teaspoons in a meal or recipe, but your main fats should be monounsaturated — avocado, olive oil — because they are easier to digest than saturated fats.

Yes, season your food properly. One caveat: some, garlic and onion especially, act as a prebiotic and can cause bloating, which slows things down and aggravates an already unhappy gut. If that happens on the meal days, cut back on those two.

Not during the protocol. It is acidic and can feed yeast or bacterial overgrowth. Use lemon or lime for acidity and flavour instead.

Yes. Avoid cooking in oil — steam, bake, broil, slow cook, or pan-fry in a little water to stop it sticking. Then add a tablespoon or two of olive oil as a dressing afterwards, with a squeeze of lemon.

Ideally not. If you must, make it sugar-free and only straight after a meal — chewing stimulates digestion, which is useful then. Between meals it makes you hungry and makes the whole thing harder than it needs to be.

Avoid all carbonated drinks during the 21 days. Once you have finished, sparkling water is fine.

I would rather you did not — the point of those 48 hours is to give your body time to clear without the work of digesting food. If fat loss is not your main goal, add spinach and blueberries to your shakes. And if you genuinely have to eat, follow the meal-day guidelines instead. Better that than abandoning it.

Yes. Add green leafy vegetables and berries to your shakes. You may lose slightly less that week. You will still get the detox result, and a version you can actually finish beats a version you quit on day five.

Yes, and I would rather tell you now than take your money. Speak to your doctor first — and in most cases do not start — if you are under 18, pregnant or breastfeeding, or living with liver or kidney disease, a gallbladder condition, appendicitis, an eating disorder or type 1 diabetes, or if any of your medications could be contraindicated.

Yes. Stay on everything your doctor has prescribed. I do not diagnose, I do not prescribe, and I will never ask you to stop or change a medication. What we do check before you start is that nothing in the protocol is contraindicated with what you are already taking.

No. A detox mobilises stored toxins, and while pregnant or breastfeeding that could expose your child to them. This is the wrong protocol for you right now, and I will tell you so rather than take the booking.

Usually yes. The protocol is already free of gluten, dairy, egg, soy and nuts. If your sensitivity falls outside those, tell me at intake and we check the ingredient labels together before you order anything.

Yes to all of them. It is built to be free of the major allergens, contains no caffeine, and uses pea and rice protein, so it is suitable for vegans and vegetarians. It is also third-party tested for purity and contains no heavy metals.

Then you are in the right place. The protocol removes food groups, not your cuisine. I am South Asian myself, so the plan gets built around how your household actually cooks — subtle, practical swaps rather than food that is foreign to you.

Two things, and both pass. The first is a Herxheimer reaction — your body releasing stored toxins faster than it can process and eliminate them. The second is simple withdrawal from processed food, caffeine, sugar and alcohol, which hits hardest in the first 48 hours. It is usually gone by the end of day three, and I tell you how to blunt it.

It is common, and it usually points to weak digestion rather than anything going wrong. Slow the shake right down — sip it over about an hour rather than drinking it quickly. That alone fixes it for most people.

Fewer bowel movements on the liquid days is normal — you are drinking, not eating whole food. Once meals come back on day three, things should return to normal. If they do not, we add magnesium citrate and psyllium husk fibre at night to get things moving.

On meal days, yes — strength work, kept sensible, without overdoing it. If this is your first detox, do not train on the liquid days; those 48 hours exist to let the body rest and rejuvenate. If you have done this before and know you have the energy, keep it light and pay attention to how you feel. What we drop for good is the soul-destroying cardio — that was adding to the load, not clearing it.

Yes, but time it properly. Do those on the meal days, after the liquid days are behind you, when your body is stronger and better able to handle the extra detoxification load.

Nothing dramatic. Pick up with the next scheduled dose. Do not double up to make it back.

Yes. Open them and mix the powder into your shake, or into a little raw honey or a teaspoon of apple sauce. Fair warning — it tastes bitter, because of the vitamins and herbs in it.

No, and here is why. The three components do different jobs. The nutritional support powder is a full multivitamin, mineral, electrolyte and antioxidant formula with mild detox effects on its own. The liver support is what actually drives Phase 1 and Phase 2 detoxification. The third supports bowel motility and brings an anti-inflammatory effect. Drop the capsules and you have a nice shake, not a detox.

They carry an expiry date stamped on each one. They are made in small batches, so what you receive is fresh — typically around two years of shelf life.

That is what happens after a cleanse, because nothing underneath changed. Here you finish with a structured reintroduction — foods come back one at a time, so you know exactly which ones were doing it to you — and a written plan for the next 90 days.

The goal is not just the 21 days, it is that you leave knowing how to eat. Most people keep a daily nutritional shake for breakfast or mid-afternoon as the anchor, and build the rest of the week around what the reintroduction taught them. That is what the clients who keep their results actually do.

Keep the nutritional shake for breakfast, and start adding berries and other whole foods back in. Lunch can stay plant-based or you can bring paleo-style protein back if you prefer, and dinner follows the same pattern. A snack is optional — another smoothie, a handful of nuts, cut vegetables with guacamole or hummus, a piece of fruit. All of this is written down for you before you finish.

I recommend running it every quarter, so every three months. Some run it more often if they travel constantly or want to reset after a holiday. Between rounds, a daily nutritional shake keeps the barrel from filling straight back up.

Absolutely, and plenty of people do it for the energy, the digestion and the skin rather than the scale. We add berries and additional fruit and carbohydrate to your plan so you are not in a deficit, and we do the two liquid days once at the start rather than repeating them.

Proper practitioner support, not an email sequence. An intake call before anything is ordered, a written protocol built for your case, and a written adjustment from me every week on WhatsApp — what moved, what did not, what changes this week. Plus direct access when something comes up mid-protocol.

Not to start. The detox lowers the load regardless, and for many people it is the right first move on its own. If your case points to something that needs measuring, I tell you exactly which panels and why — and you order and pay the lab directly.

Most of my clients are senior people who report to somebody. The shakes travel, the meal rules work off any decent menu, and we time the start around the weeks you actually control rather than pretending your diary is flexible.

That is what the intake call is for. Bring the question you think is going to disqualify you — in my experience it usually turns out to be the reason this is the right first move.