This Detox Drink Will Make Your Skin Glow

Nothing quite says healthy and youthful like glowing skin. But, did you know that it’s not just what you put on the outside of your skin that matters? You can help your skin glow with nutrients and detox from the inside out.


In fact, specific foods and nutrients promote skin health and anti-aging. Here’s our favorite detox tea for a beautiful skin glow, and how each ingredient supports the health of your skin and the detoxification of your body.

Lemon Ginger Detox Tea with Collagen

  • 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
  • 1 lemon wedge
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 1 scoop Fermented Greens Powder
  • 1 tablespoon Hydrolyzed Collagen Powder

Instructions:

  • Bring a pot or kettle of water to boil.
  • Using a large grater, shave the fresh ginger into a tea mug.
  • Add the lemon wedge.
  • Pour boiling water into the mug and allow to steep for 5 minutes.
  • Stir in greens and collagen. Enjoy!
  • To make an entire pot, use 2 tablespoons of ginger, 1 small lemon sliced into quarters, 6 cups boiling water, 6 scoops fermented greens, and 6 tablespoons collagen in total.


Nutrition info per entire recipe: 25 calories, 0 grams fat, 4 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams fiber, 2 grams protein

How Does this Delicious Detox Tea Make Your Skin Glow?

There are 5 ingredients in this tea, and each one supports skin health. Here’s how:

Lemon

The problem? There is a mountain of evidence that shows New Years’ Resolutions don’t work. Most people completely abandon them before January is over, often just after one week (2).


The mentality of feast now and resolve later, for 6 weeks, leaves many adults in a cycle of perpetual weight gain, year after year at worst. Or at best, a cycle of gaining and losing the same pounds over and over again.

Ginger

This Holiday season, you can stop the cycle. Many years, by the time we get to December, we feel tired, lethargic, and unmotivated. Dr. Colbert’s 21 Day Detox and Cleanse can help you:


  • Feel energized, vibrant, and youthful rather than feeling like you want to quit
  • Avoid eating toxic, fat-building foods throughout the season
  • Omit starchy, belly-fat-adding refined carbohydrates and sugars
  • Forego processed foods that induce inflammatory reactions
  • Rid your body of the toxins and harmful substances that build up throughout the year
  • Omit foods that drag down your energy and cause glucose peaks and valleys

Greens & Chlorophyll

Again, while most people focus on the foods eaten on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, or another Holiday, these are not the main culprit for Holiday weight gain. The issue is the entirety of the season of overeating and being sedentary. To stay strong, lean, and on track this year, try these tips.


  • Join Dr. Colbert’s 21 Day Detox and Cleanse. While it may seem hard to join in at the end of the year, this is one of the best times! Following a program will help you stay on track and give you the extra boost you need to do so.
  • Focus on healthy eating for the 6-weeks season, and allow yourself some grace on the actual Holiday days.
  • On the Holidays, enjoy all the different foods you’d like. It’s a celebration after all. But, there’s no need to stuff yourself. This only leaves you feeling unhealthy and lethargic. Instead, take reasonable portions and enjoy every bite.
  • If you’re gathering with others, bring a dish that’s both healthy and delicious. Make sure you have options available in which you feel good.
  • During Holiday feasts, eat slowly. Put your fork down between bites, take a drink of water or tea, and really enjoy the meal. Not only is eating slowly much better for your digestion, it will also help you avoid grossly overeating.

Spring Water

The number one enemy of your metabolism is refined carbohydrates in processed foods. Without a doubt.

Sugars are dragging you down. This includes straight sugar, sugars from other sweeteners, fruit juices, and white starch from grains.


When you eat any of these, they become sugar in the body. The more sugar that enters the bloodstream, the more it needs to be stored in the cells as fat. This does 3 things. It:

  • Increases fat storage
  • Requires more insulin to be pumped out into the body
  • Damages cellular health by making cells less sensitive to insulin

As time goes on, the body stores more and more fat, cells become unhealthy, and it becomes harder to lose fat. A sluggish metabolism starts with sugar and processed foods. You must detox from these.

Hydrolyzed Collagen

Since we’re talking about improving cellular health in order to improve metabolism, we need to think about how nutrients affect cells.


A great way to nourish cells is to eat foods high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients. Build your diet off of natural, real, whole foods like vibrant vegetables, fermented green powders, spices like turmeric, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, black pepper, and a small amount of beans and fruits.


Next, eat healthy fats like extra virgin olive oil, fish and fish oils, avocados, coconut oil, and more. Stop overeating proteins and sugars and replace them with these fats. This alone can support insulin sensitivity and metabolism (2, 3) health. In fact, omega-3s have been shown to increase fat loss compared to other nutrients.


Next, drink plenty of clean water each day. Your body needs water to support cellular health and digestion. You can also use green tea and black tea for an extra metabolism boost.


Lastly, pay close attention to gut health. Use fibers like insulin and psyllium husk daily. Add probiotics from fermented foods and/or supplements. Fibers and probiotics have a direct effect on calorie output, hormone balance, and cellular health (4).

Bottom Line

Give our lemon ginger detox tea a try, and see your skin come to life. Not only will it help your entire body detox, but it will also give you that skin glow you want!