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The protocol

In three parts, in this order

Screening comes before medicine. Detox comes before treatment. Integration comes before you go home. The sequence is the point — it is what separates a medical program from a ceremony.

Phase by phase

What actually happens

01

Comprehensive medical evaluation

Upon arrival, a drug test, comprehensive bloodwork, and a liver panel are administered to guide our physician's withdrawal treatment and show the level of toxicity in the body. A few days later you are examined by a cardiologist at his facility for an ECG, stress test, and echocardiogram, to make sure you are a candidate for our treatment protocols. Your safety always comes first. Once all results are gathered, our medical team reviews them and sets your individual protocol. If you are not a candidate for the treatment you are requesting, we will tell you why, and what options we can offer toward your sobriety.

02

Preparation and detox

Treatment begins with getting the body ready. A personalized diet prepared on site, hydration and electrolyte correction, and IV therapy including NAD and a Myers' Cocktail to restore nutrients depleted by long-term substance use. Where a taper is medically indicated, it is supervised and stepped down responsibly rather than forced. Physicians monitor vitals throughout, and the schedule moves at the pace your labs allow.

03

Treatment and integration

Plant medicine is administered by the medical team with continuous cardiac and vital-sign monitoring, in a quiet private room, with a caregiver present the entire time. Afterward comes the part most programs skip: rest, meals, conversation, and structured integration work that turns an experience into a plan — sleep, routines, support, and next steps for the weeks after you fly home.

A day here

Slow on purpose

Days are deliberately unhurried. There is no group programming to keep up with and no schedule you have to perform for.

Morning

Vitals, labs where scheduled, breakfast prepared on site, and time outside.

Midday

IV therapy, physician check-in, rest. Treatment days are cleared of everything else.

Afternoon

One-to-one support, integration conversation, walking, or quiet time by the water.

Evening

Dinner together, light structure, early nights. Sleep is treated as part of the medicine.

Daily therapies

What the detox is actually made of

Alongside the medical work, every day carries a set of therapies designed to clean the body out and keep it strong through the process.

Organic juice cleanse

As part of your daily nutrition and detoxification, you will be asked to drink a minimum of three juices a day — the amount varies with each individually made diet protocol. The cleanse floods the body with super nutrition and rehydrates it, giving it the nutrients it needs to recover.

Organic non-GMO diet

Guests feast on an all-organic, non-GMO diet that helps detox the brain, cells, and liver. Eating clean rids the body of inflammation, leaving you clear-minded. Our full-time chef prepares delicious recipes from the healthiest fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and fish.

Super food protein shakes

Made from vegetable protein and organic greens with additional superfood supplements to round out a correctly balanced diet. Full of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals that help avoid muscle loss during detoxification and cleansing.

NAD / chelation therapy

IV vitamin drips deeply cleanse the cells while restoring the vitamins and minerals needed for optimal health. Research on NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) shows it recovers energy levels considerably fast, acts as an anti-aging agent, and improves brain function. We use it to speed the reduction of tolerance and withdrawal from chemical dependency, making detox faster and far more comfortable.

Organic green coffee

Coffee enemas increase liver filtering, greatly aiding the liver's ability to remove serum toxins. We use a specially blended organic green coffee with very high concentrations of caffeine and palmitic acid — essential for accelerating metabolism, promoting bowel movement, liberating toxicity from the system, neutralizing acidity, and renewing the liver.

Massage therapy

Hour-long therapeutic massages flush toxins out at a cellular level. Massage helps maintain physical, mental, and emotional well-being, improves blood circulation to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the cells, and stimulates the lymphatic system that carries the body's waste products away.

Safety

What monitoring looks like

  • A physician or licensed nurse assisting you 24 hours a day
  • Continuous cardiac monitoring during administration
  • Emergency medications and resuscitation equipment on hand
  • Written protocol for transfer to a nearby hospital if it is ever needed
  • Care given with respect, and with the warmth you only get from family

Start with the evaluation, not the medicine.

The first step is a conversation and a medical history review. If you aren't a candidate, we'll say so.

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