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Toxins and Body Detoxification

Updated on November 13, 2015

What are Toxins?

Let's start at the beginning by answering this question.

Toxins are poisonous substances that cause detrimental effects to your health. They are accumulated harmful substances that exert a negative effect on individual health. Various medical experts have suggested that accumulation of toxins can result in a number of conditions and ailments. It is for this reason that it is highly imperative for you to cleanse your body from harmful substances.

Toxicity is a very serious concern that afflicts almost everyone on the planet. We are exposed to numerous toxins on a regular basis. Consequently, we need detoxification.

Detoxification Explained

Detoxification is an alternative medicine approach that proponents claim to rid the body of toxins. A full body detox program should be carried out if the body’s normal cleansing functions are overwhelmed and not working properly. Such intense levels of toxic overload are typically caused by sedentary lifestyles, improper diets, stress, overeating, illness and poor healthy habits in general.

Various modalities of body cleansing are currently employed, ranging from physical treatment such as in colon cleansing, to dietary restrictions as ii avoiding food, or dietary supplements. Some variants involve the use of herbs and supplements that are purported to increase the effectiveness of the cleansing process.

Natural Detoxification

The liver and the skin are the body’s most important detox organs. The liver can become overwhelmed with all of the toxins that it must filter out of the body. This creates an environment that creates inflammation and chronic disorders. The skin is a mirror for your insides. If your body is fighting to fend off an assault of toxins, chances are, so is your skin.

Natural Detox Phases

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In summary...

Detox Programs:

  • Detox diets
  • Colon Cleansing
  • Heavy metal cleanse

Long-term Detoxification:

  • Eating organically grown produce and meat
  • Drinking enough water
  • Avoiding added sugars
  • Regular exercise
  • Giving your body the rest that it needs

Detox Programs

Regular detoxification for your body is necessary to help your body obtain optimal functionality. A detox program that addresses detoxification from a holistic approach is great for regular maintenance and support of the body’s natural detoxification process.

An example of full body cleanses are detox diets. Detox diets are dietary plans that claim to have detoxifying effects. The idea suggests that most food is contaminated by various ingredients deemed unnecessary for human life. These are such as food colorings, preservatives, flavor enhancers and pesticides.

Detox diets can involve consuming extremely limited foods such as water and juices, eliminating certain foods from the diet such as fats, or eliminating processed foods and irritants from the diet. Detox diets are often high in fiber. This, proponents claim, will cause the body to burn accumulated stored fats, releasing fat-stored toxins into the blood, which can then be eliminated through the blood, skin, urine, feces and breath. Fruit detox would increase your energy levels, help manage your weight, and even reduce the likelihood of a stroke.

Colon Cleansing

Clean your intestines too. Colon cleansing is giving an enema containing some salt, and sometimes coffee or herbs that to remove food that remains in the colon and rots, providing symptoms of general ill health. However, large amounts of water with large surface contacts to the bloodstream will remove toxins from the blood and body tissues through diffusion. This should however be practiced with caution.

Heavy metal cleanse

This is also very crucial. This involves mercury amalgam filling removal. Many health ailments such as headaches, exhaustion and muscle cramps are incoming for heavy metal toxicity. There are also many herbs that support the body’s detox mechanisms.

Milk thistle is one of the most antioxidant herbs for the liver, it boosts liver function and helps detoxify and cleanse as well. It protects from many drugs, chemical toxins, airborne pollutants, free radicals, and DNA mutations.

Long-term Detoxification

Ways of long term detox include eating organically grown produce and meat. Conventional produce is grown with chemical fertilizers and synthetic insecticides, while organic produce is grown with natural fertilizers and pesticides. Organic meats are free of the harmful antibiotics, growth hormones and medications fed to animals on conventional farms.

Drinking enough water is essential to your health. This is common knowledge that has been passed down through centuries. You need water. Water is life. Its importance cannot be overemphasized. Among its health benefits, it helps maintain your body’s fluid levels, which helps your kidneys flush out your body’s main toxin, blood urea nitrogen.

You should avoid added sugars. Consuming excess sugars on a regular basis can cause your blood sugar levels to spike, putting you at greater risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancers on the long-run. Limiting your exposure to harmful toxins in the air is also important. This includes carbon monoxide and asbestos, both of which may be found in homes.

Regular exercise will help stimulate the body cleansing processes and strengthen immunity and ability to handle and remove toxins. This should be done with a balanced, achievable program, that combines it and changes to a healthy diet, with regular, qualified supervision. Detoxing may make you feel more energetic or increase your lethargy. Either way, it is important to get adequate rest or sleep while you are at it.

Giving your body the rest that it needs, devoting its resources to its cleansing and detoxifying mechanisms, accelerates cleansing and detox by reducing the number of exogenous and endogenous toxins that you are exposed to.

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Help your Body Clean Itself

The body’s own detoxification systems are remarkably sophisticated and versatile. The single most important thing one can do is to avoid toxins. However, this is impossible as we are exposed to many toxins on a regular basis. What in turn we can do to avert the probability of complications is to employ detoxification mechanisms though with caution. It is important for maximum effective body function.

Want to stay healthy? Clean your body both in and out.

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