Detox Better
Written by John Klein
Your body is constantly working to keep you feeling healthy and energetic. You’ve got several internal systems built into your body that are working around the clock to gather up and remove toxins from your cells and organs. But sometimes your natural cleansing systems get bogged down and needs a little help.
How Long-Term Exposure to Toxins Results in Illness
Every day, our bodies are assaulted with toxins of all sorts, but they generally fall within two categories: environmental toxins and metabolic toxins:
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We do so many things to our bodies that affect our energy levels.
- We eat simple sugars which spike blood sugar levels and leave us hungry after a short period of time.
- We pump chemicals and toxins into our bodies through the things we eat, the products we use, and by breathing toxic air. These toxins impede the normal function of our organs and systems, sapping us of energy.
- We fail to exercise, thereby slowing our body’s metabolism and making us lazy.
- Over time, we gain weight, which further compounds our energy problems.
- And we fail to get the quality or quantity of rest we require to repair our bodies and give us enough energy for the day.
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Your colon works hard every day to process your food and protect you from potential poisons in your diet. Neglect your colon for too long and you’ll pay the consequences. Sooner or later, you’ll begin to feel lethargic, experience frequent illness, and have trouble with normal digestion. In fact, digestive disease is one of the fastest growing health concerns in North America and can be a significant contributing factor in many other diseases.
Why? Because our North American diet is one of the most unhealthy on the planet. It’s full of sticky, starchy foods, loaded with sugar, pumped full of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, low in fiber, and deficient in essential vitamins and minerals.
Read more: Why a Colon Cleans or Colon Detox is Important for Overall Wellness
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If you’ve listened at all to the health news lately, you know that antioxidants play a pretty major role in discussions of disease prevention and good health. These molecules that neutralize free radicals—both those that accumulate naturally in our bodies and those that we’re exposed to from environmental sources—are crucial in the fight against all the big diseases, including heart disease and cancer.
Fighting Free Radicals with High-Antioxidant Diets
So how do we fend off free radicals with antioxidants? First and foremost, we do so by eating antioxidant-rich foods every single day. According to the USDA, here are the top 20 most antioxidant-rich foods around based on their total antioxidant capacity per service size:
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An extreme form of body cleansing is the fasting detox. This type of detoxification involves abstaining from food for between one and 10 days, depending on the diet. In the place of solid foods, you consume only liquids, which can range anywhere from fruit juices to the lemonade drink popular in the Master Cleanse Detox Diet.
Fasting is a highly effective method for ridding your body of toxins that have been stored in tissues and your digestive tract over time. You see, when your body encounters a toxin that it can’t process, it’ll find a way to store it in your body—most often in fat. When you do a fast, your body is forced to begin burning fat, and as it does so, these stored toxins are released into the body so that they can be flushed from your system.
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Colonics, a treatment that is sometimes called colonic hydrotherapy or colonic irrigation, can help to cleanse the colon of accumulated waste material, including fecal matter and toxins, parasites, worms, mucous, and dead cellular tissue—in some cases up to 40 pounds of the stuff! It has been used for thousands of years and has been show to be effective in relieving many physical ailments, including chronic or frequent headaches, gas and bloating, irritable bowel, colds, fatigue, candida, and even bad breath.
The Colonic Irrigation Experience
Your journey with colonics will likely start with a consultation with a colonics professional in which you’ll give them a complete health history. They should also explain the procedure to you and answer any of your questions.
Written by John Klein
Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in America. Our high-sugar, high-carbohydrate, low fiber diets are doing a real number on our internal systems, fueling the diabetic problem. If you’re a diabetic, you’ve already got health concerns, so you need to follow your doctor’s recommendations for diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices.
But what if you want to do a colon cleanse or a detox? Are detoxes even viable for diabetics? As a diabetic, you have special dietary needs that can make a normal detox a challenge, but not impossible!
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Yet another way for you to detoxify your body, the hyperthermia cleansing method has less to do with diet and more to do with body temperature. Sweat baths and saunas have been used by humans as therapy for centuries—from the Stone Age, really! Turkish baths, Finnish saunas, Roman baths, Japanese Onsens, and Russian Banyas are all examples of how historical (and current) cultures use sweat to heal the body.
This method, which goes by alternate names like fever therapy, sweat therapy, sauna therapy, or heat therapy, is based on the principle that the body heals itself best when internal temperatures are higher than normal. If you’ve ever had a fever from cold or flu, you know that your body is working hard to rid itself of the offending virus or bacteria that is making it ill.
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Just as beauty is only skin deep, so too can cleanliness be only an outward mask. In general, we humans are very aware of whether our external bodies are dirty; we work hard to keep clean with regular washing, grooming, and product application. But seldom do we consider how clean our insides are. If only we knew what was beneath the surface of our skin!
If we were to peer into our bodies, we’d find that there’s plenty that could be done to clean-up from the inside out. That’s why a good internal detox is important on a regular basis. Maintaining a healthy internal system is just as important—if not more important—than your daily shower!
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A detox will involve some pretty significant changes for your body, and so to give it an additional boost, you may want to consider taking a regular, high-quality multi-vitamin. One made with greens by a reputable natural foods company is best.
But vitamins aren’t the only way you can support your body during a detox. Digestive enzymes and antioxidants will give your systems the added boost they need as they slog through the cleansing process. They’ll also help you feel vibrant and healthy throughout the process.
Read more: Vitamins, Antioxidants, and Enzymes for Detox Support
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Derived from the Greek word chele, which means claw, chelation is the process by which heavy metals and other toxins are removed from the body by using a binding agent to grab and carry away these poisons. Chelation therapy has been used by alternative medical practitioners for centuries to treat things like mercury poisoning, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, arthritis, diabetes, thyroid disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes.
The body cannot process heavy metals such as mercury, aluminum, iron, lead, zinc, and cadmium, making them toxic to a variety of internal systems. It is therefore imperative to remove these toxins before they do long-term damage. During chelation therapy, a chelating agent will react with the offending metal, bonding with its ions and forming a chemically-stable compound that will pass easily out of the body through the digestive or excretory systems.
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