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Are toxins keeping you fat, sick and tired?

Detoxification or cleansing is very misunderstood. Cleansing

allows the body to eliminate used wastes and toxins and helps

improve our health as it removes harmful substances we in-hail,

ingest and are exposed to every day.

Most people think of a cleansing program or detox as a way

to purge their system of the poor food they have eaten and

think of this as a away to lose weight. While it certainly

helps with weight loss, cleansing or detoxing is also a

valuable and healthy process for those who have undergone

heavy pharmaceutical intravenous drugs, or who have been

hospitalized. It’ also a must for anyone who has (or suspects

they have) any food intolerance’s and always essential if

you’ve been diagnosed with yeast overgrowth (Candida)

What are the benefits of detoxing?

All detoxing programs that are worth their salt so to speak

must include a remove and replace component. This means

taking out foods that are really garbage & non-foods as well

as those foods that are known to be reactive (those foods

like gluten, dairy, soy etc.. that commonly cause an allergic

immune responds). These non- foods/toxic foods are replaced

with whole foods (think lots of fresh green and brightly

colored produce) healthy fats and proteins and of course

plenty of filtered water. This helps your body process

metabolites better because you’re reducing the load on your

liver when you’re doing a detox. Cleansing or detoxing also

helps re-balance the body due to consumption of more

alkalizing foods. Any safe detox program needs to be done

for several weeks and should include specific therapeutic

and supportive supplements to ensure proper removal of

toxins through the two stages of the process.

What actually happens when you detox:

While the body is always naturally detoxing these days our

bodies are exposed to many more contaminates than ever before

due to commercially farmed food, processed foods, pharmaceutical

medications, stuff we put on our bodies and all the pollutants

in our environment; both in the home and outdoors. Over time

this overload slows down the body’s ability to process and

remove toxins and they build up – especially in fat stores.

The skin, lymph, lungs, kidneys and liver are all

major pathways of the body for detoxifying, but the liver

does the heavy lifting. When the liver is over worked and

over burdened by medications, alcohol, caffeine; poor

food choices and environmental toxins proper digesting of

the food you eat is much more difficult.

When you don’t digest properly you don’t get the nutrients

from your food to nourish your body which not only leaves you

feeling crummy (such as;  low energy, difficulty losing weight and pain!) but also puts

you at greater risk from invading pathogens.

Anyone who frequently get sick with colds, flu,

migraines, experiences nausea, constipation or diarrhea

will most certainly benefit from cleansing. Likewise anyone

who has difficulty with concentration, ADHD, arthritis, GUT

issues or allergies should absolutely do a clinically supervised

detox program.

Remember that the liver is not only the body’s main detoxifying

organ it also has a dual role in proper digestion of food.

This is why so many people find it very difficult to lose

unwanted weight – there livers are overloaded and fat loves

to hold on to toxins!

When we detoxify our body’s liver must convert fat soluble

nutrients to water-soluble nutrients (Phase I and Phase II)

before they can be eliminated. It’s a complicated process to

convert these fat soluble toxins to water-soluble ones and

involves a number of steps in the metabolic process. And

frequently when people move too quickly, or have problems

with some part of this conversion process they end up with

toxic metabolites that are fare worse than those they were

trying to eliminate in the first place. In effect they

re-intoxify them self. This is why the Master Cleanse is

NOT a safe way to go about cleansing and I do not recommend

it to anyone.

Bottom line – if you’ve been thinking of changing your diet

and want to learn how to eat more healthfully a detox can

really help you get on the right path.

Take the Self Quiz If you have these symptoms – you need to detox

Think you would benefit from a clinical detoxification program?

Contact me about my Digestive Restoration program by filling out the Are we a Fit form.