Health & Wellbeing

Are you ready to cleanse and rejuvenate your body, for a more energised you in 2009?

Today we live at a pace that would have seemed unbelievable and indeed impossible to our grandparents. With the increasing demand of jobs, long travel, odd working hours, bringing up children and hectic social lives it’s not surprising we become tired and rundown. We live with pollution in our air, pesticide traces in our food and hormone-disrupting chemicals in our water. We drink coffee, tea and alcohol, and eat sweets, junk-food and heavily refined products full of artificial additives. We smoke, and we take medicines and drugs. All this causes toxic overload in our bodies and thus our bodies are just as polluted as the world we live in.

Why Detox?

Detox – short for ‘detoxification’- is possibly the biggest health topic of the 21st century! The concept of a “detox diet” is to remove the toxins from your body caused by substances consumed in our everyday lives e.g.  alcohol, tobacco, junk and processed foods.

Eliminating toxins are a necessity! As the years pass the toxins accumulate and have an additive affects with each other. A cumulative toxic load can put one at risk of serious disease later in life.

Our bodies are completely complex organisms in a state of constant growth and renewal on cellular level. When we pour toxins into our bodies, it treats these as a matter of urgency and works on processing them to render them harmless. This leaves the body with less energy for everyday process of cleaning, healing and renewal ¹. Although the toxicity of a chemical may vary, it is the job of the liver to reduce toxins into compounds that the body can safely handle and eliminate through the kidneys (as urine), skin (as sweat), lungs (as expelled air) and bowels (as faeces). The liver is the second largest organ in the body and is often deemed as the most important. In traditional Chinese medicine, a healthy liver is seen as the most critical element in the body’s ability to fight off disease and function optimally. With increasing demands over a period of time, the body is unable to keep up the pace and the strain begins to show on the overworked liver and kidneys, leading to slowing the body’s performance ².

Lifestyle choices that contribute to toxin build up and nutrient : How many of these are regular occurrences in your life?

The importance of DETOX

The concept that toxins can accumulate in the body and cause various health problems has long been a fundamental belief of traditional healthcare systems around the world.

Over a period of time the build up of toxins can emerge as many different symptoms such as:

To more serious conditions such as:

Everyone should detoxify on a regular basis. When we detox and cleanse two things happen

• First we stop overloading the body with harmful substances.
• Secondly, we give it plenty of the right nutrients to actually speed up the elimination of old toxins and promote cell renewal.

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 Further Reading

Role of Vitamins and Antioxidants in a Detox Diet

How to Detox Your Body

1. “Detoxification & Healing: The Key to Optimal Health” S. MacDonald Baker. 1997
2. “Natural Liver Therapy” C. Hobbs. 1986