10 Ways to Detoxify Your Body
The Body’s Detox System
Did you know that the body has its own extraordinary internal detoxification system?
Detoxification is a process aiming to eliminate all the negative effects on our body from the environment, such as industrial chemicals, pesticides, additives in our foods, secondary smoke, pollutants, or heavy metals. Nowadays, internal detoxification is adopted by healthy individuals to keep their body systems in pristine condition.
Detoxification is performed in a variety of ways including nutritional supplements, herbal mixtures, oral chelating agents, safe mercury removal, intravenous injections, colonics, etc.
Here’s a brief look at three critical organs involved:
- The Liver: Your first line of defense against toxins is your liver, which acts like a filter in preventing toxic substances contained in foods from passing into your blood stream.
- The Colon: This organ has bacteria that produce both healthy and unhealthy chemicals. You want to keep your colon flowing regularly since its main role is to flush out toxic chemicals before they can do you any harm.
- The Kidneys: Like clockwork, the kidneys are constantly filtering your blood and getting rid of toxins in the form of urine.
For a detox diet to truly work, you need to maintain these three key organs by nourishing your body with the right nutrients.
Here are 10 ways to detoxify your body:
1) Drink plenty of water.
2) Replace a meal each day with a detoxifying smoothie
3) Eat organic foods when possible
4) Get in more exercise and sweat it out
5) Eat more fiber in its most natural form
6) Fast for a day or two
7) Detox with supplements
- Chlorella
- Milk thistle
- N-acetylcysteine (NAC)
- Rice bran fiber
- Sulforaphane
- Vitamin C
- Whey protein
8) Cleanse and protect the liver by taking herbs such as dandelion root, burdock and milk thistle, and drinking green tea.
9) Eat plenty of fiber, including brown rice and organically-grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Beets, radishes, artichokes, cabbage, broccoli, spirulina, chlorella, and seaweed are excellent detoxifying foods.
10) Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!