Detoxing and Cleansing – Is It Really Necessary?
We clean our cars, homes, clothes, and even the food that we eat before we prepare it. Why not clean our bodies of all the impurities that we pick up from our environment and from the things that we put in it.
Detoxing is about resting, cleaning and nourishing the body from the inside out.
- Step 1: Remove and Eliminate toxins.
- Step 2: Feed your body with healthy nutrients.
Benefits:
- Detoxifying can help protect you from disease
- Renew your ability to maintain optimum health.
- Aid weight loss
- Increase Energy
10 Suggestions to Help Your Body Detoxify
After completing a detox program, you can cleanse your body daily through diet, supplements and lifestyle practices.
- 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.
- Cleanse and protect the liver by taking herbs such as dandelion root, burdock and milk thistle, and drinking green tea. (Ask your doctor)
- Take vitamin C, which helps the body produce glutathione, a liver compound that drives away toxins.
- Drink half your body weight in ounces in water. (i.e. 100 lbs = needs 50 oz of water daily)
- Breathe deeply to allow oxygen to circulate through your system.
- Stay positive/pray to reduce stress
- Practice hydrotherapy by taking a very hot shower for five minutes, allowing the water to run on your back. Follow with cold water for 30 seconds. Do this three times, and then get into bed for 30 minutes.
- Sweat in a sauna so your body can eliminate wastes through perspiration.
- Dry-brush your skin or try detox foot spas/foot baths to remove toxins through your pores. Special brushes are available at natural products stores.
- What is the most important way to detoxify? Exercise (even jump-roping is very beneficial)
Note: Consult a nutritional minded doctor or nutritionist before beginning a detox plan or making lifestyle changes.