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The Detox

By Tanya Stocken

This has become an everyday term, a popular lifestyle choice especially after a period of overindulgence. Many may

choose to ‘detox’ principally to help lose weight, adopting radical short term dietary regimes. Such diets may

certainly help, but this approach to detoxification is superficial and belies its power and depth as a rejuvenating

and healing technique. In fact detoxification can be promoted at many levels and in many body systems releasing the

body’s natural energy.

Anyone can benefit from detoxification, from individuals with poor lifestyles, resulting in the sluggishness of all

their systems, through to those who follow healthy regimes but who want to specifically intensify their body’s

natural mechanisms and achieve even greater health. There is no one single method of ‘detoxing’ – detoxification is

about making personal choices of how widely and deeply you wish to cleanse, over what period of time, and which tools

you choose to support you. And there are many prducts out there that promise to make this detox quick, easy, painless

and extermemly successful. But do you really need them?

What is Detoxification?

Detoxification is a natural physiological process that rids the body of unwanted chemicals which are capable of

harming the it. These include those produced by the body’s own metabolic processes and those we are exposed to in our

environment (plastics, metals, pesticides, fumes and cosmetics). The body has a sophisticated system of circulating

fluids to pick up and transport toxins, and organs to neutralise and excrete them from the body, including the liver,

kidneys, and skin.

The modern environment and lifestyle adds additional burdens to the body and its natural processes of detoxification

can be overwhelmed. Such congestion and dysfunction may be a key barrier to health. As naturopathic nutrition aims to

encourage the body to function as well as possible – to self-heal – assisting detoxification is a key therapeutic

aim.

This has become an everyday term, and a popular lifestyle choice especially after a period of overindulgence. Many may choose to ‘detox’ principally to help lose weight, adopting radical short term dietary regimes.

Such diets can help, but this approach to detoxification is superficial and ignores the fact that it can be a rejuvenating and healing technique. In fact detoxification can be promoted at many levels and in many body systems releasing the body’s natural energy.

Anyone can benefit from detoxification, from individuals with poor lifestyles, resulting in the sluggishness of all their systems, through to those who follow healthy regimes but who want to specifically intensify their body’s natural mechanisms and achieve even greater health.

There is no one single method of ‘detoxing’ – detoxification is about making personal choices of how widely and deeply you wish to cleanse, over what period of time, and which tools you choose to support you.

And there are many prducts out there that promise to make this detox quick, easy, painless and extermemly successful. But do you really need them?

What is Detoxification?

Detoxification is a natural physiological process that rids the body of unwanted chemicals which are capable of harming the it. These include those produced by the body’s own metabolic processes and those we are exposed to in our environment (plastics, metals, pesticides, fumes and cosmetics).

The body has a sophisticated system of circulating fluids to pick up and transport toxins, and organs to neutralise and excrete them from the body, including the liver, kidneys, and skin.

The modern environment and lifestyle adds additional burdens to the body and its natural processes of detoxification can be overwhelmed. Such congestion and dysfunction can lead to a number of health concerns.

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