1. Toxins prevent the absorption and utilization of nutrients so they create nutrient deficiencies. If you have a bunch of toxins in your body they are going to continue to create deficiencies that taking supplements does not fully address.
So to nourish a nutrient deficient body that has toxic overload you need to address the toxins for the nutrients to be properly absorbed and utilized.
2. Toxins have been shown to harm the DNA in our cells. Damaged DNA causes a cell to start reproducing out of control and become a cancer tumour.
3. With proper absorption of nutrients and less chance of cancer, you should start to feel a whole lot better!
Wrong And Right Ways To Detox
If you try to detox a nutrient deficient body just be eating some foods that latch onto and remove toxins, you run the risk of overloading an already overworked liver, overwhelming your drainage pathways and having the toxins reabsorbed in your gut.
To detox safely and effectively you first need to perform 5 actions:
0. Stop Harming Yourself
Eliminate as much as possible any vector of toxin intake. How do you reduce your toxin intake? Stop smoking, eliminate or severely curtail your alcohol intake, clean up your diet, filter your water and, if possible, your air, ditch wearing artificial fabrics and replace them with organic cotton and wool.
1. Nourish Yourself
Improve nutrition to boost the body’s ability to deal with detox stresses.
2. Finish the Half-Done Job
After the liver has removed toxins from the blood it puts them and bile in the gall bladder from where they go into the digestive tract. If there is insufficient binding agents in the food the toxins will get reabsorbed by the gut. Not good. So before and during your detox, to prevent existing and newly released toxins in the gut from being reabsorbed, take non-absorpable binders.
What are the non-absorpable binders that latch onto and remove toxins from the gut once the liver has processed them? Dietary fiber, Activated Charcoal, Bentonite Clay, Carbon Binders, Diamotaceous Earth, Zeolite etc.
3. Unclog The Drains
Consume some foods that open your drainage pathways (liver, gall bladder, lymphatic system) to increase throughput.
4. Love Your Liver
Boost your liver function to increase toxin processing capacity with herbs like Milk Thistle.
5. Deep Clean
Then detox from within and outside the cells with chelating agents.