Detox

What Is Detoxification?

Detoxification is the process of clearing toxins from the body or neutralizing or transforming them, and clearing excess mucus and congestion. Many of these toxins come from our diet, drug use, and environmental exposure, both acute and chronic. Internally, fats, especially oxidized fats and cholesterol, free radicals, and other irritating molecules act as toxins. Poor digestion, colon sluggishness and dysfunction, reduced liver function, and poor elimination through the kidneys, respiratory tract, and skin all add to increased toxicity.

Detoxification involves dietary and lifestyle changes which reduce intake of toxins and improve elimination. Avoidance of chemicals, from food or other sources, refined food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and many drugs helps minimize the toxin load. Those lifestyle changes are a direct result of choices you make in your life.

When detoxifying your colon, it is also important to incorporate probiotics in your diet to replenish your intestinal flora.

Colon cleansing

Bowel movements are the basis of your health. If you don't have at least 1 bowel movement per day, you are already walking your way toward disease. Man's body has not changed very much in the past several thousand years... however man's diet has certainly changed a lot. All the refined sugar, white flour, hormone/antibiotics-filled meats we constantly ingest constitute an assault on our bodies. We are continuously violating our bodies by eating terrible foods. Colon cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.

So, all congestion and toxins must be removed, and it must begin with cleansing of the bowel.

One of the most frequent bowel problems that people experience today is constipation.

A constipated system is one in which the transition time of toxic wastes is slow. The longer the "transit time," the longer the toxic waste matter sits in our bowel, which allows them to putrefy, ferment and possibly be reabsorbed. The longer your body is exposed to putrefying food in your intestines, the greater the risk of developing disease. Even with one bowel movement per day, you will still have at least three meals worth of waste matter putrefying in your colon at all times.

Disease usually begins with a toxic bowel. Those having fewer bowel movements are harboring a potentially fertile breeding ground for serious diseases. Infrequent or poor quality bowel movements over an extended period of time may be very hazardous to your health.

When Do You Need Internal Cleansing?

How do you know when it's time to free your body of accumulated toxins, parasites and other waste materials? If you experience one or more of the following, then it's time to detoxify:

• Frequent fatigue and low energy
• Flatulence, gas & bloating
• Excess weight
• Impaired digestion
• Bad breath & foul-smelling stools
• Parasites in stool
• Frequent colds
• Recurring headaches
• Chronic constipation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Powerful food cravings
• Hemorrhoids
• Candida infection

So How Do You Properly Detoxify Your Body?

Now that we know why it is crucial to cleanse and detoxify our body regularly, we have to know how to do it properly. Here's a quick overview:

1. First you look at lifestyle changes. Eat a diet heavy in fruit and vegetables, drink lots of water and get daily exercise.
2. Detox your colon by replenishing good bacteria that protects the flora balance and herbs that help to clean out toxic waster.

Increasing scientific evidence indicates that oral administration of probiotic organisms can support the body's natural detoxification process in several ways. Probiotic supplements counterbalance the adverse effects on friendly flora from certain medications by replacing beneficial bacteria. They also assist detoxification processes by sequestering metals and other toxins, thereby inhibiting their uptake and facilitating safe elimination through the intestinal tract. Oral administration of large populations of live, health-promoting lactic acid bacteria, such as Vita Biosa®, can augment detoxification protocols as follows:

Probiotics enhance intestinal detoxification functions that naturally contribute to a protective effect on the colon. In humans, the ingestion of probiotics leads to the excretion of urine with low concentrations of components that are toxic in human colon cells and high concentrations of components that induce oxidized DNA bases. When ingested, probiotics facilitate the production of high concentrations of short-chain fatty acids that serves as fuel for colon cells which inhibit the toxic activity of nitrosamides and hydrogen peroxide in human colon cells. These observations confirm that intestinal bacteria may be useful for dietary detoxification and protection strategies to facilitate removal of selected mutagens.

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