25 ways to detox your body
By admin | June 16, 2007
1. Slowly does it
Giving up caffeine, booze and cigarettes at once can put huge amounts of stress on your body. For the first two days, cut them by half, then proceed by cutting numbers gradually.
2. Gut feeling
Spring-clean your digestive tract with a probiotic supplement such as Lactobacillus Acidophilus. Live bacteria help the natural fauna in the intestine to process food more quickly.
3. Fill-up
Detoxing doesn’t mean eating less, it means eating healthy. Get your full complement of vitamins and minerals. Focus on selenium, chromium, magnesium, and vitamins C, E and A. Good sources are oily fish, broccoli and nuts.
4. Shelve the sugar
Too much refined sugar can cause glucose imbalances and may overload your pancreas. Start the day with porridge to slow down sugar absorption, putting less stress on your pancreas.
5. Rub it better
After a hard day at work, swap the temptation of a drink for a relaxing massage with your partner. Mix a few drops of grapefruit and rosemary essential oils (known to help detoxify the liver) into an eggcup of sweet almond oil, close the curtains, strip off, and get rubbing.
6. Every day! Work it
“Exercise releases toxins through sweat, burns toxin-storing body fat, and rewards you with energy and reduced tension,” says Suzannah Olivier, author of The Detox Manual. Aim for 45 minutes’ moderate aerobic exercise every other day: run, swim, row or cycle. Today: run.
7. Hold it in
If you’re still feeling sick after any festive excesses, press the acupoint situated in the middle of the upper side of your forearm, around 10cm above the wrist crease, says Jane Scrivner, author of 48 Hour Detox. Also have a cup of ginger tea, proven to help nausea, and an apple for a slow release of energy.
8. Test your body
Assess the damage. Get your hair and blood tested to determine which vitamins and minerals you’ve been missing out on Then you’ll know what needs fixing.
9. Get skin deep
If other exit points in your body are overloaded with toxins, your skin will start manifesting toxin in the form of eruptions and discoloration. After a hot shower, turn the dial to ice-cold to increase circulation and open the pores of your skin, processing toxins ultra-quickly.
10. Work it! 45-minute cycling
11. Soak it
If you’re frightened of cold showers, have a long, relaxing soak in Epsom salts. Fill a hot bath, add two heaped tablespoons and soak. Do it before bed and you’ll sleep better, waking refreshed and full of energy.
12. Fight the fat
Saturated fat, that is. “The only way to undo the effects of saturated fats is a cholesterol-reducing diet with lads of fruit, veg and oily fish such as salmon and sardines,” says Patrick Holford, author of 100% Health. Conjugated linoleic acid can help clear clogged arteries.
13. 45-minute row
Concentrate on using your body s a whole, so you don’t damage your back.
14. Love your liver
Your liver is key to processing toxins. Take a daily capsule of lipoic acid to help restore glutathione levels, eat lots of broccoli and cabbage and fill up on dark blue fruits such as grapes.
15. Juice up
Liven up stimulant-free drinking sessions with some home-grown creations. Juicing fruit and vegetables gives you all the antioxidant benefits possible. Try this: Juice 100g strawberries, a banana, one tbsp ground almonds and half pint skimmed milk.
16. 45-minute swim
Keep hydrated throughout, and if you’re feeling tired, eat a banana half an hour before.
17. Lick some lime
Too much salt disturbs the fluid balance in your cells and can raise your blood pressure. Intensify natural salt flavors by sprinkling lime on your food instead of reaching for the salt cellar. Get rid of salt residues with celery, which contains bio sodium to keep harmful sodium in solution, not in you.
18. Push some Zzzs
Get regular, good quality sleep to make sure your body has time to heal itself. After your hot bath, change the bulbs in your bedroom to low-wattage, and retire to bed with a cup of hot milk and a good book.
19. Every day! Flush it out
Drink at least two litres of water a day to flush out any toxins and boost your metabolism. If you can’t stand plain water, add a splash of fresh lemon or lime juice. Your pee should be a pale yellow color, even after exercise.
20. Go herbal
If you’re really craving a cup of hot stuff (now you’re not drinking caffeine) have some green tea. “It balances the acid and alkaline in your body and, like salt baths, will rejuvenate you if you’re feeling tired and relax you if you’re stressed,” says naturopath Ko Chohan.
21. Go green
It’s vital for city dwellers to give their bodies regular breaks from car pollution as it places a huge stress on the liver. Set off for a three-hour country walk for a real breath of fresh air.
22. Boost your bowels
To ensure food doesn’t sit around in your stomach fermenting, making life much harder for your liver, keep regular. Eat a bowl of bran with cold milk first thing, go for whole-meal rice, bread and pasta, and above all, drink plenty of water to bulk it up and speed it through.
23. Brush away
Boost your lymph glands and remove impurities by brushing your skin every morning – also leaving your skin smooth and healthy. Brush towards your lymph nodes (in your groin and armpits) using long, firm strokes.
24. Go organic
The Environmental Protection Agency in the US considers 60 per cent of herbicides and 90 per cent of fungicides to be potentially carcinogenic, and says that over a year someone on a non-organic diet eats six kilograms of chemicals. Buy organic fruits and vegetables and concentrate on smell and color.
25. Heal your head
Suddenly cutting out stimulants such as caffeine can result in splitting headaches. Put a few drops of essential oils – such as geranium or lavender – on a pillow and lie down for ten minutes. The pain should fade naturally.
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Topics: Health | 6 Comments »
June 18th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Mostly on the mark, except for the part about milk. It’s pure acid and will hurt you. Also, with only a few rare exceptions, most grains like oatmeal, etc are actually acid forming.
One great technique for serious and fast detoxing is upon waking up, drink the juice of 2-4 fresh squeezed lemons (diluted with water to make it passable).
Then do a green shake of alkaline veggies. I juice broccoli, spinach, cucumbers, parsley and add carrots for sweetness and beta keratins, plus when I want to do a blood cleanse, I add beets (one of the best natural blood cleaners EVER).
The reason you often get headaches when you start to detox is not because you stopped taking in caffeine, etc, but because when those toxins are leaving your body, they’re partially reabsorbed by the colon on the way out (your colon absorbes the nutrition from your food).
Naturally, since toxins are poisons, you react with a headache, as you’re being poisoned, literally.
Want the magic cure? Give yourself an enema the MOMENT your head starts to feel a little funny/tingly/pressurized. That’s the sure sign of an oncoming detox migraine headache.
EVERY SINGLE TIME I give myself an enema after I’ve started to detox, my headache goes away within minutes. If I administer the enems before the headache even begins, I avoid having one altogether.
Also, you might want to try and give your liver a REAL break and give yourself an organic coffee enema (WITH caffeine in it, NOT decaf) in order to stimulate your liver to release more of the toxins so it doesn’t become overwhelmed by the sudden rush of toxins into it.
Check out the Gerson Therapy at Gerson(.org) for some incredible info on this subject. Also, Dr. Young at Snyder Health(.com) has lots of great alkalizing and detox info.
Check it out.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Thanks for all of the relevant info to keeping the body limber during strenuous activities.
August 20th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
I was in arizona for a month this summer and I joined a health club so that I would not slack off while I was on vacation. Anyway, I met quite a few people that were telling me that I should get a colon cleanse, not just a cleance you take orally but a colon cleanse where someone actually puts a tube in your rectum and irrigates to remove large amounts of stool. Im back in illinois but I havent been able to find anyone that does it. Could anyone give me some advice on how to find someone or a business that I can have this cleanse done?????? Please!!!!!
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
These are a good ideas for daily maintenance and a great lifestyle change for feeling better. Some great detox programs that are very effective for immediate relief have now been developed.
Dr Detox recommends a Ionic foot bath every other day for 14 days to rid the body of toxins.
Also, the new Far INfrared saunas are excellant on the off days. In two weeks we can lower the mentals from off the charts to 0, such as lead, aluminum and others that are in pecticides and even medicines.
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August 22nd, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Sorry that was Metals not mentals, he-he.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:27 am
how to detox and keep pancreas health?