How to Know if You Need to Cleanse Your Body
August 27th, 2010Did you know that a monumental array of health issues are correlated to our exposure to toxins? Toxic substances from food, air, water and the environment (which are known as exotoxins) can do harm to nearly every body system. The food we eat, the air we breathe, the beauty care products we use and the cleaning products in our homes are in general the main source of the toxins that accumulate in our cells, organ systems and tissues. There are now tens of thousands of toxic chemicals used in processed foods today. In addition, there are many thousands of chemicals used by commercial farmers that coat our produce with dangerous residue. Pesticides and herbicides has been found in as much as 90% of the non-organic vegetables and fruits Americans eat on a day-to-day basis.
Additionally, adjacent to exotoxins, our bodies likewise cope with internally created toxins, which are known as endotoxins. Such toxins are the innate by-products of immune system activity, our digestive action, food allergies, leaky gut syndrome, candida, bacterial infections, sluggish colon or hormone activity.
Body detoxification is a process of promoting your body’s natural ability to remove accumulated toxins stored in the body. Body cleansing is a process that happens systematically in the body. For someone living a hundred years ago or more, doing a body detox may have been unthinkable. Such a person’s body purified itself sufficiently, ever able to deal with its toxins. Nowadays, however, our systems can’t maintain pace. Our exposure to an ever greater quantity of external toxins combined with a diet of artificial foods overload and interfere with the body’s innate purifying process.
About all of us would gain from a cleansing program. Ideally, this should be tackled with the supervision of a doctor or health care practitioner, but that is not necessary if you learn about detox approaches.