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In order to cleanse your liver, kidneys, spleen and digestive system, you should choose a healthy detox plan. Some recommendations are unhealthy. Let's take a quick look at those, before we talk about some of the healthiest choices.
Some sources recommend a complete fast; that is no food or nourishment. Only plain water may be consumed for a certain period of time. Weeks of fasting are sometimes recommended. That is unhealthy.
Fasting for long periods of time can damage your metabolism. It will make you feel weak, tired, headachy and ill. Proponents say those feelings are symptoms of the toxins leaving your body. They are actually symptoms of hunger and nutritional deficiencies.
In order for your body to operate properly, you must consume a certain number of calories. You need a balanced intake of carbohydrates, essential fatty acids and protein. All of those things are important.
Proponents of cleansing are not always specific about which toxins you are trying to remove. Without doing a lot of blood work and examining the organs of your body, it would be impossible to tell which toxins are causing you problems.
Your symptoms, if present, could give a naturopathic practitioner the necessary hints. What most of us should be concerned about is "body burden".
Making an effort to cleanse away toxins will reduce the burden on your body's organs. This burden increases as the years go by and is one of the reasons that advancing age is accompanied by an increased risk of cancer.
A healthy detox could reduce your risk. Most detoxes are recommended for short-term use, but in order to really see an improvement in your health, you might need to change your daily habits.
In order to be a valuable and healthy detox, the product should help remove heavy metals like lead and mercury from your body. Your body can rid itself of those things, but the natural process is very slow and gradual.
So, if you continue to be exposed to those things, they can accumulate as the years go by and cause a variety of health problems. For example, long term exposure to small amounts of lead (such as might be present in your tap water) is accompanied by an increased risk of hypertension (high blood pressure) and heart disease.
Herbal extracts and specific nutrients are known to help cleanse heavy metals from the body. They are referred to as chelating agents. An example of an herbal extract with chelating activity is blessed milk thistle. It is particularly beneficial for the liver. An example of a nutrient with chelating activity is alpha lipoic acid.
Those are not the only ingredients that might be present in a healthy detox product. Those are only two examples. Nature has provided everything necessary to cleanse your body. If you remember to rely on natural products and avoid anything that sounds unhealthy, you will be successful.
