Does Learning How To Detox Your Body Enhance Your Natural Defenses
Ever since my teen years I’ve always been in pretty good health. I’ve hardly ever been ill, and colds and viruses never seem to latch on to me – or at least not that lasted longer than about 12 hours. So when I completely lost all my energy and was feeling run down all the time it was quite a shock to my system, and struggling to find the energy to even get out of bed in the morning. Over the course of about 12 months I’d seen my doctor many times and had all the tests he threw at me, but they all came back negatve.
I finally went to see an alternative health therapist one day who advised me that I should look into doing a detox, and take some time to learn to detox your body with a view to changing my eating habits. It sounded like a good idea, so figured it was a worthy investment of my time to at least check it out, and why so many alternative and complementary health practitioners recommend healthy detox diets and recommend starting with the 7 day detox diet so strongly.
Something else she recommended I try was a foot detox. I have a foot spa two or three times a week now, if I have the time, if you don’t want to invest in a foot spa, the detox foot patch can be just as good – but with the patches you don’t get a relaxing foot massage at the same time
There are some very simple things you can do to help detox your body.
Make sure you drink plenty of water
One of the most important things you need to is drink lots of water while you are following a detox diet because it will help purge excessive toxins from your body. Drinking plenty of water also has other health benefits like promoting regular bowel movements, helps your internal organs function more efficiently, and helps reduce the signs of aging by plumping up your skin. You should aim for about 2 to 3 liters a day, and a good bit more in hot weather or on your exercise days.
As a guideline, aim to drink an extra half liter of water for every hour you exercise. Filtered or bottled water is best as tap water contain chlorine and other toxins. Ideally drink water that is at room temperature. Feel free to substitute herbal teas if you can’t face all that water – preferably loose leaf rather than tea bags. Dandelion root, yarrow, roibosch and green tea in particular are great choices as their additional properties help boost the detox process. Green tea and redbush has other health benefits too as it is rich in antioxidants.
Should You Go Organic
You do not need to switch to a totally organic diet on a detox diet, unless you can afford it, but if you can manage one or two organic foods that would be great.
It’s not a major problem if you can’t get hold of any organic produce. Concentrating on eating fresh (and ideally raw) fruit and veg is the main point regardless of them being organic or not, than skimp on quantities. Nonetheless, there’s a lot of health benefits to concentrating on organic food on a healthy detox diet.
The use of artificial chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers are not allowed when growing organic foods, so they contain the lowest possible amounts of artificial, potentially toxic chemicals (such as nitrates). Although it’s a controversial area, there’s a lot of evidence that the cumulative impact of these pesticides are linked to some of the serious health conditions of today.
By comparison, organic foods are processed much less than non-organic. The big benefits of this are that they have no genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and free from artificial preservatives. On top of that, organic foods usually taste better too.
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