Detoxification Benefits:
Detoxification can have a positive effect on many health challenges, such as allergies, weight gain, digestion and any type of inflammatory condition. Unfortunately, there is a lot of snake oil out there claiming to be detoxifying.
mucoid plaque
The number one myth of detoxification is “mucous plaque” in the colon or large intestine. This is a myth because of what people do to cleanse their colon from their intestines; But this is actually an artifact of the clay and psyllium fiber that is a major component of these cleanses.
Keep in mind that clay is a proven topical detoxifier, so passing through your bowels may have positive benefits despite the reduction of mucoid plaque. More on this later.
Many of the benefits of detoxification come from the severe reduction in caloric intake, giving the body a break from the task of processing all these calories, allowing it to “clean house” using those enzymatic resources. .
Unscientific Detox Methods:
water fasting
The ultimate detox using the calorie restriction idea is water fasting. Its most famous promoter was Arnold Ehret, who conducted a public water fast for 49 days, claiming many benefits, including strength and endurance. He once rode his bicycle from Algiers to Tunis, a distance of 800 miles to prove his point. I am not a fan of water fasting for more than a day or two. I have noticed that its proponents tend to look prematurely aged with prematurely white and gray hairs, which to me indicates a mineral deficiency.
juice fasting
Another method of detoxification is juice fasting. I’m not a fan of fruit and carrot juice fasting because removing all the fiber from your fruit increases the rate at which sugar enters the bloodstream, and you miss out on the many proven health benefits of fiber. Definitely a bad idea if you have problems with blood sugar or insulin. Dr. Joe Mercola recommends using a masticating juicer that maintains the fiber content on green vegetables (not fruits) and pureeing the resulting puree. It means a lot to me.
fruit fasting
A healthier variation of a fruit juice fast is to eat only fruit for short periods of time, so you get the benefits of a whole meal. The downside to this approach is that you keep your carbohydrate intake relatively high while drastically reducing your protein intake. I have seen many people who use this approach become overweight. If you’re fasting, you should be reducing your carbohydrate intake, not maintaining it. Nevertheless, this approach has some value.
green juice
An exception to the no-juice rule would be cereal grass juice, such as wheat grass, barley and kamut grass juice. Alfalfa juice also falls into this category. Cereal grasses are highly nutritious, and are edible, but only in juice form after all the fiber has been removed. Grass has a fibrous structure similar to a barbed razor blade that is extremely irritating to us non-ruminants. Make sure any grain hay supplement does not contain any whole hay with fibers like your razor. Since ground up grass is about one twentieth of the cost of the juice, many formulators prefer to add it as a cost reduction strategy. The taste, texture and smell cannot be compared to 100% juice.
colon cleansing
The most common method for detoxification is a “colon cleanse,” which usually includes an approach to remove the mythical “mucoid plaques” we talked about earlier. I’ve seen some benefit from this approach, usually with people who are quite toxic. These people will improve with almost any approach where they make a serious reduction in their caloric intake. The major downside to the colon cleanse approach comes when the formulators look to add anti-parasitic ingredients and they sell it to someone with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, and all of a sudden this person is passing bloody stools and their Bleeding from the rectum. Not to mention the fact that these formulations are based on myth.
master cleanse
Another popular unscientific method of detoxification is the so-called “master cleanse”. The Master Cleanse advocates drinking a sugary mixture of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, sea salt, and water for several days. The lack of protein in this formula means that your body will be missing out on many substrates needed for metabolic detoxification pathways. It’s very counterproductive, so when you hear about followers of the Master Cleanse bragging about their headaches and runny noses, you’ll now know that these symptoms are caused by nutritional deficiencies in this snake-oil approach. result of poisoning.
detoxification depends on nutrients
All of the above approaches suffer from one major flaw: not enough nutrition! You need protein to maintain your muscle mass and to maintain all kinds of body processes, including detoxifying vitamins and minerals, as well as keeping the detoxification pathways flowing in the liver.
A Better Approach to Detoxification
I use scientific methods using clinically proven medical foods, supplements and dietary interventions that have been proven in human clinical trials. Specifically, I have great diagnostic tools to use with any type of inflammatory condition, including inflammatory bowel disease and inflammatory conditions that are poorly addressed by allopathic medicine and above. Described more traditional detoxification interventions.
medical food cleanse
The cleanses I recommend usually use a healing food, which contains an average of 160 calories, including healthy fats, slow carbohydrates, and about 16 grams of protein. Getting protein into your body while you’re cleansing slows muscle loss, curbs appetite, keeps your metabolism fueled and improves detoxification. Most people don’t know that the body needs more protein when you’re cutting calories, because carbohydrates and fats are “extra” proteins.
quick weight loss
One clear benefit of cleansing is that you lose body fat and what I call “fluff”. Fluff is water and carbohydrates that are held by the body when it is in a toxic state. When you lose “fluff,” you can lose weight more quickly than by losing fat alone.
detox fasting
Don’t get me wrong, detox fasting is one of the best ways to get rid of fat quickly from your body. In fact, people who are extremely fit and lean will often see those stubborn body fat melt away. I believe this is because many stored toxins are fat soluble. If your body doesn’t have the resources to access, conjugate, and excrete toxins, it needs those pockets of fat for “toxin storage.”
Supplying the nutrients your system needs to combat toxins is a winning combination, while restricting calories to fuel the whole-body cleansing process, and maintaining or increasing protein intake.
specific detoxification recommendations
Generally I recommend a calming, cleansing healing diet that uses hypoallergenic rice protein and rice carbohydrates. Depending on your history of exposure to heavy metals and other factors, I may recommend a green food supplement for your detoxification cleanse. Again, I prefer to stick to products that have been proven in multiple human clinical trials to detoxify particular chemicals or heavy metals. The green foods I recommend most have been proven in literally hundreds of clinical trials with real people.
Source by Hans K Conser
