If your home, car or any other thing precious to you needed cleaning or de-cluttering you would do it right? After all you love that precious thing and want to keep it in optimal working order right? The same principle applies to your most precious ‘possession‘, your body.  So while we all accept that the outside of our body needs regular cleaning (though try telling our 10 year old boy that…) few of us recognise the need for regular internal cleaning. A regular internal cleanse aka detoxification, detox or detoxing, helps keep the body working optimally.

Why consider a Detox ? Our bodies are regularly exposed to a barrage of toxins – for example the body naturally creates toxins as a by product of metabolism. Add to this the toxins created by stress, the effects of overeating, the sluggishness of our systems due to poor exercise habits, our continued exposure to environmental pollutants and daily exposure to any of the 14,000 food chemicals within processed foods and medications!. That is without mentioning smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and drugs. And spare a thought for your liver. The liver, the organ of detoxification, has to work harder now than at any other time in history – so to speak – because of all these contaminants.  We also absorb toxins through our skin and we come into contact with many hundreds of chemicals on a daily basis – it’s no wonder our bodies are stressed and we regularly exhibit signs of toxicity. OK – I hear you say – we are always exposed to toxins – it’s all about our level of exposure – right?

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