09/06/2021
*Detoxification symptoms/Healing crisis*
During a structured detoxification program, the body is primed to use external influencers like detox diets, herbs, nutritional supplements, fluids, and exercise to get rid of toxins that are stored in the body or that the body is struggling to eliminate.
Naturally our body has a pre-set mechanism for eliminating toxins that come into the body through foods, drinks, drugs, and our polluted environment.
However, this pre-set cleansing mechanism can be overwhelmed leading to the accumulation and storage of toxins in fat cells.
And unless we create the enabling environment that will allow the body to eliminate these toxins, they can remain in the body for years or even decades where they expose the body to the risk of different ailments.
During a detoxification program, these toxins are pulled out from wherever they are hidden into the systemic circulation for the liver to break them down before final elimination through digestive system, urinary system, respiratory system, and the skin.
While the toxin are being gradually eliminated, the brain will pick their presence in the blood and begin to create different types of inconveniencing symptoms.
These symptoms may include nausea, insomnia, cravings, rashes, diarrhea, bloating, headaches, mucus discharge, coated tongue, irritability, flu-like feeling and so on. These, more often than not are detoxification symptoms or "healing crisis"
When these symptoms appear, it is often too tempting to abandon the program entirely because most people will feel that they are getting worse because there are times these symptoms can appear serious.
In some cases, you see some people in the program using drugs to mask these symptoms thereby derailing the detox process.
The fact is that detoxification symptoms are welcome developments. Their presence is not permanent, they often clear in matters of days or weeks depending on how dirty the internal terrain is and the type of detoxificat
