03/22/2022
Toxic Tuesday…
Staying Clean after a detox.
As I have said many times we live in a toxic world. Not only is the average person born with over 200 measurable industrial chemicals in their blood. We can find many of these chemicals in both polar ice caps, telling us that they are everywhere.
We have talked about detox programs but what about a maintenance program.
First, what can you do at home with your lifestyle and diet?
We detox through breath, sweat, urine, and BM.
But to do this right you need to minimize exposure, optimize excretion, before increasing mobilization so that you minimize redistribution of the toxin within your body.
You probably haven’t thought about it but what did your breath smell like the last time you eat garlic or drank alcohol? You were detoxing through your lungs and out your breath. We can improve this route of detox with better posture, optimizing lung capacity, and with abdominal breathing to optimize air exchange.
Most of us understand sweet is a detox route. Exercise, a hot bath, and a sauna can help with this route.
Drinking more water can help flush out the water compartments of your body and increase urine production.
Eating more fruits and vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables can help with detox through the liver, into the bile, and out through the BM.
Eating more healthy fat can help flush out the fat compartments of your body and optimize the mobilization of toxins to the liver for processing.
A supplement designed to help with detox is our Detox Protein.
This is a protein powder with a multivitamin and extra nutrients to optimize both phase one, phase two detoxification, and Reabsorption.
In phase one detox, a toxin is made into a “radical”. This is a chemical term you are making it more reactive, and often more toxic.
In phase two detox, you are connecting that radical toxin to another molecule. That might be sugar, a protein, or glutathione. This makes the toxin water-soluble so that it can be excreted.
Then we have the problem we have talked about in the past “Enterohepatic recirculation” or reabsorbing toxins in the intestines. We can block reabsorption by binding the toxin so that it stays in the intestine and goes out in the BM.
