As with so many things in the natural health world, detoxing can be a good thing and a not-so-good thing…depending on what is being discussed.
I agree with the medical community that the body has an amazing ability to detoxify itself…however…it was never designed to handle the toxic load that it is under today (food, water, EMFs, heavy metals from amalgam fillings…)!
The word detox is overused and can mean many different things. Some practitioners will give you a colon cleansing herb and call that a detox, for some a juice fast is a detox. Technically, they are both detoxes, but….
I have been using (both personally and in my practice) a purification or detox program from Standard Process for more than 12 years with amazing success.
This program is a combination of diet and herbal supplements (in my opinion BOTH required for an effective detox) that helps your body to purge toxins. Fill out the Toxicity Survey on my site to see where you are. I believe that this is the best way to measure the success of any program – not just weight loss, but rather toxin loss!
The medical community sure hates detoxing, and the media sure loves reporting it! Every couple of years, there’s another study dissing the idea of detoxing for health vs medical detoxing if you’ve ingested a poison. And since the media has such little understanding of what’s involved in real-nutritional, whole-body detoxing, they almost always focus on colon detoxing—encouraged, of course, by their medical advisors. According to those doctors:
- There is never any reason for intestinal detoxing; your body does just fine detoxing itself
- Even if there were, nothing in the alternative health arsenal works anyway, so it’s a waste of time and money
- And, finally, detoxing is not only ineffective, it’s harmful, even deadly
It’s all a load of nonsense, of course, and easily dealt with on all counts. Now, to be fair, the above three statements, under certain circumstances, could be considered true, but only if you refuse to look at the entire forest of health and nutrition and focus exclusively on the individual trees. The problem is that at that level, you’re so far removed from what constitutes overall health that any conclusions you reach are meaningless.
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From Jon Barron
