Are you aware that there are more than 85,000 man-made and very environmentally unfriendly chemicals that one can be exposed to daily? Most of us will come into contact with over 1,200 of them before we leave the house. The liver’s job is not just to filter what we had for holiday dinners and booze from the party last night. The liver is your body’s “car air filter”, “oil filter”, “dropbox organizer”, “everybody’s friend” type of organ. As our liver goes, so does our health.
Just stopping the behaviors that inundate our liver’s ability to detoxify isn’t enough to restore balance. Along with behavior changes we need to embrace the uncomfortable. What that means: detoxifying enough to force change in our body but that does NOT mean suffering while doing so (starving, headaches, nausea, constant diarrhea, brain fog, etc.). Breaking the habits that hold our body hostage like poor sleeping habits, addictions to sugars/fatty foods, or simple carbohydrates. We can alter those behaviors but we also must embrace a solution that forces the cells in our body to change. A proper detox is to plan, prepare, and commit. When we do those three things properly we avoid the nasty effects of traditional detoxification methods. We safely remove what we want out of the body and more importantly we learn what it’s like to feel free of a ‘sludgy system’.