What Does it Mean to Detox?

Detox, also known as detoxification, is the process of either clearing toxins from the body or neutralizing or transforming them, and hence clearing excess mucus and congestion. Fats (especially oxidized fats and cholesterol), free radicals, and other irritating molecules act as toxins on an internal level. Functionally, poor digestion, colon sluggishness and dysfunction, reduced liver function, and poor elimination through the kidneys, respiratory tract, and skill all increase toxicity.

Toxicity has become a great concern in the last century and the process of detoxification is an important tool for twenty-first century medicine. Threatening our health are powerful chemicals, air and water pollution, radiation, and nuclear waste. We ingest new chemicals, use more drugs, eat more sugary and refined foods, and abuse ourselves daily with stimulants and/or sedatives. Cancer and cardiovascular disease are on the rise, arthritis, allergies, obesity, and skin problems are also rapidly increasing;  and a wide range of symptoms such as headaches, fatigues, pains, coughs, gastrointestinal problems, immune weakness, sexual diseases, and psychological distress are being seen by physicians in record numbers. Although a connection between increased toxicity and increases in diseases is obvious, it is important to understand how it occurs so that we may avoid or eliminate it from our lives.