Body Cleanse Information

The Basics of Toxins

2009-10-23T14:23:00.000-07:00

Before we begin we should clarify 2 types of toxins that can cause you to feel out of balance on the way to a total cleanse.

Environmental Toxins: Sometimes called exogenous (made outside your body) toxins, environmental toxins include all the chemicals and pollutants that you’re exposed to through air, water, and food.
Common environmental toxins include pesticides, herbicides, prescription and over-the-counter medications, carbon monoxide, triclosan, bisphenol A, phthalates, and volatile organic compounds.
Metabolic Toxins: Sometimes called endogenous (made inside your body) toxins, metabolic toxins are produced by each of your cells as they go about their everyday metabolic processes. Metabolic toxins can also be produced by microorganisms that act on incompletely digested food in your digestive tract.
Environmental Toxins are definitely the more dangerous of the 2 types in that they are all around you and are almost impossible to avoid unless you make positives steps towards eliminating them. Almost everything that you do involves some sort of environmental toxin.
One thing that most people don’t realize is how prescription and over-the-counter medications can negatively affect your health. Many people are lured into believing that a “pill” can help solve all of their problems when in all actuality the key to being truly detoxed is learning to live your life without relying on medications. Society puts such an emphasis on pharmaceuticals that almost every quirk that someone has that makes them unique can be “cured” by taking one prescription pill.

Instead, remember that there are natural, healthy processes for dealing with toxins, poisons, germs, and bacteria. A body cleanse may be exactly what you need.

To Master Cleanse or Not To Master Cleanse

2009-10-23T14:17:00.001-07:00

If you've done any research into body cleanse methods, you've undoubtedly come across the famous Master Cleanse. This is a difficult detox for the beginner and isn't recommended if you aren't used to extreme fasting.

The Master Cleanse is essentially a lemonade fast that last up to 10 days, accompanied by senna-based hot teas designed to stimulate bowel movements, and salt water gulping to loosen build-up in the digestive tract and blood stream.

This sounds a bit harsh and frightening and it shouldn't, however many health nuts have plunged into the Master Cleanse without proper preparation and instead of feeling flushed and revitalized afterward, abandon it early in near-starvation and weakness.

The best way to prepare for the Master Cleanse is to do other, simpler body cleanses a few months before to ready yourself for the diet changes. Don't want to shock your system!

Ease your way into the flush the week before by gradually eliminating heavy foods from your diet and then ease your way back into solid food after the cleanse. If you finish Day 10 and run out for a much-craved cheese burger, you'll be very sorry!

Stay informed and body cleanse detoxification is a wonderful and enlivening experience.

Sidestepping the Modern Diet for Health and Happiness

2009-10-23T14:14:00.000-07:00

If you're looking for ways to improve your overall health and happiness, your internal well-being, and mental clarity and energy levels, you should consider doing a whole body cleanse. This sounds really new age and complicated, right? Good news: It isn't. In fact, it's so easy, your body already does it all the time.

You're thinking, then why bother if my body is already on the job?

The body is meant to process a certain diet, one that evolved with our species over hundreds of thousands of years in hunter-gatherer society. However in only the last few decades our diets have mutated dramatically! We're talking HUGE alterations to our regular diets within generations!

This fast progression doesn't allow our evolutionary mechanisms to truly keep up and so we have disease and health problems running rampant. One of the easiest things you can do to help your body process the many challenges placed on it from the modern diet -- things like increased dairy, preservatives, chemicals, and processed nutrients-- is to frequently do a body cleanse that detoxifies your bloodstream and body of all unwanted waste.

When the body gets behind on processing this unhealthy extra residue, these built-up toxins can cause a huge number of health problems ranging from digestion issues to weight problems. Energy levels are sapped, your skin breaks out in clogged chaos...

It's ugly.

The solution?

A healthy body cleanse or detox. There are a great manyrelevant methods for modern body cleanses.

Body Cleanse Trends

2009-10-23T14:11:00.000-07:00

Body cleansing and detoxification is all the rage these days. In the new world of green economy and alternative health practices, the notion of periodically purging your body of unwanted or harmful toxins has surfaced as a largely popular practice. There are a few things you should know if this is something you're interested in pursuing.
First, what this does...
Detractors of detoxing argue that it's superfluous and unnecessary given that the body has natural methods of processing and expelling unwanted chemicals from the body (the liver, kidneys, and the pores). However, these organs are naturally suited to certain amounts of toxic overload. Liver disease happens to alcoholics because heavy drinking forces the liver to process more toxic substance than it's designed to habitually deal with. Same goes for our modern diets. The foods we eat these days, particularly in America, are sending our bodies into toxic overload. The regular methods by which our bodies have come to weed out harmful chemicals over the course of our evolution are eroding in the face of modern chemistry and food processing.
In short, we're destroying ourselves by evolving our diets faster than our bodies can keep up. And evolving them in unhealthy ways.
The answer...
This is where a whole body cleanse comes into focus. Certain methods can give the body's self-cleaning processes a respite from the overhaul. Fasting or restrictive diet methods allow the body's natural cleansing mechanisms to focus less on the toxins constantly coming through the pipes and instead do some "spring cleaning." Old closets and attic spaces of the body will be mined for stored chemicals and poisons (not to mention nutrients). This is where the typical aches and pains of a detox being to surface. The body is ejecting all of this built-up garbage into the blood stream to be removed from the body, usually via the bowels, urination, and skin secretions.
After the dusty closets are cleaned out, the body can breathe a bit easier. It can do all the things it's meant to do -- like fight off sickness and germs, regulate weight, and juice up with energy when it's time to face the day.
This is the basic body cleanse concept. Getting the body in a position where it can clean itself out. There are a number of methods that have developed over centuries of alternative, folk, and eastern medicine. They range from subtle dietary changes like an increase in fiber or switching to fruit alone... to the much more intense fasting and lemonade-only diets. Supplements are taken in some circles, vitamins and anti-oxidants mostly, to boost the bodies purge.

Top 10 Ways to Sweat for a Body Cleanse

2009-10-16T17:30:00.000-07:00

If you’re on the path of cleansing out your body with natural whole body cleanse methods, you should consider adding a healthy amount of sweating into the mix. Sweating is the body’s natural method for expelling toxins from the blood stream out of the body. Here are some ways to keep the sweat going to keep the detoxing moving along.

Go for a Run

A simple jog through your neighborhood or a ten minute stretch on the treadmill is an amazingly simple way to grab some sweat time for the day. Good for your heart too! J

Sit in a Sauna

Saunas or “Steam Rooms” are meant for this exact purpose. Sweating is healthy and all the best health clubs know it. Just sit, relax… and sweat.

Do 100 Jumping Jacks

No time or enthusiasm for a run? Just stand in place and do a quick 100 jumping jacks and call it a day. At least you’ll bead a bit on the forehead.

Sit or Lay in Direct Sun

Seems funny to think about when you consider that you’re supposed to be doing something good for you but laying out in the sun for a summer tan can actually add the benefit of sweating out toxins. You don’t have to lounger. Doing anything in the sun is useful for jump-starting a sweat.

Work Out at the Gym

If you need a social atmosphere to feel pumped up or motivated to exercise, a gym membership might be the answer. Plenty of machines and communal support to keep you soaking your college hoodie.

Wear Heavy Winter Clothes… in the Summer

Okay so this seems silly but it worked great when I was sick and had to lay in bed. Staying fully clothed under the covers got me sweating really well! The cold passed in a day. Must have had a TON of toxins to expel…

Shut Up the House and Turn on an Indoor Heater

In considering the benefit or detraction of modern luxuries, it can be useful to heat up your living or working space artificially to get your sweat glands going.

Practice Martial Arts

It’s always a good idea to take up some kind of physical activity and martial arts is a great choice for the added benefits of discipline and mental clarity.

Play a Sport

Shoot some hoops at the nearest basketball court, get into a game of backyard football, play a round of golf, box with a body bag, or whack some tennis balls. Either way, sports make you sweat.

Turn Off the Air Conditioner

Seems obvious… but it’s easy to forget. That A/C is so comfy!

Sweating is one of the easiest and most helpful tool for a whole body cleanse.

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