Health Minute: Detoxification
How toxic are you?
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Many view natural medicine as popping 50 vitamin pills a day for a variety of different concerns. While I am most definitely an advocate of taking needed and compatible nutritional supplements, that approach is a little like building the second floor of a house before completing the foundation. The foundation of natural healing is not putting nutrients into the body, but detoxifying the body.
Would you lay down new carpeting over a dirty floor? Probably not, but that’s exactly what people do with their health when they bombard their bodies with nutritional supplements without first cleaning their body. In this article we want to look at sources of toxicity and methods of detoxifying.
GETTING TOXIC
There are two basic methods of getting toxic:
External Toxins —These are toxins taken into your body from the outside. This group would include industrial chemicals, food additives, medical drug residues, hydrocarbon chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals, and the like. These toxins come into your body from the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe, the medications you take, etc.
Internal (Self-Produced) Toxins —These toxins primarily result from a poorly functioning digestive tract, along the lines of the following formula:
Poor Digestion + Poor Assimilation + Poor Elimination =
INTERNAL TOXICITY
The digestive function of the average person has been greatly compromised by years of (1) eating the wrong foods, (2) eating foods in the wrong combination, (3) eating too much, and (4) eating while stressed or in a hurry. Improperly digested food comprises just another toxin in the body. And, frankly, that improperly digested food can produce as much (or more) toxicity than all the various external toxins like chemicals, drugs, and heavy metals.
CONSTIPATION & TOXICITY
If you put food into the body three meals a day (not counting snacks), does it make sense that having a bowel elimination once per day or once every other day is adequate? Under the advise of very stupid medical doctors, most people have been led to believe that “normal is whatever is ‘normal’ for you.” That has to be the most inane statement ever made by medical doctors!
Those who have studied primitive peoples generally find they have one bowel movement for each meal they eat (for them that usually means two per day). If you have less than two bowel movements per day, you’re constipated. If you have less than one bowel movement per day, you’re really constipated! I often see clients having one movement every three, five, seven days or longer. That creates a tremendous amount of “recycled toxins” that other body organs must deal with.
