Originally published February 1 2015
How to detoxify all the time
by Michael Edwards
(NaturalNews) In its natural, healthy state, the body is detoxifying at all times. Breathing, digesting healthy, clean vegetables, using our muscles, or just being alive creates toxins in the body that need to be expelled.
With today's typical modern lifestyle, toxins are accumulating in the body at a greater rate than the body can expel them. Not only do we have much higher levels of toxicity, many of the toxins are not normally found in nature. Once the body is in that vicious cycle of toxic accumulation, disease will set in, organ failure will eventually occur, and doctors will blame it on genetics or age.
Disease has one cause: cellular malfunction. There are two causes for cellular malfunctions: lack of nutrition and too much toxicity.
It is no wonder "detox" is the buzz word amongst the natural health enthusiasts and healers. The problem is, even amongst the natural health crowd, there is a tendency to eat poorly and detox once or twice a year with a juice fast or a smoothie binge, which is typically done in a way that feeds the body way too much sugar, which for most people completely negates the detox.
Now for the good news: your body can handle a remarkably heavy toxic load if you're getting proper nutrition, enough sleep, your gut flora is balanced, and your gut is healthy. The human body is better off with lots of toxins and lots of nutrition, than it is without nutrition. This does not mean you can eat like crap and take a supplement and then expect to be healthy. Junk food robs the body of nutrition and it unbalances the intestinal flora, leaving the gut in dismal health. If you live under power lines, talk on your cell phone all day, type on your laptop for hours on end, and eat too much Fukushima, parasite laden sushi, you can still be healthier than most anyone you know if you do the following:
How To Detoxify With Diet
Produce detoxifies the body. This is especially true when it's organic and raw. The trick is to eat a lot of it, to eat a wide variety, and to eat more vegetables than fruit. Make yourself a huge salad with 15 different vegetables and lots of herbs and spices like garlic, turmeric, cilantro, etc. Your base can be kale, collard greens, spinach, or anything leafy that's not iceberg lettuce. Shred carrots, beets, and radishes. Don't worry, we'll have a link to a recipe at the end.
The thing is, all of those previously mentioned ingredients are known to increase organ functionality, build up optimum cellular function, prevent disease, and expel toxins from the body. Many of the vegetables and herbs can even dispel BPAs and other man-made toxins from the body.
We are supposed to eat a lot of produce. For many years, longer than we've eaten any other way, humans foraged for vegetables growing out of the ground. We would walk, all day, see an edible food, eat it, walk some more. It's estimated that before we used grain agriculture we ate up to 8 pounds of produce a day! Meat takes a lot of effort to find, prepare, and digest. Fruits and nuts were seasonal, but herbs, leafs, and such are always just popping right up out of the ground. Other omnivores can be seen doing this, even wolves. They prefer protein, but they eat vegetables all day, too, in the wild.
Raw, organic vegetables expel toxins from the body in a multitude of ways. Eat as many as you can. Make a big salad every day.
Drink To Detoxify
Make yourself a gallon of cranberry stevia lemonade a day and drink it. If you can't drink a gallon, don't kill yourself trying, but most people can do that just fine. The lemon balances the PH and helps boost the liver's ability to detoxify. The cranberry keeps the kidneys going strong. The water flushes out the body. There are many more benefits, but those are the biggies. Don't use a sugar to sweeten it. Use stevia or no sweetener. Also, always use distilled water, or unadulterated, naturally mineralized water from a trusted spring source.
Conclusion
It is also important to note that the intestinal flora needs to be balanced so the body can digest and assimilate the nutrition. For more on gut flora, and detoxifying every day, click here. And see the salad recipe here. The first source link below has the lemonade recipe.
Sources:
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com
http://truthwiki.org/Garlic
http://truthwiki.org/Turmeric
About the author:
Michael Edwards is the founder, owner, editor-in-chief, and janitor for Organic Lifestyle Magazine and Green Lifestyle Market. At age 17, Michael weighed more than 360 pounds. He suffered from ADHD, allergies, frequent bouts of illness, and chronic, debilitating insomnia.
Conventional medicine wasn't working. While he restored his health through alternative medicine he studied natural health and became immersed in it.
Michael Edwards is the founder, owner, editor-in-chief, and janitor for Organic Lifestyle Magazine and Green Lifestyle Market. At age 17, Michael weighed more than 360 pounds. He suffered from ADHD, allergies, frequent bouts of illness, and chronic, debilitating insomnia.
Conventional medicine wasn't working. While he restored his health through alternative medicine he studied natural health and became immersed in it.
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