Lead­ing into the sum­mer months, many peo­ple have already started to increase their daily activ­i­ties and exer­cises in hopes to get into a health­ier body to enjoy the beach and the out­doors more.  In order to get health­ier, we all know that we must eat fresh and nutri­tious foods, and to exer­cise at least a half hour every day; but what about all of the tox­ins that our bod­ies have already accu­mu­lated?  How do we elim­i­nate those tox­ins that are already in our bod­ies? Before we touch upon that, we will delve into where all of these tox­ins come from.

Most of us liv­ing in Canada do not live next to an indus­trial area of town, a nuclear power plant, or even a land­fill. Because of this, it is harder to iden­tify where tox­ins are com­ing from but if you know where to look, you will find that we live in world full of pol­lu­tion. From the chem­i­cals found in our skin and body lotions to the tooth­paste with which we brush our teeth with, to the pol­lu­tants in the air that we breathe, and the addi­tives and preser­v­a­tives in our foods, there is no short­age of man-made chem­i­cals that can infil­trate our bodies.

So where to start with detoxification?

First, stop the intake of haz­ardous foods. For the first two to three weeks, elim­i­nate all dairy, caf­feine, alco­hol, wheat, and sugar from your diet.

Sec­ond, start to increase foods that help with detox­i­fy­ing. These detox­i­fy­ing foods include broc­coli, beets, sea­weed, and lemons.  Broc­coli – con­tains impor­tant phy­to­chem­i­cals that are released when chopped, cooked, fer­mented or chewed/digested. These phy­to­chem­i­cals break down into sulphoro­phanes, which in turn may pro­tect the heart from vas­cu­lar inflam­ma­tion and ath­er­o­scle­ro­sis and may play a role in anti-cancer activ­i­ties by enhanc­ing tumor sup­pres­sor proteins.

Beets – con­tain iron, mag­ne­sium, and zinc, which are nec­es­sary to pro­mote detox­i­fi­ca­tion and elim­i­na­tion. They also con­tain vit­a­mins B3, B6, C and beta-carotene and sup­port the gall­blad­der and liver func­tions. Lastly, their high fibre con­tent helps in the elim­i­na­tion of bod­ily wastes.

Sea­weed – con­tains pow­er­ful antiox­i­dants that alka­lize the blood and for­tify the diges­tive sys­tem. Sea­weed also con­tains align which absorbs tox­ins from the diges­tive tract the same way water soft­en­ers removes hard­ness from the tap. The seaweed’s align also helps lower cho­les­terol, remove heavy chem­i­cals such as mer­cury, cad­mium, and strontium.

Lemons – this fruit helps release enzymes that con­vert tox­ins into water-soluble forms and thus more eas­ily excreted from the body.

Other detox foods include kale, arugula, cau­li­flower, brus­sel sprouts and red cabbage.

Hav­ing stopped the intake of addi­tional tox­ins with food, and for­ti­fied our own detox­i­fi­ca­tion with those super-foods men­tioned above, we still organs and sys­tems in place to help elim­i­nate the tox­ins that have built-up.  This is where your liver, kid­neys, gall­blad­der, lym­phatic sys­tem and even your gas­troin­testi­nal path­ways come in. But what hap­pens when those organs and sys­tems are under-performing? This is where Detox-Kits come into the pic­ture.  This home­o­pathic med­i­cine helps stim­u­late and enhance the func­tion­ing of the liver, kid­ney, gall­blad­ders and lym­phatic sys­tem to remove tox­ins in our bod­ies. These Detox-Kits can be found within our nat­ural phar­macy in our clinic and is actu­ally on spe­cial offer.

Before start­ing any kind of detox, speak with your physi­cian or one of our clinic doc­tors. Other meth­ods of elim­i­nat­ing tox­ins found within the body can also include the use of the Ion­Cleanse Detox to remove the tox­ins via the feet.  For more infor­ma­tion on the Ion­Cleanse Detox, please click here.

Detox­ing your body does not mean that you are never allowed to drink alco­hol or cof­fee again; but is sim­ply to take a break to eval­u­ate how you feel.  Going through a detox pro­gram is not easy and takes a lot of focus and deter­mi­na­tion in keep­ing off the restricted foods but it will be well worth it and your body will thank you for it.