Even if you consider yourself a healthy individual, you are still susceptible to toxins. This is true even when you religiously keep your weight at healthy levels, eat the recommended amount of meals a day, limit junk foods, and even work out regularly.
Why? This is because most people in a North America are exposed to things like processed foods, cigarette smoke, and chemicals that we may not have control over. Take for instance the fact that we often spray down our home in fabric fresheners, pesticides and chemicals to clean. Or that we sit in traffic and breathe in exhaust fumes. Simply put what I am saying is, we are constantly being exposed harmful things.
Our food isn’t always the healthiest, it is not full of nutrients it once was, partially because our soil is becoming depleted of the nutrients generations before us had. The crops are being sprayed by a ton of pesticides and we know that they run into our water supply.
Basically we are exposed to a ridiculous amount of toxins in our environment we aren’t even aware of. The good news is we can do something about it. How? By detoxifying. And there are a few ways that we can go about that.
Eat Organic
One is by cleaning up our diet by eating organic food and limiting sugar in our food. You should also be drinking plenty of water. And while we’re talking about food we should talk about the resistance of eating food. By this I mean fasting. Fasting for 1-3 days can be very beneficial to the system to get out all of the toxins, because while you stop eating the body is at work to get rid of the toxins inside and expel them with the fluids that you just added into your system.
Detoxifying Foot Baths
You can try detoxifying foot baths. Soaking your feet in detoxifying foot baths can really help you clean your system. And you can tell what was detoxed by the color of the water after you are done, which is pretty cool!
Colon Cleansing
Another method is by colon cleansing. Many people experience problems with their colon, one example is constipation. It’s actually rather easy to detox the colon. All you have to do is eat food that is high in fiber or taking a fiber supplement. If you include fruit and veggies in your diet you will see a big boost from the fiber. Fruit like blueberries, raspberries or apples are great examples of this. And they come at the benefit of having less carbs but more fiber than bran muffins. So next time you think about candy or grabbing a muffin maybe you should opt out for a cup of blueberries or an apple instead. If you are looking for an aid in this process you can look into supplements to help you out.
I am going to give you a comprehensive list of 12 detox herbs that can help you clean out your liver, kidney, colon and your entire body.
Cascara Sagrada — This one works similar to a laxative as it helps move bowels.
Chamomile — It actually doubles as a relaxant and helps the stomach. It also helps with reducing inflammation and healing tissues. It also is a tasty tea.
Dandelion — This herb is actually good for the entire body and with a special emphasis for the immune system. It helps to eliminate the toxins from cells in our bodies. And it helps to improve the bile and move it along our systems.
Skullcap Skutellaria — Calming and improves the nervous system which is affected by things like overusing caffeine.
Yarrow — Helps purge toxins by increasing their transportation by sweat.
Peppermint — This calms as well as it helps the stomach process food.
Licorice Root — This is a great herb that serves several functions. It works as an antioxidant, produces antibodies, fight viruses and you can put it in tea to help with the taste.
Milk Thistle — This herb helps clean out the liver and protects it. It usually is used by people who want to protect the liver from drinking alcohol by cleaning it out.
Psyllium — This is another herb that helps to get the bowels moving; which is essential in detoxing.
Chrysanthemum — This is a rather pungent herb that shouldn’t be overcooked and has cleansing properties for the person to drink down.
Sarsaparilla Root — By increasing the flow of urine and breaking up gas it helps to, again, move things along. It is generally considered a blood purifier which of course comes in handy when detoxing.
Goldenseal — The herb is powerful cleansing powder and it will absolutely help detox the body of toxins and remove those pesky obstructions that get in the way of you trying to get healthy!
Hopefully that list of herbs has given you an idea of where to start a detox. And since the point of a detox is to remove toxins from your system it helps to have a gentle introduction of things that can help you out. Herbs provide this gentle introduction and aid. Plus you get the other array of benefits that comes with ingesting herbs. Good luck!
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