Detox

It is tempting to think that we could use a quick-fix to ‘wash’ all of our toxins away, while we continue to indulge on our fast-foods and alcohol. Beyond the hype and catchy headlines, detoxification is real, tangible, and involves many different biochemical processes.  Your body is detoxifying at every second of your life, helping you adapt to the foods and toxins which you are exposed to. Sometimes, this exposure can overwhelm your body, especially when it’s crippled by poor diet and lifestyle. This is why the best way to protect yourself in this toxic modern world is to support your whole body detoxification, with simple, everyday actions.

Adding turmeric to your diet can definitely bring some big benefits in terms of nutrition but It is the curcumin in it that is so valuable. But, a typical turmeric root contains about 2-5% curcumin, so taking an unstandardized, powdered turmeric root product means that very large amounts would be required to get a beneficial amount of curcumin.

While turmeric is excellent when used as a spice, a curcumin extract is a much, much better choice for health benefits because it is is much more concentrated. This incredible compound can influence just about every aspect of health inside and out, from your skin all the way to your brain.

To detox or not - bringing clarity to the cleanse. This article discusses the background of traditional detox regimes, why there is scientific reasoning behind them, what the body needs to detox, how it copes with toxicity, the symptoms and what you can do about it.

We are in constant contact with harmful organisms and pollutants. They are in our water, in our food, and in the air we breathe and it’s very difficult to get away from them. Over the past few decades the toxin levels have gradually increased with the employment of pesticides and insecticides in agriculture, our changing lifestyles that include excessive smoking and drinking and air pollution from power plants, cars and landfills. Fortunately, there are ways to counteract some toxins, through healthy detoxification. Everyone can benefit from detoxification from when you are feeling below par to if you suffer from complex chronic diseases.

Toxic substances are everywhere. In the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. Even our bodies and the bacteria in the intestines produce toxic substances. These toxins can damage the body in an insidious and cumulative way. Your ability to detoxify these harmful chemicals is a major factor in determining your level of health. When the detoxification system becomes overloaded, toxins accumulate, and we become progressively more sensitive to other chemicals

In a country where our diets have recently been demonstrated to be more detrimental to health than smoking! Perhaps it’s time to consider some dietary changes intended to reduce our consumption of these harmful carcinogens, whilst embarking on a regime devised to encourage the elimination of such toxins from our deeper fatty cellular tissues, creating a more alkaline cellular environment.