Body Detoxification

Body Detoxification, simply put, is the process of removing toxins from the body.

Common sense will tell us that having toxins in our body can’t be a good thing.

Proactive health clinicians accept the fact that in order for us to be healthy, we need a healthy immune system. Toxins undermine good health with the chronic assault of various toxins. Mercury is high on the toxic list.

We need to remove the toxins from our body if we are to experience good health. There are a number of toxins that the body is exposed to every minute, and we have an immune system that is capable of neutralizing these toxins in a number of ways, providing that the systems is not compromised. Our body is capable of mounting a successful defense system from the toxins originating in the body, those being consumed, and those that are airborne. The reader may do well to consult a number of sites regarding the detoxification process.

NATURAL DETOXIFICATION: The processes by which the individual’s own body biochemical structure works to neutralize or eliminate toxins that are considered to be foreign. The biochemical processes work to remove the foreign substance from the tissues and metabolize it into a less toxic form or cause it to bind or complex with one of the many transport systems in the body so that its toxic properties are neutralized, or reduce it to a form that is more easily excreted. This is a normal body process that is enzymatic in nature often requiring cofactors that are derived from essential nutrients, whether from food or from supplements. Chronic toxicity with persistent symptoms can be related to chronic nutritional deficits or metabolic impairments.

ASSISTED DETOXIFICATION: Normally accomplished by the administration of drugs orally, by injection, or intravenously. Such drugs are usually designed to bind, complex, or change the chemical structure of a particular toxin and change to reduce its toxic properties or to make it easier to eliminate from the body.

In the months to come, we will feature articles that will assist us in methods of detoxification, both Natural and Assisted.