Along with “kale” and “gluten-free”, “detox” is a popular buzzword in the health world.
Because of this, an array of fads have taken Instagram by storm.
You can enhance your body’s natural detoxification system with these simple methods:
Your body has a sophisticated way of eliminating toxins that involve the liver, kidneys, digestive system, skin, and lungs. Still, only when these organs are healthy, can they effectively eliminate unwanted substances.
So, while detox diets don’t do anything that your body can’t naturally do on its own, you can optimise your body’s natural detoxification system with these simple methods:
1. Limit Alcohol
More than 90% of alcohol is metabolised in your liver. Liver enzymes metabolise alcohol to acetaldehyde, which is considered detrimental to your health.
Recognising acetaldehyde as a toxin, your liver converts it to a harmless substance called acetate, which is later eliminated from your body.
While observational studies have shown low-to-moderate alcohol consumption beneficial for heart health, excessive drinking can be at the root of many health problems.
Excessive drinking can severely damage your liver function and stop it from being able to perform its necessary tasks — including filtering waste and other toxins from your body.
As such, limiting or abstaining entirely from alcohol is one of the best ways to keep your body’s detoxification system running strong.
2. Get enough rest
Quality sleep is essential to supporting your body’s health and natural detoxification system as it allows your brain to reorganise and recharge itself, as well as remove toxic waste by-products that have accumulated throughout the day.
Without enough sleep, your body is unable to perform those functions, so toxins can build up and may affect several aspects of health.
Poor sleep has also been linked to stress, anxiousness, high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
Seven to nine hours per night is key to good health. If you have difficulties staying or falling asleep at night, lifestyle changes like sticking to a sleep schedule and limiting blue light — emitted from mobile devices and computer screens — before bed are useful for improving sleep.
3. Drink more water
Water regulates your body temperature, lubricates joints, aids digestion and nutrient absorption, and helps to detoxify your body by removing waste products.
Your body’s cells must continuously be repaired to function optimally and break down nutrients for your body to use as energy.
However, these processes release wastes — in the form of urea and carbon dioxide — which could potentially cause harm if allowed to build up in your blood.
Water transports these waste products, efficiently removing them through urination, breathing, or sweating. So staying properly hydrated is important for detoxification.
4. Take Milk Thistle
Milk Thistle is a flowering plant that has long been used to aid in alleviating liver-related problems. The active ingredient in milk thistle, silymarin, acts as an antioxidant by reducing free radical production and may create a detoxifying effect which assists to reduce liver inflammation and liver damage, hence thought to be beneficial to the liver when used as a complementary supplement.
Releaf Milk Thistle is a product of natural origin that assists in protecting the liver and supporting liver function. Ideal as a way of helping your pre-summer detox along, to complement a good, clean diet, better sleep hygiene and adequate water every day.
Releaf Pharma believes all treatment of illness should begin with your doctor’s opinion.
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