Detoxification - 10 daily rituals for body cleanse

Do you feel tired and exhausted? Are you struggling with skin problems, itching and pain, or digestive problems? Can't lose weight? If you answer positively to a few of these questions, maybe you should consider detoxifying your body. 

Cultures all over the world, including Chinese and Ayurvedic, studied the best ways to purify and rejuvenate your body! According to them, the essence of detox is removing and eliminating impurities and toxins from the inside out. 

''Nowadays, more than ever before due to pollution and various external factors, detoxification (detox) diets are more popular than ever!''

What is a detox?

In a sense, detox is a blood purifying method. 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.

A detox program may alleviate the natural process of body purification:

1. Body resting by fasting.
2. Stimulating the liver to expel toxins from the body;
3. Promoting elimination through the intestines, kidneys and skin;
4. Improving blood circulation;
5. Fill your body with healthy nutrients.

"Detoxification works because it deals with the needs of individual cells, the smallest units of human life"

What are the symptoms?

Here are the symptoms that you can relate with a need for detox:

• Unexplained fatigue
• Drowsiness
• Irritated skin
• Allergies
• Low-grade infections
• Dark circles under the eyes
• Flatulence
• Menstrual problems
• Mental confusion

How to start a detox?

First and foremost, think about all that you are putting into yourself and what could harm you from it. Eliminate alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, refined sugar and saturated fats. All of these act as toxins in the body and are obstacles to the healing process. Also, minimize the use of household cleaners and personal care products (shampoos, deodorants and toothpaste) and replace them with natural alternatives.

Another enemy of good health is stress, which causes your body to release stress hormones into your system. While these hormones can provide a dose of "adrenaline" that will help you win a race or help you do something important to you within a certain time, they create toxins in large quantities and slow down the detoxification of enzymes in the liver. Yoga and meditation are simple and effective ways to relieve stress by resetting your physical and mental reactions to the inevitable life stress.

10 top ways to detoxify your body

After a detox program, you can cleanse your body daily with these diets, supplements or a new lifestyle:

1. Eat plenty of fibre, including brown rice and organically grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Beets, radishes, artichokes, cabbage, broccoli, spirulina and chlorella (algae are an excellent detoxifying food).
2. Cleanse and protect your liver by taking herbs such as dandelion, burdock and milk thistle, and drink plenty of green tea.
3. Take vitamin C, which helps the body produce glutathione, a compound inside the liver that removes toxins.
4. Drink at least two litres of water per day.
5. Breathe deeply so that oxygen can circulate throughout your system.
6. Don't let stress develop by emphasizing positive emotions.
7. Try hydrotherapy, showering with very hot water for 5 minutes, letting the water run down your back and then shower with cold water for 30 seconds. Do this three times and then rest for about 30 minutes.
8. Go to the sauna so your body can eliminate bad radicals through sweat.
9. Exfoliate your skin and feet to remove toxins from your pores.

10. And in our opinion, the most important way to detoxify is exercise (walking, pilates, yoga, etc.). One hour every day, or at least a few times a week.

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