detoxification

Detoxification: A word heavily abused in innumerable catch-cries for weight loss diets and liver flushes. Perhaps the word conjures up images of quick-fix diets that rely on extended fasts on honey and hot water. Maybe you’ve tried a multi-day water and bentonite clay cleanse, used herbal laxatives, supplements or premium-priced powders. Perhaps you’ve simply done a juice fast or three.

Detoxification is an important regulatory process, and our bodies carry out detoxification on a cellular, organ, and system level all day long. However due to the increasing levels of stress we experience in our lives, the environmental toxins we are exposed to, and the increasingly processed modern diets we eat, our natural detoxification processes can be overwhelmed by the burden of waste created by living in an acidic inner terrain. We sometimes need a little bit of help.

If you only understand one thing about detoxification, know this: it is a two-pronged process. You not only need to take the excess waste out of the body before it overloads the systems and is reabsorbed, but you need to re-adjust the biochemistry of the body by putting the right things in.

The trouble with most modern-day approaches to detox is that they concentrate on only ONE of these prongs – only putting the right foods in (i.e. an extended juice fast) or only removing the waste (laxatives and colonics). We need to do both, using safe, complimentary and effective methods, in order to truly start to detoxify and feel better.

In a personalized nutrition consultation, you will learn about numerous ways to detoxify and re-balance your body. You will be shown both sides of detoxification – how and when to put the right foods in, and how to remove the waste matter that is released when the right foods start to re-alkalise the body.

This release of long-held waste residue into the bloodstream creates what are commonly known as detox symptoms, which are simply a sign that whatever detoxification method you’re using is releasing the stored toxins into your bloodstream faster than you can move them out of the body. This can be bad news if your approach to detoxification isn’t integrated and complete, as your body may well re-absorb the toxins back into the tissues rendering your whole detoxification effort useless.

In a nutrition consultation with Dr. Casey Conroy, you will work together to uncover the best forms of detoxification for your body type, genetics and lifestyle. You will be educated on safe, sustainable and comfortable ways to gently detoxify your body and maintain it in an alkaline condition in the long term. And most importantly, you can say bye to unpleasant hours sitting on the toilet following a post-silly season herbal detox attempt gone awry!