How do you detox your body to lose weight?

What is Detox? 

Most of the detox diets promote herbs, pills or fasts to get rid of the bodily impurities, thus, getting a cleanse from inside out.

A period of time in which one refrains the body from toxins and unhealthy substances to optimize the body processes, where for some it can also be a method to lose weight.

Why is Detoxing Important & How the Body Collects Toxins? 

People usually tend to think that toxins only enters the body if you eat unhygienic food or if you smoke/drink, but, it is not true as the body can easily get  affected by toxins from air by inhaling pollution, water that you drink, unhealthy food and even from the stress, pills, and bad lifestyle habits.

The significance of detox is not new; many cultures are practicing detox from centuries around the world.

Indians do fast weekly and monthly from the past several decades to get rid of toxins. Thus, one must change their lifestyle for the sake of the pure and clean body, and amongst the temporary and permanent changes one can adopt in lifestyle – this is one.

How Toxins Affect the Body?

Your large intestine gets clogged with undigested food and toxins, lymphatic vessels are congested and liver is also overloaded. All of this forces the waste to recirculate in the body instead of filtering them out. Toxins also get into the skin and cause inflammation.

As a result, toxins are stored in fat cells, preventing your body to lose weight then and they can also convert into cancerous cells.

Three Natural Body Cycle for Self-Detox

1. THE ELIMINATION CYCLE

Cycle Begins around 4:00 AM and then ends around 12:00 PM (8 hours)

During the elimination cycle, same as its title suggests – the body naturally tries itself to purge from toxic unwanted materials and not necessary salts, proteins, and acids.

During this cycle, you should consume enough amounts of fresh seasonal fruit (preferably organic) to support the body’s natural toxin elimination cycle.

Not only the fruits supply the body with living matter to draw out unwanted substances, but it also ensures that the intestinal tract remains well hydrated and nourished.

Fresh fruits provide the ideal ingredients for supporting the body’s Elimination Cycle.

The elimination cycle is without question your greatest ally in the preservation of health and prevention of disease”; “If a blood test was to be taken every hour for 24 hours, it would show that the bloodstream is most heavily burdened with the by-products of metabolism during the hours between 4am-12noon, indicating the stepped-up elimination cycle, because it is the blood that carries waste material to the four channels of elimination: bowels, bladder, lungs, and skin”– Harvey & Marilyn Diamond, Fit for Life

2. THE ENERGY CYCLE

Cycle Begins around 12:00 NOON and ends around 8:00 PM (8 hours)

During the Energy Cycle, food and nutrients are processed and stored to supply you with the energy throughout the day. The best way to support your body during this Cycle is to eat plenty of raw vegetables (can be salad or juice), adding a starch source can provide your body with the energy to maintain its natural biochemical balance that is needed.

3. THE REGENERATION CYCLE

Cycle Begins around 8:00 PM and ends around 4:00 AM (8 hours)

This is a chance for the body to take the time it needs to repair and regenerate.

This is the time when the body should get proper adequate sleep.

During this time, the body assimilates all the foods that you have consumed during the day and then processes the nutrients to reform cell after cell.

If the sleep cycle is interrupted by irregular work patterns, eating at night, travel across different time zones, or any other factors, the body loses the ability to regenerate cells, which leads to their degeneration in the body instead of regeneration.

How do you Detox your Body to Lose Weight?

Adapting change in your lifestyle

• Choosing the Right Food

The best thing you can do to support your body’s detoxification process is to lighten the load by decreasing the toxins you put in your body.

Choosing vegetables and fruits that are organically produced over fast food and other processed foods.

Genetically modified products are contaminated foods that add harmful toxins to your diet. You should avoid them like they are a plague.

• Balanced Diet

A balanced diet is very essential for a toxic-free body, getting adequate sleep and sufficient exercise, can reduce your daily toxin threshold, cleansing your body in regular intervals, and maintaining a positive state of mind are mandatory to acquire maximum health and to aid to an amazing lifestyle one can dream of.

Detoxifying your body is not only about what you have to avoid, but also about what you need to consume. Following a healthy diet can take you a long way.

There are also many foods that aid detox in your body — garlic, lemon, broccoli sprouts, mung beans, and raw vegetables.

Many diets promote cleansing and detox. We recommend a strictly raw, organic, vegan diet, but there are other options if this isn’t for you.

You could also try a raw alkaline diet. It’s a temporary cleanse consisting of uncooked fruits and vegetables and raw nuts, seeds, and sprouts. It’s a great strategy for detoxing the colon (intestine) and liver.

A juice diet is also helpful and is centered around consuming freshly-made fruit and vegetable juice—preferably organic.

• Purification with Water

Water is the best tool available for detoxifying your body. Our body’s most basic functions require water.

As the body requires water help in perspiration, digestion and producing saliva, etc. and when I say drink water, I do mean water, not coffee, or sports drinks, or soft drinks.

If you’re one of those individuals who find water tasteless, add lemon or cucumber to your water.

• Purify the Air you Breath

Breathing fresh air is very essential for the human body as air also consists of toxins that enter the body through the nose.

It is very difficult to purify the environment but what you can do is purify the air in your house with the help of air purifiers available in the market.

If you feel this to be an expensive way you can easily plant trees around your house or plant small pot plants that are considered to be natural purifiers.

• Exercise and Meditate

Exercise and meditation aids to a good healthy body. While exercising body sweats and sweating helps release toxins through your skin out of the body.

Studies have found trace amounts of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury in sweat where meditation helps you clear your mind to reduce stress and anxiety. As stress is also a toxin to the body.

Try Cleanses to Detox Body Fast

• Liver Cleanse

The best way to cleanse your liver is by using wheatgrass juice on a regular basis.

This helps the liver to function properly. Other foods for the liver include carrots, limes, lemons, and beets.

Turmeric, rosemary, cayenne, cumin, and curry are spices that are considered to give cleanse to the liver.

While cleansing avoids coffee, milk, and sodas, instead, go for purified water and apple juice.

You can also add Livatrex® to a gallon of apple juice or water to aid better cleansing.

• Candida Cleanse

A candida cleanse is a cleanse designed to remove candida from the body by removing all sugary foods.

In this cleanse you are required to avoid all forms of sugar including fruit and fruit juice, all refined flour and wheat products, any foods containing yeast, as well as all-natural sweeteners like raw honey.

While on a candida cleanse you should also avoid alcohol, dried fruit, mushrooms, cheese, pickled vegetables, and soy sauce.

Taking organic oregano oil and a probiotic can enhance your candida cleansing efforts.

• Liquid Cleanse

One of the best types of cleanse is a liquid cleanse while still maintaining energy levels. It involves drinking fresh organic fruit and vegetable juices, soup, smoothies, flax, hemp, coconut, sesame or pumpkin seed oil, and purified water.

• A Raw Food Cleanse

This cleanses advocates eating raw and uncooked fruits and vegetables combined with some amounts of raw nuts, seeds, and sprouts.

It’s an excellent way to detoxify your colon and liver. Which helps alleviate the body’s need to neutralize the acidic nature of blood that results from a modern, non-alkaline diet.

• Fruit Fast

During this cleanse one needs to consume just the raw fruit and vegetable juices. You may continue this for 4-5 days.

The best fruits and vegetables considered for this cleanse include apples, carrots, beets, ginger root, spinach, pears, celery, kale, cabbage, pineapple, cranberry, and other dark leafy greens vegetables.

Citrus fruits should be avoided while fasting.

• Kitchree Cleanse

Kitcheree is a super-alkaline diet of mung beans, cooked vegetables, basmati rice, and spices.

This cleanse is an Ayurvedic method of cleansing the body through “mono-diet.”

This diet offers a temporary relief to the digestive system, and aids to overall detoxification.

• Ultimate Cleanse

This detox method consists of a diet that is composed only of freshly-squeezed lemon juice, organic grade-B maple syrup, cayenne pepper and spring water. This is an effective method for both liver and colon cleansing.

Try these amazing cleanses and make sure to SHARE it with your friends and family to help them get healthy lifestyle because HEALTH IS WEALTH.

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