detoxing

[danchip]

My wife is detoxing and i've been dragged into it, i've started to drink more water than i usually do and i've started getting headaches at about 4pm since starting this wonderful detox!

Is this normal or can i use it as an excuse to stop detoxing?

[joggerjayne]

Stop.

You will dissolve yourself if you drink too much.

[grasscarp]

You can tell her that the body detoxes by itself. If it didn't we would not live!

[NoMercy]

This is perfectly normal when your lympatic system is eliminating built up toxic sludge.

I recommend that you take Milk Thistle to support the liver during the detox. Don't quit - the results are amazing!

[cazzz1975]

tell her you are an adult who is capable of making your own decisions regarding your own body

[woofgang]

http://www.badscience...-company-be/#more-853

buy the book, its brilliant

[danchip]

i'm trying to be supportive!

[HowardKennitby]

How much water are you drinking per day?

[rojash]

"Don't quit - the results are amazing!"

But only if you believe

[LoftyLottie]

To me something that gives you headaches is a sign that all is not well and your body is protesting. How can this be good for you. Personally, I think the answer is to eat and drink sensibly all the time so that your body can do it's work properly.

[karenmac60]

You have a liver and kidneys - they will do all the detoxing your body needs. Don't be drawn into fads promoted by celebrities.

[NoMercy]

Rojash ... Seeing is believing.

I detoxed over a 5-day period and lost 9lb in weight. My skin was glowing by the end of it.

[LazyGun]

You may very well lose weight if you follow a diet consisting of lots of fruit, water etc - but that weight is likely mostly fluid, easily put back on again.

People often talk about feeling healthier having followed a "detox" regimen, but that is more to do with calorie restriction than anything else.

If you want to feel better in the short term, and help your body out - Sleep more, exercise more, quit or avoid smoking, drink less, eat less, eat and drink healthier.

[rojash]

^ Exactly

[atalanta]

Detox is nonsense. It is commercial nonsense on the part of big companies who want to make pots of money out of gullible and guilty customers, who worry that they have over-indulged over Christmas and New Year.
If your liver is healthy - and you will probably know if it isn't - it will do all the cleaning up which your body needs. It is a biochemical factory for exactly that purpose.

[NoMercy]

Lazygun, re-read your last paragraph... Those are exactly the things I would recommend for a safe detox.

Atalanta, detoxing is only nonsense if you subscribe to some money-making, commercial regime. If you simply follow your own regime of eliminating toxins and increasing healthy foods for a few days, it is perfectly healthy and very rewarding.

Yes the body has its own ability to detox, but sometimes it needs a helping hand.

[LazyGun]

@NoMercy - But what my last paragraph talked about was just an ongoing recipe for healthy living - not a detox. This concept of a detox regime as common perception has it is not one I subscribe to, since it makes no scientific or medical sense.

If you are healthy individual, then your kidneys liver and gut are working well, then nothing you can do in terms of diet or supplements will add to that efficiency. If you wish to help your body out, then present it with as few challenges as possible, hence a commitment to sleeping longer, eating less and more balanced / healthily, exercising more, avoiding or quitting smoking and moderating your alcohol.

[NoMercy]

> @NoMercy ...

This isn't twitter you know! ;-)

If someone has had a spell where they have eaten too many processed foods but are ordinarily healthy people, a detox can help kick-start them back to health.

[craft1948]

It's certainly not recommended here.................

http://www.dailymail....argues-professor.html

[NoMercy]

Crikey ... Everything is scary in The Daily Mail!

Speaking from experience, I did a five day detox and felt wonderful at the end of it.