Why Detoxing Should be Top On Your To-Do List

Following a detox diet can improve many aspects of your health!

With the advent of processed foods, fast foods and preservatives, global food supplies have taken on more chemicals than ever before. According to the U. S. National Library of Medicine, the amount of xenobiotics, such as metals and synthetic chemicals, has seen exponential increases over the past century. Human exposures to scores of PBTs, also known as persistent bioaccumulative toxicants are the unfortunate result.

The good news is the body is well equipped to deal with a reasonable amount of toxins from day-to-day. The bad news is, the average American consumes way more food-based toxins than the body can handle.

This over-consumption of toxins has resulted in a range of adverse health effects that become the often-mentioned diseases and health problems of today. Toxic chemicals from the environment and in the food supplies will inevitably accumulate inside the body unless detoxing becomes a routine part of a person’s life.

What are Toxins?

In general terms, a toxin qualifies as any substance capable of causing disease or damaging body tissues. Overall, three types of toxins can cause considerable damage to the human body:

• Endogenous toxins
• Exogenous toxins
• Autogenous toxins

Endogenous toxins exist as byproducts from various biochemical processes in the body. These toxins tend to accumulate in joints and muscle tissue. Exogenous toxins come from the environment via food, water and air supplies. Autogenous toxins come from generations of accumulated toxins with each newborn baby carrying an ancestral line of toxins.

Environmental Toxins

Environmental toxins invade the human body from all different directions, some of which include:

• Cosmetics
• Toiletry products
• Plastics
• Heavy metals
• Medicines
• Pesticides
• Herbicides

While a person may only be exposed to incremental amounts of toxic materials at a time, such as each time make-up is applied, repeated exposures can cause toxins to build-up in the body over time.

Food-Based Toxins

If there was ever a reason to put detoxing on the top of your to-do list, today’s food manufacturing practices would likely go at the very top of the reason list. Within a year’s time, the average American consumes pounds of food-based toxins in the form of:

• Additives
• Chemicals
• MSGs
• Hormones

Even in cases where a person eats fruits and vegetables on a regular basis, gallons of neurotoxic pesticides and herbicides enter the body over the course of a year’s worth of eating.

Effects of Toxins on the Brain

Optimal health stems from delicate chemical balances between hormones, nutrients and brain neurotransmitters. Anything that disrupts the body’s chemical balance can potentially offset any number of chemical systems.

The brain, in particular, uses chemicals as a means for communicating messages and regulating most every bodily process. Not surprisingly, years of toxin build-up will inevitably affect normal brain functioning.

The effects of toxins on the brain account for the many psychological conditions and brain diseases in existence today. Chemical imbalances in the brain can cause any number of psychological and cognitive disorders to develop, some of which include:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Memory loss
• Problems sleeping
• Lack of focus
• Aggression
• Autism
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Dementia

Without a regular detox diet to fall back on, bodily systems continue to deteriorate into old age. With these concerns in mind, detoxing should definitely be at the top of anyone’s to-do list.