Detox and Cleanse: Healthy or Not?

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Detox has certainly become quite a buzzword as of late. Many people are using various programs from the Master Cleanse (water, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, maple syrup) to colonic cleansers with the hopes of improving digestion and ridding the body of harmful toxic chemicals. One would think that all these programs provide something to the body that it is currently lacking. Not so. The liver and kidneys are the body’s own detoxification organs and their job over millions of years has been to rid the body of wasteful chemicals and ingested toxins. When the kidneys and liver are functioning at their best, they do an incredible job of detoxifying the body. These organs, when not inhibited by processed and junk food (more on that later), are working every second of the day to naturally cleanse the body. So before you sign up for a cleanse or detox program, consider how you could improve the natural detoxification system your body already has.

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