Before beginning a detox program, it is important to first understand why you need to detox in the first place. So, what does it mean to detox? detoxification is the body's way of removing toxins from within and outside of the body. This is a complex process that requires an orchestra of players. For the body to be able to detox effectively it requires a healthy digestive system, along with a healthy respiratory, circulatory lymphatic, Integra, momentary, or skin and urinary systems as well. All your body Lee processes are connected.

Your organs and body parts each have specific jobs to do but they all depend on each other to work properly. This is why one seemingly mall health concern or issue can create a domino effect of unhealthy conditions. Your genetics play a small role as to what determines your health risk. A bigger detriment of what contributes to your healthy body and mind is your exposure to unhealthy habits such as poor diet and lack of exercise, along with stress, environmental exposures and poor sleep habits. Therefore, much of the time health problems are caused by some poisonous or unhealthy substance entering your body along with bad lifestyle habits. your digestive system, your liver, and other internal processes work together to rid your body of any toxic substances.

These chemicals can enter your body in the food you eat. Your air that you breathe, liquids you drink and even through your skin. When your liver is healthy and functioning properly, these toxins and poisons are processed efficiently. They pass through your system and do no harm. However, as incredible as your body is, it can be overpowered. When too many toxic substances enter your body, your organs come under attack, and your body's ability to cleanse itself is compromised.

Your liver is critically important to your body's ability to detox properly. Let's explore the livers role further. Many people today are suffering from fatty liver disease and don't even know it. fatty liver disease makes it difficult for your body to detox efficiently and to produce Assess vital nutrients in hormones. Your liver aids in the metabolism of proteins and blood clotting. Your liver also is in charge of removing chemical toxins.

So when you continually take in toxic substances, your liver has to work over time, and this can lead to a damaged or unhealthy liver. When your liver is incapable of removing all of the toxins that enter your body, those poisonous chemicals begin to wreck havoc on all of your internal and external body parts, glands systems and processes. Your organs muscles, bones and tissues to render to painful inflammation and a long list of serious health conditions can be the result. This is why it is so important to cleanse Or detox your liver from time to time. Even if you eat a very healthy diet, toxic substances and chemicals are injuring your body every day. This is why even the most health conscious person can benefit from cleansing his or her liver.

For a better understanding of how important a liver detox can be for overall health and well being, let's take an in depth look at toxins and inflammation and the incredible damage they can cause to the human body. So, what are toxins? The medical definition of a toxin is a poisonous substance that is a specific product of the metabolic activities of a living organism and is usually very unstable, notably toxic when introduced into the tissues. Typically capable of inducing antibody formation. Simply put toxins or poisons to your body. Anything harmful that enters your body can cause health problems.

Any toxin or poison that you eat, drink, breathe, or that comes into contact with your skin has to be dealt with the problem. today's world is filled with hundreds of toxins that you are unknowingly coming into contact with on a daily basis. The work of Dr. Don Smith, a professor at UC Santa Cruz, California, and others have studied how organisms respond to toxins. Dr. Smith's team has identified 689 different harmful agents in our environment. Other reach searchers in this field have identified more than 1000, toxic substances and chemicals. So in the best case scenario, a minimum of 689 poisonous and toxic substances influence your surroundings, threatening your physical and mental health and well being.

The numbers are likely much greater than this however, how do toxins affect your body? toxins are classified is either internal or external. Your body actually produces toxic substances. An example of some built up internal toxins are elevated liver enzymes, allergic reactions to certain food and chronic infections. Some common examples of external toxins include smog and smoke, harmful chemicals found in pet products and household cleaners, UV radiation, contaminated food and water, lead and other heavy metals. Aluminum, often found in deodorant, antacids and antiperspirants, skincare products, mold and mildew and poor air quality.

How do these toxic substances affect the human body? When your body cannot cleanse itself naturally of these harmful stressors, you can suffer mild to very serious health conditions, heart disease and acne, hair loss hormone imbalance, obesity, premature aging chronic fatigue. neurological problems like Alzheimer's disease and dementia are just a few of the many health conditions which can be caused by toxins. Because they are poisonous, even small amounts can cause real physical and mental health problems. In other words, they can be attacked in your body inline. Toxins create inflammation.

Toxins create inflammation and inflammation leads to disease. When a toxin enters your body, your immune systems first response is to get rid of that poison. This may happen through the passing of urine or feces, perspiration, saliva, and even earwax. What happens if a toxic substance gets past your immune systems first line of defense inflammation sets in if you have ever been diagnosed with some type of itis condition, you are experiencing inflammation, the suffix itis is defined as inflammation up so kaleidos is another way of it. Identifying inflammation of the colon. And tonsillitis occurs when the tonsils are inflamed.

So are you wondering what inflammation is and why it's such a problem. Doctors will tell you that inflammation affects every aspect of your health. inflammation is linked to all chronic disease such as diabetes, arthritis, heart disease and cancer, and has even thought to be the major force behind the visible signs of aging. Basically, put inflammation is your body's response to stress. When you catch a cold your body responds by creating inflammation in the form of a fever so that your body heats up to remove the effects of the invading virus, which caused the cold when your body continues to experience inflammation, because your liver has been overworked with too many toxic substances You become more at risk for contracting diseases, infections, sickness and illness, the dangers of inflammation. Just by what I have shared with you so far, it is clear to see that inflammation is dangerous to your body in mind.

Some other common health conditions that are the result of inflammation are high blood pressure, chronic pain, acid reflux, osteoporosis, and urinary tract infections. Essentially, any health condition will have inflammation as a trigger point. Oftentimes, this is after repeated exposure. There comes a tipping point where your body can no longer keep up. The consequence is disease of the body and or the mind. Some other things you should know about inflammation.

Inflammation can cause skin conditions, which make you look years older than you actually are. If you have tried but fail to lose weight, participating in every diet plan that comes along, internal inflammation may be the problem that is causing your weight loss resistance. From head to toe inside and out. Human beings suffer a wide variety of diseases, infections and sickness that are linked to inflammation. One of the major causes of inflammation is a toxic liver. That is what I want to spend a bit more time focusing on in the next video.