Improve Your Health with a Body Cleanse

One of the more common trends in alternative health and natural medicine is the use of a body cleanse to purify and remove toxins from the body.  The benefits are numerous and people all over the world are discovering renewed health and longevity by periodically detoxifying their bodies with safe, healthy, natural techniques.  

When you eat, drink, or breathe something, you are introducing foreign chemicals into the body which must be processed and either used as fuel, stored for later use, or expelled as waste. Obviously, the body has a natural method for taking care of this process. You have a liver and kidneys taking care of the majority of the work with supplemental methods like your pores and nasal pathways taking care of the rest.

These are all well and good, usually working perfectly to keep you fit, healthy, and clean. However, the modern diet and lifestyle has added a new complication to the overall process. When you consume things like fast foods, soft drinks, processed foods, caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, or breathe smoggy air in urban areas you are bringing more toxic chemicals into your bloodstream than your body is designed to deal with. You are literally overloading the natural detoxifying process such that it gets backed and confused. It can’t deal with the added strain and produces unwanted side effects that include irregular bowel movements, upset stomachs, fatigue and low energy, acne, headaches, muscle pains, and a host of other symptoms. Your body is literally malfunctioning because it’s completely overworked.

How Do I Do a Body Cleanse?

Actually performing a body cleanse is a very simple process. There are myriad methods and techniques that can get the juices flowing properly. All of them have one thing in common: they limit toxic intake and flush your system.

Dietary methods involve modifying your diet to create proper conditions for a good body cleanse. The Master Cleanse is one of the most famous, more recently known as Beyonce’s diet, which involves limiting your food intake to only lemonade for up to ten days to completely cleanse your body. Clearly on the extreme end of the spectrum! More gentler methods include the Fruit Flush by Jay Robb or a raw foods diet.

The foods you want to avoid include dairy products like milk or cream, meat (especially red meat), sugar, gluten and wheat products, heavy carbohydrates, processed and/or packaged foods, smoke products like tobacco, alcohol, and salt or sodium to name a few. All of these are difficult to break down in your system and provide little real nutritional value for the price the body pays to process them. Limiting these foods is the first major step to detoxing.

In addition to limiting these dietary limitations, you can facilitate a healthy body cleanse by drinking a lot of water to flush the system, exercising and/or sweating more often to allow your pores to excrete the toxins in your blood, and getting plenty of rest.

Surviving the Body Cleanse

A detox can be harsh on a body that is extremely toxic, resulting in side effects or detox symptoms like headaches, painful bowel movements, or acne. These happen because you’re allowing the body to finally process and remove all of the toxic build-up that has been causing the dip in health in the first place. While these can be very uncomfortable at times, it’s best not to resort to over-medicating to cope. The medications are just more foreign agents your body needs to process. However, never let symptoms get so extreme that they are debilitating.

Try to drink fruit juice, which has natural vitamins and sugars to compensate for the lack of artificial equivalents. Take it easy during the body cleansing period to allow maximum energy to be directed toward the body cleanse.

Afterward, you’ll feel more healthy and alive than you have in ages. Almost everyone who detoxes feels younger, fitter, and more healthy. They often report increased energy and vitality as well as an increase in motivation for healthy foods and exercise. Not many diets will actually make you want to keep eating healthy! That’s one of the best parts of this entire process! A body cleanse can also result in significant weight loss as extra water weight and stored toxins are shed.

Enjoy your newfound health and well-being!