Your body has a natural way to deal with the unwanted toxins that can show up.
After all, although there are many more toxins around in the modern world than there were in the primitive past when our bodies evolved, they were still around back then.
Naturopathic solutions to help you detoxify your body focus on boosting your body’s natural ability to deal with these toxins.
According the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Human Adipose tissue study, Americans have the following pollutants/chemicals in their body:
The USEPA also identifies the following chemicals as “ubiquitous” in the air. This means they’re essentially found everywhere, and since nobody checks air particles at the border, it’s a good bet that if it’s ubiquitous in the US it’s common in Canada too:
You also may have been exposed to these chemicals in your every day life.
Dioxins, for example, show up during incineration of solid and medical waste, metal smelting, and cement kilns.
Styrene (ethylbenzene) comes from car exhaust, cigarette smoke, carpeting, fiberglass, packaging, pipes, and housing insulation.
1,4-dichlorobenzene comes from toilet bowl deodorants, garbage deodorants, and moth flakes.
Xylene is common in the chemical and petroleum industries, and can be found in car exhaust, polyester manufacturing, paints, dyes, lacquers, and pantone pens.
Toluene is also common in the chemical and petroleum industries, and can be found in most of the same places as xylene – car exhaust, paints, dyes, lacquers, printing, pantone pens
Ethylphenol emits from decaying manure.
Benzene comes from the petroleum industry, car exhaust, rubbers, lubricants, dyes, detergents, drugs, pesticides.
PCBs are found in insulating and cooling electrical equipment, and fluorescent light ballasts.
DDT is a common pesticide.
Tetrachloroethylene is used by dry-cleaners, the chemical industry, rubber manufacturing, heavy equipment manufacturing, electroplating facilities, pulp and paper manufacturing, and ink manufacturing
1,1,1-trichloroethane is found in glues, household cleaners, aerosol sprays.
Each of these chemicals can cause damage to your body and ought to be removed in order to attain an optimal state of health.
Detoxification, cleanse or elimination diets are almost interchangeable in their meaning and practice.
A detoxification program, commonly called a “detox” or cleanse, involves supporting the body as it eliminates toxins, chemicals and metabolic waste.
Such programs are generally based around dietary changes. For 7 to 14 days, you’ll eat only foods which don’t commonly trigger sensitivities. That means cutting out:
The idea is to give your body a chance to clear all traces of these foods from your body. At the end of this diet, you’ll begin to gradually re-introduce these foods, making note if you have any sort of reaction to them. Reactions may include the following:
This elimination diet should be linked with other naturopathic therapies.
If you’d like to detoxify your body in order to live a healthier life, Dr. JJ can help.
By combining an elimination/detoxification diet with other naturopathic treatments, Dr. JJ can help you reduce the toxins in your body.
Naturopathic modalities which Dr. JJ may employ include:
Ask Dr. JJ if naturopathic detoxification is right for you.
