Do you think detoxing is a once-in-a-while dieting aid, or an important tool used to reset after a long string of poor eating choices and excessive alcohol consumption? While this sort of detoxing works for some, many I’ve spoken to consider it necessary but a struggle. Almost constant cravings, low energy, insomnia, mood fluctuations and anxiety being a few of the symptoms experienced during the detoxification program.

If you’re exposed to thousands of chemicals daily it makes sense to do something to combat their effects. Detoxing helps your body to clear out the stuff that does more harm than good. Your body is performing a constant balancing act, trying to combat environmental threats while helping you function. Excessive amounts of toxins in the body puts it into a fight/flight response. If this continues over a long period of time you get something called chronic inflammation.

Look at it like this; you go out and buy food to consume for a week. Some of it, peelings etc. you put in the food recycling bin. You repeat this again and again, but you never put the bin out for collection. The waste pile builds up and rots and becomes an environmental health hazard over time. To put the bins out for collection and disposal on a regular basis would have been much easier, but now it has become a huge and messy task.

Compare that to our body. The periodic detox program has most likely worked. but what your body has been storing away because it can’t be used as fuel or nutrition is now released and floating around in your blood stream. The liver and kidneys are overwhelmed and not able to get rid of these toxins quickly enough. This impacts on heart health and brain health and the hormone balance is completely off the scale!

If you struggle with blood sugar imbalances, mood swings, anxiety, oestrogen dominance, histamine intolerance, unpleasant menopause symptoms or any hormonal health condition, reducing your toxic load is going to be extremely helpful for you.

There is an alternative. Take it one day at a time and assist your body to detox daily.

While other organs participate, ground zero for detoxification is your liver. While you’re detoxifying, you want to show this organ some major love. To give your liver love:

• Focus on reducing anything that potentially stresses it out – exposure to or incoming chemicals, toxicants and other environmental compounds.
• Take control of your vices – alcohol, sugar, caffeine, take-away meals, smoking – if it’s too much to give them all up for a day, plan your day without at least one of them.
• Give it the right nutrients to work efficiently. Take a sachet of Core – a nutritiously rich seed supplement, which acts as a detoxifier, cleaning and improving organ function.  See attached PDF for more information.

To sum up, your body is a miracle! Give it what it needs to function at its best.

For more information contact me at jas@thefascialeffect.co.uk or visit my website.