Everything is interconnected, and this includes the top contributors to chronic diseases, such as poor nutrition and excessive alcohol use, common factors that necessitate additional detoxification support. The good news is, there’s a lot you can do to encourage your body’s innate
ability for detoxification, starting with understanding how the process works in the first place.
THE THREE MAJOR DETOXIFYING ORGANS
On a physical level, your body’s goal is to maintain homeostasis, which is done with the support of
the three major organs for detoxification:
1. LIVER
Your liver performs more than 2000 functions and may hold about 13% of your blood supply at one time. Blood from your digestive organs enters your liver, along with nutrients, medications and toxins stored therein. Your liver processes these substances and either releases them back into your blood or sends them to your bowel so they can be eliminated. Your liver also helps to metabolize proteins, converting amino acids so they can be used as energy, carbohydrates or fats. Toxic byproducts, including ammonia, are created during this metabolism, but your liver converts it into the less toxic urea, which is then sent into your bloodstream to be eliminated by your kidneys.
2. KIDNEYS
Right now, your kidneys are hard at work filtering your blood, separating toxins from nutrients. Substances your body can use — such as vitamins, proteins and minerals — are sent back into your bloodstream while waste products and extra water are used to make urine, which is sent to your bladder to be excreted from your body.
Every minute, your kidneys filter about 1/2 cup of blood, making them, arguably, the most important organ in your body for the elimination of toxins. As noted by Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., editor in chief of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal: “Most consider the kidneys second only to the liver in importance for toxin elimination. However, considering that 20% to 25% of cardiac output goes through these tiny organs, allowing them to filter the blood a remarkable 60 times per day, a case could be made that they are actually more important than the liver for toxin elimination.
They rid the body of unwanted products of metabolism such as ammonia, urea, uric acid, creatinine, end products of hemoglobin metabolism, and hormone metabolites; toxins that have been made water soluble by phase 2 in the liver; and direct excretion of industrial toxins, such as heavy metals and a number of new-tonature molecules. They also excrete nutrients or food constituents when consumed in excess, such as salt, vitamin C, B vitamins, and others.” However, as Pizzorno explains, some toxins filtered by your kidneys are not easily eliminated via urine and instead accumulate in your kidneys, causing damage: “Unfortunately, we are now exposed to such a high toxic load in the modern world that loss of function with aging … is considered ‘normal.’ A 90-year-old hasonly one-third to one-half of the kidney function of a 20-year-old. This means a significant decrease in ability to rid the body of many toxins and helps explain why almost everyone becomes sicker with aging. Once again, ‘normal’ is not healthy.” This helps explain why it’s so important to not only reduce your exposure to toxins, thereby easing the burden on your body’s organs of detoxification, but also to support active detoxification as much as possible.
3. COLON
The food you eat is broken down in your small intestine, where nutrients are removed and absorbed into your bloodstream. The leftover food residue travels to your large intestine, or colon, which processes the remaining waste into stool, which is then eliminated from your body.10 If your digestive system isn’t functioning optimally, this waste removal process can be impaired. Chronic constipation is common, affecting 16% of U.S. adults, and 33.5% of those over the age of 60.
LUNGS, SKIN AND LYMPHATIC SYSTEM: OTHER IMPORTANT DETOX ROUTES
Waste removal and toxin filtration is incredibly important, which is why your body has multiple routes of detoxification. Your lungs are among them, as they
act as an important filter, providing defense against inhaled toxins. Each day, your respiratory tract is exposed to about 10,000 liters of air,12 filled with any number of
pollutants. Your lungs are coated in a highly viscous “mucous blanket” that acts as the first line of defense against inhaled toxins. There’s also the “mucociliary escalator,” which works via hair-like projections called cilia. Debris and toxins are trapped in the mucus, then moved via the cilia’s sweeping motions into the central airway, where the mucus may be swallowed (to be dealt with by your digestive system) or removed via coughing or spitting.
Your skin — your body’s largest organ — also assists in detoxification by eliminating toxins via sweat. There’s also your lymphatic system, which is made up of lymphatic vessels, tiny tubes that collect lymph fluid through your lymph nodes, which contain immune cells. As part of your immune system, your lymphatic system helps attack and remove bacteria, viruses and abnormal cells, including those that may turn into cancer, from your body. This effective waste removal system has no built-in pump to keep lymph fluid flowing, so it relies on movement instead. When your muscles move, the contractions act as a pump to move lymph fluid throughout your body, through your bloodstream and kidneys so waste products can be removed via your urine.
CUTTING OUT TOXIC EXPOSURES
It’s difficult to quantify how many toxins you’re exposed to each day, as they come in many forms and fluctuate based on your activities and environment. A review by the Environmental Working Group, however, revealed up to 420 carcinogens have been detected in people via biomonitoring studies, which provide a window into toxic exposures.
And this just represents one type of toxin. From pesticide residues on your food and flameretardant chemicals in your electronics to fluoride in your drinking water and radiation emitted by your cellphone, you can’t eliminate toxic exposures entirely, but you can take steps to reduce them. The lower your toxic burden becomes, the easier it will be for your body to keep up with waste and toxin removal.
Common environmental chemicals to reduce as much as possible include pesticides, flame retardants, fluoride, heavy metals and phthalates. Eating organically grown, whole foods, filtering your water and choosing natural personal care products and nontoxic cleaning supplies are some of the most basic — yet also most effective — steps to reducing your toxic load. Stress relief must also be incorporated, as emotional stress is one of the most damaging toxic exposures of all.
Hidden Brain Inflammation
Have you ever had something in your shoe? Did a ball of lint get in there? Or have you found yourself limping from a tiny pebble or twig inside your sneaker as you walked on a trail? When you leave the beach, do you knock the sand out of your shoes, or do you go on your merry way with the sand cramping your feet? I don’t think you go on your merry way. I think you try to shake out the grains of sand. Living with a brain that contains toxic heavy metals and their alloys is like getting something in your shoe—there’s no room for anything extra, so it hobbles us. One reason is that when toxic heavy metals enter our brain, they can create an underlying pressure and a chronic inflammatory condition: brain inflammation.
Toxic heavy metals create localized inflammation—tiny areas of inflammation around those spots where toxic heavy metals have taken up residence in the brain, be they nanoparticles or yoctoparticles. This is due to the physical injury the toxic heavy metals cause to brain tissue. It’s kind of like the inflammation you might get around a splinter in your skin, or the inflamed spot on your heel you might get from a pebble in your shoe versus your whole foot swelling up.
The mere presence of toxic heavy metals in the brain can cause all this and more: different varieties of headaches; different sensations within the head; different aches and pains; different feelings of weakness and light-headedness; different emotional reactions to situationsin life; and different levels of depression and anxiety, tics and spasms, brain fog, memory loss, obsessions, compulsions, and involuntary actions.
Therapeutic Massage
The therapeutic kneading of muscles and soft tissues is a healing practice for your mind and body. While improving circulation and stimulating your lymphatic system for optimal detoxification, massage also reduces muscle tension and promotes a state of deep relaxation and a reduction in stress hormones. Regular therapeutic massage is therefore useful for detoxing your mind along with your physical body. Essential oils including peppermint, lemon and citrus can be added to your massage oils to enhance the experience.
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