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The human body is the most wonderful creation of God. It is probably the only machine on earth that is perfect, flawless and needs no improvement. As such, remaining healthy is its innate quality. It naturally remains in a state of optimal health if not denied appropriate food or interfered with. As soon as the external or artificial conditions interfering with it are withdrawn, its intrinsic resilience helps it bounce back to the state of its natural health. Our habits of self-indulgence, unnatural lifestyle, and the constant onslaught of external pollutants throw this machine out of its natural state of ease in to a state of dis-ease (disease). Hence, this whole business of how to regain our health!
It is important to understand that while our external body parts and sense organs help us perform our daily routine work, the internal organs perform a number of complex functions vital for our survival. Apart from the respiratory system of lungs and the circulatory system of the heart—our lifelines—the most basic function of our internal organs is to produce energy by digesting food and assimilating the nutrients. In this very physiological process, a certain amount of waste is created. The internal toxins that result from the metabolic process as a byproduct are like the industrial waste in a factory. Then there are a host of chemical toxins that we receive from outside through food, drink, and air, as well as from the use of cosmetics. The poor body has to unburden itself of both internal waste and the external unwanted toxins. The expulsion of all these toxins takes place through urination, fecal excretion, breathing out and sweating through skin pores. Certain internal physiological processes also neutralize some of these toxins.
Liver: The liver filters out drugs, alcohol, poisons, bacterial products, various waste products and worn out red blood cells from the body. It removes ammonia, a toxic byproduct of protein consumed by us, converting it in to urea, which is flushed out by our kidneys. The liver completes the process of detoxification in two phases. The rows of cells with small spaces in between inside the liver, called Kupffer cells, work like a filter removing microorganisms, dead cells and chemicals while the blood flows slowly through them. In the first phase, an enzyme called cytochrome p-450 breaks down the harmful chemicals into finer particles, which then cease to be harmful to our bodies. In the second phase, detoxification happens when the Kuppfer cells recycle old red blood cells, which are no longer functional and also add material to the toxic chemicals to be broken down. After both the phases are over the sludge trapped inside the Kupffer cells are swallowed and added back to the regular blood stream, eventually being flushed out as waste. What a wonderful detoxification plant human liver is!
Kidneys: The kidneys primarily maintains the homeostatic balance by helping to filter and secrete metabolites like urea and minerals from the blood and excreting both of them along with water in the form of urine.
Colon: The physiological waste called excreta or stool is expelled during daily defecation through the colon and rectum, which are parts of the large intestine.
Lungs: Through the respiratory system the lungs facilitate oxygenation of the blood with a concomitant removal of carbon dioxide and other gaseous metabolic wastes in circulation inside the body. It contributes to maintaining the acid-base balance of the body through the effective expulsion of carbon dioxide from the blood. Through a thin membrane or layer of living cells, the blood in the capillaries and the air in the air sacs are separated in the lungs. The carbon dioxide along with some of the water vapor present in the blood, after passing through this membrane into the air of the lungs, is discharged with the air that we exhale.
Skin: It is interesting to note that while the wastes from the kidneys are discharged in the urine and the waste from the liver is discharged in the bile, those from the skin are expelled by perspiration through the pores in human skin.
Our body’s natural detox functions - Talk about different organs and how they help..