Detox Diet And Body Detox – How To Cleanse Your Body And Be Healthy

13 Ways You Can Boost Your Body’s Natural Ability To Detoxify

Posted on 10. Apr, 2008 by admin in Health Basics, Simple Health Tips

Are you feeling sluggish and drained, or on top of the world? With the lifestyle and stress that has taken over, the body has lost its ability to revitalize itself with its natural life force energy. Rectifying your Body Ecology is the answer! Nourish the adrenals and the thyroid which are the two very vital glands in your body that define energy levels.

Sleep and Rest

“Early to bed and early to rise” is still true for our health. The body does its maximum repair work between 10 pm and 1 am. These are the hours that you should allow your body to rest, be rejuvenated and regenerated to deal with a natural detox process.

Omitting Processed Foods

All canned foods are processed using mono-sodium-gluconate, which makes them devoid of nutrients and minerals. The chemicals in processed foods destroy body minerals. Rather than converting the nutrients towards energizing the body, the digestive system needs to over-work itself to digest the processed foods. Natural fresh and cooked foods contribute the nutrients the body needs and help to detox.

Avoid Caffeine

Caffeine dehydrates and fills the blood with more acids and toxins rather than energy. Try some other vitality or energy drink instead of a caffeine drink to help energize the body and recover its ability to detox.

Avoid Smoking

Nicotine from cigarettes enters your blood stream and fills your lungs and makes respiration difficult, thus reducing the oxygen-intake and preventing circulation of oxygenated blood through the body. Clean, unpolluted air is essential for oxygenated blood to be circulated to help energize it.

Eliminate Sugar

Sugar is an energy drainer rather than a booster. Breaking down of sugar to produce energy becomes a difficult and lengthy process. No-calorie sugar replacements and foods containing natural sugars as in fruits should be consumed instead to revitalize and give the body the natural energy it needs to detox.

Fermented Drinks and Foods

Fresh or packaged coconut drinks contain a lot of minerals and nutrients to help the digestive system process the foods we eat. Thus we get sufficient nutrients and vitamins in the body which in turn helps it recover its ability to detox.

Organic Foods

Foods grown organically are becoming more popular as they contain all the necessary minerals and nutrients. Food should not be overcooked or burnt as it loses its nutrients and minerals and does not help the body to re-energize. As far as possible the more raw or uncooked the food, the better digested and more strength and energy we get out of them.

Drink Plenty of Water

Lack of sufficient water in the body causes dehydration and fatigue and natural inability to detox. Drink two glasses of water first thing in the morning followed by sips of water throughout the day to keep the cellular function of the body active. This helps to flush out the toxins from the body, reduce fatigue and dehydration levels. Drink a large glass of water a half hour before lunch and dinner. This primes the intestines into digesting the food you eat. Water helps recover the body’s ability to naturally detoxify and cleanse itself.

Respect Your Body

With the right foods, plenty of water, exercise and corrective lifestyle, the body will detoxify in a natural way. You could also include colon cleansing either through naturopathy or do-it-yourself program. Detoxification process tends to tire one. But with rest you will feel better, and the body can recover its ability to detox. The most important thing is to rectify the lifestyle that is prevalent today.

Animal Proteins

Animal proteins should be restricted to midday meals as digestion takes a long time and the body burns its energy in digesting these foods. Animal proteins need a number of hours to be digested thoroughly. They should be accompanied by sufficient greens and salads to help digest them faster. Animal protein is essential too to the liver and gallbladder to help them assist in detoxification.

The Evening Meal

Plan out a grain- seed dish as a body ecology meal; it is delicious as well as easily digestible. This becomes easy and light on the body and promotes good rest and sleep. This helps your body recover and repair during the earlier hours of sleep. The evening meal should be the lightest meal of the day for maximum digestion and revitalization.

Exercise

Exercise enhances oxygen intake, clears the lungs, cleanses the blood, stimulates digestion as well as helps the body rest. Exercise helps remove fatigue and make one feel energized and full of vigor to allow the body detox.

Sunshine

Absorbing the warmth of the early morning and some mid-day sun helps the skin manufacture the vitamin D your body needs. Exposing yourself to the sun helps reset your body clock into resting and repairing it at night. Without sufficient exposure to the sun we deprive the body of the vitamin D that is needed to allow it detox.

Follow these steps to rejuvenate your body’s ability to detoxify.

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