Who Benefits From a Full Body Detox Cleanse?
Everyone benefits from a full body detox cleanse in one way or another. You should be especially concerned if you live in a city, eat processed foods, have a stressful job, or relationships.
But even someone living a suburban lifestyle, shopping the farmer's market, biking to and from work could be toxic. Toxicity is everywhere in all walks of life.
How Do You Know If Your Body is Toxic?
Life was much simpler a few generations ago. Many of our modern-day developments make life easier, but may actually make life more chaotic and toxic. It's entirely possible that you are living a toxic life without even knowing it.
Our world is more toxic than ever. Inside and outside of our homes we are bombarded with toxins every day. Air pollution is considered one of the largest environmental toxins, with water and soil pollution right behind.
Pesticides, chemicals in foods and household goods, and whatever it is they are spraying in our skies all contribute to the dose of toxins we receive each day.
What Are The Signs You Need To Detox?
The easiest way to determine if you need some form of detox is to ask yourself some questions and conduct a self-examination.
How are you feeling physically and emotionally?
Here are some signs your body might need some natural detoxification:
- Allergies
- Weight gain and difficulty losing weight
- Fatigue
- Headaches
- Difficulty concentrating
- Joint and muscle pain
- Sleep problems
- Skin problems
Are your relationships strained? Do you have:
- Anger, irritability and other emotional issues
How is the air in your home?
- Do you feel ill in your home, even when you think it's neat and tidy?
- Are you glued to your computer or smartphone from the time you wake up until bedtime.
If you are experiencing any of these issues, it may be time to try a detox cleanse.
How Can You Do a Full Body Detox Cleanse?
Detoxing your life, even in small ways can improve your mental and physical life. Here are some strategies you can try immediately.
Introduce Clean Eating
The best place to start a full body detox cleanse is with your diet. Eating fresh, organic foods and avoiding processed foods is the best way to nourish your body. Organic foods have less pesticides and eating more whole foods prevents artificial colors and other ingredients from poisoning our bodies.
To take it a step further consider our 10 Day Liver Cleanse to reboot and rejuvenate your liver. There is rarely a disease in the body that does not start in the liver. To have a clean liver is like having a clean start in life.
Start Reading Labels
Learning to identify toxins is an important strategy to live a less toxic life. Identify common toxins in the products you use inside and outside of your body. Look for toxin-free products and choose them whenever possible.
Do a Sweep of Your Home
Knowing what items in your home may contribute to your toxicity can help you remove them. Getting rid of toxic items like household cleaners, candles, certain fabrics and adding more house plants can improve the indoor air quality in hour home.
Reduce Digital Hours
Protecting yourself from EMFs, or electromagnetic fields, is key in a full body detox cleanse. Cut down your digital hours and limit cell phone use, and don't carry it close to your body.
You can also try to unplug from electronics for a few hours each day or even better switch off your Wi-Fi during the night.
From reducing the hours you spend on devices to improving the content of what you watch on television, there are lots of ways to digitally detox which lead to a happier mood, better sleep, and less overwhelm.
Pay Attention To Your Relationships
Assessing how your relationships affect you mentally and physically can help you determine which ones are toxic. Reducing your contact with draining, hostile, or negative people can greatly improve your mental and physical health.
Herbal Supplements & Exercise
Herbal supplements can also be beneficial for natural detoxification. Fasting and juice cleanses are popular natural detox options, and can help to rid your body of a build-up of toxins.
Exercise is also important, specifically jumping on a rebounder can move your lymphatic system, which helps in natural detoxification.
How Do We Become Toxic?
Your Gut Health Matters
Digestion is directly tied to toxicity. Our gut biome is designed to digest food, remove waste, and rid our bodies of toxins. Too much bad bacteria or too little good bacteria can change the balance in our gut and lead to stomach issues like diverticulitis, Crohn's disease, and other autoimmune diseases.
Eat More Prebiotic and Probiotic Foods
Eating foods that promote gut health helps. Prebiotic foods like beans, bananas, watermelon, and cabbage are great for gut health.
Probiotic foods are equally important. They create gut-friendly bacteria that improve health. Fermented foods like sauerkraut, Kefir, tempeh, and yogurt are excellent probiotic foods.
Toxic Skin Care is a Real Concern
Beauty and anti-aging is a multi-billion dollar industry. The problem is many of the products have chemicals and are harmful. Your skin is an organ that breathes and absorbs, so think of skincare products as food. As a rule, if you cannot eat it, don't use it on your skin because it is ingested by the bloodstream to become food for tissue building.
I recommend Ayurvedic skincare products which are made from traditional Ayurvedic formulations with rare, wild-crafted herbs and are 100% natural, with ZERO chemicals, binders or additives!
The Mind/Body Connection
Our minds directly affect our health. Mental health issues have an impact on our longevity and quality of life. You don't have to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder to suffer from toxic thoughts or beliefs. Life can be tough and our minds can get overloaded with dread, sadness, and anger. This can directly impact our sleep, mood and productivity.
Paying attention to your mental health is very important. Maintaining healthy relationships, reducing stress, and having a creative outlet all help reduce toxicity in your mind.
Your Home Could Be Making You Sick
Your home is supposed to be a safe-haven from the world. Sadly, your safe place may be unsafe. In fact, your home could be making you sick.
Symptoms your home could be making you sick:
- Frequent headaches
- Respiratory issues
- Allergies (itchy eyes and throat)
- Rashes
- Fatigue
You can control your environment by becoming aware of what toxins could be an issue.
Toxicity Under Your Sink
Some cleaning products can affect your lungs or skin when they come in contact. Inhaling some products or even touching them can erupt allergies or rashes or build up more toxins in your body.
Detox Solution for Cleaning Products
Choose organic cleaners or make them at home with non-toxic ingredients. Move toxic cleaners to outside locations like a storage shed, or even your trash.
Indoor Air Toxicity
Poor ventilation can lead to toxic air quality inside your home. Mold can grow in chronically wet environments and dangers like carbon monoxide can be fatal. Some fabrics, candles, plastics, and home decor off-gas toxic chemicals into the air and mingle with other toxins, compounding the effects.
Detox Solutions for Indoor Air
Be sure to replace heating and air filters regularly. Repair leaks, and use carbon monoxide detectors inside your home. Be sure to have your fireplace cleaned annually. Burn candles made from soy, beeswax or other non-toxic was. Indoor plants can help to absorb toxins and clean indoor air. (See How to Clean Indoor Air)
Toxicity From Electricity
Your Wi-Fi router, smart meters, bluetooth devices, power lines, microwave, computers, and other electric devices give off EMFs or electromagnetic fields, which are waves of energy. Some experts have valid concern that EMF exposure cause long-term neurological health damage.
Detox Solution for Electronics
Try to limit your exposure to EMFs as much as possible. Whenever you're not using devices turn them off or unplug them. Alternatively, you can purchase natural EMF protectors to help reduce your exposure.
The Benefits of a Digital Detox
A recent study confirmed that most people spend 7 hours and 55 minutes per day engaged with their digital device. Whether on or off-duty, technology is a routine part of life and it's toxic! …and for the newest generation, the digital attachment begins during infancy.
The problem is, too much reliance on technology.
Digital Overload Hurts a Physically
Whether it's scrolling social media, gaming with an online community, or doing data entry, technology takes a toll. Over-exposure to blue light emitted from screens can cause sleep problems and anxiety. Our eyes can be affected by looking at screens for long periods of time. Our posture can trigger neck and back problems, and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Digital Overload Hurts of Mentally
Kids are experiencing higher rates of depression and anxiety as a result of social media. Viewing perfectly filtered images of people living enviable lives is causing body image issues and self-loathing.
Cyber bullying affects every age group and cancel culture is rampant. Additionally people of all ages have access to troubling content which contributes to depression and anxiety.
Digital Overload Affects us Socially
Digital escapism, including the Metaverse can stunt or stifle social skills. Now more than ever, people are engaging via electronics rather than face-to-face and it's impacting how people build and maintain relationships. Rather than feel part of an in-person community, people engage online which can diminish the skills they need to be part of society. This impacts the development of intimate relationships and employment.
Routine Digital Detoxing is Necessary
While technology has a variety of benefits, the deficits sometimes outweigh them. Stepping away from technology should be as normal as using it. Getting out from behind your computer sccreen, putting down devices, and ignoring them is important for your mental and physical health.
Here are some simple ways to routinely digitally detox:
No Devices at Meal Time
Ban devices during meals or during other important family time. Normalize ignoring alerts or disengaging from technology during times throughout your day. Set an example to others by being fully present and engaged when you are together.
Establish a Nighttime Routine
Establish a routine of ditching digital devices before bedtime. Practicing nighttime rituals can help you sleep better naturally and radically improve your brain and body. Avoid your device for at least an hour before bed. Instead, read, do a guided meditation, or listen to music to relax and prep for sleep.
Log Off Your Computer
Turn your computer off when you are done working. Use auto responders for email or text alerting contacts that you are unavailable but will connect with them soon. Turn off alerts for unnecessary apps. Create files for your email to by-pass your inbox when you are on-duty.
Weekend-free Social Media
Avoid using social media as an escape and disengage when you can. Try establishing a no-social-media-on-the-weekend policy. Make certain your social calendar is filled with in-person activities one or two time per weekend.
Increase Your Intake of Positive Messages
Regulate what you watch and listen to. True crime or news podcasts should be balanced with positive content to offset the intake of dramatic stories. Watch comedies rather than horror or news dramas. Create a playlist with your favorite uplifting music and listen to it before bed.
Ditching Toxic People is Good for Your Health
People who are negative and bring you down can be just as draining as a digital overload.
What Are Toxic People?
Toxic people are polarizing individuals who create an unhealthy environment to be in. Some of the typical behaviors of toxic people include:
- Dishonesty
- Gaslighting
- Exerting control
- Disrespectfulness
- Resentment
- Jealousy
Whether knowingly or not, toxic people infect and affect others in negative ways leading to breakdowns in healthy relationships and ways of living.
How Toxic People Can Make You Sick
There's a direct correlation between unhealthy relationships and illness. Toxic people can impact mental and physical health. From digestive issues, to the onset of heart disease, the stress of a toxic person can become deadly.
Releasing toxic people from your life can help lower blood pressure, reduce the effects of anxiety and depression, and even help combat obesity.
How To Identify Toxic People in Your Life
When you meet someone new, it may be easy to identify toxicity. Before you have an emotional investment in others, its easier to see their shortcomings and recognize if they exhibit toxic behavior.
If you've been in a relationship with someone for a longer period of time, including family members or co-workers, it may be harder to acknowledge the toxicity.
Here are some sings to help diagnose a toxic relationship:
-You feel drained after spending time with them.
-There are patterns of jealousy, dishonesty, controlling behavior, selfishness in the relationship.
-They don't take responsibility for their behavior or actions
-They gossip
-Their communication style is hostile, gamey, or passive-aggressive.
Ditching Toxic People Before It's Too Late
The key to keeping your inner circle healthy and happy is to ditch toxic people as soon as possible. You can ditch people literally or figuratively since it's not always possible to remove some people from your life.
In situations where you can walk away, take action at the first sign of toxicity. Avoid making excuses for toxic behavior. Be clear on what you will and will not accept and hold to your healthy standards.
When you can't avoid people altogether, such as employment or extended family members, set clear boundaries and hold to them. Whether your verbalize your boundaries or simply refuse to engage in a toxic situation, either way you can have the upper hand.
What About People Who've Been Toxic Long-Term
If you're waking up to the fact that someone is toxic, it may be harder to shift the relationship from unhealthy to productive. Remember, you deserve to be free from toxic people and situations.
Share your thoughts on the matter if you can. If you don't have the tools or ability to renegotiate the terms of your relationship, consider getting outside help to gain the strength to set healthy boundaries.
Being forced to engage with toxic people can affect your psyche. The stress of dealing with toxic people can lead to physical issues too. From headaches, stomaches, or worse, toxic people can affect you tremendously. Ditch the toxic energy and redefine your relationship knowing you deserve to live a toxic-free life.
There are so many benefits to doing a natural detox cleanse and there's sure to be one that fits your lifestyle. If you feel like you need one, there are signs that your body is giving you that you can look out for. Make today the day you start on being healthier – inside and out.
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