How Does Water Cleanse the Body?
“Hi, my name is Charlotte Skiles. I’m a nutrition consultant and clinical herbalist with Eat in Peace Wellness Consulting, located in Austin, Texas. And today, I’m going to talk to you about how water cleanses the body, and this is actually a really good question. So our bodies are 75 to 80 percent water — it’s estimated. So it really makes up a significant part of how our body functions. And this relates directly to what is called the five channels of elimination. In other words, how things move and get out of the body. So the first channel of elimination is the breath. We breathe. The second channel of elimination is the urinary tract, so we pee. The third channel of elimination is the digestive tract, so we have bowel movements. That’s another way that things make their way out of the body. The fourth is the lymph system, which is part of the vascular system, really. It runs parallel to it, and we’ve got to move it to let it do its thing, and water’s a significant part of that chan
