Why do we need to Detox?
When we say the word “detoxification” the first impression many people may get is drug and alcohol detox. The truth is that every one of us builds toxins up within our bodies at a cellular level, and our liver is the dumping ground. We are constantly being exposed to new chemicals and synthetic compounds and this environmental exposure creates physiological, emotional, and cognitive disorders. When we become ‘toxic’ we experience hormonal imbalances, mood swings, fatigue, irritability, pain, inflammatory sequelae, depression, dysbiosis, immunologic dysfunction, endocrine disruption, neurotoxicity and cancer. Now more than ever we have to be concerned about keeping our filtering and purifying system, the intestines and the liver, healthy, because we are exposed to a myriad of foreign chemicals both commercially synthesized and naturally occurring. Our bodies get them through the food we eat, the water and other beverages we drink, the air we breathe, and are absorbed through skin. This
