My thoughts on detoxes. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
| Detoxes are bullshit. People ask me about detoxes all the time. Detox is real. Our bodies are always detoxing, metabolizing, mitigating. The liver is a powerful detoxing agent. The kidneys as well. The entire body is constantly engaged in detoxification. Even our muscles can be called detox organs because the simple act of movement helps us detoxify the body and move waste through and out. But popular "detoxes" like coffee enemas, strange concoctions you drink and then vomit up, are nonsense. I mean, maybe there's something to some of them, but it's all obscured by so much garbage that there's no point in trying to sift through it all. The most basic and fundamental way to actually "detox" is to support your liver by eating plenty of choline and other B-vitamins, adequate animal protein, removing excess sugar, avoiding industrial seed oils, and staying active. If you really want to boost things, you can throw in some whey protein isolate or raw milk to increase glutathione production (the primary detoxification pathway). If you want to detox, you can start sweating. And I mean SWEAT. Go in the sauna for 20 minutes at over 200°F. Studies show that sweating it out in a sauna lowers levels of heavy metals and other toxins—which can be detected in the sweat. Sweating of any kind will get the job done, provided you're actually sweating a lot. In Miami, for example, all I have to do is spend an hour or two on the fat tire bike. I'll sweat out several pounds in a single session and feel fantastic afterwards. Lighter than the weight of the water I lost would indicate. Just be sure to replenish your electrolytes, especially salt, afterwards. There's a heat wave on right now, so get outside (or inside), and get sweating. How do you detox? Let me know on our latest IG post. |
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