Q&A: Is it a good idea to detoxify the body?

I was looking through some old posts and found this question. I thought it was a good one so I wanted to post an answer here. The question comes from ‘Ryan D’: I have never done a detox, as far as I can remember. Lately I have been feeling tired and worn out and was thinking maybe I need to detox because I have heard about it benefiting your body and renuing energy. What are the best (safe) detox kits out there? Answer: You can’t detox. That’s a huge myth.It does not work for detox purposes and it is an extremely unhealthy way to try to lose fat. It’s no more than a really bad fad.”Detox” is short for detoxification and detoxification is a natural process involving your liver and kidneys and there is nothing you can do to effect it. It is impossible to detoxify a human once the toxin is in the blood with the possible exception of kidney dialysis, kelation therapy, and other expensive medical therapies. Currently “detox” is a faddist word, relatively meaningless, and is used to express that which the users cannot otherwise express because of ignorance of because the expression would be patently false.Detox diets, cleanses, and supplements don’t work. There is no diet which will cause your body to get rid of toxins, heavy metals, poisonous by-products from smoking, drugs, etc. And cleanses for the purpose of weight loss don’t work because they can only eliminate water and small amounts of waste which the body ...
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