Detox is a buzzword these days in health and wellness. It means following a specific diet to remove toxins from your body, promoting weight loss and overall health. In the WFH scenario, many remote workers must adjust to irregular eating hours and relaxation time, which affects health. The hybrid workers are also finding little time to exercise and burn calories.
Enhancing your detox system naturally is the best way to improve health. Beginners in detox therapy may have misconceptions about this alternative wellness therapy. However, its core aim is to cleanse and purify your body with the help of laxatives, vitamins, and mineral supplements, wellness teas and foods, and diuretics to increase urine production for toxin removal. Some detox therapies are easy to practice at home and need a disciplinary approach.
Here are 10 ways to achieve Optimum Body Detoxification
1. Limit Alcohol And Caffeine Intake
Heavy alcohol and caffeine consumption in teas and coffee can put you at high risk of liver malfunction. It can also cause liver inflammation, fat build-up and hinder your liver’s role in filtering wastes and toxins.
Limiting or abstaining from alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco products can make your liver’s detox system running strong. You may consider light to moderate drinking. Health authorities suggest limiting alcohol consumption to two drinks a day for men and one drink for ladies. Consider taking a Magnum detox pill to cleanse your system of recreational toxins.
2. Sip More Water
Water is a thirst-quencher. It also regulates body temperature, helps in food digestion and nutrition, and detoxifies the body from waste products through sweating and urination. Staying hydrated is vital for detoxification.
Drink more water depending on your activity level and diet intake. Supplement your water with fruit-and-herb infusions like cucumber, citrus fruits, mint, melons.
3. Cut Down on Sugar And Processed Foods
Eating ultra-processed foods and added sugars can play havoc with your liver health. Inactive lifestyle habits and sugary foods intake can cause chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart disease and hinder natural detoxification. Sugary beverages are bad for the liver and can cause weight gain.
Consume less sugary foods and foods containing artificial fats to keep your liver and body detox going right. Replace junk food items with healthier food choices like fruits, salads, vegetables for your liver health.
4. Include Antioxidants In Diet
Antioxidants protect your body from toxic free radicals. Excessive free radicals in your body can cause oxidative stress. Alcohol, tobacco, pollutants, and a poor diet can also compound free radical production. This may further cause liver disease, asthma, and certain types of cancer.
An antioxidant-rich diet helps fight oxidative stress and reduces harmful illnesses. Eat berries, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and drink green tea moderately to get your antioxidants. Focus on antioxidant foods and not supplements.
5. Take Exercise And Cardio Breaks
Emphasize taking breaks in your packed schedule. Get up from your seat after every hour interval, even if only for five minutes, to stretch and move your body. Doing it will help decrease your fatigue levels and boost blood circulation in your body. Stretch breaks are useful to increase your heart rate and burn calories.
Balance your cardio and strength training for a well-rounded approach to exercise. Keep moving your body at regular intervals to improve blood circulation and carry oxygen and nutrients to your organs and tissues.
6. Get Good Sleep
Quality sleep is a must for your body organs to function optimally and aid in regular detoxification. It also allows your brain to recharge itself and remove accumulated toxins in the body. Sleep deprivation can aggravate toxin build-up in your body and affect your health on several counts.
Aim to sleep for seven to eight hours a night regularly to support good health. Stick to a sleep schedule and limit blue light from mobiles and computer devices before bedtime to improve your sleep quality.
7. Add-In Probiotics And Prebiotics To Your Diet
Apart from the liver, gut health is vital to keep your detoxification system healthy. The intestinal cells have a detox system to prevent your body from harmful toxins. But spices, oils, and fats in foods can aggravate your gut wall with bad bacteria and weaken your detox and immunity.
Bring in probiotics and prebiotics in your diet for good gut health. It will help you get nutritional supplements. Food items rich in prebiotics, such as tomatoes, bananas, asparagus, onions, garlic, and oats, will keep a healthy detox system.
8. Consider Supplements For Liver Health
Invisible food contaminants can damage your liver. That’s why detox treatments for liver health are important. Milk Thistle herb, an OTC product, is a helpful remedy in liver detoxification and fighting liver damage caused by alcohol, medication, and chronic ailments.
Detox drinks like fenugreek water, lemon water, chamomile tea, turmeric tea are good detox aids to cleanse your liver in your inactive moments.
9. Settle For A Steam Bath.
This is the finishing touch of a body detoxification program. Steam therapy deep eliminates stubborn toxins from the cellular level. Steam also uses various mechanisms to clear your body of toxins and refresh you.
Visit a steam parlor every fortnight to make you sweat out from induced heat. It will open up skin pores and cleanse your skin.
10. Explore Fasting
It is hard to resist eating. Imagine the stress your liver, kidney, and digestive functions go through to excrete unwanted toxins from your body. Fasting resets your gastric system after excessive digestion. It also performs liver cleansing for health goals.
Fix a day of fasting every week or ten days to give your liver some rest. If you are new to fasting, drink water only to reduce the pressure on your system. Diabetics and expecting mothers should avoid fasting.
Bottom Line
Many natural products, such as dry brushes, help remove stubborn fat from your skin. Consider dry brushing every fortnight to get a quick skin detox. Prioritize sleep and ‘me time’ to lead a detoxed and fulfilling life. Play with pets and work on crossword for a mental detox as well.
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