New Year’s Resolution: Detox & Tune-up
by Jeff Cordeiro
 Does
your vehicle lack the oomph it once had? Does it backfire or emit foul odors? Then it’s time for a tune-up, right? Oh, I’m not talking about your car. I’m talking about your body.
The wrong foods, polluted air and water, soda, alcohol, mercury, pesticides, preservatives,
BPA from plastics,
and little to no
exercise or sun all add toxins to your system. Stored in the cells of your body, these toxins
can lead to illness and disease.
Toxins will continue to build up and, until you do something to remove them (proper
diet, exercise,
sun
exposure, sauna or
hydrotherapy), will eventually lead to a total systemic breakdown.
Every cell in your body is like an engine. Low-grade fuel (fast food,
sugary treats, etc.) will cause your little engines to misfire and accumulate toxic deposits. Too many empty calories will add fat and fat stores toxins. The fat itself
also acts as a hormone causing other imbalances. It becomes a vicious cycle. Fortunately, there is a simple fix.
By eating the right foods
your body will automatically begin to repair itself. Choose organic, locally-grown and in-season
(LOIS) foods whenever possible. The higher the food quality, the faster your body can repair itself. It will be “in with the good and out with the bad”. With fewer empty calories, you will lose fat and toxins. When you lose toxins, your cells can function properly.
In addition to losing fat, you will also retain less water. The more toxic your body's chemistry, the more it retains water to dilute the toxins. When you lose toxins, you lose weight.
Unlike your circulatory system, however, your lymph system has no pump. Exercise is vital when
to detoxing. If you don’t move, the toxins don’t move. Light exercise is enough to move the toxins but breaking a sweat will help flush them out even faster. Just remember to shower immediately after. Flushed toxins left on the skin can reabsorb back into the system.
When detoxing, it is more important than ever to drink plenty of water (free of chlorine, fluorine or BPA). There are 75,000 mad-made chemicals in our environment today. Cleaner water
means a quicker detox.
Also be aware that, at first, it may feel like you are taking a step backward. When toxins are released, the body will want to dispose of them in the quickest way possible. If large quantities of toxins are released at once, you may feel as though you are getting sick. In fact, it’s really your body getting healthier, much in the same way a smoker will start coughing when he or she quits smoking.
These symptoms are the body ridding itself of the toxins that have been building up for years. In the smoker’s case, the cigarettes had actually deadened the hairs that normally remove toxic phlegm. Once the smoke is gone, the hairs can resume their job of gathering toxins and transporting them away. Hence, the smoker’s cough.
Detox symptoms usually only last a few days. So, if you begin to feel a bit under the weather, just don’t exert yourself for a day or two but don’t be sedentary either. Keep those toxins moving through your lymph system.
Until your body is completely free of all toxins, symptoms may reappear from time to time. This is a good sign. It is merely the darkness before the dawn of a healthier you.
I believe the proverbial New Years Resolution to lose weight is rooted in our DNA. Deep down inside, we all know we’re supposed to use up fat during the winter. That’s what fat is for. For 100,000 years, food was scarce during the winter. So, we fattened up during the summer, soaked up sun producing vitamin D to store in our fat, and then lived off the nutrients contained in that fat during the lean months. This is what I call the “Circle of Health”.
To paraphrase another author, “Now is the Winter of Our Detox Intent”.
I hope this helps you look at your New Years Resolutions differently.
Have a Healthy and Happy New Year.
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