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"DETOXIFICATION" is a term thrown around the health & wellness space often.
While it's true that any symptom or sickness is, in fact, a detoxification of the body... when seeing it in scientific literature, it is used to describe 6 different pathways that the body uses to remove undesirable substances.
There's phase I and phase II detoxification. The goal of all detoxification pathways is to make an obstructive substance water soluble so that it can be excreted from the body.
Each of the 6 pathways require certain nutrients in order to function. Each pathway has been shown to handle specific bodily insults, whether it be pesticides, metals, drugs, synthetic estrogen, so on and so forth.
*The infographic below gives a useful overview of the 6 detoxification pathways, what they are responsible for handling, and which nutrients are required to perform their function.
Conveniently enough, ALL of those nutrients can be attained through only TWO food groups: MEAT and SULFUROUS VEGETABLES.
(Examples of sulfurous vegetables are: cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, garlic, onion, broccoli, etc).
+ Detoxification will be expedited when the body is in a fasted state.
+ If having difficulty digesting sulfurous vegetables... a digestive enzyme supplement taken 10-30 minutes before a meal can help overcome this problem so that the necessary nutrients for detoxification are acquired.
Infographic credit: Nutrients for detoxification | FX Medicine
While it's true that any symptom or sickness is, in fact, a detoxification of the body... when seeing it in scientific literature, it is used to describe 6 different pathways that the body uses to remove undesirable substances.
There's phase I and phase II detoxification. The goal of all detoxification pathways is to make an obstructive substance water soluble so that it can be excreted from the body.
Each of the 6 pathways require certain nutrients in order to function. Each pathway has been shown to handle specific bodily insults, whether it be pesticides, metals, drugs, synthetic estrogen, so on and so forth.
*The infographic below gives a useful overview of the 6 detoxification pathways, what they are responsible for handling, and which nutrients are required to perform their function.
Conveniently enough, ALL of those nutrients can be attained through only TWO food groups: MEAT and SULFUROUS VEGETABLES.
(Examples of sulfurous vegetables are: cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, garlic, onion, broccoli, etc).
+ Detoxification will be expedited when the body is in a fasted state.
+ If having difficulty digesting sulfurous vegetables... a digestive enzyme supplement taken 10-30 minutes before a meal can help overcome this problem so that the necessary nutrients for detoxification are acquired.
Infographic credit: Nutrients for detoxification | FX Medicine