Everyone’s jumping on the old Detox Cleanse bandwagon, but the truth is there is no decent evidence to suggest it’s doing anything except draining your wallet. I busted that popular myth in my YouTube video below, and wrote all about it here.
So today I’m back with an evidence based how to on the detox cleanse. Spoiler alert- there will be no unpalatable lemon, cayenne and maple concoctions. Just try my 5 easy ways to detox cleanse your body using your every day body bits. Yes, you can use real body parts to cleanse your body. You’ve got a liver, kidneys, lungs, skin, and a digestive track for this purposes. Use them. Go pee. You’ll cleanse.
How to Detox Cleanse
KIDNEY DETOX CLEANSE: Your kidneys cleanse you automatically every day in the form of clearing toxins from the blood and making you urinate them out. So as long as you can pee, you’re good.
LUNG DETOX CLEANSE: Inhale oxygen, and exhale carbon dioxide. Bravo, you just cleansed.
SKIN DETOX CLEANSE: Sweat! Now I know massive sweat circles can be embarrassing, and dry cleaning is no small expense for silk blouses, but consider those stains a trophie of a good healthy detox. Believe it or not, your skin is one of your largest cleansing organs, go for a good run and then let it do its job.
DIGESTIVE TRACT DETOX CLEANSE: Poop. Yep. Your intestines job is to take the vital nutrients you need from what you eat, and get rid of the crap– literally. Yes you heard me – pooping may seem dirty but it’s actually inherently cleansing. And if you want to take your bathroom cleansing sesh to the next level, then drink some extra water, get in some extra fibre-rich foods like whole grains, veggies and fruit and let ‘er rip.
LIVER DETOX CLEANSE: Yep, your liver’s job is to filter out toxins and help you piss them out, so as long as that is in good shape, you are too.
I need kidney cleanse for sure, I see it can be done much easier than doctor suggested.
Lol yep! Give it a go
Haha, great post. Thanks!
Lol so glad u liked
Abbey, I love your posts debunking nutrition myths! Sometimes my friends talk about going on “detoxes” or other diets before big events, but I’ll have to redirect them to your blog the next time I hear it 😉
Yes!! just have this bookmarked to send over!
Haha this is so great! Loved every second reading this 😀 It’s about time we give our body some credit for all it naturally does for us!
right! our bodies are pretty awesome
I freaking love this soooooo much!! I’m so tried of people trying to tell me I need a “skinny detox tea”.
ugh so annoying
Hahaha I love this post. It’s so true that most cleanses are just a bunch of BS. I’m all about supporting our body systems, like eating F/V, drinking water, etc – but no one thinks that’s as sexy/interesting as drinking a crap ton of green juice.
lol yup. not sexy but it works!
This is great. So many times we over complicate things. This is a great post for sure.
Definitely