Like spring-cleaning your house, it is important to detox in the correct order to ensure you cover every room and every corner for a thorough job well done.
HOW TO DETOX: THE CORRECT ORDER TO CLEANSE YOUR ENTIRE BODY
Many people I talk to seem to think that detoxification means drinking some off-the-shelf fiber drink or detox product from a health-store. While these products may help a little, they are just scratching the surface of what it means to do a thorough detox.
For best results, always detox in the correct order.
Detoxing your body step-by-step in the following order will lead to a more efficient and thorough cleanse, produce better results and avoid unwanted side-effects:
1.Gastrointestinal detox / colon cleanse
2.Liver / gallbladder detox
3.Kidney detox
4.Lungs detox
5.Lymphatic system and skin detox – concurrently
1. HOW TO DETOX THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
First clean out the gastrointestinal tract—which begins from your mouth, to the esophagus, stomach, small intestines, colon and to the bowels.
Upper Intestines
Due to years of poor eating habits and a diet lacking in fiber, the intestine walls can clog up with undigested food and waste material. Undigested food rot and formed encrustations on the intestine wall and absorption from the intestines become inefficient.
If this goes untreated, more serious health problems can follow as the intestinal functions are compromised. Incidentally, the odor from these rotting encrustations is one of the causes of bad breath. SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) is also a common problem, and needs to be addressed before infestation gets out of control.
For this reason always START a detox program with a gastrointestinal cleanse. Unclogging the intestines before you start, will improve absorption of nutrients as you work on the other detox organs, and allow the body to more easily expel toxins through the bowels.
Lower Intestine (Colon)
The lower intestine, or colon is where feces collect before elimination. A lack of fiber in your diet means that they cannot be excreted at will, they compact in the colon and become even harder to eliminate. As fecal matter rots, bacteria and parasites multiply, producing toxic fumes. This is the beginning of a long list of health problems, that may end in cancer of the colon.
A regular gastrointestinal cleanse will help maintain a clean internal sewage piping system and greatly improve the health of your intestinal tract over time.
Drinking fresh juices and regular juice fasting will also help detoxify the colon, as the juices work like a natural broom, sweeping out the gastrointestinal tract of old fecal matter.
In cases of extreme constipation, a series of colon hydrotherapy is helpful (even necessary) to dislodge hardened fecal matter in the colon.
Find out more:
Gastrointestinal health
Factors that cause an intestinal flora imbalance and poor health in the gut
How to do a parasite cleanse—start on the second week from the start of gastrointestinal cleanse
2. HOW TO DETOX THE LIVER AND GALLBLADDER
A correct gastrointestinal cleanse in step 1 will have helped to reduce blood contamination, lightening the burden on your liver. With a cleaner gastrointestinal tract, toxin elimination from the liver detox will also be easier. This is important as inability to eliminate toxins through the bowel can cause toxins to be reabsorbed into the system.
One of the liver’s main functions is to filter blood coming from the digestive tract, detoxify chemicals and metabolize drugs in the blood. As it does so, the liver secretes bile that ends up back in the intestines.