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Do Detox Diets and Cleanses Really Work?
Detox and Its Limitations
Detox diets are generally short-term dietary interventions designed to eliminate toxins from your body.
A typical detox diet involves a period of fasting, followed by a strict diet of fruit, vegetables, fruit juices, and water. Sometimes a detox also includes herbs, teas, supplements, and colon cleanse or enemas.
Human research on detox diets is lacking, and the handful of studies that exist are significantly flawed
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Most Common Ways to Detox
- Fasting for 1–3 days.
- Drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies, water, and tea.
- Drinking only specific liquids, such as salted water or lemon juice.
- Eliminating foods high in heavy metals, contaminants, and allergens.
- Taking supplements or herbs.
- Avoiding all allergenic foods, then slowly reintroducing them.
- Using laxatives, colon cleanses, or enemas.
- Exercising regularly.
- Completely eliminating alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, and refined sugar.
The Lack Of Evidence For Detox Diets Success
Detox diets rarely identify the specific toxins they aim to remove. The mechanisms by which they work are also unclear.
There is little to no evidence that detox diets remove any toxins from your body. However, your body can clear itself of most toxins through the liver, feces, urine, and sweat.
Some Benefits Of Detox Diets
- Several aspects of detox diets may aid your health. These include avoiding environmental toxins, exercising, eating nutritious food, drinking water, limiting stress, and relaxing.
- Some people report feeling more focused and energetic during and after detox diets. It may be due to eliminating processed foods, alcohol, and other unhealthy substances from your diet.
- You may also be getting vitamins and minerals that were lacking before.
- Some people might lose a lot of weight quickly due to loss of fluid and carb stores rater than fat.
Safety and Side Effects Of Detox Diets
- Severe calorie restriction can result in fatigue, irritability, and bad breath.
- There is the risk of overdosing on supplements, laxatives, diuretics, and even water.
- At-risk populations include children, adolescents, older adults, those who are malnourished, pregnant or lactating women, and people who have blood sugar issues, such as diabetes or an eating disorder.
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Intermittent fasting...
...is an increasingly popular eating pattern that involves not eating or sharply restricting your food intake for certain periods of time. It may boost your health. However, fa...
Popular regimens of fasting:
- The 5:2 Pattern: restrict your calorie intake for two days per week (500 calories per day for women and 600 for men).
- The 6:1 Pattern: similar to the 5:2, but there’s only one day of reduced calorie intake instead of two.
- “Eat Stop Eat”: a 24-hour complete fast, 1–2 times per week.
- The 16:8 Pattern: only consuming food in an eight-hour window and fasting for 16 hours a day, every day of the week.
Keep fasting periods short
Longer periods of fasting increase your risk of side effects, such as dehydration, dizziness, and fainting.
The best way to avoid these side effects is to stick to shorter fasting periods of up to 24 hours — especially when you’re just starting out.
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Essential Oils
Essential oils are compounds extracted from plants and capture their scent and flavor, or "essence", enhanced with aromatic compounds.
Essential oils are made via distilla...
Types of Essential Oils
There are more than 90 types of essential oils, claiming varying health benefits. It is important to note that many of their claims are still not accepted by the scientific authorities. The ten most popular ones are:
- Peppermint: for increased energy and improved digestion.
- Lavender: to relieve stress.
- Sandalwood: helps with focus and calming of nerves.
- Bergamot: for skin and for reducing stress.
- Rose: for reducing anxiety
- Chamomile: to improve mood and inducing relaxation
- Ylang-Ylang: for treating headache, nausea and skin problems.
- Tea Tree: increasing immunity and fighting infections.
- Jasmine: helps with depression and libido.
- Lemon: for headaches and to aid digestion.
Using Essential Oils
Essential Oils are widely used to treat certain health conditions and problems. Some claim that these oils can help with:
- Stress and anxiety
- Headaches and migraines
- Insomnia
- Inflammation
Essential oils also have antibiotic and antimicrobial properties, can freshen up our surroundings, have a variety of cosmetic uses, and are a safe and environmentally friendly alternative to toxic mosquito repellents.
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Intermittent Fasting (IF)
The dietary practice of restricting your food consumption to a specific window of time. It is used as a supplement to your diet.
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Approaches to intermittent fasting
- Skipped meals - when you skip over a meal to induce extra time of fasting.
- Eating windows - this condenses your entire macronutrient intake between a 4 and 7-hour window. The rest of the time you are in a fasting state.
- 24-48 hour cleanse - where you go into extended fasting periods and do not eat for 1-2 days.
Autophagy definition and benefits
The process by which the cell devours itself.
- Non-essential parts like damaged proteins are recycled and invading microorganisms and toxic compounds are removed.
- Autophagy plays an important role in stopping the aging process, reversing disease, and preventing cancer, but it doesn’t happen all the time.
- Autophagic processes can be initiated by fasting, protein restriction and carbohydrate restriction.
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