Detoxification
Detoxification is not a trend but a vital process that runs continuously in your body throughout the year. Learn how to support your detoxification organs with proper nutrition instead of relying on expensive detox cures.
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The holidays are behind us. For those who now want to start the new year particularly healthy, we can already see the cry for "Detox" advice in their faces. Tadaa – here we are!
However, we don't want to use this opportunity to recommend the next detox cure to you like many others do. Quite the opposite: we want to explain to you why detoxification is not an acute therapy for a phase characterized by an unhealthy lifestyle.
Rather, detoxification is a vital process that must continuously occur in your body throughout the year to keep you healthy. Learn what this means and how you can ensure that everything runs smoothly.
It's impossible to avoid. Through diet, we regularly ingest toxins in certain doses. Have you ever heard of so-called Persistent Organic Pollutants? These hard-to-break environmental toxins include, for example, the pesticide DDT, which was frequently used until the 1970s. But also dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls, which are sometimes found in farmed salmon during inspections at levels exceeding permitted limits, fall into this category (1).
The problem: when exposed to these toxic substances in high concentrations or over a long period, they can accumulate in fatty tissue, bones, or other body tissues. For this reason, fatty fish like salmon, herring, or eel can be particularly contaminated. The same applies to heavy metals like lead or mercury.
Even if we could somehow escape environmental toxins, we'd be lost without detoxification. Because toxic metabolic byproducts are also generated in normal metabolic processes:
The good news, however, is that our body has numerous ways to handle this. Otherwise, we couldn't survive at all!
Liver cells, for example, are able to convert the ammonia from protein metabolism into much less harmful urea, which is then excreted via the kidneys in urine. The intestines, skin, and lungs also play a significant role as excretory organs in eliminating harmful substances.
Among detoxification organs, the liver is a true superhero. It has the ability to transform toxins into non-toxic substances. Of course, this isn't magic that happens instantly.
As part of biotransformation, harmful substances are gradually rebuilt and rendered harmless with the help of numerous enzymes and cofactors. Additionally, many harmful substances are only poorly soluble in water. They must be modified by enzymes so they can be transported away via fluids like urine.
For these processes to work smoothly, your body needs the right building blocks – and that's exactly where you can help!
Zeolite, bentonite, or activated charcoal are well-known ingredients for a detox cure. But what do these really contribute to detoxification?
Well, if heavy metals or other environmental toxins are present in food that you're consuming alongside them, they can actually promote detoxification. The volcanic mineral zeolite was able to reduce lead uptake in the intestines by an impressive 90% in one study (2).
However, these powders cannot change toxins already stored in your body. Insufficient data also make it impossible to fully assess the effects of these substances.
What if instead you took a powder that provides you with all the nutrients that help support our detoxification superheroes in their work? This could be, for example, our eduone®, which provides a whole range of detoxification-promoting substances:
A detoxification-promoting lifestyle extends beyond nutrition: regular sweating is essential! Heavy metals are indeed transported out of the body through sweat (10). When was the last time you visited a sauna? ;-) Exercise works too!
A colorful and varied diet combined with ensuring good nutrient supply is essential for the function of your detoxification organs and is far more effective than any overpriced detox cure!
