Humans absorb many environmental toxins through food, cosmetics or medication. But it is not easy to detoxify the body – even if many manufacturers promise exactly that. As always, prevention is better than aftercare.
Everything looks very simple in advertising: it seems as if the body can be detoxified by adding as many fruit juices, teas and nutritional supplements as possible. So-called Detoxification or detox cures have become a huge market for many manufacturers. However, the fact that these products can discharge environmental toxins from the body is more than questionable: the liver, kidneys and intestines do this task naturally.
Detoxify the body: Prevention is better than aftercare
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There are a few rules that you can easily integrate into everyday life to absorb fewer environmental toxins from the outset:
- nutrition: Do you still eat those sugary chocolate flakes for breakfast? And what snacks do you have on your plate? Keep a food diary for a few days and mark all the foods you eat even though they are not good for you. Then think about the delicious and healthy alternatives.
- Move: You haven’t been jogging in the last four weeks? Now would be a good time to start. Think about which sports you used to do – you can start from there. Or grab a friend and do something active together, like one bicycle tour,
- sleep: Have you slept enough lately. If not, you can prescribe fixed bed times. Experts recommend around eight hours of sleep. We share tips with which you fall asleep faster can.
- order: Tidy up your room and clean it up. In the end, not only your four windows are clear again, but your head too. How about “Less is more“?
Detox everyday instead of body
Many health problems are due, among other things, to high levels of pollutants. And they reach the body not only through nutrition, but in many ways, such as B. traffic, care products or your clothes.
Our tips for less environmental toxins in the body:
- Consistently do without anything (also via detours) sea ​​fish or may contain seafood and reduce your meat consumption.
- Choose organically grown foods.
- Even on unhealthy ones convenience foods you should refrain from doing so as you avoid flavor enhancers, aromas and artificial colors.
- Do not use “petroleum and hormone cosmetics” and use only natural cosmetics,
- Ban synthetic fragrances and flavors from your breath, e.g. B. “Air fresheners” such as room sprays, scented candles or air fresheners.
- Minimize the amount of pollutants in the room air by using low or zero pollutant materials in furniture, home textiles, paints and varnishes.
- use houseplantsto reduce air pollutants such as formaldehyde, ammonia, xylene and toluene from exhaust gases, acetone, trichlorethylene and benzene in the ambient air.
- Pay attention when buying shoes and clothing on chrome-free tanned leather and heavy metal-free colors.
- Avoid “stain-resistant”, “low-crease” or “odor-absorbing” and similar coatings on textiles.
- Keep an eye out for poison-free clothing, such as with the GOTS or IVN Best Labelcertificate,
- Save yourself the “chemical cocktail in the cleaning bucket” and keep your household safe cleaning products clean.
- reducing plastic in your everyday life.
- Prefer canned food to canned food (topic Bisphenol A).
Of course, it is hardly feasible nowadays to completely avoid the introduction of pollutants into the body. But with a conscious lifestyle you can make every day a “detox day” – and without any expensive detoxification agents.
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