What is a functional medicine detox? A true FM detox, will help detoxify your liver. Why the liver? The liver is the body’s largest detoxification organ. It’s job is to filter harmful toxins. When the liver gets overloaded, it cannot perform its job (detoxification) as efficiently. When the liver cannot adequately detoxify the harmful toxins, what happens? Stress to other areas of the body – this is when you may experience fatigue, headaches, thinning hair, brain fog, digestion issues and the list goes on. What are harmful toxins?: so, they are everywhere and virtually unavoidable but if we are mindful, we can cut back on the exposure: pesticides, PFAs/PFOAs, contaminated food/drinking water, the dirty dozen (most contaminated fruits and vegetables), highly processed foods/oils, harmful ingredients in skin care/personal products, what our clothes/bedding is made out of – you get the point. The FM detox is a tool we can use to help this overloading effect. Dr. Stephen Cabral refers to this as the “Rain barrel Effect”: Check out his book at: https://stephencabral.com/
- Digestive System Rest: Sticking to a strict diet as well as eating schedule during the detox will allow your digestive system to rest. When the digestive system is resting; it opens up a whole host of benefits to your body – Literally your body is spending less energy on digestion and able to provide more energy to other areas of the body – You will feel the increase in energy (not getting into benefits of fasting here), less bloating and improved clarity.
- Lower toxic Load: the whole idea is to lower your body’s toxic load to allow the liver to do its job (detoxification) more efficiently. Liver works more efficiently = less chance for overload = less chance of developing/experiencing symptoms.
- Feel the Difference: A lot of people know what they are eating out of a box or bag is processed and not good for them – BUT they don’t know how they feel by cutting them out and adapting a cleaner diet. I grew up on all of the highly processed snacks, lunch meat, freezer food, and juice/soda like most people – So I never knew how it would feel to cut them out. Feeling the difference was the biggest benefit I experienced when doing the FM detox and honestly changed my life.
- Many experience clearer skin – Yes, tighter and clearer skin. Try it – do before and after pictures.
- Lose weight – so this is the obvious one. Most people, will lose weight. How much weight depends on how much you have to lose, how long of a detox you perform, and what your previous diet/lifestyle was. My wife (has some issues like most people) but was stuck and unable to lose weight – no matter what she did; she lost 5-6 lbs in 1 week and kept 4 of them off for good – This was a big deal because she went months if not a year trying different diets without losing ANY weight.
Visit link below if you would like to try out the Dr. Stephen Cabral Detox – I truly believe it is one of the best ones out there; backed with scientific evidence; It provided me the jumpstart I needed into a much healthier lifestyle and got amazing results.
