I have a number of clients who’ve heard about the benefits of going on a liver detox and want to know how to go about doing a juice fast. For most of them I suggest working on their diets instead.
When you go on a detox, the purpose of it is to release any toxins that have been stored in your body so that they can be processed for elimination. The objective is to make you feel more alive, have more energy and generally shine brighter. But the process is going to release some toxins, and that may give you a headache, or make you feel dizzy, or affect your concentration, along the way. But hey, it’s worth it. After detoxing your liver, your skin will be healthier, your brain will work more efficiently, you’ll have oodles of energy. You’ll feel invigorated. You’ll feel fantastic. As unlimited as a child.
However, it’s a bad idea to go on any kind of fast or detox if you’re going to be releasing more toxic junk into your system than your body is able to deal with. If you’re not eating well in the first place, a detox will release all the by-products that have accumulated as a result of your poor diet. And if you weren’t eating well, you won’t exactly have been stocking up on the nutrients that you’ll need to help detoxify that junk.
If you have a poor diet, you’re probably not feeling as good as you could be, and a detox will just make you feel worse.
So what should you do instead? Sort out your diet, and then consider a detox. If you still feel you need one. While improving your diet is easier if you have help, there are several steps that you can take on your own. See yesterday’s blog on how to go from feeling rubbish to feeling fantastic for ideas.
If you’d like a reminder of what happens when you don’t look after your liver, watch this parody of the Dove Evolution advert:
Nutritional Thinking 