Detoxification

Detoxification is a normal human body process that should happen continously throughout our lives. It is the removal of chemicals, hormones, metabolic waste products, and indigestible food products from the body. The liver is our primary organ for detoxification. It processes all the foods, chemicals, and drugs that enter our bodies. Other organs involved in detoxification are the kidneys, colon, skin, and lungs.

However, chronic bodily toxicity is an increasing health problem. It can contribute to or be primarily responsible for many health conditions, among them cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurological disease, autoimmune conditions, allergies, gastrointestinal conditions, and psychiatric conditions. Exposure to heavy metals, smoking byproducts, solvents, pesticides, hydrocarbons, volatile oils, hormones, drugs (both legal and illicit), and food preservatives can lead to toxicity. In addition, a person can develop auto-toxicity internally from the build up of their own waste products due to constipation and deficient liver or gall bladder activity. Examples of internal toxic substances are putrefied proteins, ammonia, uric acid, and toxic indoles.

People can develop chronic toxicity either from exposure to external chemicals on an ongoing basis or by compromised elimination. In reality, there tends to be a combination of these two factors and a person only becomes toxic when waste products start to accumulate in the body faster than the organs of elimination can remove them. This can happen very quickly such as in the case of acute poisoning with chemicals, poisons, or heavy metals, or it can happen insidiously over time through chronic exposure or compromised elimination. Acute cases are usually obvious and these people will usually end up in the emergency room or poison control. Many other people, however, are suffering from the more subtle effects of chronic toxicity.

There are hundreds of thousands of chemicals in our present-day environment, and subsequently in our bodies. The liver’s biggest task is detoxifying everything that comes into our bodies, but it also has several other jobs and can be easily overloaded with toxins. When it gets backed up, its elimination routes through the gall bladder, intestines, and kidneys also get backed up, making matters even worse.

There are many, many types of detoxification plans. At WIN, we will help find the appropriate cleanse for you. It is your decision how involved you want to be in the process and how intense and prolonged your program will be. Some examples of WIN Clinic’s detoxification modalities are:

• Testing and treatment for heavy metal toxicity including chelation therapy
• Testing and treatment for solvent and pesticide toxicity
• Testing and treatment for impaired liver detoxification
• Therapeutic fasting, juice fasting, and detoxification maintenance diets
• Liver and bowel cleansing
• Depuration therapy (sauna detoxification guidance — not onsite)
• Nutritional and herbal detoxification
• Our Clean & Lean cleansing and weight loss program
• Homotoxicology (homeopathic detoxification)

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