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Toxins
Toxin is a general term that refers to chemicals and compounds that are harmful to the body. These can be poisons in our food, the air we breathe, or even by-products of a necessary chemical reaction created when we absorb a required nutrient. The human body is designed to remove these toxins naturally. A normal healthy cell can absorb nutrients and discharge toxins extremely efficiently.
Unfortunately, the last hundred years or so, has seen a dramatic increase in the number of toxins. These harmful chemicals
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are often created by modern chemical and manufacturing processes and are all around us. Despite the well publicised efforts, the levels of toxins are still increasing and they are being absorbed into our bodies at a faster rate than we can currently remove them by natural processes. These toxins interfere with many of our normal body functions such as our ability for defence and repair, our facility to access nutrients from food, our immune system, our energy levels, our ability to concentrate and so on.
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Eastern Therapy or Western Medicine?
At this stage it is important to understand the basic differences between Western and Eastern Medical Practices. The following is very much a generalisation and no comment is made on which Read more...
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Sensitivities
If you are very sensitive to some item or items that are suggested for the cleanse (i.e., strong allergic reaction), then you will obviously have to stay away from that item. Please keep in Read more...
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The Truth about Toxins, Your Body and the Three Little Known Rules of Detoxing
Detoxing (or Detox) is a relatively new word, yet it describes a process that has been occurring naturally for hundreds of thousands of years. We have all heard the word, we have been told it Read more...
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