Detoxification
In This Lab...
Orientation to Detoxification
Listen
Introduction
Terminology & Basic Understandings
Detoxification: Our Body-Mind Knows More Than We Do
Theories On How & Why We Age
Understanding Human Genetics & Life Processes
Epigenetics, Aging & Inflamm-aging
Minimize Exposure to Toxic Agents
Detoxification Fundamentals
Circulation
Hydration
Energy Metabolism
Essential Nutrients
The Role of Your Liver
The Role of Your Kidneys
The Role of Your Skin & Sweat Glands
Order & Variability in Detoxification
Safety of Plastics in Food & Beverage Storage
Bisphenols (e.g., BPA)
Microplastics & Nanoplastics
Plastics Summary
Key Takeaways
Home Detox Guide
Eating to Support Your Liver
Key Habits
Detoxification Checklist
Related Labs
Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions
AT A GLANCE
Detoxification is commonly misunderstood and represented as something drastic to be done once to several times each year. Yet detoxification isn’t like a vacation, where you take a temporary break from your routine habits and lifestyle and hope that you “catch up on your rest” and feel better for it.
Periodic breaks in our eating and living routines can certainly support more effective detox pathways temporarily, and result in your feeling and functioning better. Yet the extent of our daily exposures to toxins in our air, water and foods, when combined with the waste products from routine metabolic processes, necessitates attention to detox processes on a daily basis. Failing to do so will result in toxins accumulating and eventual damage to our system.
This Lab is about understanding and supporting the primary body systems and pathways responsible for the essential daily tasks that we are referring to here as detoxification. Our intention is that by the time you complete this Lab, you will have the core understandings and tools you require to explore the habits that most directly impact your body-mind’s ability to detoxify naturally and effectively. We have intentionally left more aggressive, toxin and situation-specific detox programs to be instituted and supervised by a suitably trained health professional.
Periodic breaks in our eating and living routines can certainly support more effective detox pathways temporarily, and result in your feeling and functioning better. Yet the extent of our daily exposures to toxins in our air, water and foods, when combined with the waste products from routine metabolic processes, necessitates attention to detox processes on a daily basis. Failing to do so will result in toxins accumulating and eventual damage to our system.
This Lab is about understanding and supporting the primary body systems and pathways responsible for the essential daily tasks that we are referring to here as detoxification. Our intention is that by the time you complete this Lab, you will have the core understandings and tools you require to explore the habits that most directly impact your body-mind’s ability to detoxify naturally and effectively. We have intentionally left more aggressive, toxin and situation-specific detox programs to be instituted and supervised by a suitably trained health professional.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- How knowledgeable are you about the metabolic processes your body-mind depends on to detoxify and maintain the health and repair of your cells and tissues?
- How specifically do you ensure your lifestyle habits are providing sufficient support to meet your detoxification needs?
- How are you minimizing your exposure to air pollutants (foreign chemicals, toxicants, mold spores, pollens, smoke, dust mites, etc.), contaminants in your water supply and foods (heavy metal toxins, organophosphate toxins, phthalates, BPA’s, volatile organic compounds, mold toxins, and hundreds more), and the hundreds of toxic compounds found in most cosmetics and personal hygiene products today?
- Are you proactive in taking the actions that markedly reduce your exposures and increase your metabolisms capacity to deal with those which find their way into your body and those which are produced on a daily basis?
- Do you regularly assess and trend your liver enzymes to ensure heathy function?
- Have you been assessed (blood and/or urine analysis) for the accumulation of heavy metal toxins, organophosphate toxins, phthalates, BPA’s, volatile organic compounds, mold toxins, etc.?
HYPOTHESIS
The majority today, even infants, are exposed to levels of chemical toxins that are unprecedented in human history. While no one is certain of the specific impact of the steady accumulation of toxic compounds that is taking place within most of us, we know there is a price being paid. The accumulation of toxic compounds over time is well understood to be a major factor in the genesis of accelerated aging, chronic inflammation, and degenerative diseases.
Engaging this Lab will provide sufficient understanding to motivate you to be better in this important area. It will guide you to reduce your exposures to toxins in your food, water, and air, and through your skin, while you increase your ability to detoxify those which are already present and/or you cannot avoid.
The positive effects of improved detoxification and decreased toxic load rival those witnessed when one corrects severe sleep debt, establishes a great exercise routine, or maintains excellent nourishment. On following the guidance within this Lab, you will see and feel the many differences within weeks. You will be actively preserving your vitality while substantially lowering your risk to preventable chronic illness.
Engaging this Lab will provide sufficient understanding to motivate you to be better in this important area. It will guide you to reduce your exposures to toxins in your food, water, and air, and through your skin, while you increase your ability to detoxify those which are already present and/or you cannot avoid.
The positive effects of improved detoxification and decreased toxic load rival those witnessed when one corrects severe sleep debt, establishes a great exercise routine, or maintains excellent nourishment. On following the guidance within this Lab, you will see and feel the many differences within weeks. You will be actively preserving your vitality while substantially lowering your risk to preventable chronic illness.