I don’t know about you, but I’m going to be drinking this all weekend. Between all the holiday food and junk food and who knows what we will be eating and drinking tonight, my body is in need of detoxing. As much as I enjoy the family time, this weekend will be spent getting back into routines and the craziness of life. Plus, I’m going to be better at eating healthier and exercise. It’s not a New Year’s resolution, because I always break the resolution. It is a goal for the month of January and hopefully will stick and then I will add a new goal each month.
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Be safe and Happy New Year’s Eve!
Actually, unless you have medical problems with your liver (such as hepatitis or cirrhosis), there’s no need to “detox.” Your body does it just fine on a daily basis.
Drink the tea because it tastes nice and makes you feel good, but don’t have any unrealistic expectations about it doing anything to your system that isn’t already happening.
“Detox” is a legitimate medical term that has been co-opted to sell useless products and services. It is a fake treatment for a fake condition. Real detoxification isn’t ordered from a menu at a juice bar, or assembled from supplies in your pantry. Real detoxification is provided in hospitals under life-threatening circumstances — usually when there are dangerous levels of drugs, alcohol, or other poisons in the body.
Drugs used for real detoxification are not ingredients in a smoothie. What’s being promoted today as “detox” is little different than eons-old religious rituals of cleansing and purification. Framing detoxification in religious terms won’t have the appeal in a world that values science. So use the word “toxin”, not sin, and call the ritual a “detox” – and suddenly you’ve given your treatment a veneer of what sounds scientific” Dr Scott Gavura, RPh.