In today’s world, you can’t escape impurities. It’s everywhere, from the air we breathe to the water we drink and to the food we eat. Although the body has a system in place to eliminate toxins from our body, it can only do so much as our bodies are constantly exposing to toxins that increase in intensity every day.

Over time toxins build up in your body and can damage your organs, affecting all your internal system from the respiratory system to the nervous system if not removed properly. Thus, it’s important that you support your body with what you can to help or boost the detoxification process to make things a little bit easier for the body’s natural process.

All of the past civilizations had their own natural detoxification practices. This is why we all should practise some detox routines or remedies at home to clean our body as we can. Detoxifying your body will help you with more energy, better performance in your immune system while helping you take care of your inner organs well, to live a long and healthy life. Here are some ideas.

Drink green tea.

Green tea has its reputation for being an effective antioxidant. Do you know what antioxidants do? They help the body counteract dangerous compounds that form in our body as a result of toxic material that enter the body. Drinking green tea daily is a good way to detox your body naturally. If you want to do a full detox with green tea, drinking 3-6 cups a day for several weeks is recommended by the experts. 

Try fasting. 

Fasting is one of the best ways to detox your body. The method is practised by many religions and has a spiritual value as well. Fasting helps you put your body on brakes, especially your digestive system. This gives it a rest enabling the body to spend the saved energy on detoxifying your body while cleaning your vital organs during the break.

Fasting with proper hydration is believed to help increase antioxidants in our body, helping you detox it. Fasting between 1-3 days is recommended for a full detox. However, it’s important that you train your body to adapt to hunger incrementally without going straight to a 3-day fast; thus, your body and the mind will have the capacity to follow through.

Stay Hydrated

Water helps the body in a number of ways which includes detoxing your body. Drinking enough water can help you boost the detoxifying process in the body, helping with toxin filtration. Water helps kidneys to flush out any toxins in the kidneys and other parts of the body effectively through urination. Drink eight glasses of 8 oz. of water per day to properly hydrate your body and detox it.

Exercise Regularly

A good workout will not just help you keep your weight in check but also help you detox your body naturally. Exercising helps you with good blood circulation making your vital organs such as the heart, lungs, and other systems work with more efficiency. This makes the natural detoxifying process of the body functions better, strengthening your natural defenses against toxins in the body. Regularly working out to get your heart rate up should be done to detox your body regularly. 

Get into an anti-inflammatory diet.

There are many diets out there that you can try to detox yourself. However, sticking to a diet for a long time is not possible if it’s completely different to what you are used to eating. This is why you should adopt a dietary lifestyle with ingredients that help your body detox better. So, choose to add more anti-inflammatory food into your diets such as organic vegetables and fruits, tomatoes, olive oil, nuts, fatty fish, fruits, and green, leafy vegetables and avoid sugar, alcohol, meat and dairy as much as you can.

Consider dry brushing. 

It’s not just the inside of your body that get affected by toxins in our environments. The outer body is also get exposed to toxins every day as pollution is very common no matter you live in a city or village these days. Dry brushing is a great way to remove dead skin as well as toxins that built on your skins. A quick-dry brushing session before getting into the shower can benefit you tremendously in removing toxins built up on your skin.

Take probiotics and prebiotics.

People always talk about adding more fibre to their diets. But how often do you think to add more probiotics and prebiotics to your diet? These two are just as important to the digestive system as fibre and can deliver benefits to digestion. Probiotics and prebiotics also help you with boosting your immune system, helping you easily expel toxins from your body for a good detox. For example, probiotics have the ability to bind to heavy metals like cadmium and lead in food.

Get quality sleep. 

Having a good sleep also help you detox your body on a small scale. Studies show that lack of quality sleep impairs the glymphatic system, which is also known as the macroscopic waste clearance system of the body. The system helps the body release harmful metabolites from the nervous system. And sleep is important to maintain a healthy glymphatic system too. 7-9 hour of sleep at night is recommended if you are to live a natural detox life. 

Take a steam bath. 

Steam therapy is known to be one of the best ways to detox the body for thousands of years in Ayurveda. A steam bath easily helps you release toxins accumulate in the body on a cellular level.

Supplement with milk thistle.

 The liver is one of the main organs that help us with detoxification. If you don’t take care of your liver properly, the toxin can build up and can result in liver toxicity. Thus, detoxifying your liver is one of the most important parts of detoxing your body. Milk Thistle is one of the best herbs that you can use to naturally detox your liver. It also gives you protection against medications, alcohol and other toxins.

Try these tips and help your body detox itself better.