Posted on May 16, 2012 by Jenny Cromack

The Ultimate Detox

When most people hear Detox they automatically think of some crazy smoothie diet, or water with a piece of lemon in etc. These are generally rubbish and do very little for promoting health. In fact next time you pick up a magazine and you find an article telling you that some celebrity lost 99stone in 4 weeks consuming a gravy granule diet, or you can banish the flu by eating only the finest imported sea weed stew, I want you to throw the magazine in the bin.

Interestingly through sweating we can effectively detoxify the body. Research has shown that individuals who regularly perform intense exercise remove more heavy metal toxins from the body than the less active individual. This occurs through numerous mechanisms not simply by removing the toxins through sweat.

I’m sure everyone is aware of Lucozade and similar brands, there always banging on about replacing electrolytes, sodium, potassium and magnesium which are essential to maintain performance. Simply when we sweat a lot we lose these minerals, what few people dont know is that when we sweat we also loose several toxins including cadminium, lead, mercury and arsenic to name a few.

These toxins are all confirmed carcinogenics and significantly cause damage to the endocrine, cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Not very good if you want to live a long healthy life! Interestingly research is beginning to show that sweating these out is more effective than excreting them through urine, which for a long period of time people believed to be the main way.

So get some high intensity intervals done, and cleanse the body!