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| nate." When your body holds onto unhealthy residues, it cannot operate at peak efficiency. |
| Your liver is one of your body's busiest organs, filtering the blood of bacterial contamination, secreting bile to break down cholesterol and removing residues of common prescription and over-the-counter drugs, caffeine, nicotine, carcinogens, insecticides and other chemicals. Your kidneys filter out toxins made water-soluble by the liver and excrete them in urine. Your intestines remove fat-soluble toxins excreted in bile as well as toxins from bowel bacteria; they complete digestion and collect solid waste for elimination. Your lungs remove gaseous wastes through exhalation. Your lymph system filters waste matter from inter- and intra-cellular fluid. Your skin eliminates fat-soluble toxins such as DDT and heavy metals such as lead through perspiration. Even your tongue is involved. Every hour of every day, your body works to remove what it doesn't need. |
| The natural health literature documents thousands of cures resulting from methods designed to speed and increase natural detoxification, including water fasting, juice fasting, eating only one food for several weeks or months, special diets, herbal teas, colon-cleansing procedures, high-temperature treatments such as saunas or sweat baths, massage therapy and salt baths. |
| Popular Herbal Detox Therapies |
| Several herbal and nutritional detoxification therapies developed to treat cancer have proved effective for illnesses of every description. For example, the famous |
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