10 Simple Ways to Detox Your Body This Summer

Stay home (or go away) and do a juice fast: Juice fasting is a great way to tune up the body from the inside out. While it cleanses your internal organs and systems, it also promotes weight loss, makes your skin glow, and leaves you feeling energized.


Once you introduce juice fasting into your life routine, you’ll start to notice positive changes on all levels of your being. You may feel more physically energized, more mentally alert, or your moods may be lighter and brighter.

2. Sweat. In a sauna (not a steam room — too much chlorine is in the steam), or a hot yoga class, or in a hot bath followed a snuggling under warm covers, let yourself sweat. It helps the skin, your largest organ of detoxification, do its job.

4. Rebound, i.e., bounce on a mini-trampoline. All exercise is good, of course, but a mini-tram is supposed to particularly target the lymphatic system and help it do its clean-up tasks. The lymphatic system has no pump like the heart, so it can use some help. I do my 5-minute warm-up at the gym on a mini-tram.

5. Scrape your tongue first thing in the morning. Your body does a lot of detoxing during sleep, and that coating on your tongue when you wake up (in Ayurveda, they call it ama, metabolic debris) needs to come off before your first drink of water. They sell inexpensive tongue scrapers in the dental care aisle at health food stores and many drugstores.

6. Use a neti pot. The yogis have long recommended “sinus bathing” as a part of enlightened hygiene, and you can purchase a neti pot (beautiful ceramic ones and low-cost plastic models) at most health food stores. You fill it with warm water made into a saline solution by the addition of some finely ground salt and, following instructions, let the water flow into one nostril and out the other; then do the other side. This is not always a pleasant experience, but it definitely clears your head, is a godsend during allergy season, and I swear by it after plane flights.

7. Dry body brush. Before your bath or shower, use a special dry body brush (ask at the health food store: this is a brush with a removable handle, meant to be used on dry body skin) to buff your skin, starting with the feet. Then work up, using upward strokes on the calves and thighs, fingers-to-shoulders moves on your arms, and gentler round motions on your abdomen, hips, and chest; this is not for the face. It helps the skin to detox, removes dead skin cells, is warming and energizing, and in Europe even standard MDs claim that it helps diminish cellulite.

8. Enemas and colonics. I include these because they’re standard-issue detox practices and many, many people swear by them. They say that we have toxic build-up in the colon that’s been there for years and needs to be washed out.

9. Get away to somewhere clean and quiet. By “clean,” I mean where the air is pure (mountains, ocean) and where electro-magnetic-field radiation is at a minimum. Some people are irritated that they can’t get much cell phone reception, but it’s really a blessing. If you can get away for even one weekend a season, it’ll help.

10. Eat raw food and think loving thoughts. Okay, that’s two suggestions, but seriously: just eating a high-raw, plant-based diet, even without fasting or a juice diet, will go far toward your detoxification efforts. If you find yourself having a “detox crisis” — headaches, fatigue — rest, eat lightly, and let it pass, or rest, eat more heavily (add in more cooked food), and slow down the detox process to a comfortable rate. And your thoughts are ever important: make them loving, to yourself, your body, and everyone in your world. That way, you detox negativity from deep, deep inside.

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About The Author:

Nancy is the author of the 7 Day Sugar Free Program is officially a Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner. Unofficially, she’s known as the Health Lady on a Mission. Her mission, quite simply, is to help you look and feel better – naturally – by using proven methods that are both easy to adopt and fun!

Blog/Website: Healthlady.com

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  • Kathy

    Hello Nancy, First! Thump up for all this great information.

    I remember in one of your class online: you mention about baby step and try
    to incorporate one thing every day.

    Well, This is what happen to me:

    I start incorporating those steps mentions slowly in my lifestyle.

    It’s really second nature for me to do those steps:

    What a difference in my life I have way more energy and feel amazing.

    Kathy

  • Paula

    Hello Nancy,

    I’ve never done Enemas and colonics but curious about the how: Where can I
    find additional information on your site.

    Paula

  • Kathy

    Nancy, We just purchase the infrared sauna! The best investment in my life.
    I Remember listening to one of your interview with Dr Kaur re: Breast Cancer

    She did talk about Infrared Sauna! She mention that We are expose to so
    many environmental chemicals which is contributing to breast cancer, and how
    hard they are to get rid of. The only thing is you really have to sweat them
    out.

    Would like to listen to her interview again: where can I access the replay??

    Thanks for all the wonderful work you provide.

    Kathy

  • http://www.healthlady.com nancy

    Hello Paula, I’ll be posting an interview this week on my blog about Colonics. Thursday will create a blog post including the link to listen.

    Nancy

  • http://www.healthlady.com nancy

    Hi Kathy, If you would like to listen to all my past interviews go to: http://womenshealthacademy.com/ and join the member site.

    Nancy

  • Tony Vessseur

    Hi
    You always talk about weight loss however I have the opposite challenge .I need to gain weight and keep it on, any healthy suggestions?
    thanks
    Tony

  • http://www.lindamontgomery.ca Linda

    Hi Nancy,

    Great 10 tips to remember everyday!!!!

    thanks,

    Linda xo

  • Tarundeep

    Detoxification is very necessary for good health. These 10 tips to detox are really very helpful.
    Oxy Powder is also an effective way of detoxification.Oxy Powder capsules helps to detoxify your body without dangerous side effects and also helps to recover weight problems.

  • http://www.montrealsauna.ca Montreal Saunas

    Your Comment Number: 2 I would like to add that the Infrared Sauna is a great alternative and could be combined with the yoga you mention. The Infrared sauna is a soft heat that is not hard on the body as the traditionnal saunas. There are many benefits from the Infrared sauna. Check it out.

 
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