DETOX – Environmental Medicine

The health topic “Detox “is becoming more and more popular. People are receptive to juicing cures, diets nutritional supplement, tees, saunas, scrubs, I.V drips for detox and others…

In our old traditions and in many religions fasting is practiced since the old times. Many religions traditionally use rituals to get free from uncleanliness in order to achieve ritual purity.

Holistic Doctors, Traditional Doctors, Naturopaths… recognize the importance of detox treatments in their own way, Chinese medicine Doctors use cupping and certain acupuncture point combinations. Ayurveda doctors use supplements and colon hydrotherapy. Functional Doctors test for heavy metals, nonmetal Chemicals and other toxins and establish a targeted treatment plan after.  Intravenous drips and supplements are used to support the body’s own detox function. In Environmental medicine we test for Heavy metals, nonmetal Chemicals and other and prescribe a targeted detox.

As the world is becoming increasingly toxic, industrial chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals, endocrine disrupters (chemical substances which affect hormonal system altering hormonal function) are disseminated. Such substances tend to undergo bioaccumulation. The physiological process to eliminate foreign substances from our body is called Biotransformation. This process is happening on cellular level and includes two phases. A wide range of biochemical processes are playing a role for the transformation of foreign substances. The key organs are the Liver and the gut.  Chemicals from food, drugs, and heavy metals conserving agents tend to accumulate in our body. Once there is an overload of foreign substances this can result is oxidative stress at the cellular level – an imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants.

For health conscious people it is of big importance  to do regular detox cures in order to remove chemicals also from food, conserving agents, heavy metals, color agents, medicines, from their system. It makes sense to run tests before the detox treatment and to detect an overload of substances as Heavy metals, Bisphenol A, Glyphosate, Mycotoxins, Organic compounds…. It also makes sense to assess for the genetic tendency: today it is possible to determine whether a person is subject of slow detox processes by so called SNPs or “Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms”

The goal of any detox treatment is to reduce the load of foreign substances, to clean the intracellular space – the Matrix- in order to make sure that the cellular uptake of oxygen and nutrients in the cell can go smoothly. During any detox treatment our body is in an increased need of antioxidants. Supplements, vitamin drips and healthy food are supporting the natural detox function.

Besides choosing the right supplements and healthy food- Infrared Sauna, Lymphatic drainage, Homeopathic Remedies can be applied to support the physiological detox function.