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Cleansing

When functioning properly, our body processes and excretes all waste materials & toxins (from inside and outside the body) efficiently. This allows our body to remain in equilibrium. 

When the body fails to eliminate wastes and other toxins, these substances cause a decrease in function of one or more body systems, including the liver detoxification system.  Often this happens because the body becomes overwhelmed by things that need eliminating and it cannot keep up.  In other instances there is a single event, a genetic predisposition, or metabolic challenges (low body temperature) that cause the body to be unable to eliminate waste and toxins quickly enough. 

Toxins do damage to the body.  When the body can not eliminate them fast enough, it stores them in the tissues (fat, nervous system, kidneys, thyroid, adrenals, bones, etc) to get them out of the blood circulation.  This is a protective mechanism because it protects us from acute poisoning, however, when the toxin level in the tissues gets high enough, the body reaches a state where “total load” is too high to ignore. 

Many symptoms of chronic illnesses are the body’s response to a high “total load”. 

Sometimes we must help the body with elimination. 

This process is called Cleansing, Purification, or Detoxification. 

Cleansing often involves:   Colon cleansing, specific diet and supplements, saunas and sometimes chelation or Biotherapuetic drainage (a European technique).

I have extensive training in Environmental medicine and Cleansing and I offer a wide variety of options for cleansing:  from “Detox Light”  to serious cleansing and chelation for chemically sensitive individuals.