Detoxification - How I Got Into It
A month ago, a very close friend invited me to his place for dinner. While waiting for the other guests to arrive, we had the usual chatter about petty things. Ultimately, it led to his current medical problems and how he is coping with it through detoxification.
I sat upright in my chair as I heard the word "detoxification." My friend is super conservative and I thought he would never have anything to do with anything outside of traditional medicine when it comes to his health.
I've heard of detox (short for detoxification) so many times from people who are looking for alternative ways to stay healthy and have money to spend for it. But my daughter, being a doctor, doesn't want to hear of it. And never could I think of a very good reason why my friend, knowing him, would go for it.
So let me share with you detoxification from a skeptic.
Detoxification, traditional medicine:
It is "the initial stage that allows a person to stay clean," so says Dr. Nora Volkow of the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
It is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism; the decontamination of a person from poison ingestion using antidotes like dialysis or, in severe cases, chelation therapy - the application of agents to remove heavy metals, e.g., lead, arsenic, mercury and others from the body.
Detoxification, alternative medicine:
Detox, to an alternative medicine practitioner, is the "cleaning of the blood" by removing toxins in the liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, lymph and skin through a variety of methods, i.e., diet, use of food supplements, herbs, dry-skin brushing, hydrotherapy, electrical or electromagnetic treatments, etc.
These, they claim, help the body's natural cleaning process by allowing the organs to rest through fasting, stimulating the liver to remove toxins from the body, promoting toxin elimination through the intestines, kidneys and skin and by improving blood circulation.
Their points of contention:
For alternative medicine, detoxification is the removal of toxins in our body from the food that we eat.
Traditional medicine scoffs at the idea because it has never seen toxin accumulation in healthy kidneys and liver.
Detoxification, in alternative medicine, is an almost real-time process while traditional medicine says that the body must be allowed to remove these toxins the natural way and pace. Hastening it is bad, not good, for the body.
Traditional medicine is an accumulation of knowledge built through thousands of years backed by countless, solid researches.
Alternative medicine is relatively new, given birth by people who saw a business opportunity from the health-consciousness market that has steadily grown the past few years.
My friend got into detox (against the recommendation of his doctor) for cellulitis, a skin infection caused by bacteria. It hospitalized him for three days, where he was given a good dose of very potent antibiotics.
In front of the guests he testified of having been cured of his disease.
Was it the detox or the residual effect of his antibiotics?
It's hard to tell except that he has been talked into becoming a user and a distributor of some detox products. He lost his cellulitis but he gained a business venture he is ill-equipped to handle, much more get away from.
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