Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel and you're listening to the

nutrition diva quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous

today's show is the second of two parts on cleansing and detox

regiments, something that many of you wrote to ask me about. In last week's

podcast I talked about colon cleansing and this week I want to talk about

products and programs that are designed to

detoxify your liver, your kidneys, and your other organs. There's no doubt that we

live in a toxic world and a lot of people believe that you need to periodically detoxify your liver or your kidneys.

These organs are of course on the front lines of the body's detoxification campaign, so this

would seem to make sense.

But let's stop and think about how these organs actually work.

Many people think of the liver as a sort of filter, which traps toxins much the way a lint

filter traps lint. But actually, the liver isn't so much a filter as a

converter. It detoxifies foreign compounds or chemicals by converting them into harmless

substances that can then be eliminated or recycled.

The kidneys don't really trap toxins either.

The kidney filters the blood and it sorts compounds into those that are worth keeping,

which are returned to the bloodstream,

and those that need to be gotten rid of,

which are dumped into the urine and eliminated.

So toxins don't really build up in your liver

or your kidneys.

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