Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. My name is Danny Lennon and you are listening to

episode 562 of the podcast. You are very welcome. Today I'm going to be bringing you a episode

that originally aired over on Sigma Nutrition Premium. So that's for our premium subscribers.

Every month they get premium exclusive episodes in their entirety. And this one aired

on Significant Premium close to three years ago now, May 2022, looking at the topic of detoxification

protocols. And this was one of our quack asylum episodes. So one area of which there is much

of this quackery is around detoxification or detox protocols or

detox plans, which often get based around specific dietary or supplemental regimens that you need to then

follow in order to detox your body properly. And many of the arguments propose that many things that

we come into contact with on a daily basis are full of

toxins and these toxins can accumulate and compounded effect over time causing a range of issues.

And therefore, by removing these toxins from our body via this detoxification protocol,

we can have better health. And indeed, it is well known that there are a large number of toxins in the

environment, many of which are potentially deleterious to health. And is also known that many

nutrients are involved in our body's processes to detoxify some of these things, those key

detoxification pathways. And so there is clear legitimacy to some of those aspects.

However, what we really want to address here is,

is there any evidence that a detoxification diet or a detoxification plan or a protocol

improves our health?

And is there any reason to suggest that targeting certain nutrients or certain

supplements will lead to a quote unquote better detoxification? And then beyond that, in order to

reduce our toxin burden, do we need to do things like only buy organic food, or do we need to

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