The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How to augment and support your natural detox capacities.

Conventional wisdom has decreed that detox is a myth. They're not even sure if toxins even exist, as far as I can tell. On the other side,

you've got detox gurus prescribing cayenne maple lemon tea and glasses full of charcoal water as cures for essentially everything.

Where does the truth lie?

First, detoxification does exist.

It's an established concept after all with its very own spot in the dictionary.

When we come into contact with toxins, compounds that pose a threat to our healthy

homeostasis, we must remove or nullify them. That's detoxification. Popular conceptions of how

detox works, however, are inaccurate. Both sides are wrong. Both sides are flailing around a false

narrative. The conventional side, the skeptics, are attacking a straw man.

That our bodies are passive recipients of toxicity, the damsel tied to the tracks awaiting the oncoming toxin train,

and only this special proprietary blend of herbs and spices can sever the bonds.

The detox fanatics, meanwhile, overstate their case, with frequent references to flushing

and die-off, they seem to think that detox is about using outside agents to impose order on

the body from the top down.

In reality, the body comes equipped with detoxification capabilities.

We use the liver, kidneys, and various endogenous antioxidants to remove and or nullify dangerous

compounds that enter the body, and we can improve the functioning of those capacities either

by actively supporting them with necessary precursors

or by getting out of the way. Here's a look at nine ideas people have about it. Number one,

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