TMHS 853: Celebrity Detox Expert Reveals 3 Secrets to Long-Lasting Youth - With Dr. Alejandro Junger
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
The human body has an innate wisdom. Under the right circumstances, the body is well-equipped to eliminate harmful toxins, pollutants, and other unwanted substances through a complex system of organs and processes. On today’s show, you’re going to learn about your body’s natural detoxification system and how you can optimize it for better health.
Dr. Alejandro Junger is a cardiologist, New York Times bestselling author, and functional medicine expert. Today, he’s back on The Model Health Show for an enlightening conversation on the body’s detoxification system. You’re going to learn the truth about how chronic illnesses develop, how our modern world contributes to illness, and the key habits you can create to improve your health.
This episode contains important conversations on the role of the liver, gut health and its impact on overall wellness, and how to take a holistic approach to healing. As always, Dr. Junger has a wealth of information to share. I hope you enjoy this interview!
In this episode you’ll discover:
- Why Dr. Junger started studying detoxification.
- How functional medicine makes a connection between systems in the body.
- What the body’s detoxification system is and how it works.
- How the gut is connected to multiple systems in the body.
- Why the integrity of the gut lining is integral to your overall health.
- The anatomy of the human gut and how it evolved.
- How autoimmunity and gut permeability are linked.
- Why chronic illness is actually an adaptation.
- What the Achilles heel of human health is.
- The connection between serotonin, the gut, and the nervous system.
- Two things you must do to create a healing environment.
- How the liver aids in detoxification processes.
- Three specific, simple tips for detoxification.
- The most important thing humans can do to recover our health.
- How resting your digestion system can help your body heal.
- An exercise you can use to practice presence.
- How to remove obstacles that are harming your gut.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. |
| 0:04.7 | For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com. |
| 0:11.3 | When you hear the word detox, what comes to mind for you? |
| 0:15.5 | Some people might conjure up ideas about detoxification from substance abuse and going to a clinic. |
| 0:22.3 | Others might think about the detox phenomenon in the wellness space with all these different products and solutions. |
| 0:28.5 | And other people might think about the detox album from Dr. Dre that never came out. He said he's |
| 0:35.4 | working on the album for years, never came out. So whatever your definition |
| 0:39.8 | of detox is, I'm going to share the Oxford definition of the word detox. And detox is defined as |
| 0:47.4 | the process of removing toxic substances or qualities. All right. The process of removing toxic substances or qualities. |
| 0:59.0 | So maybe our mission needs to be aimed at removing toxic substances from our environment, from our bodies, |
| 1:07.0 | but we also might need to remove some toxic qualities. |
| 1:11.6 | All right, so maybe these are qualities of character. |
| 1:13.6 | Maybe these are qualities of our environment and the people around us. |
| 1:18.6 | Detox can mean a number of things. |
| 1:21.6 | But on this episode today, we're going to look at the science of detoxification, |
| 1:26.6 | and it is multifaceted indeed. |
| 1:29.7 | And there's also this paradigm with anything that becomes popular. There's going to be |
| 1:34.4 | pushback on whether that thing even exists in the first place. Detoxification is something that |
| 1:40.3 | our cells, our organs, our tissues naturally do. But the truth is, these processes can be |
| 1:47.5 | inhibited and we can experience a myriad of diseases and dysfunction because of that. |
| 1:53.5 | Endotoxemia, for example, excessive inflammation in the body and a plethora of diseases that |
| 1:59.1 | come from that. The list goes on and on and on. |
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