Why detox, and why choose us?

In the last decade, science has unraveled many of the mysteries regarding how our bodies become overloaded with accumulated debris and how we can reverse that inevitable buildup. It’s not too complicated and if we can understand the benefits, and the process to acquire those benefits, we're likely to acquire the motivation to detox.

It's worth pointing out that a bodily detox is, for most who do them, no more a 'spiritual' exercise than changing the oil in their vehicle is. It's a bit inconvenient, but it just makes too much sense - the benefits far outweigh the costs - to ignore. As this knowledge is now mainstream, those that are interested in learning more about body detoxes can do so via any number of well put together you-tube presentations. There's links to a few of them below.

The basics are;

Our bodies are made up of at least 50 trillion cells and they all have their own internal ecosystem that benefit from being cleaned periodically. Detoxing is essentially detoxing our cells, and the primary bodily mechanism involved in this role is called autophagy. When autophagy is switched on, our cells start cleaning and repairing themselves. It does this in three ways:

Burning accumulated debris for fuel.

Recycling old or damaged cellular components into new cells.

Expelling toxins that can't be burnt, or recycled, from the body.

This sounds great, and it is great. The only ‘problem’ is that autophagy doesn’t switch on - beyond a low background intensity - unless we’re fasting. Unfortunately, our bodies are adapted to the hunter-gatherer, feast and famine, lifestyle our ancestors were in for millions of years, not the very recent 2 or 3 meals a day modern lifestyle. When we’re consuming food, our bodies are naturally in digesting and processing mode, and it’s only when there’s no incoming food that our bodies can switch to intensive cleaning and repair mode.

In practice, this means we have to deliberately create the conditions that prompt our bodies to detox, given those conditions no longer occur naturally. There are no shortcuts; there's no ‘all gain, no pain’ way to detox, despite what some claim.

The detoxes we offer accept this reality and work with our innate detoxing mechanisms to deliver proper, effective detoxes.

While it's inconvenient that detoxing requires multi day fasts, it's not as hard as people think with the main hurdle being psychological. We, over the decades, acquire a deeply ingrained habit of eating everyday and it's that sudden vacuum - something that was always there suddenly not being there - that is initially uncomfortable more than the actual lack of food is. Once that discomfort is gone and we've experienced the benefits, it's typically very easy to do subsequent detoxes in the future.

In practice, given a body detox is also a mild emotional/psychological detox many people learn to do their future detoxes when they feel the need to freshen up, when they want to change their oil/energy.