10 Signs Your Body Needs to Detox Really Bad
Even though our bodies have the ability to self-cleanse once in a while, they also give us indications that extra help is needed. Your immune system, kidneys, and liver work simultaneously to remove toxins from your body as soon as they enter it.
However, when these toxins exceed the body’s ability to remove them, they then get stored away inside us for long periods of time until we take action to remove them completely.
Trends did some research about where toxins come from and the signs the body uses to indicate we need to detox.
What do we know about toxins?
Where toxins come from:
- Environmental toxins: These toxins usually come from industrial places where there are cars, water and air pollution, radiation, pesticides, and herbicides; or in cleaning products, hair sprays, perfumes, and make-up that can be found at home.
- Lifestyle toxins: Lifestyle toxins usually come from chemicals that we put into our bodies like sugar, prescription drugs, processed foods, alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco.
- Metabolic reactions: When our bodies start breaking down proteins, sugars, and fats, they naturally start producing toxic waste. When a diet does not contain enough nutrients, the toxins build up in the body.
- Intestinal microbes: The gastrointestinal tract is filled with yeast and bacteria which help with the body’s digestion of food. When there is an excess growth of bacteria in the intestinal tract then toxins enter the bloodstream and results in various health conditions.
- Emotional toxins: Stress, fear or traumatizing events can affect both the nervous and hormonal systems, which then affect your body’s ability to detox.
1. Weight gain
Have you noticed a persistent increase in your weight, despite the fact that you’re calorie counting and exercising? Maybe a toxic overload is to blame. A lot of toxins are lipophilic which indicates that they are being stored in body fat. Lipophilic toxins contain pesticides and dioxins which cause the body to produce more fat cells in order to store more toxins in it. This makes it almost impossible to lose weight until you get rid of the toxins in the body.
2. Constant fatigue
