From colon cleanses to juice fasts, detoxing has become a health fad with a noble goal: flushing bad elements out of the body.
But if you do a casual internet search on detoxing, you’ll see lots of dismissals from medical “experts” who say there is zero benefit to these practices. They argue that the body detoxes just fine on its own, without any special cleansing routines, and that, unlike the double-blind, placebo-controlled studies that back pharmaceutical drugs, there’s scant evidence that doing a detox really has much effect on health.
But while products that claim to detox your body may have dubious effects, limiting your toxic exposures and supporting your body’s ability to detoxify itself is anything but imaginary. According to nutritionist and author Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., detoxing is not only beneficial, but imperative.
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