10 Foods That Detox the Body
Here’s a list of 10 fantastic detox foods that can be a great addition to anyone’s diet.
Fruit
Fruits are rich in liquid content, which helps the body flush out toxins. They are also easy to digest and packed with antioxidants, nutrients, fiber, and essential vitamins.
Green Foods
Stock your fridge with barley, wheatgrass, kale, spinach, blue-green algae, alfalfa, chard, arugula, and other organic leafy greens. These foods provide a detoxifying boost of chlorophyll, which helps eliminate harmful environmental toxins from heavy metals, herbicides, cleaning products, and pesticides. Chlorophyll also supports liver detoxification.
Lemons, Oranges, and Limes
Citrus fruits aid in flushing out toxins and kick-starting the digestive tract’s enzymatic processes. Lemon juice, in particular, supports the liver and kidneys in their cleansing functions. For an extra detox boost, start each morning with a warm glass of lemon water.
Garlic
Garlic is one of the top detox foods. It stimulates the liver to produce detoxification enzymes that filter toxic residues from the digestive system. Adding sliced or cooked garlic to your meals can enhance any detox diet.
Broccoli Sprouts
Broccoli sprouts are extremely high in antioxidants and excel at stimulating detoxification enzymes at the cellular level, even more so than the fully-grown vegetable.
Green Tea
Green tea is loaded with antioxidants and helps wash toxins from the system through its liquid content. It also contains catechins, a type of antioxidant known to boost liver function.
Mung Beans
Mung beans have been used by Ayurvedic doctors for thousands of years. They are easy to digest and absorb toxic residue from the intestinal walls.
Raw Vegetables
Whether juiced or eaten raw, vegetables like onions, carrots, artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, garlic, beet, turmeric, and oregano are excellent for a healthy diet. These vegetables help the liver purge toxins during the cleansing process and are high in naturally-occurring sulfur and glutathione, which aid in detoxification.
Seeds and Nuts
Incorporate easily digestible seeds and nuts into your diet, such as flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, walnuts, hemp seeds, sesame seeds, chia seeds, Siberian cedar nuts, and sunflower seeds. Avoid nut butter with added sugar, especially during detox.
Omega-3 Oils
Oils like hemp, avocado, olive, or flaxseed are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which help detoxify by lubricating the intestinal walls. This allows toxins to be absorbed by the oil and eliminated from the body.
Performing a Full-Body Cleanse
It’s impossible to completely avoid toxins due to their numerous sources, such as contaminants in food and water, junk food, stress, smog, secondhand smoke, vehicle emissions, airborne fungal spores, and pesticides. Maintaining a diet high in detox foods is one of the best ways to support overall health.
However, even with the best diet, toxins can still accumulate. I recommend doing a full body cleanse at least twice a year. You can enhance your cleansing efforts by following the Body Cleanse Diet.
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